The 6th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1994, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1993.
Category | Winner |
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Editor's Choice | Coleman Dowell, A Star Bright Lie |
Publisher Service | Michael Denneny, St. Martin's Press |
Category | Author | Title | Result |
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Anthologies | Henry Abelove , Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin | Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader | Winner |
Raymond Luczak | Eyes of Desire | Finalist | |
Leslea Newman and Annette Hegel | Saturday is Pattyday | Finalist | |
Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe | Lesbian Culture | Finalist | |
Bennett L. Singer | Growing Up Gay | Finalist | |
Arlene Stein | Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers | Finalist | |
Children's/Young Adult | Hilary Mullins | The Cat Came Back | Winner |
Rik Isensee | We’re Not Alone | Finalist | |
Christina Salat | Living in Secret | Finalist | |
Michael Willhoite | Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit!! | Finalist | |
Drama | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Winner |
Claudia Allen | She’s Always Liked the Girls Best | Finalist | |
William Finn | Falsettos | Finalist | |
Larry Kramer | The Destiny of Me | Finalist | |
Julia Willis | We Oughta Be in Pictures | Finalist | |
Gay Biography/Autobiography | Edmund White | Genet | Winner |
Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls | Finalist | |
James Broughton | Coming Unbuttoned | Finalist | |
Lars Eighner | Travels With Lizbeth | Finalist | |
Brad Gooch | City Poet | Finalist | |
Gay Fiction | Joseph Hansen | Living Upstairs | Winner |
Steven Corbin | Fragments that Remain | Finalist | |
Bo Huston | The Listener | Finalist | |
Fenton Johnson | Scissors, Paper, Rock | Finalist | |
Dale Peck | Martin and John | Finalist | |
Gay Mystery | Steven Saylor | Catilina's Riddle | Winner |
George Baxt | Mae West Murder Case | Finalist | |
John Peyton Cooke | Torsos | Finalist | |
Joseph Hansen | Bohannon’s Country | Finalist | |
Grant Michaels | Dead on Your Feet | Finalist | |
Gay Poetry | Michael Klein | 1990 | Winner |
James Schuyler | Collected Poems | Finalist | |
William Bory | Orpheus in his Underwear | Finalist | |
Carl Cook | Tranquil Lake of Love | Finalist | |
Mark Doty | My Alexandria | Finalist | |
Gay Studies | Randy Shilts | Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military | Winner |
Martin Duberman | Stonewall | Finalist | |
Bruce Bawer | A Place at the Table | Finalist | |
Wayne Koestenbaum | The Queen’s Throat | Finalist | |
Esther Newman | Cherry Grove/Fire Island | Finalist | |
Humor | Alison Bechdel | Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For | Winner |
Charles Busch | Whores of Lost Atlantis | Finalist | |
Diane DiMassa | Hothead Paisan | Finalist | |
Robert Rodi | Closet Case | Finalist | |
Michael Willhoite | Members of the Tribe | Finalist | |
Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Winner |
Phyllis Burke | Family Values | Finalist | |
Rose Gladney | How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith | Finalist | |
Jewelle Gomez | Forty-Three Septembers | Finalist | |
David Sweetman | Mary Renault | Finalist | |
Lesbian Fiction | Jeanette Winterson | Written on the Body | Winner |
Leslie Feinberg | Stone Butch Blues | Finalist | |
Jenifer Levin | Sea of Light | Finalist | |
Paula Martinac | Home Movies | Finalist | |
Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch | Women on Women 2 | Finalist | |
Lesbian Mystery | Mary Wings | Divine Victim | Winner |
Nikki Baker | Long Goodbyes | Finalist | |
Mabel Maney | Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse | Finalist | |
Sandra Scoppettone | I’ll Be Leaving You Always | Finalist | |
Barbara Wilson | Trouble in Transylvania | Finalist | |
Lesbian Poetry | Audre Lorde | The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance | Winner |
Cheryl Clarke | Experimental Love Poetry | Finalist | |
Cherrie Moraga | The Last Generation | Finalist | |
Kate Rushin | The Black Back-Ups | Finalist | |
May Sarton | Collected Poems (1930-1993) | Finalist | |
Lesbian Studies | Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Winner |
Terry Castle | The Apparitional Lesbian | Finalist | |
Judy Grahn | Blood, Bread, and Roses | Finalist | |
Adrienne Rich | What Is Found There | Finalist | |
Andrea Weiss | Vampires & Violets | Finalist | |
Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Starhawk | The Fifth Sacred Thing | Winner |
Poppy Z. Brite | Drawing Blood | Finalist | |
Sybil Claiborne | In the Garden of Dead Cars | Finalist | |
Jay B. Laws | The Unfinished | Finalist | |
Melissa Scott | Burning Bright | Finalist | |
Small Press | Leslie Feinberg | Stone Butch Blues | Winner |
Other Countries | Sojourner | Winner | |
Raymond Luczak | Eyes of Desire | Finalist | |
Denise Ohio | Blue | Finalist | |
Ratti Rakesh | Lotus of Another Color | Finalist |
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