Lambda Awards: 1998




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Lambda Literary Awards: 1998

The Lambda Literary Awards, or "Lammys," are awarded annually to recognize excellence in gay and lesbian writing and publishing in the U.S. during the preceding year. These awards are sponsored by the Lambda Book Report, a bimonthly review of lesbian and gay literature published in Washington, DC.

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1998
	Lesbian Fiction: Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon--Winner! A/K/A by Ruthann Robson A Crystal Diary by Frankie Hucklenbroich Prozac Highway by Persimmon Blackbridge Terminal Velocity by Blanche McCrary Boyd
	Gay Men's Fiction: The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman--Winner! Gossip by Christopher Bram Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White The House on Brooke Street by Neil Bartlett
	Lesbian Studies: Does Your Mama Know?, edited by Lisa C. Moore--Winner! Every Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers, edited by Catherine Reid & Holly Iglesias Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami Queerly Classed, edited by Susan K. Raffo Sex and Sensibility by Arlene Stein
	Gay Men's Studies: Gay Metropolis, edited by Charles Kaiser--Winner! Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures, edited by Martin Duberman Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self, edited by Mark Thompson Life Outside - The Signorile Report on Gay Men by Michelangelo Signorile Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Man by Gabriel Rotello
	Lesbian Poetry: Cold River by Joan Larkin--Winner! School of Fish by Eileen Myles--Winner! Diesel Fuel, edited by Pat Califia Poems Between Women, edited by Emma Donoghue Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry, edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
	Gay Men's Poetry: Beautiful Signor by Cyrus Cassells--Winner! Bite Hard by Justin Chin Desire by Frank Bidart Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton Desire: Poems 1986-1996 by Tom Carey
	Lesbian Mystery: Father Forgive Me by Randye Lordon --Winner! Apparition Alley by Katherine V. Forrest No Daughter of the South by Cynthia Webb Evil Dead Center by Carole laFavor Old Black Magic by Jaye Maiman
	Gay Men's Mystery: The Magician's Tale by David Hunt--Winner! Gossip by Christopher Bram Hostage by R.D. Zimmerman Revision of Justice by John Morgan Wilson The Burning Plain by Michael Nava
	Lesbian Biography/Autobiography: Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood by Barbara Wilson--Winner! My Life as a Boy by Kim Chernin May Sarton: a Biography by Margaret Peters The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
	Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography: The Poetry of Healing by Rafael Campo--Winner! A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay by Felice Picano Track Conditions by Michael Klein Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self by Mark Thompson Walt Whitman: a Gay Life by Gary Schmidgall
	Anthologies/Fiction: His(2), edited by Robert Drake--Winner! Best American Gay Fiction 2 , edited by Brian Bouldrey Best Lesbian Erotica 1997, edited by Tristan Taormino Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life, edited by Christian McEwen The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories , edited by Peter Burton
	Anthologies/Nonfiction: Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance, edited by Gordon Brent Ingram--Winner! PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries, edited by Rictor Norton Lesbians Raising Sons, edited by Jess Wells
	Photography/Visual Arts: Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 by David Leddick--Winner! Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard--Winner! John Waters: Director's Cut by John Waters I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves by Joani Blank Men Together by Anderson Jones
	Humor: Openly Bob by Bob Smith--Winner! Barbie Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel Naked by David Sedaris Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez
	Spirituality: Like Bread on the Seder Plate by Rebecca Alpert--Winner! Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit by Randy Conner The Essential Gay Mystics by Andrew Harvey Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists by Winston Leyland Stealing Jesus by Bruce Bawer
	SF/Fantasy: Bending the Landscape, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel--Winner! Grave Passions by William Mann The Harvest by Perry Brass Monsters in the Closet, edited by Harry M. Benshoff The Drag Queen of Elfland, edited by Lawrence Schimel
	Drama: Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman--Winner! Monsters in the Closet, edited by Harry M. Benshoff Three Plays by Mae West by Lillian Schlissel Porcelain & A Language of Their Own, edited by Chay Yew Rent by Jonathan Larson
	Children/Young Adult: The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson--Winner! The Shared Heart by Adam Mastoon Amy Asks A Question: Grandma, What's A Lesbian? by Jeanne Arnold Blue Coyote by Liza Ketchum Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods by Paul Monette
	Transgender: PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, edited by Carol Queen--Winner! The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender by Riki Anne Wilchins Sex Changes by Pat Califia Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos by Annick Prieur
	Small Press: Does Your Mama Know?, edited by Lisa C. Moore--Winner! Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon Barbie Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer Bite Hard by Justin Chin Toward the New Degeneracy by Bruce Benderson

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