Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies

Annual literary award

Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies

Awarded for| Literary award
Sponsored by| Lambda Literary Foundation
Date| Annual

The Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, presented to scholarly work that address "issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, and oriented toward academia, libraries, cultural professionals, and the more academic reader."[1] Most works are published by university presses.[1]

## Recipients[edit]

Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies Recipients Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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2002 | Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price | Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court | Winner  | [2]
Gay Wachman | Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties | Finalist  | [2]
Suzanna Danuta Walters | All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
William J. Mann | Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard (editors)  | The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s
2003 | Neil Miller | Sex-Crime Panic | Winner  | [3][4]
Craig Rimmerman | From Identity to Politics | Finalist  | [4]
Colm Tóibín | Love in a Dark Time
Ruth Vanita (editor)  | Queering India
David Nimmons | Soul Beneath the Skin
2004 | Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (editors)  | Time on Two Crosses | Winner  | [5]
Wayne Besen | Anything But Straight | Finalist  | [5]
Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky  | Love in the Time of HIV
James McCourt | Queer Street
Mack Friedman | Strapped for Cash
2005 | Elisabeth Kirtsoglou | For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town | Winner  | [6]
Andrea Barnet | All-Night Party | Finalist  | [6]
Will Fellows | A Passion to Preserve
Abigail Garner | Families Like Mine
Evan Wolfson | Why Marriage Matters
2006 | Susan Ackerman | When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David | Winner  | [7]
Jennifer Kelly | Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause | Finalist  | [7]
Dwight A. McBride | Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch
Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (editors)  | Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet
Ruth Vanita | Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
2007 | Horace Griffin | Their Own Receive Them Not | Winner  | [8]
Robert McRuer | Crip Theory | Finalist  | [8]
Kathryn Stockton | Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
Carellin Brooks | Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc.
David Eisenbach | Gay Power: An American Revolution
2008 | Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Winner  | [9][10]
Bertram Cohler | Writing Desire | Finalist  | [9]
Pagan Kennedy | The First Man-Made Man
Mark Padilla | Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Robert Reid-Pharr | Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual
2009 | Regina Kunzel | Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality | Winner  | [11]
Michelle Ann Abate | Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History | Finalist  | [11]
Amin Ghaziani | The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
Kevin P. Murphy | Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform
Linda Williams | Screening Sex
2010 | Margot Canaday | The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America | Winner  | [12]
Armando Maggi | The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade | Finalist  | [12]
Julie Abraham | Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
Deborah B. Gould | Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS
Kathryn Bond Stockton | The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
2011 | Scott Herring | Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism | Winner  | [13]
Gayle Salamon | Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Fran Martin | Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary | Finalist  | [14]
Deborah Cohler | Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Rafael de la Dehesa | Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
2012 | Lisa L. Moore | Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes | Winner  | [15][16]
Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors)  | Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex | Finalist  |
Chandan Reddy | Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State |
Margot Weiss | Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality |
Jafari S. Allen | ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba |
2013 | Ramón H. Rivera-Servera | Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics | Winner  | [17]
Louis-Georges Tin | The Invention of Heterosexual Culture | Finalist  | [18]
Ernesto Javier Martínez | On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
Ashley Currier | Out of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Bernadette C. Barton | Pray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays
Brenna M. Munro | South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom
Sara Warner | Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
Ann Cvetkovich | Depression: A Public Feeling
Tracy Baim | Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America
David M. Halperin | How To Be Gay
2014 | Christina B. Hanhardt | Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence | Winner  | [19][20][21]
Marlon M. Bailey | Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit | Finalist  | [21]
Victoria Hesford | Feeling Women’s Liberation
Colin R. Johnson | Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Lisa Henderson | Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
Susana Pena | Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
Afsaneh Najmabadi | Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
Lucetta Yip Lo Kam | Shanghai Lalas
Peter M. Coviello | Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely
Isaac West | Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law | [21][22]
2015 | Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride (editors)  | Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture | Winner  | [23]
Noelle M. Stout | After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba | Finalist  | [24]
Rachel Hope Cleves | Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Marcia Ochoa | Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Lisa Tatonetti | The Queerness of Native American Literature
Juana María Rodríguez | Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
Susan S. Lanser | The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic
Bobby Benedicto | Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
2016 | Hiram Pérez | A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire | Winner  | [25]
Clare Sears | Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco | Finalist  | [26]
L.H. Stallings | Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Aaron Goodfellow | Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
Madhavi Menon | Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
Jane Ward | Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
Petrus Liu | Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Valerie Traub | Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
2017 | Jennifer Tyburczy | Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display | Winner  | [27]
Qwo-Li Driskill | Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory | Finalist  | [28]
Gregory Woods | Homintern
Andrew Jolivette | Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
Jonathan Goldberg | Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
Kevin Mumford | Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
Omar G. Encarnación | Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution
Timothy Stewart-Winter | Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
2018 | Trevor Hoppe | Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness | Winner  | [29][30]
Alfredo Mirandé | Behind the Mask | Finalist  | [31]
Mari Ruti | The Ethics of Opting Out
Emily Hobson | Lavender and Red
Jaclyn Pryor | Time Slips
Ashley T. Shelden | Unmaking Love
David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe  | The War on Sex
Julio Capó | Welcome to Fairyland
2019 | William T. Hoston | Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston | Winner  | [32]
E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History | Finalist  |
Lyndon K. Gill | Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean |
Myrl Beam | Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics |
Keridwen N. Luis | Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States |
Andrew Billings and Leigh Moscowitz  | Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports |
T. Jackie Cuevas | Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique |
Anne Balay | Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers |
2020 | Emily L. Thuma | All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence | Winner  | [33][34][35][36]
Robb Hernández | Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde | Finalist  | [37][38][39]
Elizabeth Freeman | Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century | [38][39]
Kara Keeling | Queer Times, Black Futures | [37][38][39]
Roberto Strongman | Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou | [38][39]
Dana Seitler | Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
R.L. Cagle | Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
Jian Neo Chen | Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
2021 | Zakiyyah Iman Jackson | Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World | Winner  | [40][37][41]
Cait McKinney | Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies | Finalist  | [42]
José Esteban Muñoz | The Sense of Brown
Janet Jakobsen | The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics | [42][37]
Jane Ward | The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
2022 | Anna Lvovsky | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | Winner  | [43]
Gila Ashtor | Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | Finalist  | [44]
C. Winter Han | Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
Leah DeVun | The Shape of Sex
Howard Chiang | Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
2023 | Darieck Scott | Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics | Winner  | [45]
Mairead Sullivan | Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer | Finalist  | [46]
Marlon B. Ross | Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
Vivian L. Huang | Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability
Jafari S. Allen | There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life

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