THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS The Lambda Literary Awards, affectionately known as the "Lammys," are awarded annually to recognize excellence in gay and lesbian writing and publishing in the U.S. during the preceding year. The Lammys are sponsored by the Lambda Book Report, a bimonthly review of lesbian and gay literature published in Washington, DC. Each year, beginning in the Fall, hundreds of thousands of Lammy nominating ballots are distributed through gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines, bookstores, and mailing lists of publishers, authors, book reviewers, and others in the book trade. After the deadline for submission of nominating ballots (mid-February), a panel of book reviewers, bookstore personnel, and industry leaders from around the United States culls the nominations down to five nominees in each category. A separate panel of judges (not less than five judges per category, times the number of categories) then reads and scores the five finalists in each category to determine the recipients of the Lambda Literary Award. The identity of judges is kept secret (even from other judges) until the night of the Lammys banquet and all scoring and balloting is done secretly. Two awards are an exception to this judging process: The Editor's Choice Award recipient is determined at the discretion of the editor of the Lambda Book Report and often goes to a book that might have otherwise been overlooked or one that did not fit well into any of the existing categories for that year; The Publisher's Service Award recipient is determined at the discretion of the publisher of the Lambda Book Report and often recognizes a unique contribution to the gay literary community, a special project deserving of recognition, or a person or press whose lifetime of service to gay and lesbian publishing and bookselling has been particularly outstanding. The names of Lammy recipients is kept secret until the Lammys are announced at the annual banquet. The Lambda Literary Awards reception and banquet is held each year on the Friday night preceeding the start of the American Booksellers Association convention (in late May or early June). For ticket information, contact the Lammys Line at 202-462-7924 (in recent years, the Lammys have traditionally been a sold-out affair, so reserve tickets early!). (Note: the Seventh Annual Lambda Literary Awards will be held in Chicago, IL in June, 1995.) Following is a list of the Lammy winners for the first six years: * FIRST ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS - 1989 * (For books published in 1988; awarded June 2, 1989, Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC) GAY AND LESBIAN POETRY Gay & Lesbian Poetry In Our Time Edited by Carl Morse and Joan Larkin St. MartinŐs Press LESBIAN MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION Skiptrace Antoinette Azolakov Banned Books GAY MENŐS FICTION The Beautiful Room Is Empty Edmund White Knopf LESBIAN FICTION Trash Dorothy Allison Firebrand Books AIDS (A Special Category) Borrowed Time Paul Monette Harcourt Brace Jovanovich GAY MENŐS NON-FICTION Borrowed Time Paul Monette Harcourt Brace Jovanovich GAY MENŐS MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION Goldenboy Michael Nava Alyson Publications LESBIAN FIRST NOVEL Bird-Eyes Madelyn Arnold Seal Press LESBIAN NON-FICTION Lesbian Ethics Sarah Hoagland Institute For Lesbian Studies GAY MENŐS SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD (tie) Goldenboy Michael Nava Alyson Publications The Delight Of Hearts Almad Al-Tifashi Gay Sunshine Press LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Trash Dorothy Allison Firebrand Books GAY MENŐS FIRST NOVEL The Swimming-Pool Library Alan Hollinghurst Random House PUBLISHERŐS SERVICE AWARD Sasha Alyson Alyson Publications EDITORŐS CHOICE AWARD Why CanŐt Sharon Kowalski Come Home? Karen Thompson And Julie Andrzejewski Spinsters/Aunt Lute ------ * SECOND ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS - 1990 * (For books published in 1989; awarded June 1, 1990, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV) GAY AND LESBIAN POETRY Poets For Life Edited By Michael Klein Crown LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY What Did Miss Darrington See? Edited By Jessica Amanda Salmonson Feminist Press LESBIAN MYSTERY The Beverly Malibu Katherine V. Forrest Naiad Press GAY MENŐS MYSTERY Simple Suburban Murder Mark Zubro St. MartinŐs Press GAY MENŐS FICTION Eighty-Sixed David B. Feinberg Viking Penguin LESBIAN FICTION The Bar Stories Nisa Donnelly St. MartinŐs Press AIDS (A Special