8th Lambda Literary Awards

The 8th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1996 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1995.^[1]

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Editor's Choice	Patrick Califia and Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada
Pioneer Award	L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, Lambda Rising
Publisher's Service	Nancy Bereano, Janine Fuller and , Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction	E. J. Levy, ed., Tasting Life Twice	and , eds., Afrekete Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz, eds., The New Fuck You Pat Califia and Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada , His
Anthologies/Non-Fiction	Claude J. Summers, ed., Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage	Karla Jay, ed., Dyke Life and , eds., Tomboys Leslea Newman, ed., A Loving Testimony , Sherry Thomas and Eric Marcus, eds., Out in All Directions
Children's/Young Adult	Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun	Francesca Lia Block, Baby Bebop , My Two Uncles , Passages of Pride , Toby’s Lie
Drama	Tony Kushner, Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche, Go Fish	and , eds., The Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! Michael Kearns, T-Cells and Sympathy
Gay Biography/Autobiography	, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams	Bill T. Jones and , Last Night on Earth Gore Vidal, Palimpsest Edmund White, Our Paris Leroy F. Aarons, Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son
Gay Fiction	Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood	Jim Grimsley, Dream Boy Christopher Bram, Father of Frankenstein Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin Felice Picano, Like People in History
Gay Mystery	R. D. Zimmerman, Closet	Steven Saylor, Venus Throw Richard Stevenson, Shock to the System Mark Richard Zubro, Another Dead Teenager George Baxt, Queer Kind of Umbrella
Gay Poetry	Mark Doty, Atlantis	Carl Phillips, Cortege , Badboy Book of Erotic Verse James Merrill, Scattering of Salts Timothy Liu, Burnt Offerings
Gay Studies	, De Los Otros	Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality Pierre Seel, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal , Saint=Foucault
Humor	, The Butches of Madison County	Diane DiMassa, Revenge of HotHead Paisan Alison Bechdel, Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For Funny Gay Males, Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out Mabel Maney, Ghost in the Closet
Lesbian Biography/Autobiography	Erica Fischer, Aimee & Jaguar	Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure Claudia Brenner and , Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence Deb Price and , And Say Hi to Joyce , Babe
Lesbian Fiction	Jacqueline Woodson, Autobiography of a Family Photo	, Passion of Alice Sarah Schulman, Rat Bohemia , Amnesty Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Sweat
Lesbian Mystery	Jean M. Redmann, Intersection of Law and Desire	, Hangdog Hustle Ellen Hart, Faint Praise , Someone to Watch Penny Mickelbury, Night Songs
Lesbian Poetry	Adrienne Rich, Dark Fields of the Republic	Eileen Myles, Maxfield Parrish Jewelle Gomez, Oral Tradition Chrystos, Fire Power , Key to Everything
Lesbian Studies	Karla Jay, Dyke Life	Urvashi Vaid, Virtual Equality Minnie Bruce Pratt, S/he and , Tomboys and , Parker and Hulme
Photography/Visual Arts	Andrea Weiss, Paris Was a Woman	Howard Cruse, Stuck Rubber Baby , Butch/Femme Emmanuel Cooper, Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography and , Making Love Visible
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Melissa Scott, Shadow Man Nicola Griffith, Slow River	Felice Picano, Dryland’s End , Dark Angels Samuel R. Delany, Atlantis: Three Tales
Small Press	Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz, The New Fuck You	Minnie Bruce Pratt, S/He , Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells Adam Klein, The Medicine Burns , Milking Black Bull
Spirituality	Brian Bouldrey, Wrestling with the Angel	Will Roscoe, Queer Spirits , Gay Fairy Tales Nancy Wilson, Our Tribe John J. McNeill, Freedom, Glorious Freedom

References[]

^ Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (14 July 1996). "8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Lambdaliterary.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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