32nd Lambda Literary Awards

The 32nd Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2020,^[1] to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there was no gala ceremony; instead, the winners were announced exclusively through social media and the press.

The nominees were announced in March 2020.^[2]

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Trustee Award	Jericho Brown
Visionary Award	Jane Wagner
Publishing Professional Award	Brian Lam
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize	Larissa Lai
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award	Xandria Phillips and Calvin Gimpelevich

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Fiction	, Exquisite Mariposa	Garrett Leigh, Jude Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything , Big Familia , The Not Wives Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan , Just Pervs Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder (Sophie Hughes, tr.)
Bisexual Nonfiction	, Socialist Realism	, A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference Janet W. Hardy, IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant
Bisexual Poetry	Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds	Dorothy Chan, Revenge of the Asian Woman , water/tongue , Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart Camonghne Felix, Build Yourself a Boat , HoodWitch Ariana Reines, A Sand Book , Romans/Snowmare
Gay Fiction	Bryan Washington, Lot	Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Animalia (Frank Wynne, tr.) Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings Will Eaves, Murmur Jaime Manrique, Like This Afternoon Forever João Gilberto Noll, Lord (, tr.) Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous , In West Mills
Gay Memoir/Biography	Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives	, In the Shadow of the Bridge , An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex Guy Hocquenghem, The Amphitheater of the Dead (Max Fox, tr.) Isaac Mizrahi, I.M. , DISASTERAMA! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997 James Oseland, Jimmy Neurosis , The Light Years
Gay Mystery	Michael Nava, Carved in Bone	, ChoirMaster: A Mister Puss Mystery Chris Gill, The Nowhere Greg Herren, Royal Street Reveillon Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker , Death Takes a Bow , The Fourth Courier , Rewind
Gay Poetry	Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot	Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field Jericho Brown, The Tradition , The Revisionist & The Astropastorals Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The Experiment of the Tropics , Losing Miami , Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers , Doomstead Days
Gay Romance	, Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life	, Escaping Camp Roosevelt , Best Man , Digging Deep Garrett Leigh, Kiss Me Again , Blue Umbrella Sky , My Baby Chased Away the Blues , Code Name: Liberty
Lesbian Fiction	Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy	Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things Beth Brant, A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant (Janice Gould, ed.) , Cantoras , Stay and Fight , On Swift Horses , A People's History of Heaven Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir	, Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls , The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval , Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work Edie Windsor and Joshua Lyon, A Wild and Precious Life
Lesbian Mystery	, Galileo	Amelia Ellis, The Mirror of Muraro Ellen Hart, Twisted at the Root: A Jane Lawless Mystery , The Blood Runs Cold Claire O'Dell, The Hound of Justice
Lesbian Poetry	, & more black	Etel Adnan, Time , (the other house) Franny Choi, Soft Science , Odes to Lithium , Without Protection Lee Ann Roripaugh, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 , Pressure Cooker Love Bomb
Lesbian Romance	, Aurora's Angel	Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy , Tennessee Whiskey , The Secret Chord Jae, The Roommate Arrangement , Pretending in Paradise , Top of Her Game , Create a Life to Love
LGBTQ Anthology	Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse Noam Sienna, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969	Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me Amber Dawn and , Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry , Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2 , The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Anthology and Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia and , Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult	Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Hazel's Theory of Evolution , The Grief Keeper	, The Meaning of Birds Akwaeke Emezi, Pet , Hurricane Season Saundra Mitchell, All the Things We Do in the Dark , Wilder Girls , Pride Colors
LGBTQ Drama	Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop	, Dr. Ride’s American Beach House Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs
LGBTQ Erotica	, Whore Foods	, Lot's Wife , Texas Crude Vikram Kolmannskog, Lord of the Senses , The Shape of the Earth
LGBTQ Graphic Novel	, Cannonball	Jaime Hernandez, Is This How You See Me? Vivek Shraya, Death Threat Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
LGBTQ Nonfiction	Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House	, Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name E. Patrick Johnson, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women Brett Krutzsch, Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics , When Brooklyn Was Queer Karen Tongson, Why Karen Carpenter Matters , The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, and , The Deep	Matthew Bright, Stories to Sing in the Dark , The Rampant Craig Laurance Gidney, A Spectral Hue Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf Jac Jemc, False Bingo Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
LGBTQ Studies	, All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence	, Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic , Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement Elizabeth Freeman, Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century , Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures , Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction , Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou
Transgender Fiction	, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)	, Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer , Honey Walls Rachel Pollack, The Beatrix Gates Bogi Takács, The Trans Space Octopus Congregation
Transgender Nonfiction	and , We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan	Samantha Leigh Allen, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States , Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through , Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender Andrea Long Chu, Females
Transgender Poetry	Xandria Phillips, Hull	, Extratransmission , Our Weather Our Sea Cameron Awkward-Rich, Dispatch Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water

References[]

^ "2020 Winners". Lambda Literary Award. June 1, 2020. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
^ "Final list of Lambda Literary Awards 2020 announced". The Indian Express, March 11, 2020.

[1] "2020 Winners". Lambda Literary Award. June 1, 2020. Retrieved October 27, 2021.

[2] "Final list of Lambda Literary Awards 2020 announced". The Indian Express, March 11, 2020.

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