Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction
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Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction | |
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Awarded for | LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Books |
Sponsored by | Lambda Literary Foundation |
Date | Annual |
Website | lambdaliterary |
The Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards LGBT-themed nonfiction books whose intended audience is "general readers, as opposed to those targeted primarily to scholarly audiences."[1] Anthologies and memoirs are not included as they have their own categories (i.e., Anthology, Gay Memoir, Lesbian Memoir, Bisexual Literature, and Transgender Literature).
Recipients
[edit]Year | Contributor(s) | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2006 | Thomas Glave | Words to Our Now | Winner | |
Keith Boykin | Beyond the Down Low | Finalist | ||
Dennis Altman | Gore Vidal’s America | |||
Peggy Drexler | Raising Boys without Men | |||
Tirza True Latimer | Women Together/Women Apart | |||
2007 | Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons | GAY L.A. | Winner | [2] |
James T. Sears | Behind the Mask of the Mattachine | Finalist | [2] | |
Marcia Gallo | Different Daughters | |||
Kate Bornstein | Hello, Cruel World | |||
Brian Whitaker | Unspeakable Love | |||
2008 | Michael S. Sherry | Gay Artists in Modern American Culture | Winner | [3][4] |
Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Finalist | [4] | |
David Valentine | Imagining Transgender | |||
Michael Rowe | Other Men’s Sons | |||
Toni Mirosevich | Pink Harvest | |||
2009 | Jane Rule | Loving The Difficult | Winner | [5] |
Nancy Polikoff | Beyond (Straight & Gay Marriage) | Finalist | [5] | |
William N. Eskridge, Jr. | Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 | |||
Kai Wright | Drifting Toward Love | |||
Michelle Cliff | If I Could Write This in Fire | |||
Nancy Agabian | Me as Her Again | |||
2010 | James Davidson | The Greeks and Greek Love | Winner | [6] |
Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Eds.) | I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde | Finalist | [6] | |
Drewey Wayne Gunn (Ed.) | The Golden Age of Gay Fiction | |||
Sarah Schulman | Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences | |||
Nathaniel Frank | Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America | |||
2011 | Virginie Despentes | King Kong Theory | Winner | [7] |
Noach Dzmura (Ed.) | Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community | Finalist | [8] | |
Jallen Rix, Ed.D. | Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse | |||
Emma Donoghue | Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature | |||
Stuart Biegel | The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools | |||
2012 | Michael Bronski | A Queer History of the United States | Winner | [9] |
Scott Pasfield | Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield | Finalist | ||
Jay Michaelson | God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality | |||
Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer | Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories | |||
Robert Duncan | The H.D. Book | |||
2013 | Dale Carpenter | Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas | Winner | [10] |
Stacy Braukman | Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 | Finalist | [10] | |
Christopher Bram | Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America | |||
Andrew Solomon | Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity | |||
Michael G. Long (Ed.) | I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters | |||
Sarah Schulman | Israel/Palestine and the Queer International | |||
Jeffrey Schwarz, Mark Thompson, and Bo Young | Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader Reel One and Reel Two | |||
T Cooper | Real Man Stories | |||
2014 | Hilton Als | White Girls | Winner | [11][12] |
Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle | Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims | Finalist | [11] | |
Jamie Woo | Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect | |||
Phil Tiemeyer | Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants | |||
Daniel Winunwe Rivers | Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II | |||
Matt Richardson | The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution | |||
Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi,and Edmund White | Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983 | |||
Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico | You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People | |||
2015 | Lee Lynch | An American Queer: The Amazon Trail | Winner | |
Martin Duberman | Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | Finalist | [13] | |
Rebecca J. Anderson | Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS | |||
Hilton Als, Ann Temkin, Claudia Carson, Robert Gober, Paulina Pobocha, and Christian Scheidemann | Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor | |||
Robert Hofler | Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos | |||
Julie Sondra Decker | The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality | |||
Aaron H. Devor | The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future | |||
Clayton Delery-Edwards | The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973 | |||
2016 | Marcia M. Gallo | No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy | Winner | [14][15] |
Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski | Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics | Finalist | [16] | |
Corbett Joan O'Toole | Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History | |||
Joshua Gamson | Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship | |||
Robert Lorway | Namibia’s Rainbow Project | |||
Lillian Faderman | The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | |||
Jarrett Neal | What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity | |||
2017 | David France | How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS | Winner | [17] |
Sarah Schulman | Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair | Finalist | [18] | |
Donald Albrecht with Stephen Vider | Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York | |||
David Greven | Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity | |||
Jurek Wajdowicz | Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City | |||
Alexis Pauline Gumbs | Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity | |||
Ariel Goldberg | The Estrangement Principle | |||
Kristen Hogan | The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability | |||
2018 | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective | Winner | [19][20] |
Avram Finkelstein | After Silence | Finalist | [21] | |
Malik Gaines | Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible | |||
Anne Elizabeth Moore | Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes | |||
Hida Viloria | Born Both: An Intersex Life | |||
Myriam Gurba | Mean | |||
Clayton Delery | Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice | |||
John Chaich and Todd Oldham | Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community | |||
2019 | Imani Maria Perry | Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | Winner | [22] |
Ria Brodell | Butch Heroes | Finalist | [23] | |
Martin Duberman | Has the Gay Movement Failed? | |||
Piper J. Daniels | Ladies Lazarus | |||
C.J. Janovy | No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas | |||
Avery Cassell | Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII | |||
Jim Elledge | The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century | |||
Charlene A. Carruthers | Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements | |||
2020 | Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House | Winner | [24][25] |
Cyrus Grace Dunham | A Year Without a Name | Finalist | [26][27] | |
W. Ian Bourland | Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s | |||
Brett Krutzsch | Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics | |||
E. Patrick Johnson | Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women | |||
Selby Wynn Schwartz | The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives | |||
Hugh Ryan | When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History | |||
Karen Tongson | Why Karen Carpenter Matters | |||
2021 | Ashon Crawley | The Lonely Letters | Winner | [28][29][30] |
Ruth Coker Burks | All the Young Men | Finalist | [31] | |
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel, Jr. | An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989 | |||
Marty Fink | Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care | |||
Josephine Donovan | The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America | |||
2022 | Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show | Winner | [32][33] |
Melissa Febos | Girlhood | Finalist | [34][35] | |
Akwaeke Emezi | Dear Senthuran | |||
Adam Zmith | Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures | [35] | ||
Kazim Ali | Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water | |||
2023 | Hafizah Augustus Geter | The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin | Winner | [36] |
Sabrina Imbler | How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures | Finalist | [37] | |
Joseph Osmundson | Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between | |||
Ricky Tucker | And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community | |||
Hugh Ryan | The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison | |||
2024 | Matt Baume | Hi Honey, I'm Homo | Winner | [38] |
Daniel Black | Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America | Finalist | [39] | |
Elyssa Maxx Goodman | Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City | |||
Julie Marie Wade | Otherwise | |||
John Sovec, LMFT | Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond |
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