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Best LGBT Literature Finalists Announced

More than 100 entries have been named finalists for the 20th annual Lambda Literary awards, which honor the best in LGBT literature.

The event will be held in West Hollywood on May 29 at the Pacific Design Center. Featured guests include Tim Miller and improv troupe the Gay Mafia. (The Advocate)

 

LGBT ANTHOLOGIES

Juicy Mother 2, edited by Jennifer Camper (Manic D Press)

Vital Signs, edited by Richard Canning (Carroll & Graf)

First Person Queer, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp)

Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense, edited by Sean Meriwether and Greg Wharton (Haworth)

Baby Remember My Name, edited by Michelle Tea (Carroll & Graf)

 

LGBT ARTS CULTURE

MQ (Media/Queered), Kevin Barnhurst (Peter Lang)

Art That Dares, Kittredge Cherry (AndroGyne)

The View From Here, Matthew Hays (Arsenal Pulp)

Feeling Backward, Heather Love (Harvard University)

Other Men's Sons, Michael Rowe (Cormorant)

 

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Freak Show, James St. James (Dutton Children's/Penguin)

Hero, Perry Moore (Hyperion)

Saints of Augustine, P.E. Ryan (HarperTeen)

Parrotfish, Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)

 

LGBT DRAMA/THEATER

Dose: Plays Monologues, Dan Bernitt (Sawyer House)

Niagara Falls, Victor Bumbalo (Broadway Play Publishing)

Return of the Caffe Cino, edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa (Moving Finger)

 

LGBT EROTICA

The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica, Victoria Brownworth and Judith M. Redding (Magic Carpet)

Red Light, JD Glass (Bold Strokes)

Ardennian Boy, William Maltese Wayne Gunn (MLR)

The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, edited by Lawrence Schimel (Carroll & Graf)

Homosex, Simon Sheppard (Running Press)

Every Dark Desire, Fiona Zedde (Kensington)

 

LGBT NONFICTION

Between Women, Sharon Marcus (Princeton University)

Pink Harvest, Toni Morosevich (Mid-List)

Other Men's Sons, Michael Rowe (Cormorant)

Gay Artists in Modern American Culture, Michael S. Sherry (University of North Carolina)

Imagining Transgender, David Valentine (Duke University)

 

LGBT POETRY

Blackbird and Wolf, Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering, Dawn Lundy Martin (University of Georgia)

Otherwise Obedient, Carol Potter (Red Hen)

Fata Morgana, Reginald Shepherd (University of Pittsburgh)

The Second Person, C. Dale Young (Four Way)

Human Resources, Rachel Zolf (Coach House)

 

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale (Blind Eye)

A Companion to Wolves, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (Tor)

Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor)

The Dust of Wonderland, Lee Thomas (Alyson)

Ha'penny, Jo Walton (Tor)

 

LGBT STUDIES

Writing Desire, Bertram J. Cohler (University of Wisconsin)

The First Man-Made Man, Pagan Kennedy (Bloomsbury)

Between Women, Sharon Marcus (Princeton University)

Caribbean Pleasure Industry, Mark Padilla (University of Chicago)

Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, the Black American Intellectual, Robert Reid-Pharr (NYU)

 

BISEXUAL

Look Both Ways, Jennifer Baumgardner (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)

Becoming Visible, edited by Beth A. Firestein (Columbia University)

Split Screen, Brett Hartinger (Harper Collins Children's)

The Tourists, Jeff Hobbs (Simon & Schuster)

Stray, Sheri Joseph (MacAdam/Cage)

 

TRANSGENDER

Transparent, Cris Beam (Harcourt)

Male Bodies, Women's Souls, LeeRay M. Costa and Andrew Matzner (Haworth)

The Marrow's Telling, Eli Clare (Homofactus)

What Becomes You, Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz (University of Nebraska)

Nobody Passes, edited by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Seal)

 

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

Lockjaw, Holly Farris (Gival)

Dahlia Season, Myriam Gurba (Manic D Press)

Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking, Aoibheann Sweeney (The Penguin Press)

Breathing Underwater, Lu Vickers (Alyson)

O Street, Corrina Wycoff (OV Books)

 

GAY DEBUT FICTION

Tales from the Town of Widows, James Canon (HarperCollins)

A Push and a Shove, Christopher Kelly (Alyson)

That Was Then, Michael Quadland (Red Hen)

SoMa, Kemble Scott (Kensington)

Freak Show, James St. James (Dutton Children's/Penguin)

 

WOMEN'S FICTION

Biting the Apple, Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Carroll & Graf)

The IHOP Papers, Ali Liebegott (Carroll & Graf)

Greetings From Jamaica, Mari SanGiovanni (Bywater)

The Child, Sarah Schulman (Carroll & Graf)

The Kind of Girl I Am, Julia Watts (Spinsters Ink)

The Mandrake Broom, Jess Wells (Firebrand)

 

WOMEN'S ROMANCE

Sheridan's Fate, Gun Brooke (Bold Strokes)

The Road Home, Frankie J. Jones (Bella)

Out of Love, KG MacGregor (Bella)

For Now, for Always, Marianne K. Martin (Bywater)

When Dreams Tremble, Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

 

WOMEN'S MYSTERY

Wall of Silence, 2nd edition, Gabrielle Goldsby (Bold Strokes)

Mortal Groove, Ellen Hart (St. Martin's)

In the Name of the Father, Gerri Hill (Bella)

Selective Memory, Jennifer L. Jordan (Spinsters Ink)

Laura's War, Ursula Steck (Bella)

 

WOMEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Comfort Food for Breakups, Marusya Bociurkiw (Arsenal Pulp)

And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, Nicola Griffith (Payseur Schmidt)

An Army of Ex-Lovers, Amy Hoffman (University of Massachusetts)

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcolm (Yale University)

Waiting for the Call, Jaqueline Taylor (University of Michigan)

 

MEN'S FICTION

Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

First Person Plural, Andrew W.M. Beierle (Kensington)

Dark Reflections, Samuel R. Delany (Carroll & Graf)

Fellow Travelers, Thomas Mallon (Pantheon)

The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, Manuel Muñoz (Algonquin)

 

MEN's ROMANCE

Changing Tides, Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington)

A Secret Edge, Robin Reardon (Kensington)

Right Side of the Wrong Bed, Frederick Smith (Kensington)

Broadway Nights, Seth Rudetsky (Alyson)

A Few Hints and Clews, Robert Taylor (Haworth)

 

MEN's MYSTERY

Double Abduction, Chris Beakey (J. Boylston/iBooks)

Stain of the Berry, Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac)

Pierce, Roberto Ferrari (Haworth)

Murder in the Rue Chartres, Greg Herren (Alyson)

Mahu Surfer, Neil S. Plakcy (Alyson)

Drag Queen in the Court of Death, Caro Soles (Haworth)

 

MEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Forgiving Troy, Thom Bierdz (Hudson House)

Dog Years, Mark Doty (HarperCollins)

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, Martin Duberman (Knopf)

The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory, Kenny Fries (Perseus)

What Becomes You, Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz (University of Nebraska)

Mississippi Sissy, Kevin Sessums (St. Martin's)

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