16th Lambda Literary Awards

2004 Lambda Literary Awards

The 16th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2004 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2003.

## Special awards

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Category | Winner

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Pioneer Award | Samuel R. Delany, Blanche Wiesen Cook

## Nominees and winners

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Category  | Winner  | Nominated

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Anthologies/Fiction  | Michael Bronski, ed., Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps |

* Jon Jeffrey, Chris Kenry, William J. Mann and Ben Tyler, All I Want for Christmas
* Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003
* Karl Woelz, M2M
* Lydia Hall, Telling Moments

Anthologies/Non-Fiction  | Bob Guter and John Killacky, eds., Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories |

* Kevin Bentley, Boyfriends from Hell
* Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer, Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
* Greg Wharton, The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name
* Toni Amato and Mary Davies, Pinned Down by Pronouns

Autobiography/Memoir  | Lillian Faderman, Naked in the Promised Land |

* Robert Tewdwr Moss, Cleopatra’s Wedding Present
* Billy Bean, Going the Other Way
* Marijane Meaker, Highsmith: A Romance
* Jennifer Finney Boylan, She’s Not There

Biography  | Andrew Wilson, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith |

* Lois W. Banner, Intertwined Lives
* John D'Emilio, Lost Prophet
* Keith Fleming, Original Youth
* Robert Schanke, That Furious Lesbian

Children's/Young Adult | David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy |

* Brent Hartinger, Geography Club
* Tea Benduhn, Gravel Queen
* Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret
* Alex Sánchez, Rainbow High

Drama | Brian Drader, Prok |

* Ben Hodges, Forbidden Acts
* C. E. Gatchalian, Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays
* Mart Crowley, The Band Plays
* Robert Schanke, Women in Turmoil: Six Plays

Erotica  | Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 |

* Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2004
* Aren X. Tulchinsky, Hot and Bothered 4
* Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe and Jeff Mann, Masters of Midnight
* James Johnstone, Quickies 3

Gay Fiction | Christopher Bram, Lives of the Circus Animals |

* Philip Gambone, Beijing
* Monique Truong, The Book of Salt
* Paul Russell, War Against the Animals
* William J. Mann, Where the Boys Are

Gay Mystery  | John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye |

* Greg Herren, Bourbon Street Blues
* Mark Richard Zubro, Dead Egotistical Morons
* Elliott Mackle, It Takes Two
* David Stukas, Wearing Black to the White Party

Gay Poetry | Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge |

* Henri Cole, Middle Earth
* Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood: Poems
* Peter Pereira, Saying the World
* Rafael Campo, The Healing Art

Humor  | Alison Bechdel, Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For |

* Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth, Chelsea Boys
* Michael Alvear, Men are Pigs, But We Love Bacon
* Michael Thomas Ford, My Big Fat Queer Life
* Joel Perry, That’s Why They’re in Cages, People!

Lesbian Fiction | Nina Revoyr, Southland |

* Susan J. Leonardi, And Then They Were Nuns
* Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies
* Lucy Jane Bledsoe, This Wild Silence
* Carla Trujillo, What Night Brings

Lesbian Mystery  | Elizabeth Sims, Damn Straight |

* Baxter Clare, Cry Havoc
* Lauren Maddison, Epitaph for an Angel
* Ida Swearingen, Owl of the Desert
* Bett Reece Johnson, The Woman Who Found Grace

Lesbian Poetry | Minnie Bruce Pratt, The Dirt She Ate |

* Terry Wolverton, Embers
* Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl
* Susan McCabe, Swirl
* Michelle Tea, The Beautiful

LGBT Studies  | Devon Carbado and Donald Weise, eds.. Time on Two Crosses |

* Wayne Besen, Anything But Straight
* Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky, Love in the Time of HIV
* James McCourt, Queer Street
* Mack Friedman, Strapped for Cash

Photography/Visual Arts  | Lonthar Schirmer, ed., Women Seeing Women |

* John Peterson and Martin Bedogne, A Face in the Crowd: Expressions of Gay Life in America
* Laurie Toby Edison, Familiar Men
* Roslyn Banish, Focus on Living
* Lawrence Schimel and Sebas, Vacation in Ibiza

Romance  | Karin Kallmaker, Maybe Next Time
Michael Thomas Ford, Last Summer |

* Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003
* Dave Benbow, Daytime Drama
* Michelle Sawyer, They Say She Tastes Like Honey

Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Helen Sandler, ed., Necrologue |

* David M. Pierce, Elf Child
* Diana Rivers, The Red Line of Yarmald
* Perry Brass, The Substance of God
* Michael Schiefelbein, Vampire Thrall

Spirituality  | Fenton Johnson, Keeping Faith |

* Wayne Besen, Anything But Straight
* Toby Johnson, Gay Perspective
* Christopher Penczak, Gay Witchcraft
* Theodore W. Jennings, The Man Jesus Loved

Transgender  | Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There |

* Donna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco and Jean Noble, The Drag King Anthology
* Justin Tanis, Trans-gendered
* Virginia Ramey Mollenkott and Vanessa Sheridan, Transgender Journeys

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* Jeanne Córdova Prize
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* Judith A. Markowitz Award
* Publishing Professional Award
* Randall Kenan Prize

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Book awards|

* Anthology
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* Comics
* Debut Fiction
* Drama
* Gay Fiction
* Gay Memoir or Biography
* Gay Poetry
* Gay Romance
* Lesbian Fiction
* Lesbian Memoir or Biography
* Lesbian Mystery
* Lesbian Poetry
* Lesbian Romance
* LGBTQ+ Studies
* Mystery
* Nonfiction
* Poetry
* Romance & Erotica
* Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
* Transgender Literature

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