Category) Reports From The Holocaust Larry Kramer St. MartinŐs Press GAY MENŐS NON-FICTION In Search Of Gay America Neil Miller Atlantic Monthly Press GAY AND LESBIAN HUMOR Gay Comics Edited by Robert Triptow New American Library GAY MENŐS SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Somewhere In The Night Jeffrey N. Mcmahan Alyson Publications GAY MENŐS ANTHOLOGIES Hidden From History Edited by Duberman, Vicinus, And Chauncey New American Library LESBIAN ANTHOLOGIES (3-way tie) Hidden From History Edited By Duberman, Et. Al. New American Library Intricate Passions Edited By Tee A. Corinne Banned Books Out The Other Side Edited By Cristian Mcewen & Sue OŐsullivan Crossing Press LESBIAN DEBUT The Names Of The Moons Of Mars Patricia Roth Schwartz New Victoria Press LESBIAN NON-FICTION Really Reading Gertrude Stein Edited By Judy Grahn Crossing Press GAY AND LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD My Life As A Mole Larry Mitchell Calamus Books GAY MENŐS DEBUT The Irreversible Decline Of Eddie Socket John Weir Harper & Row YOUNG ADULT/CHILDRENŐS BOOK AWARD Losing Uncle Tim Marykate Jordan Whitman, Albert & Co. PUBLISHERŐS SERVICE AWARD Carol Seajay Feminist Bookstore News EDITORŐS CHOICE AWARD Lifting Belly Gertrude Stein, edited by Rebecca Mark Naiad Press ----- * THIRD ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS - 1991 * (For books published in 1990; awarded May 31, 1991, Grand Hyatt, New York, NY) GAY MENŐS POETRY Decade Dance Michael Lassell Alyson Publications LESBIAN POETRY Going Back To The River Marilyn Hacker Random House LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Gossamer Axe Gael Baudino Roc Books LESBIAN MYSTERY (tie) Gaudi Afternoon Barbara Wilson Seal Press Ninth Life Lauren Wright Douglas Naiad Press GAY MENŐS MYSTERY Howtown Michael Nava Harpercollins GAY MENŐS FICTION The Body And Its Dangers Allen Barnett St. MartinŐs Press LESBIAN FICTION Out Of Time Paula Martinac Seal Press AIDS (A Special Category) The Way We Live Now Edited by Elizabeth Osbourn Theatre Communications Group GAY MENŐS NON-FICTION Coming Out Under Fire Alan Berube Free Press GAY AND LESBIAN HUMOR New, Improved Dykes To Watch Out For Alison Bechdel Firebrand GAY MENŐS ANTHOLOGIES Men On Men 3 Edited by George Stambolian Plume LESBIAN ANTHOLOGIES Women On Women Edited by Joan Nestle And Naomi Holoch Plume GAY MENŐS SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY (tie) MagicŐs Price Mercedes Lackey Daw Books Secret Matter Toby Johnson Lavender Press LESBIAN DEBUT Her Cherry Muhanji Aunt Lute Foundation LESBIAN NON-FICTION The Safe Sea Of Women Bonnie Zimmerman Beacon Press GAY MENŐS SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD DaddyŐs Roommate Michael Willhoite Alyson Publications LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD (tie) Different Mothers Edited by ouise Rafkin Cleis Press Making Face/Making Soul Gloria Anzaldua Aunt Lute Foundation GAY MENŐS DEBUT Dancing On Tisha BŐav Lev Raphael St. MartinŐs Press PUBLISHERŐS SERVICE AWARD Phil Willkie & Greg Baysans The James White Review EDITORŐS CHOICE AWARD The Encyclopedia Of Homosexuality Edited by Wayne Dynes Garland Publishing, Inc. ----- * FOURTH ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS - 1992 * (For books published in 1991; awarded May 22, 1992, Anaheim Hilton, Anaheim, CA) LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The Gilda Stories Jewelle Gomez Firebrand Books GAY MENŐS SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The Dark Beyond the Stars Frank M. Robinson TOR Books LESBIAN POETRY Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 Adrienne Rich W.W. Norton GAY MENŐS POETRY The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets Assoto Saint Galiens Press LESBIAN NONFICTION Cancer In Two Voices Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum Spinsters Book Company GAY MENŐS NONFICTION Zuni Man-Woman Will Roscoe University of New Mexico LESBIAN FICTION (tie) Revolution of Little Girls Blanche McCrary Boyd Knopf GILDA STORIES Jewell e Gomez Firebrand Books GAY MENŐS FICTION What the Dead Remember Harlan Greene E.P. Dutton LESBIAN MYSTERY Murder By Tradition Katherine V. Forrest Naiad GAY MENŐS MYSTERY Country of Old Men: The Last Dave Brandstetter Mystery Joseph Hansen Viking LESBIAN ANTHOLOGIES Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About edited by Carla Trujillo Third Woman Press GAY MENŐS ANTHOLOGIES Brother to Brother edited by Essex Hemphill Alyson Publications GAY AND LESBIAN HUMOR Putting on the Ritz Joe Keenan Viking Penguin CHILDRENŐS/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans