11th Lambda Literary Awards

The 11th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1999 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1998.

Special awards

Category	Winner
Editor's Choice Award	Naeem Murr, The Boy
Pioneer Award	Katherine V. Forrest
Publisher Service Award	Joan M. Drury, Spinsters Ink

Nominees and winners


Category	Author/Editor	Title	Result
Anthologies (Fiction)	Byrne R. Fone (ed.)	Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature	Winner
	Michele Karlsberg and Aren X. Tulchinsky	To Be Continued	Finalist
	Lawrence Schimel	Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica	Finalist
	Joel Tan	Men on Men 7	Finalist
	Joel Tan	Queer PAPI Porn	Finalist
Anthologies (Nonfiction)	Nisa Donnelly (ed.)	Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life	Winner
	David L. Eng	Q & A: Queer in Asian America	Winner
	Lucy Jane Bledsoe	Lesbian Travels	Finalist
	Clifford Chase	Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade	Finalist
	Kevin Jennings	Telling Tales Out of School	Finalist
Children's and Young Adult	Kevin Jennings	Telling Tales Out of School	Winner
	Francesca Lia Block	I Was a Teenage Fairy	Finalist
	Clifford Chase	Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade	Finalist
	Michael Thomas Ford	Outspoken	Finalist
	Joseph Kennedy	Lucy Goes to the Country	Finalist
Drama	Holly Hughes	O Solo Homo	Winner
	Eve Ensler	The Vagina Monologues	Finalist
	Jim Grimsley and David Roman	Mr. Universe and Other Plays	Finalist
	D. A. Miller	Place For Us	Finalist
	Sarah Schulman	Stagestruck	Finalist
Gay Biography and Autobiography	William J. Mann	Wisecracker	Winner
	Graham Caveney	Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs	Finalist
	Gavin Geoffrey Dillard	In the Flesh	Finalist
	Norman Page	Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years	Finalist
	Andrew Tobias	The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up	Finalist
Gay Fiction	Mark Merlis	An Arrow's Flight	Winner
	Rabih Alameddine	Koolaids: The Art of War	Finalist
	Michael Cunningham	The Hours	Finalist
	Jameson Currier	Where the Rainbow Ends	Finalist
	Keith Ridgway	The Long Falling	Finalist
Gay Mystery	R. D. Zimmerman	Outburst	Winner
	Randy Boyd	Uprising	Finalist
	Fred Hunter	Federal Fag	Finalist
	Grant Michaels	Dead as a Doornail	Finalist
	Richard Stevenson	Strachey’s Folly	Finalist
Gay Poetry	J. D. McClatchy	Ten Commandments	Winner
	Mark Doty	Sweet Machine	Finalist
	Edward Field	A Frieze for a Temple of Love	Finalist
	Michael Lassell	A Flame for the Touch That Matters	Finalist
	Timothy Liu	Say Goodnight	Finalist
Gay Studies	John Loughery	The Other Side of Silence	Winner
	Michael Bronski	The Pleasure Principle	Finalist
	Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman	Becoming Visible	Finalist
	Will Roscoe	Changing Ones	Finalist
	Andrew Sullivan	Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival	Finalist
Humor	Michael Thomas Ford	Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life	Winner
	Alison Bechdel	Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For	Finalist
	Alison Bechdel	The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out	Finalist
	Kate Clinton	Don’t Get Me Started	Finalist
	Dan Savage	Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist	Finalist
Lesbian Biography and Autobiography	Alison Bechdel	The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out	Winner
	Sally Cline	Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John	Finalist
	Joan Nestle	A Fragile Union	Finalist
	Rodger Streitmatter	Empty Without You	Finalist
	Kate Summerscale	The Queen of Whale Cay	Finalist
Lesbian Fiction	Dorothy Allison	Cavedweller	Winner
	Sharon Bridgforth	the bull-jean stories	Finalist
	Rebecca Brown	The Dogs	Finalist
	Erika Lopez	They Call Me Mad Dog	Finalist
	Sarah Schulman	Shimmer	Finalist
Lesbian Mystery	Sarah Dreher	Shaman's Moon	Winner
	Nicola Griffith	The Blue Place	Winner
	Ellen Hart	Wicked Games	Finalist
	Randye Lordon	Mother May I	Finalist
	Claire McNab	Past Due	Finalist
Lesbian Poetry	Gerry Gomez Pearlberg	Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette	Winner
	Beatrix Gates	In the Open	Finalist
	Letta Neely	Juba	Finalist
	Leslea Newman	The Little Butch Book	Finalist
	Pamela Sneed	Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery	Finalist
Lesbian Studies	Joan Nestle	A Fragile Union	Winner
	Zsa Zsa Gershick	Gay Old Girls	Finalist
	Judith Halberstam	Female Masculinity	Finalist
	Sarah Schulman	Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America	Finalist
	Barbara Smith	The Truth That Never Hurts	Finalist
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (eds.)	Bending the Landscape II: Science Fiction	Winner
	Clive Barker	Galilee	Finalist
	Elizabeth Brownrigg	Falling to Earth	Finalist
	Ulysses G. Dietz	Desmond	Finalist
	Lawrence Schimel	Things Invisible to See	Finalist
Small Press	Sharon Bridgforth	the bull-jean stories	Winner
	Alison Bechdel	The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out	Finalist
	Randy Boyd	Uprising	Finalist
	Bruce LaBruce	The Reluctant Pornographer	Finalist
	Barbara Summerhawk	Queer Japan	Finalist
Spirituality	Donna Minkowitz	Ferocious Romance	Winner
	Perry Brass	How to Survive Your Own Gay Life	Finalist
	Peter J. Gomes	Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living	Finalist
	John J. McNeill	Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair	Finalist
	Richard Rambuss	Closet Devotions	Finalist
Transgender / Bisexual	Michael R. Gorman	The Empress Is a Man	Winner
	Leslie Feinberg	Trans Liberation	Finalist
	Judith Halberstam	Female Masculinity	Finalist
	Diane Wood Middlebrook	Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton	Finalist
	Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray	Boy-Wives and Female Husbands	Finalist
Visual Arts	David Leddick	The Male Nude	Winner
	Barbara Seyda and Diana Herrera	Women in Love	Winner
	Deborah Bright	The Passionate Camera	Finalist
	Russell Bush	Affectionate Men	Finalist
	Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman	Becoming Visible	Finalist

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