2nd Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards ceremony held in 1990

The 2nd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1990 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1989.

## Special awards

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Category | Winner

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Editor's Choice | Gertrude Stein (Rebecca Mark, ed.), Lifting Belly
Publisher's Service | Carol Seajay, Feminist Bookstore News

## Recipients

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2nd Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists  Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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AIDS Literature  | Larry Kramer | Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist | Winner
Christopher Bram | In Memory of Angel Clare | Finalist
Billy Howard | Epitaphs for the Living | Finalist
John Preston | Personal Dispatches | Finalist
Susan Sontag | AIDS and Its Metaphors | Finalist
Gay Anthology  | Martin B. Duberman | Hidden from History | Winner
Christie Balka and Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | Finalist
Charles Ludlam | Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam | Finalist
Michael Nava | Finale: Stories of Mystery | Finalist
John Preston | Personal Dispatches | Finalist
Gay Debut Fiction  | John Weir | The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket | Winner
David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed | Finalist
Mickey C. Fleming | About Courage | Finalist
M. S. Hunter | The Buccaneer | Finalist
Randall Kenan | A Visitation of Spirits | Finalist
Gay Fiction  | David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed | Winner
Christopher Bram | In Memory of Angel Clare | Finalist
Dennis Cooper | Closer | Finalist
Kevin Killian | Shy | Finalist
Armistead Maupin | Sure of You | Finalist
Gay Mystery  | Mark Richard Zubro | Simple Suburban Murder | Winner
Stan Leventhal | Faultlines: Stories of Suspense | Finalist
Jeffrey N. McMahan | Somewhere in the Night | Finalist
Michael Nava | Finale | Finalist
Samuel M. Steward | Caravaggio Shawl | Finalist
Gay Non-Fiction  | Neil Miller | In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change | Winner
Richard A. Isay | Being Homosexual | Finalist
Sheppard B. Kominars | Accepting Ourselves | Finalist
Harold Norse | Memoirs of a Bastard Angel | Finalist
W. J. Weatherby | James Baldwin: Artist on Fire | Finalist
Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror  | Jeffrey N. McMahan | Somewhere in the Night | Winner
William K. Eakins | Key West 2720 AD | Finalist
Mercedes Lackey | Magic’s Pawn | Finalist
Geoff Mains | Gentle Warriors | Finalist
Thom Nickels | Walking Water/After All This | Finalist
Humor  | Robert Triptow | Gay Comics | Winner
Elizabeth Dean | Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups | Finalist
N. Leigh Dunlap | Run That Sucker at Six!!! | Finalist
Celeste West | Lesbian Love Advisor | Finalist
T. R. Witomski | Kvetch | Finalist
Lesbian Anthology  | Tee Corinne | Intricate Passions | Winner
Martin B. Duberman | Hidden from History | Winner
C. McEwen and S. O'Sullivan | Out the Other Side | Winner
Irene Zahava | Lesbian Love Stories | Finalist
Terry Woodrow | Lesbian Bedtime Stories | Finalist
Lesbian Debut Fiction  | Patricia R. Schwartz | The Names of the Moons of Mars | Winner
Nisa Donnelly | The Bar Stories: A Novel After All | Finalist
Paula Martinac and Carla Tomaso | Voyages Out | Finalist
Roz Perry | Rose Penski | Finalist
Ruthann Robson | Eye of a Hurricane | Finalist
Lesbian Fiction  | Nisa Donnelly | The Bar Stories: A Novel After All | Winner
Valerie Miner | Trespassing and Other Stories | Finalist
Jane Rule | After the Fire | Finalist
May Sarton | Education of Harriet Hatfield | Finalist
Shay Youngblood | The Big Mama Stories | Finalist
Lesbian Mystery  | Katherine V. Forrest | The Beverly Malibu | Winner
Antoinette Azolakov | The Contactees Die Young | Finalist
Ellen Hart | Hallowed Murder | Finalist
Claire McNab | Fatal Reunion | Finalist
Barbara Wilson | Dog Collar Murders | Finalist
Lesbian Non-Fiction  | Judy Grahn | Really Reading Gertrude Stein | Winner
Christie Balka and Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | Finalist
Loralee MacPike | There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You | Finalist
Cynthia Rich | Desert Years | Finalist
Celeste West | Lesbian Love Advisor | Finalist
Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror  | Jessica Amanda Salmonson | What Did Miss Darrington See? | Winner
Nancy Tyler Glenn | Clicking Stones | Finalist
Lee Lynch | Sue Slate: Private Eye | Finalist
Susanna J. Sturgis | Memories and Visions | Finalist
Lauren Wright Douglas | In the Blood | Finalist
Poetry  | Michael Klein | Poets for Life | WInner
Cheryl Clarke | Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry | Finalist
Robert Glück | Reader | Finalist
Christian McEwen | Naming the Waves | Finalist
Adrienne Rich | Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988 | Finalist
Small Press  | Larry Mitchell | My Life As a Mole | Winner
Judy Dahl | River of Promise | Finalist
Mike Hippler | Matlovich: The Good Soldier | Finalist
Joan Lindau | Letting in the Night | Finalist
Vega Studios | Men of Color | Finalist
Young adult/children's  | MaryKate Jordan | Losing Uncle Tim | Winner
Susan Cohen and Daniel Cohen | When Someone You Know Is Gay | Finalist
A.M. Homes | Jack | Finalist
Leslea Newman and Diana Souza | Heather Has Two Mommies | Finalist
George Shannon | Unlived Affections | Finalist

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