7th Lambda Literary Awards

1995 Lambda Literary Awards

The 7th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1995 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1994.

## Special awards

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Category | Winner

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Editor's Choice | Mab Segrest, Traitor to the Race
Publisher Service | Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Press

## Nominees and winners

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7th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists  Category  | Author(s)/Editor(s)  | Title  | Result

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Anthologies/Fiction  | Lillian Faderman (ed.)  | Chloe Plus Olivia | Winner
David Bergman (ed.)  | Men on Men 5 | Finalist
Sharon Lim-Hing (ed.)  | The Very Inside | Finalist
Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder (ed.)  | High Risk 2 | Finalist
Irene Zahava (ed.)  | Lavender Mansions | Finalist
Anthologies/Non-Fiction  | Joan Nestle and John Preston | Sister and Brother | Winner
Patrick Higgins (ed.)  | Queer Reader | Finalist
Kevin Jennings (ed.)  | One Teacher in Ten | Finalist
Julia Penelope (ed.)  | Out of the Class Closet | Finalist
Mark Thompson (ed.)  | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist
Children's & Young Adult  | Marion Dane Bauer | Am I Blue? | Winner
Stacey Donovan | Dive | Finalist
Ann Heron | 2 Teenagers in 20 | Finalist
Scott Nunokawa | Oscar Wilde | Finalist
Patricia Quinlan | Tiger Flowers | Finalist
Drama  | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Perestroika | Winner
David Drake | The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me | Finalist
Carolyn Gage | Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Finalist
Cherrie Moraga | Heroes and Saints & Other Plays | Finalist
Paul Rudnick | Jeffrey | Finalist
Gay Biography & Autobiography | Abraham Verghese | My Own Country | Winner
Lawrence Mass | Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite | Finalist
Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | Finalist
John Preston | My Life as a Pornographer | Finalist
Ned Rorem | Knowing When to Stop | Finalist
Gay Fiction  | Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star | Winner
Mark Merlis | American Studies | Finalist
Joseph Olshan | Nightswimmer | Finalist
Douglas Sadownick | Sacred Lips of the Bronx | Finalist
Norman Wong | Cultural Revolution | Finalist
Gay Mystery  | John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Winner
George Baxt | Queer Kind of Love | Finalist
Caleb Carr | The Alienist | Finalist
Samuel R. Delany | Mad Man | Finalist
Grant Michaels | Mask for a Diva | Finalist
Gay Poetry  | Thom Gunn | Collected Poems | Winner
Rafael Campo | The Other Man Was Me | Finalist
Richard McCann | Ghost Letters | Finalist
Paul Monette | West of Yesterday, East of Summer | Finalist
Assotto Saint | Wishing for Wings | Finalist
Gay Studies  | George Chauncey | Gay New York | Winner
John Boswell | Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe | Finalist
David B. Feinberg | Queer and Loathing | Finalist
Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | Finalist
Mark Thompson | Gay Soul | Finalist
Humor  | Ellen Galford | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | Winner
Kevin Dilallo and Jack Krumholtz | Unofficial Gay MANual | Finalist
Mabel Maney | Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend | Finalist
Christian McLaughlin | Glamourpuss | Finalist
David Sedaris | Barrel Fever | Finalist
Lesbian Biography & Autobiography  | Renate Stendhal | Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures | Winner
Elizabeth Bishop | One Art: Letters | Finalist
Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher | Serving in Silence | Finalist
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas | Finalist
Mab Segrest | Memoir of a Race Traitor | Finalist
Lesbian Fiction  | Rebecca Brown | The Gifts of the Body | Winner
Emma Donoghue | Sir Fry | Finalist
Ellen Galford | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | Finalist
Heather Lewis | House Rules | Finalist
Eileen Myles | Chelsea Girls | Finalist
Lesbian Mystery  | Ellen Hart | Small Sacrifice | Winner
Randye Lordon | Sister’s Keeper | Finalist
Mabel Maney | Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend | Finalist
Claire McNab | Body Guard | Finalist
Sandra Scoppettone | My Sweet Untraceable You | Finalist
Lesbian Poetry  | Marilyn Hacker | Winter Numbers | Winner
Sapphire | American Dreams | Finalist
June Jordan | Haruko/Love Poems | Finalist
Mary Oliver | White Pine | Finalist
Linda Smukler | Normal Sex | Finalist
Lesbian Studies  | Dorothy Allison | Skin | Winner
Lillian Faderman | Chloe Plus Olivia | Finalist
Susan Fox Rogers | Sportsdykes | Finalist
Sarah Schulman | My American History | Finalist
Kiss and Tell Collective | Her Tongue on My Theory | Finalist
Photography & Visual Arts  | Nancy Andrews | Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America | Winner
Jim French | Art of the Male Nude | Finalist
Jack Kugelmass | Masked Culture | Finalist
Out | Out in America | Finalist
Mark Thompson | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist
Science fiction, fantasy or horror  | Melissa Scott | Trouble and Her Friends | Winner
Suzy McKee Charnas | The Furies | Finalist
Mercedes Lackey | Storm Warning | Finalist
Nancy Springer | Metal Angel | Finalist
Jean Stewart | Warriors of Isis | Finalist
Small Press  | Kiss and Tell Collective | Her Tongue on My Theory | Winner
Sapphire | American Dreams | Finalist
Dorothy Allison | Skin | Finalist
James Earl Hardy | B-Boy Blues | Finalist
Achy Obejas | We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? | Finalist

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Book awards|

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* Lesbian Fiction
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* Lesbian Mystery
* Lesbian Poetry
* Lesbian Romance
* LGBTQ+ Studies
* Mystery
* Nonfiction
* Poetry
* Romance & Erotica
* Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
* Transgender Literature

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