32nd Lambda Literary Awards

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The 32nd Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2020, [1] to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there was no gala ceremony; instead, the winners were announced exclusively through social media and the press.

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The nominees were announced in March 2020. [2] [3] Winners are in bold. [4] [5] [6]

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Trustee Award Jericho Brown
Visionary Award Jane Wagner
Publishing Professional AwardBrian Lam
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize Larissa Lai
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer AwardXandria Phillips and Calvin Gimpelevich

Nominees and winners

CategoryWinnerNominated
Bisexual Fiction Fiona Alison Duncan, Exquisite Mariposa
Bisexual Nonfiction Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
  • Victoria Freeman, A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
  • Janet W. Hardy, IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant
Bisexual Poetry Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds
Gay Fiction Bryan Washington, Lot
Gay Memoir/Biography Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives
Gay Mystery Michael Nava, Carved in Bone
Gay Poetry Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot
Gay Romance James Lovejoy, Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life
Lesbian Fiction Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Lesbian Mystery Ann McMan, Galileo
Lesbian Poetry t'ai freedom ford, & more black
Lesbian Romance Emily Noon, Aurora's Angel
LGBTQ Anthology Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
Noam Sienna, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Hazel's Theory of Evolution
Alexandra Villasante, The Grief Keeper
LGBTQ Drama Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
LGBTQ Erotica L. A. Warman, Whore Foods
LGBTQ Graphic Novel Kelsey Wroten, Cannonball
LGBTQ Nonfiction Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, The Deep
LGBTQ Studies Emily L. Thuma, All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
  • R. L. Cagle, Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
  • Jian Neo Chen, Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
  • Elizabeth Freeman, Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
  • Robb Hernández, Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
  • Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures
  • Dana Seitler, Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
  • Roberto Strongman, Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou
Transgender Fiction Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
Transgender Nonfiction Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Transgender Poetry Xandria Phillips, Hull

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