and other Stories Johnny Valentine; illustrated by Lynette Schmidt Alyson Wonderland LESBIAN/GAY SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine edited by Winston Leyland Gay Sunshine Press EDITORSŐ CHOICE AWARD Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America Lillian Faderman Columbia University Press PUBLISHERŐS SERVICE AWARD Barbara Grier and Donna McBride The Naiad Press ----- * FIFTH ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS - 1993 * (For books published in 1992; awarded May 28, 1993, Hotel Intercontinental, Miami, FL) LESBIAN FICTION Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound Judith Katz Firebrand Books GAY MENŐS FICTION Let the Dead Bury Their Dead Randall Kenan Harcourt Brace Jovanovich LESBIAN NONFICTION Eleanor Roosevelt Blanche Wiesen Cook Viking GAY MENŐS NONFICTION Becoming a Man Paul Monette Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Lesbian Poetry Undersong Audre Lorde W.W. Norton GAY MENŐS POETRY Counting Myself Lucky Edward Field Black Sparrow Press LESBIAN MYSTERY (tie) Two Bit Tango Elizabeth Pincus Spinsters Book Company CRAZY FOR LOVING Jaye Maiman Naiad Press GAY MENŐS MYSTERY The Hidden Law Michael Nava HarperCollins LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Ammonite Nicola Griffith Del Ray GAY MENŐS SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY China Mountain Zhang Maureen F. McHugh TOR Books GAY MENŐS ANTHOLOGIES A Member of the Family John Preston, editor E. P. Dutton LESBIAN ANTHOLOGIES The Persistent Desire Joan Nestle, editor Alyson Publications LESBIAN/GAY SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Memories that Smell Like Gasoline David Wojnarowicz Artspace Books GAY AND LESBIAN HUMOR Dykes to Watch Out For (The Sequel) Alison Bechdel Firebrand Books CHILDRENŐS/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE When Heroes Die Penny Raife Durant Atheneum EDITORSŐ CHOICE AWARD Gay Ideas Richard Mohr Beacon Press PUBLISHERŐS SERVICE AWARD Craig Rodwell Founder, Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop ----- * SIXTH ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS - 1994 * (For books published in 1993; awarded May 27, 1994, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA) LESBIAN FICTION Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson Alfred A. Knopf GAY MENŐS FICTION Living Upstairs Joseph Hansen Dutton LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Marguerite Yourcenar Josyanne Savigneau University of Chicago Press GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Genet Edmund White Alfred A. Knopf LESBIAN STUDIES Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis Routledge GAY MENŐS STUDIES Conduct Unbecoming Randy Shilts St. MartinŐs Press LESBIAN POETRY The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance Audre Lorde W.W. Norton GAY MENŐS POETRY (tie) Collected Poems James Schuyler Farrar Straus Giroux 1990 Michael Klein Provincetown Arts Press LESBIAN MYSTERY Divine Victim Mary Wings Dutton GAY MENŐS MYSTERY CatilinaŐs Riddle Steven Saylor St. MartinŐs Press LESBIAN AND GAY SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The 5th Sacred Thing Starhawk Bantam LESBIAN AND GAY ANTHOLOGIES Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin, editors Routledge LESBIAN AND GAY DRAMA Angels In America: Millenium Approaches Tony Kushner Theatre Communications Group LESBIAN AND GAY HUMOR Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For Alison Bechdel Firebrand Books CHILDRENŐS/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE The Cat Came Back Hilary Mullins Naiad Press LESBIAN AND GAY SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD (tie) Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg Firebrand Books Sojourner B. Michael Hunter, managing editor Other Countries Press EDITORSŐ CHOICE AWARD A Star-Bright Lie Coleman Dowell Dalkey Archive Press PUBLISHERŐS SERVICE AWARD Michael Denneny St. MartinŐs Press ----- The Lambda Book Report is published bimonthly and reviews virtually every new gay and lesbian book published. Subscriptions are $19.95/year in the U.S., $27.95 in Canada, and $31.95 in all other countries. Credit card holders may order by calling 1-800-621-6969 (or 202-462-7924 outside the U.S. and Canada) or writing: Lambda Book Report, 1625 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009-1013. Copyright 1994, Lambda Book Report. Permission to reprint this entire file in any medium is hereby granted. "Lammys" and "Lambda Literary Awards" are trademarks of the Lambda Book Report. E-mail inquiries to: lambdabookreport@his.com