2005 Lambda Literary Awards Recipients
The Lambda Literary Awards honor the best in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature. The Lambda Literary Awards are produced by the non-profit Lambda Literary Foundation (www.lambdalit.org)
The 2005 Lambda Literary Awards were hosted by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies of the City University of New York
Award Recipients: The Trustees Award for Debut Gay Men's Fiction Clay's Way by Blair Mastbaum, Alyson
The Trustees Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank, Firebrand
GAY MEN'S FICTION
The Master by Colm Toibin, (Scribner)
LESBIAN FICTION
A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'Erasmo, (Houghton Mifflin)
LESBIAN POETRY
Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch, (Gival Press)
GAY MEN'S POETRY
Written in Water by Luis Cernuda, (City Lights Publishers)
LESBIAN MYSTERY
Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest, (Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Group USA)
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY
Flight of Aquavit by Anthony Bidulka, (Insomniac Press)
FICTION ANTHOLOGY
Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction selected by Edmund White, edited by Donald Weise, (Carroll & Graff )
NONFICTION ANTHOLOGY
I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips, (Suspect Thoughts Press)
MEMOIR
Name All the Animals by Alison Smith, (Scribner)
BIOGRAPHY
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux, (W.W. Norton)
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez, (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
EROTICA
Best Gay Erotica 2005 edited by Richard Labonte, (Cleis Press)
HUMOR
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, (Little, Brown)
ROMANCE
Almost Like Being in Love by Steven Kluger, (HarperCollins)
SCIFI / FAN / HORROR
The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley, (Tor Books)
SPIRITUALITY
Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love by Will Roscoe, (Suspect Thoughts Press)
DRAMA / THEATER
I am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, Farrar, (Straus & Giroux)
VISUAL ART/PHOTOGRAPHY
At Ease: Navy Men of World War II by Evan Bachner,( Harry Abrams)
LGBT STUDIES
For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Routledge TRANSGENDER The Gender Frontier by Mariette Pathy Allen, Kehrer Verlag