4th Lambda Literary Awards

1992 Lambda Literary Awards

The 4th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1992 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1991.

## Special awards

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Category | Winner

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Editor's Choice | Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America
Publisher Service | Barbara Grier and Donna McBride, Naiad Press

## Nominees and winners

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Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Children's/Young Adult  | Johnny Valentine and Lynette Schmidt | The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans and Other Stories | Winner
Aaron Fricke and Walter Fricke | Sudden Strangers | Finalist
Nancy Garden | Lark in the Morning | Finalist
Ann Heron, Meredith Maran, and Kris Kovick | How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay? | Finalist
Leslea Newman and Russell Crocker | Gloria Goes to Gay Pride | Finalist
Gay Anthology  | Essex Hemphill (ed.)  | Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men | Winner
Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton | Indivisible: New Short Fiction | Finalist
John Preston | Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong | Finalist
Mark Thompson | Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice | Finalist
Edmund White | Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction | Finalist
Gay Fiction  | Harlan Greene | What the Dead Remember | Winner
Dennis Cooper | Frisk | Finalist
Melvin Dixon | Vanishing Rooms | Finalist
Philip Gambone | Language We Use Up Here | Finalist
Paul Monette | Halfway Home | Finalist
Gay Mystery  | Joseph Hansen | A Country of Old Men | Winner
Stan Cutler | Best Performance by a Patsy | Finalist
Stan Cutler | The Face on the Cutting Room Floor | Finalist
Larry Townsend | Master’s Counterpoints | Finalist
Mark Richard Zubro | Sorry Now? | Finalist
Gay Non-Fiction  | Will Roscoe | The Zuni Man-Woman | Winner
Roger Austen and John W. Crowley | Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard | Finalist
Martin Duberman | Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey | Finalist
Bruce R. Smith | Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England | Finalist
David Wojnarowicz | Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration | Finalist
Gay Poetry  | Assotto Saint (ed.)  | The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets | Winner
John Ash | The Burnt Pages | Finalist
Perry Brass | Sex-Charge | Finalist
Mark Doty | Bethlehem in Broad Daylight | Finalist
David Trinidad | Hand Over Heart | Finalist
Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror  | Frank M. Robinson | The Dark Beyond the Stars | Winner
Perry Brass | Mirage | Finalist
Eric Garber | Embracing the Dark | Finalist
Jay B. Laws | Steam | Finalist
Jeffrey N. McMahan | Vampires Anonymous | Finalist
Humor  | Joe Keenan | Putting on the Ritz | Winner
Ben Davis | Strange Angel | Finalist
Elizabeth Dean, Linda Wells, and Andrea Curren | Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games | Finalist
Kris Kovick | What I Love About Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With | Finalist
Rosalind Warren | Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor | Finalist
Lesbian Anthology  | Carla Trujillo (ed.)  | Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About | Winner
Judith Barrington | An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality | Finalist
Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka'ahumanu | Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out | Finalist
Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne Smith | Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition | Finalist
Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake | Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers | Finalist
Lesbian Fiction  | Blanche McCrary Boyd | The Revolution of Little Girls | Winner
Jewelle Gomez | The Gilda Stories | Winner
Anna Livia | Minimax | Finalist
Judith McDaniel | Just Say Yes | Finalist
Diane Salvatore | Benediction | Finalist
Lesbian Mystery  | Katherine V. Forrest | Murder by Tradition | Winner
Claire McNab | Cop Out | Finalist
Mary Morell | Final Session | Finalist
Sandra Scoppettone | Everything You Have is Mine | Finalist
Amanda Kyle Williams | The Providence File | Finalist
Lesbian Non-Fiction  | Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum | Cancer in Two Voices | Winner
Judith Barrington | An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality | Finalist
Lillian Faderman | Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America | Finalist
Minnie Bruce Pratt | Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 | Finalist
Diana Souhami | Gertrude and Alice | Finalist
Lesbian Poetry  | Adrienne Rich | An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 | Winner
Becky Birtha | The Forbidden Poems | Finalist
Eloise Klein Healy | Artemis in Echo Park | Finalist
Eileen Myles | Not Me | Finalist
Maureen Seaton | Fear of Subways | Finalist
Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror  | Jewelle Gomez | The Gilda Stories | Winner
Judith Alguire | Zeta Base | Finalist
Camarin Grae | Stranded | Finalist
B.L. Holmes | Mega | Finalist
Chris Anne Wolfe | Shadows of Aggar | Finalist
Small Press  | Winston Leyland (ed.)  | Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine | Winner
Pat Califia | The Advocate Advisor | Finalist
Edisol W. Dotson | Putting Out ’91 | Finalist
Bad Object-Choices | How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos | Finalist
Garbo | Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really | Finalist

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