The 21st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2009, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2008.
Special awards CategoryWinnerPioneer Award Leslie Feinberg, The Violet Quill
Nominees and winners CategoryWinnerNominated Bisexual Literature Jenny Block, OpenLisa M. Diamond, Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter Ron Jackson Suresha, Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey Edmund White, Rimbaud Gay Debut Fiction Shawn Stewart Ruff, FinlaterDaniel Allen Cox, Shuck Evan Fallenberg, Light Fell Drew Ferguson, The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second Mike Hoolboom, The Steve Machine Gay Erotica Richard Labonté and James Lear, eds., Best Gay Erotica 2009James Lear, The Secret Tunnel William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith and J.P. Bowie, Hard Working Men Gay Fiction Scott Heim, We DisappearDavid Francis, Stray Dog Winter Thomas Glave, The Torturer’s Wife Joseph Olshan, The Conversion Jay Quinn, The Boomerang Kid Gay Memoir/Biography Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and LoveAaron Cooper, Bringing Him Home Joel Derfner, Swish Bob Morris, Assisted Loving Aaron Shurin, King of Shadows Gay Mystery Scott Sherman, First You FallStephen Anable, The Fisher Boy Anthony Bidulka, Sundowner Ubuntu Neil Plakcy, Mahu Fire John Morgan Wilson, Spider Season Gay Poetry Mark Doty, Fire to Fire James Allen Hall, Now You're the EnemyRick Barot, Want Jericho Brown, Please Jack Spicer (Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, eds.), My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Gay Romance Larry Duplechan, Got 'til it's GoneLaura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon, Mexican Heat N. L. Gassert, The Protector Lesbian Debut Fiction Magdalena Zurawski, The BruiseJill Malone, Red Audrey & the Roping Linda Villarosa, Passing for Black Meri Weiss, Closer to Fine Chavisa Woods, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind Lesbian Erotica Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the StripSacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Lipstick on Her Collar Lynne Jamneck, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures Lesbian Fiction Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter Chandra Mayor, All the Pretty GirlsIvan Coyote, The Slow Fix Stephanie Grant, Map of Ireland Ruth Perkinson, Breaking Spirit Bridge Lesbian Memoir/Biography Maureen Seaton, Sex Talks to Girls: A MemoirSusan Griffin, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) Joanne Passet, Sex Variant Woman Abbe Smith, Case of a Lifetime Lesbian Mystery Josie Gordon, WhackedDiane Anderson-Minshall and Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Blind Faith Ellen Hart, Sweet Poison Jessica Thomas, Losers Weepers Ali Vali, Calling the Dead Lesbian Poetry Judy Grahn, love belongs to those who do the feelingElizabeth Bradfield, Interpretive Work Daphne Gottlieb, Kissing Dead Girls Maureen N. McLane, Same Life Nancy K. Pearson, Two Minutes of Light Lesbian Romance Karin Kallmaker, The Kiss That CountedGeorgia Beers, Finding Home Catherine Friend, A Pirate’s Heart JLee Meyer, Hotel Liaison Radclyffe, The Lonely Hearts Club LGBT Anthology Thomas Glave, Our CaribbeanPeter Burton, ed., A Casualty of War: Gay Short Fiction Sabrina Chapadjiev, ed., Live Through This Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, eds., Love, West Hollywood Raphael Kadushin, ed., Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing LGBT Children's/Young Adult Bill Konigsberg, Out of the PocketChristian Burch, Hit the Road, Manny David Levithan, How They Met & Other Stories Pat Schmatz, Mousetraps Martin Wilson, What They Always Tell Us Ellen Wittlinger, Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story LGBT Drama Carolyn Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of ArcDan Bernitt, Phi Alpha Gamma Martin Duberman, Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays Scott Schofield, Two Truths and a Lie Vanda, Vile Affections LGBT Non-Fiction Jane Rule, Loving the DifficultNancy Agabian, Me as Her Again Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire William N. Eskridge, Jr., Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 Nancy Polikoff, Beyond (Straight & Gay) Marriage Kai Wright, Drifting Toward Love LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Nicole Kimberling, TurnskinAstrid Amara, The Archer’s Heart Barth Anderson, The Magician and the Fool Steve Berman, Wilde Stories 2008 Craig Laurance Gidney, Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories LGBT Studies Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American SexualityMichelle Ann Abate, Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History 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 Transgender Literature Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray, 10,000 Dresses Scott Schofield, Two Truths and a Lie Ely Shipley, Boy with Flowers Susan Stryker, Transgender History
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