24th Lambda Literary Awards

The 24th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2012, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2011.

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Pioneer Award Armistead Maupin, Kate Millett
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Brian Leung, Stacey D'Erasmo

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Blue ribbon Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist
Bisexual Non-Fiction Blue ribbon Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet
  • Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges
  • Susie Bright, Big Sex Little Death
  • Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
  • Ven Rey, Surviving Steven
Gay Debut Fiction Blue ribbon Rahul Mehta, Quarantine
Gay Erotica Blue ribbon Dirk Vanden, All Together
  • Richard Labonté, ed., Best Gay Erotica 2012
  • Richard Labonté, ed., History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall
  • Steven Haas, ed., George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes
  • Natty Soltesz, Backwoods
Gay Fiction Blue ribbon Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family
Gay Memoir/Biography Blue ribbon Glen Retief, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood
  • William E. Jones, Halsted Plays Himself
  • Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
  • Charles Silverstein, For the Ferryman: A Personal History
  • Ryan Van Meter, If You Knew Then What I Know Now
Gay Mystery Blue ribbon Richard Stevenson, Red White Black and Blue
  • Jess Faraday, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog
  • David Lennon, Blue’s Bayou
  • Garry Ryan, Malabarista
  • Marshall Thornton, Boystown
Gay Poetry Blue ribbon Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos
Gay Romance Blue ribbon Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You
  • Jay Bell, Something Like Summer
  • Mel Bossa, Split
  • Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
  • Eden Winters, Settling the Score
Lesbian Debut Fiction Blue ribbon Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth
  • Sally Bellerose, The Girls Club
  • Lara Fergus, My Sister Chaos
  • Sarah Toshiko Hasu, Megume and the Trees
  • Christine Stark, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
Lesbian Erotica Blue ribbon Debra Hyde, Story of L
  • Lesley Gowan, The Collectors
  • Sacchi Green, A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales
  • Sacchi Green, Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations
Lesbian Fiction Blue ribbon Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Blue ribbon Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution
  • Catherine Friend, Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet
  • Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, How to Get a Girl Pregnant
  • Jane Rule, Taking My Life
  • Julie Marie Wade, Small Fires: Essays
Lesbian Mystery Blue ribbon Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Dying to Live
  • R. E. Bradshaw, Rainey Nights
  • A. J. Quinn, Hostage Moon
  • Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark
  • Martha Miller, Retirement Plan
Lesbian Poetry Blue ribbon Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake
  • Julie R. Enszer, ed., Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry
  • Daphne Gottlieb, 15 Ways to Stay Alive
  • Christina Hutchins, The Stranger Dissolves
  • Dawn Lundy Martin, Discipline
Lesbian Romance Blue ribbon Kenna White, Taken by Surprise
  • Rebecca S. Buck, Ghosts of Winter
  • Julie Cannon, Rescue Me
  • Gerri Hill, Storms
  • Robbi McCoy, For Me and My Gal
LGBT Anthology Blue ribbon Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader
  • Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
  • Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
  • Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano, Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing
  • Mark Thompson, The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Blue ribbon Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
LGBT Drama Blue ribbon Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw
  • Anton Dudley, Letters to the End of the World
  • Madeleine George, The Zero Hour
  • Jon Marans, The Temperamentals
  • Jonathan Tolins, Secrets of the Trade
LGBT Non-Fiction Blue ribbon Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States
  • Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
  • Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book
  • Jay Michaelson, God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality
  • Scott Pasfield, Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Blue ribbon Lee Thomas, The German
  • J. M. Frey, Triptych
  • Geoff Ryman, Paradise Tales: and Other Stories
  • JoSelle Vanderhooft, Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories
  • L. A. Witt, Static
LGBT Studies Blue ribbon Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
  • Jafari S. Allen, ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
  • Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
  • Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
  • Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
Transgender Fiction Blue ribbon Tristan Taormino, ed., Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica
  • Cris Beam, I Am J
  • Dana De Young, The Butterfly and the Flame
  • Rafe Posey, The Book of Broken Hymns
  • L. A. Witt, Static
Transgender Non-Fiction Blue ribbon Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels
  • Peter Boag, Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past
  • Megan M. Rohrer and Zander Keig, eds., Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect
  • Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
  • Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

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