24th Lambda Literary Awards

2012 Lambda Literary Awards

The 24th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2012, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2011.[1][2]

## Special awards

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Category | Winner

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Pioneer Award | Armistead Maupin, Kate Millett
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Brian Leung, Stacey D'Erasmo

## Nominees and winners

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Category  | Winner  | Nominated

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Bisexual Fiction  | Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist |

* Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, The Two Krishnas
* J. M. Frey, Triptych
* Katherine Scott Nelson, Have You Seen Me
* Alex Sanchez, Boyfriends with Girlfriends

Bisexual Non-Fiction  | Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet |

* Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges
* Susie Bright, Big Sex Little Death
* Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
* Ven Rey, Surviving Steven

Gay Debut Fiction  | Rahul Mehta, Quarantine |

* Justin Chin, 98 Wounds
* Michael Graves, Dirty One
* Garth Greenwell, Mitko
* Katherine Scott Nelson, Have You Seen Me

Gay Erotica  | Dirk Vanden, All Together |

* Richard Labonté, ed., Best Gay Erotica 2012
* Richard Labonté, ed., History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall
* Steven Haas, ed., George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes
* Natty Soltesz, Backwoods

Gay Fiction | Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family |

* Chris Adrian, The Great Night
* Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child
* R. Zamora Linmark, Leche
* Paul Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

Gay Memoir/Biography | Glen Retief, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood |

* William E. Jones, Halsted Plays Himself
* Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
* Charles Silverstein, For the Ferryman: A Personal History
* Ryan Van Meter, If You Knew Then What I Know Now

Gay Mystery  | Richard Stevenson, Red White Black and Blue |

* Jess Faraday, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog
* David Lennon, Blue’s Bayou
* Garry Ryan, Malabarista
* Marshall Thornton, Boystown

Gay Poetry | Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos |

* Paul Legault, The Other Poems
* Thomas Meyer, Kintsugi
* Carl Phillips, Double Shadow
* David Trinidad, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems

Gay Romance  | Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You |

* Jay Bell, Something Like Summer
* Mel Bossa, Split
* Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
* Eden Winters, Settling the Score

Lesbian Debut Fiction  | Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth |

* Sally Bellerose, The Girls Club
* Lara Fergus, My Sister Chaos
* Sarah Toshiko Hasu, Megume and the Trees
* Christine Stark, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation

Lesbian Erotica  | Debra Hyde, Story of L |

* Lesley Gowan, The Collectors
* Sacchi Green, A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales
* Sacchi Green, Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations

Lesbian Fiction | Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement |

* Shannon Cain, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors
* Kristyn Dunnion, The Dirt Chronicles
* Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
* Nina Revoyr, Wingshooters

Lesbian Memoir/Biography  | Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution |

* Catherine Friend, Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet
* Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, How to Get a Girl Pregnant
* Jane Rule, Taking My Life
* Julie Marie Wade, Small Fires: Essays

Lesbian Mystery  | Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Dying to Live |

* A. J. Quinn, Hostage Moon
* Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark
* Martha Miller, Retirement Plan

Lesbian Poetry | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake |

* Julie R. Enszer, ed., Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry
* Daphne Gottlieb, 15 Ways to Stay Alive
* Christina Hutchins, The Stranger Dissolves
* Dawn Lundy Martin, Discipline

Lesbian Romance  | Kenna White, Taken by Surprise |

* Rebecca S. Buck, Ghosts of Winter
* Julie Cannon, Rescue Me
* Gerri Hill, Storms
* Robbi McCoy, For Me and My Gal

LGBT Anthology  | Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader |

* Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
* Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
* Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano, Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing
* Mark Thompson, The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries

LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy |

* Cris Beam, I Am J
* Malinda Lo, Huntress
* Patrick Ryan, Gemini Bites
* Lili Wilkinson, PINK

LGBT Drama | Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw |

* Anton Dudley, Letters to the End of the World
* Madeleine George, The Zero Hour
* Jon Marans, The Temperamentals
* Jonathan Tolins, Secrets of the Trade

LGBT Non-Fiction  | Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States |

* Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
* Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book
* Jay Michaelson, God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality
* Scott Pasfield, Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield

LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Lee Thomas, The German |

* J. M. Frey, Triptych
* Geoff Ryman, Paradise Tales: and Other Stories
* JoSelle Vanderhooft, Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories
* L. A. Witt, Static

LGBT Studies  | Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes |

* Jafari S. Allen, ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
* Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
* Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
* Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality

Transgender Fiction  | Tristan Taormino, ed., Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica |

* Cris Beam, I Am J
* Dana De Young, The Butterfly and the Flame
* Rafe Posey, The Book of Broken Hymns
* L. A. Witt, Static

Transgender Non-Fiction  | Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels |

* Peter Boag, Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past
* Megan Rohrer and Zander Keig, eds., Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect
* Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
* Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

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Lambda Literary Awards

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* 37th (2025)

Category|

| Special awards|

* Jeanne Córdova Prize
* Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize
* Judith A. Markowitz Award
* Publishing Professional Award
* Randall Kenan Prize

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Book awards|

* Anthology
* Bisexual Literature
* Children's and Young Adult
* 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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## References

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1. ^ "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists announced". EW.com. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
2. ^ Team, Edit (June 5, 2012). "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced in New York". Lambda Literary. Retrieved December 24, 2023.

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