3rd Lambda Literary Awards

The 3rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1991 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1990.

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Editor's Choice	Wayne Dynes, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality
Publisher Service	Phil Willkie and Greg Baysans, The James White Review

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
AIDS Literature	, The Way We Live Now	Douglas Crimp, AIDS Demo Graphics Cindy Patton, Inventing AIDS Michael Callen, Surviving AIDS ACT UP/New York Women, Women, AIDS & Activism
Gay Anthology	George Stambolian, Men on Men 3	, Gay Men of Alcoholics Anonymous , Keys to Caring , Men & Intimacy , and , Triple Fiction
Gay Debut Fiction	Lev Raphael, Dancing on Tisha B’av	Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers Bo Huston, Horse and Other Stories Matthew Stadler, Landscape: Memory , This Every Night
Gay Fiction	Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers	Paul Monette, Afterlife Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World John Gilgun, Music I Never Dreamed Of David Leavitt, A Place I’ve Never Been
Gay Mystery	Michael Nava, Howtown	Stan Leventhal, Black Marble Pool Grant Michaels, Body to Dye For Joseph Hansen, Boy Who Was Buried This Morning Mark Richard Zubro, Why Isn’t Becky Twitchell Dead?
Gay Non-Fiction	Allan Bérubé, Coming Out Under Fire	Dave Pallone, Behind the Mask , My Country, My Right to Serve , So Little Time Stuart Timmons, Trouble With Harry Hay
Gay Poetry	Michael Lassell, Decade Dance	Francisco X. Alarcón, Body in Flames , Buried Body Kenny Fries, Healing Notebooks James Broughton, Special Deliveries
Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror	Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Price Toby Johnson, Secret Matter	, Alternate Casts Storm Constantine, Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit Scott Edelman, The Gift
Gay Small Press	Michael Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate	, Gays in Uniform Robert Chesley, Hard Plays/Stiff Parts Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember Stuart Timmons, Trouble With Harry Hay
Humor	Alison Bechdel, New, Improved Dykes to Watch Out For	, Meatmen Vol. 8 , More Lesbian Etiquette Andrea Natalie, Stonewall Riots Susie Bright, Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World
Lesbian Anthology	Joan Nestle and , Women on Women	, Lesbian Bedtime Stores 2 , Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures Karla Jay and , Lesbian Texts and Contexts , Speaking Four Ourselves
Lesbian Debut Fiction	Cherry Muhanji, Her	, Simple Songs , Take Me to the Underground , Virago and , Voyages Out 2
Lesbian Fiction	Paula Martinac, Out of Time	, Don Juan in the Village Anna Livia, Incidents Involving Mirth Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, My Jewish Face Sarah Schulman, People in Trouble
Lesbian Mystery	, Gaudi Afternoon , Ninth Life	Sarah Dreher, A Captive in Time Claire McNab, Death Down Under Camarin Grae, Slick
Lesbian Non-Fiction	Bonnie Zimmerman, The Safe Sea of Women	, Ceremonies of the Heart Marcia Freedman, Exile in the Promised Land Kate Millett, Loony-Bin Trip Bonnie Zimmerman, The Safe Sea of Women Susie Bright, Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World
Lesbian Poetry	Marilyn Hacker, Going Back to the River	, Chant of the Women of Magdalena Minnie Bruce Pratt, Crime Against Nature Irena Klepfisz, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue , Patience of Metal
Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror	Gael Baudino, Gossamer Axe	Pat Califia, Doc and Fluff Melissa Scott, Mighty Good Road , Priorities , Virago
Lesbian Small Press	, ed., Different Mothers	Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Making Face/Making Soul Evelyn C. White, Black Women’s Health Book , and , Dykes-Loving-Dykes , Staying Power: Long Term Lesbian Couples

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