25th Lambda Literary Awards
2013 Lambda Literary Awards
The 25th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 3, 2013, to honor works of LGBT literature published in 2012.[1]
Yolanda Wallace became the first African-American writer to win the Lesbian Romance category with her win for Month of Sundays.[1] Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod, co-editors of the anthology The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, were the first transgender authors to win the Transgender Fiction award.[1] 2013 was also the first year in the history of the awards that the Transgender Fiction award was both presented by and accepted by trans authors.[1]
Special awards
Category | Winner |
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Bridge Builder Award | John Irving |
Pioneer Award | Cherrie Moraga, Malcolm Boyd, Lillian Faderman, Katherine V. Forrest, John Rechy, Patricia Nell Warren |
Trustee Award | Augusten Burroughs |
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award | Carter Sickels, Sassafras Lowrey |
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Trebor Healey, Nicola Griffith |
Nominees and winners
Category | Winner | Nominated |
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Bisexual Literature | Cheryl Burke, My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B John Irving, In One Person |
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Gay Erotica | Mykola Dementiuk, The Facialist |
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Gay Fiction | Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club |
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Gay Memoir/Biography | Cynthia Carr, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz |
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Gay Mystery | Jeffrey Round, Lake on the Mountain |
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Gay Poetry | Stephen S. Mills, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices |
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Gay Romance | Jay Bell, Kamikaze Boys |
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Lesbian Erotica | D. L. King, The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica |
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Lesbian Fiction | Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found |
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Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? |
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Lesbian Mystery | J. M. Redmann, Ill Will |
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Lesbian Poetry | Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog |
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Lesbian Romance | Yolanda Wallace, Month of Sundays |
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LGBT Anthology | Justin Hall, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics |
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LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe |
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LGBT Debut Fiction | Mia McKenzie, The Summer We Got Free |
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LGBT Drama | David Greenspan, The Myopia and Other Plays |
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LGBT Non-Fiction | Dale Carpenter, Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas |
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LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Tom Cardamone, Green Thumb |
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LGBT Studies | Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics |
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Transgender Fiction | Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod, eds., The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard |
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Transgender Non-Fiction | Anne Enke, Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies |
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References
- ^ a b c d "Op-ed: The Transgenderest Lammys Ever". The Advocate, June 14, 2013.
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