The 22nd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2010, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2009.
Special awards CategoryWinnerPioneer Award Larry Kramer, Kate Clinton
Nominees and winners CategoryWinnerNominated Bisexual Fiction Mykola Dementiuk, Holy Communion Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Love You TwoBobbie Geary, The Janeid J. E. Knowles, Arusha Amber Lehman, Torn Bisexual Non-Fiction Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five ContinentsBlake Bailey, Cheever: A Life Emanuel Levy, Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer Edna O'Brien, Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life Audrey Beth Stein, Map Gay Debut Fiction Rakesh Satyal, Blue BoyJames Hannaham, God Says No G. Winston James, Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories James Magruder, Sugarless Lance Reynald, Pop Salvation Gay Erotica Kevin Killian, Impossible PrincessTodd Gregory, ed., Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel, eds., I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire James Lear, The Low Road Sean Wolfe, Eight Inches Gay Fiction Vestal McIntyre, Lake OverturnMatt Dean, The River in Winter Peter Gadol, Silver Lake James Morrison, Said and Done Abdellah Taia, Salvation Army Gay Memoir/Biography Reynolds Price, Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming BackJon Ginoli, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division Douglas A. Martin, Once You Go Back David Plante, The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s Gay Mystery Michael Thomas Ford, What We RememberRalph Ashworth, Killer of Orchids Josh Aterovis, All Lost Things Rob Byrnes, Straight Lies Greg Herren, Murder in the Garden District Gay Poetry Benjamin S. Grossberg, Sweet Core OrchardBrent Goodman, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me Tom Healy, What the Right Hand Knows Charles Jensen, The First Risk Randall Mann, Breakfast with Thom Gunn Gay Romance Frank Anthony Polito, Drama Queers!H. Leigh Aubrey, A Keen Edge J. P. Bowie, Time After Time Erastes, Transgressions Dan Stone, The Rest of Our Lives Lesbian Debut Fiction Rhiannon Argo, The CreamsickleZ Egloff, Verge Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World Maida Tilchen, Land Beyond Maps Lesbian Erotica Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Lesbian CowboysDiane Anderson-Minshall, Punishment with Kisses Ronica Black, Flesh and Bone D. L. King, Where the Girls Are Cecilia Tan, ed., Women of the Bite Lesbian Fiction Jill Malone, A Field Guide to DeceptionElana Dykewomon, Risk Nairne Holtz, This One's Going to Last Forever Jennifer McMahon, Dismantled Emma Pérez, Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory Lesbian Memoir/Biography Joan Schenkar, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia HighsmithMary Cappello, Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life Alix Dobkin, My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement Terry Galloway, Mean Little Deaf Queer Ariel Schrag, Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag Lesbian Mystery Jean M. Redmann, Death of a Dying ManPaulette Callen, Command of Silence Josie Gordon, Toasted Ellen Hart, The Mirror and the Mask Joan Opyr, From Hell to Breakfast Lesbian Poetry Stacie Cassarino, Zero at the BoneSamiya Bashir, Gospel: Poems Ana Božičević, Stars of the Night Commute Marilyn Hacker, Names Kristin Naca, Bird Eating Bird Lesbian Romance Colette Moody, The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original SinKarin Kallmaker, Stepping Stone KG MacGregor, Worth Every Step Tracey Richardson, No Rules of Engagement Carsen Taite, It Should Be a Crime LGBT Anthology Ariel Gore, ed., Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose CityTommi Avicolli Mecca, Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation David Bergman, Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris Gilbert Herdt, Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights Michael Montlack, My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them LGBT Children's/Young Adult Dale Peck, SproutNick Burd, The Vast Fields of Ordinary Michael Cart, How Beautiful the Ordinary Malinda Lo, Ash P. E. Ryan, In Mike We Trust LGBT Drama Mart Crowley, The Collected Plays of Mart CrowleyBonnie J. Morris, Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles LGBT Non-Fiction James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek LoveNathaniel Frank, Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America Drewey Wayne Gunn, The Golden Age of Gay Fiction Audre Lorde (Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds.), I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde Sarah Schulman, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Catherynne M. Valente, PalimpsestTom Cardamone, Pumpkin Teeth Amber Dawn, Fist of the Spider Woman Rebecca Ore, Centuries Ago and Very Fast Lee Thomas, In the Closet, Under the Bed LGBT Studies Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century AmericaJulie Abraham, Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS Armando Maggi, The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade Kathleen Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century Transgender Literature Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak ShowS. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You Kari Edwards, Bharat Jiva Joy Ladin, Transmigration Adam Lowe, Troglodyte Rose
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