28th Lambda Literary Awards

The 28th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 6, 2016, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2015.^[1] The list of nominees was released on March 8.^[1]

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Pioneer Award	Eileen Myles^[2]
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award	, ^[2]
Trustee Award	Hilton Als^[2]

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Literature	, Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham^[2] Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark^[2]	Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time Zoe Pilger, Eat My Heart Out , My Riastrad
Gay Erotica	Miodrag Kojadinovic, Érotiques Suprèmes^[2]	and , Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales , College Dive Bar, 1 AM , Grave Desires , Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of)
Gay Fiction	Hasan Namir, God in Pink^[2]	Andy Sinclair, Breathing Lessons Truman Capote, The Early Stories of Truman Capote Paul Russell, Immaculate Blue Mark Merlis, JD Michael Golding, A Poet of the Invisible World John Whittier Treat, The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House James Sie, Still Life, Las Vegas
Gay Memoir/Biography	, James Merrill: Life and Art^[2]	, Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator Arsham Parsi and , Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist Matthew Spender, The House in St. John’s Wood Bernard Cooper, My Avant-Garde Education Michael V. Smith, My Body Is Yours Brad Gooch, Smash Cut Jameson Currier, Until My Heart Stops
Gay Mystery	, Boystown 7: Bloodlines^[2]	Jeffrey Round, After the Horses , The Boys from Eighth and Carpenter , Cheap as Beasts , Introducing Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives Rhys Ford, Murder and Mayhem Christopher Bollen, Orient Robert Karjel, The Swede
Gay Poetry	, Crevasse^[2] Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance^[2]	, Angel Park , Boy with Thorn Francisco X. Alarcón, Canto Hondo/Deep Song Ben Ladouceur, Otter Jee Leong Koh, Steep Tea , Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail
Gay Romance	, When Skies Have Fallen^[2]	, Blueberry Boys , Brothers Alexis Hall, For Real , General Misconduct Garrett Leigh, Misfits Jay Bell, Something Like Stories, Volume One Brad Boney, Yes
Lesbian Erotica	, The Muse^[2]	and , Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica , Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica
Lesbian Fiction	Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees^[2]	Virginie Despentes, Apocalypse Baby , Blue Talk and Love Tiya Miles, The Cherokee Rose Miranda July, The First Bad Man LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine , Like a Woman Violette Leduc, Thérèse and Isabelle
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear^[2]	Cat Cora, Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dirty River Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl , You’re Not Edith
Lesbian Mystery	, Tarnished Gold^[2] Victoria Brownworth, Ordinary Mayhem^[2]	Ellen Hart, The Grave Soul Stevie Mikayne, Illicit Artifacts , No Good Reason , The Red Files R. E. Bradshaw, Relatively Rainey , The Tattered Heiress
Lesbian Poetry	Dawn Lundy Martin, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life^[2]	, The Devastation , Everybody’s Bread , Experience in the Medium of Destruction Margot Douaihy, Girls Like You , Pelvis with Distance , Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories , Shorthand and Electric Language Stars
Lesbian Romance	, Making a Comeback^[2]	, Autumn Spring Andrea Bramhall, The Chameleon’s Tale , Full Circle , Heart of the Game , Infiltration , My Best Friend’s Girl Amy Dunne, The Renegade
LGBT Anthology	, and , Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy^[2] and , Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology^[2]	Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana and Jill Dolan, Memories of the Revolution and , Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories , A Pride of Poppies: Modern GLBTQI Fiction of the Great War and , Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians , Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction Merritt k, Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation
LGBT Children's/Young Adult	Alex Gino, George^[2]	, About a Girl , Anything Could Happen , Gay and Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights Brian Selznick, The Marvels Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not , None of the Above Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
LGBT Debut Fiction	, A Love Like Blood^[2]	, The Brink , Do U. , His Steadfast Love and Other Stories , Hotel Living Meliza Bañales, Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific , Lovesick , Lum
LGBT Drama	Tanya Barfield, Bright Half Life^[2]	Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, Fun Home Taylor Mac, Hir Deborah Salem Smith, Love Alone Bathsheba Doran, The Mystery of Love and Sex
LGBT Graphic Novel	E. K. Weaver, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal^[2]	, Curveball Maggie Thrash, Honor Girl Blue Delliquanti, O Human Star: Volume One Ed Luce, Wuvable Oaf
LGBT Non-Fiction	, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy^[2]	and Michael Bronski, Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics , Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Joshua Gamson, Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship , Namibia’s Rainbow Project , What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers^[2]	, The Boys on the Mountain Fletcher DeLancey, The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea – Book #1) , Down , The Glittering World , Minotaur Kate Sherwood, Sacrati , Wonder City Stories
LGBT Studies	, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire^[2]	, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco , Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures , Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship , Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men , Queer Marxism in Two Chinas , Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Transgender Fiction	Roz Kaveney, Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners^[2]	, Defiant Sassafras Lowrey, Lost Boi
Transgender Non-Fiction	Willy Wilkinson, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency^[2]	Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family , Hiding in Plain Sight
Transgender Poetry	kari edwards, succubus in my pocket^[2]	Ryka Aoki, Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul Joy Ladin, Impersonation

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Who Are the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists?". Out, March 8, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae "The Lambda Literary Awards Honor Hilton Als and Eileen Myles, Name Winners in 26 Categories". Slate, June 7, 2016.

[nominees-1] "Who Are the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists?". Out, March 8, 2016.

[slate-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae "The Lambda Literary Awards Honor Hilton Als and Eileen Myles, Name Winners in 26 Categories". Slate, June 7, 2016.

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