23rd Lambda Literary Awards

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

CategoryWinner
Pioneer Award Edward Albee, Val McDermid
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Alex Sánchez, Susan Stinson

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Blue ribbon Myrlin Hermes, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
Bisexual Non-Fiction Blue ribbon Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools
  • Paula 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 Blue ribbon David Pratt, Bob the Book
  • Chris Corkum, XOXO Hayden
  • Tom Mendicino, Probation
  • Tom Schabarum, The Palisades
  • Rob Stephenson, Passes Through
Gay Erotica Blue ribbon Jon Macy, Teleny and Camille
  • Hank 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 Blue ribbon Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic
Gay Memoir/Biography Blue ribbon Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade
  • Bryan 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 Blue ribbon David Lennon, Echoes
  • Greg Herren, Vieux Carre Voodoo
  • Garry Ryan, Smoked
  • Richard Stevenson, Cockeyed
  • I. E. Woodward, Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers
Gay Poetry Blue ribbon Brian Teare, Pleasure
  • Greg Hewett, darkacre
  • Michael Klein, then, we were still living
  • James Schuyler, Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems
  • James L. White, The Salt Ecstasies
Gay Romance Blue ribbon Erik Orrantia, Normal Miguel
Lesbian Debut Fiction Blue ribbon Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa
Lesbian Erotica Blue ribbon Tristan Taormino, ed., Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica
  • Kathleen Warnock and Lea DeLaria, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011
  • D Alexandria, This Is How We Do It: A Raw Mix of Lesbian Erotica
Lesbian Fiction Blue ribbon Eileen Myles, Inferno (a poet’s novel)
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Blue ribbon Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Blue ribbon Julie Marie Wade, Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures
  • Katherine 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 Blue ribbon Val McDermid, Fever of the Bone
Lesbian Poetry Blue ribbon Anna Swanson, The Nights Also
  • Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours
  • Elizabeth J. Colen, Money for Sunsets
  • Eleanor Lerman, The Sensual World Re-Emerges
  • Laurie MacFadyen, White Shirt
Lesbian Romance Blue ribbon Cate Culpepper, River Walker
  • Georgia Beers, Starting from Scratch
  • Karin Kallmaker, Above Temptation
  • Ann Roberts, Beacon of Love
  • Lindsey Stone, Awakening to Sunlight
LGBT Anthology Blue ribbon Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Blue ribbon Jane Eagland, Wildthorn
LGBT Drama Blue ribbon Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play
LGBT Non-Fiction Blue ribbon Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory
  • Stuart 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 Blue ribbon Sandra McDonald, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
  • Nene 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 Blue ribbon Scott Herring, Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
Blue ribbon Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
  • 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
  • Fran Martin, Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
Transgender Fiction Blue ribbon Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for As Long As Possible
Transgender Non-Fiction Blue ribbon Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community
  • Michelle 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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