9th Lambda Literary Awards

The 9th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1997 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1996.

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Editor's Choice	Donald Windham, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965
Pioneer Award	, Daedalus Books
Publishers Service Award	Norman Laurila, A Different Light

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction	Joan Nestle and , eds., Women on Women 3	Shawn Stewart Ruff, ed., Go the Way Your Blood Beats David Bergman, ed., Men on Men 6 Victoria Brownworth, ed., Night Bites and , eds., Shade
Anthologies/Non-Fiction	Michael Bronski, ed., Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex	Bruce Bawer, ed., Beyond Queer Patrick Merla, ed., Boys Like Us Robin Bernstein and , eds., Generation Q Lee Lynch and , eds., Off the Rag
Children's/Young Adult	Nancy Garden, Good Moon Rising	Michael Willhoite, Daddy’s Wedding Ellen Bass and , Free Your Mind , and , My Dad Has HIV Michael Thomas Ford, The World Out There
Drama	Sue-Ellen Case, Split Britches	Michael Kearns, Acting=Life , Amazon All-Stars Holly Hughes, Clit Notes Mart Crowley, Three Plays by Crowley
Gay Biography/Autobiography	Fenton Johnson, Geography of the Heart	Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn Assotto Saint, Spells of a Voodoo Doll Bernard Cooper, Truth Serum
Gay Fiction	Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy	Andrew Holleran, The Beauty of Men , Iowa Dale Peck, The Law of Enclosures Michael Arditti, Pagan’s Father
Gay Mystery	Michael Nava, The Death of Friends	Steven Saylor, Murder on the Appian Way John Morgan Wilson, Simple Justice Grant Michaels, Time to Check Out R. D. Zimmerman, Tribe
Gay Poetry	Rafael Campo, What the Body Told	Kenny Fries, Anesthesia Reginald Shepherd, Angel, Interrupted Michael Lassell, Eros in Boystown Jaime Manrique, My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca
Gay Studies	Patrick Merla, ed., Boys Like Us	, Cracks in the Iron Closet , Farm Boys Keith Boykin, One More River to Cross Harry Hay and Will Roscoe, Radically Gay
Humor	Judy Carter, The Homo Handbook	, History of Lesbian Hair Tim Barela, Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead , Lesbianism Made Easy and Sydney Pokorny, So You Want to Be a Lesbian?
Lesbian Biography/Autobiography	Doris Grumbach, Life in a Day	Candace Gingrich, Accidental Activist , Eva Le Gallienne Torie Osborn, Coming Home to America Honor Moore, The White Blackbird
Lesbian Fiction	Achy Obejas, Memory Mambo	, If You Had a Family Carol Anshaw, Seven Moves , Toward Amnesia Rebecca Brown, What Keeps Me Here
Lesbian Mystery	Ellen Hart, Robber's Wine	, Baby, It’s Cold , Final Take Claire McNab, Inner Circle Katherine V. Forrest, Liberty Square
Lesbian Poetry	Robin Becker, All-American Girl Maureen Seaton, Furious Cooking	, Arc of Love , Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. , Shift
Lesbian Studies	, Love Between Women	and , Girls Next Door Ruth Vanita, Sappho and the Virgin Mary , Surface Tension Victoria Brownworth, Too Queer
Photography/Visual Arts	Susie Bright and Jill Posener, Nothing But the Girl	Loren Cameron, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits Derek Jarman, Derek Jarman’s Garden Susan Stryker and , Gay by the Bay Persimmon Blackbridge, Sunnybrook
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Clive Barker, Sacrament	Rachel Pollack, Godmother Night Michael Rowe and , Sons of Darkness Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez, Swords of the Rainbow , Women Who Run With Werewolves
Small Press	Loren Cameron, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits	Celeste West, Lesbian Polyfidelity , Mythomania Diamanda Galas, Shit of God Victoria Brownworth, Too Queer
Spirituality	Peter Gomes, The Good Book	Keith Hartman, Congregations in Conflict Lev Raphael, Journeys & Arrivals , The Preacher’s Son and , We Were Baptized Too
Transgender	Loren Cameron, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits	, Gender Shock , Honey, Honey Miss Thang Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors

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