The 23rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2011, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2010.
Beginning with the 2011 awards, the Lambda Literary Foundation took over the administration and presentation of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, formerly a program of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.
Special awards CategoryWinnerPioneer Award Edward Albee, Val McDermidJim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Alex Sánchez, Susan Stinson
Nominees and winners CategoryWinnerNominated Bisexual Fiction Myrlin Hermes, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the PoetDaniel Allen Cox, Krakow Melt Ann Herendeen, Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers Georgeann Packard, Fall Asleep Forgetting Malena Watrous, If You Follow Me Bisexual Non-Fiction Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in SchoolsPaula Byrne, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead Michael Gregg Michaud, Sal Mineo Patti Smith, Just Kids Candace Walsh and Laura Andre, Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women Gay Debut Fiction David Pratt, Bob the BookChris Corkum, XOXO Hayden Tom Mendicino, Probation Tom Schabarum, The Palisades Rob Stephenson, Passes Through Gay Erotica Jon Macy, Teleny and CamilleHank Edwards, Vancouver Nights William Holden, A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men Richard Labonté, Best of the Best Gay Erotica 3 Jerry Wheeler, Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top Gay Fiction Adam Haslett, Union AtlanticMichael Cunningham, By Nightfall David McConnell, The Silver Hearted Max Schaefer, Children of the Sun Jonathan Strong, Consolation Gay Memoir/Biography Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual RenegadeBryan Batt, She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother R. Tripp Evans, Grant Wood: A Life Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham Gale Chester Whittington, Beyond Normal: The Birth of Gay Pride Gay Mystery David Lennon, EchoesGreg Herren, Vieux Carre Voodoo Garry Ryan, Smoked Richard Stevenson, Cockeyed I. E. Woodward, Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Gay Poetry Brian Teare, PleasureGreg Hewett, darkacre Michael Klein, then, we were still living James Schuyler, Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems James L. White, The Salt Ecstasies Gay Romance Erik Orrantia, Normal MiguelMichael Thomas Ford, The Road Home Neil Plakcy, Three Wrong Turns in the Desert Lesbian Debut Fiction Amber Dawn, Sub RosaKatharine Beutner, Alcestis Georgeann Packard, Fall Asleep Forgetting Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You Lois Walden, One More Stop Lesbian Erotica Tristan Taormino, ed., Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme EroticaKathleen Warnock and Lea DeLaria, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 D Alexandria, This Is How We Do It: A Raw Mix of Lesbian Erotica Lesbian Fiction Eileen Myles, Inferno (a poet's novel)Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Big Bang Symphony Carol Guess, Homeschooling Zelda Lockhart, Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for as Long as Possible Lesbian Memoir/Biography Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life Julie Marie Wade, Wishbone: A Memoir in FracturesKatherine A. Briccetti, Blood Strangers Amie Klempnauer Miller, She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood Chely Wright, Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer Lesbian Mystery Val McDermid, Fever of the BoneKim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Missing Lynx Stella Duffy, Parallel Lies Ellen Hart, The Cruel Ever After J. M. Redmann, Water Mark Lesbian Poetry Anna Swanson, The Nights AlsoJen Currin, The Inquisition Yours Elizabeth J. Colen, Money for Sunsets Eleanor Lerman, The Sensual World Re-Emerges Laurie MacFadyen, White Shirt Lesbian Romance Cate Culpepper, River WalkerGeorgia Beers, Starting from Scratch Karin Kallmaker, Above Temptation Ann Roberts, Beacon of Love Lindsey Stone, Awakening to Sunlight LGBT Anthology Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next GenerationTisa Bryant and Ernest Hardy, War Diaries David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, Gay Shame Sassafras Lowrey, Kicked Out Radclyffe, Best Lesbian Romance 2010 LGBT Children's/Young Adult Jane Eagland, WildthornCatherine Ryan Hyde, Jumpstart the World James Klise, Love Drugged Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, Christian, the Hugging Lion Vivek Shraya, God Loves Hair LGBT Drama Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers PlayTarell Alvin McCraney, The Brother/Sister Plays Bryden MacDonald, With Bated Breath Octavio Solis, Lydia Daniel Talbott, Slipping LGBT Non-Fiction Virginie Despentes, King Kong TheoryStuart Biegel, The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community Jallen Rix, Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Sandra McDonald, Diana Comet and Other Improbable StoriesNene Adams, Flowers of Edo Steve Berman, Wilde Stories 2010: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction Jane Fletcher, Wolfsbane Winter Tanith Lee, Disturbed by Her Song LGBT Studies Scott Herring, Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of MaterialityDeborah 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 Fran Martin, Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary Transgender Fiction Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for As Long As PossibleJustin Hall, Diego Gomez, Fred Noland and Jon Macy, Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny Catherine Ryan Hyde, Jumpstart the World Transgender Non-Fiction Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish CommunityMichelle Alexander and Michelle Diane Rose, The Color of Sunlight Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality Rebecca Swan, Assume Nothing
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