24th Lambda Literary Awards

The 24th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2012, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2011.[1][2]

Special awards

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

Nominees and winners

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Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist
Bisexual Non-Fiction Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet
Gay Debut Fiction Rahul Mehta, Quarantine
Gay Erotica Dirk Vanden, All Together
Gay Fiction Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family
Gay Memoir/Biography Glen Retief, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood
Gay Mystery Richard Stevenson, Red White Black and Blue
Gay Poetry Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos
Gay Romance Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You
Lesbian Debut Fiction Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth
Lesbian Erotica Debra Hyde, Story of L
Lesbian Fiction Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution
Lesbian Mystery Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Dying to Live
Lesbian Poetry Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake
Lesbian Romance Kenna White, Taken by Surprise
LGBT Anthology Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
LGBT Drama Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw
LGBT Non-Fiction Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Lee Thomas, The German
LGBT Studies Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
Transgender Fiction Tristan Taormino, ed., Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica
Transgender Non-Fiction Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels
  • Peter Boag, Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past
  • Megan 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

References

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  1. ^ "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists announced". EW.com. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  2. ^ Team, Edit (2012-06-05). "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced in New York". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2023-12-24.