Lambda Literary Award Winners Revealed

The winners of the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the "Lammys"), which celebrates excellence in LGBT literature, were announced last night at a ceremony hosted by comedienne Kate Clinton at Cooper Union in New York City. 

In addition to the yearly winners, Rita Mae Brown received the Pioneer Award after being introduced by Gloria Steinem. Liz Smith introduced John Waters, who received Lambda's Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature.

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27^th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners

  LESBIAN FICTION

• Yabo, Alexis De Veaux, RedBone Press

GAY FICTION

• I Loved You More, Tom Spanbauer, Hawthorne Books

BISEXUAL FICTION

• Give It to Me, Ana Castillo, The Feminist Press

TRANSGENDER FICTION

• A Safe Girl To Love, Casey Plett, Topside Press

LGBT DEBUT FICTION

• The Walk-In Closet, Abdi Nazemian, Curtis Brown Unlimited

LGBT NONFICTION

• Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS, Martin Duberman, The New Press

BISEXUAL NONFICTION

• Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Charles M. Blow, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

TRANSGENDER NONFICTION

• Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man, Thomas Page McBee, City Lights/Sister Spit

LESBIAN POETRY

• Mysterious Acts by My People, Valerie Wetlaufer, Sibling Rivalry Press

GAY POETRY

• [insert] boy, Danez Smith, YesYes Books

 LESBIAN MYSTERY

• The Old Deep and Dark, Ellen Hart, Minotaur Books

GAY MYSTERY

• Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery, Katie Gilmartin, Cleis Press

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

• Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith, Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith,  SUNY Press

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY - 2 WINNERS:

GAY MEMOIR:

• The Prince of Los Cocuyos, Richard Blanco, HarperCollins/Ecco 

GAY BIOGRAPHY:

• Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, John Lahr, W. W. Norton & Company

LESBIAN ROMANCE

• The Farmer's Daughter, Robbi McCoy, Bella Books

GAY ROMANCE

• Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War, Jeff Mann, Bear Bones Books

LESBIAN EROTICA

• Lesbian Sex Bible, Diana Cage, Quiver Books

GAY EROTICA

• The King, Tiffany Reisz, MIRA Books

LGBT ANTHOLOGY

• Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, Leila J. Rupp & Susan K. Freeman, University of Wisconsin Press

LGBT CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT

• Five, Six, Seven, Nate!, Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

LGBT DRAMA

• Bootycandy, Robert O'Hara, Samuel French

LGBT GRAPHIC NOVELS

• Second Avenue Caper, Joyce Brabner; Art by Mark Zingarelli, Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

LGBT SF/F/HORROR

• Bitter Waters, Chaz Brenchley, Lethe Press

LGBT STUDIES

• The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture, Vincent Woodard, Ed. Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride, New York University Press