The 7th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1995 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1994.
Category | Winner |
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Editor's Choice | Mab Segrest, Traitor to the Race |
Publisher Service | Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Press |
Category | Author(s)/Editor(s) | Title | Result |
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Anthologies/Fiction | Lillian Faderman (ed.) | Chloe Plus Olivia | Winner |
David Bergman (ed.) | Men on Men 5 | Finalist | |
Sharon Lim-Hing (ed.) | The Very Inside | Finalist | |
Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder (ed.) | High Risk 2 | Finalist | |
Irene Zahava (ed.) | Lavender Mansions | Finalist | |
Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Joan Nestle and John Preston | Sister and Brother | Winner |
Patrick Higgins (ed.) | Queer Reader | Finalist | |
Kevin Jennings (ed.) | One Teacher in Ten | Finalist | |
Julia Penelope (ed.) | Out of the Class Closet | Finalist | |
Mark Thompson (ed.) | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist | |
Children's & Young Adult | Marion Dane Bauer | Am I Blue? | Winner |
Stacey Donovan | Dive | Finalist | |
Ann Heron | 2 Teenagers in 20 | Finalist | |
Scott Nunokawa | Oscar Wilde | Finalist | |
Patricia Quinlan | Tiger Flowers | Finalist | |
Drama | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Perestroika | Winner |
David Drake | The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me | Finalist | |
Carolyn Gage | Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Finalist | |
Cherrie Moraga | Heroes and Saints & Other Plays | Finalist | |
Paul Rudnick | Jeffrey | Finalist | |
Gay Biography & Autobiography | Abraham Verghese | My Own Country | Winner |
Lawrence Mass | Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite | Finalist | |
Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | Finalist | |
John Preston | My Life as a Pornographer | Finalist | |
Ned Rorem | Knowing When to Stop | Finalist | |
Gay Fiction | Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star | Winner |
Mark Merlis | American Studies | Finalist | |
Joseph Olshan | Nightswimmer | Finalist | |
Douglas Sadownick | Sacred Lips of the Bronx | Finalist | |
Norman Wong | Cultural Revolution | Finalist | |
Gay Mystery | John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Winner |
George Baxt | Queer Kind of Love | Finalist | |
Caleb Carr | The Alienist | Finalist | |
Samuel R. Delany | Mad Man | Finalist | |
Grant Michaels | Mask for a Diva | Finalist | |
Gay Poetry | Thom Gunn | Collected Poems | Winner |
Rafael Campo | The Other Man Was Me | Finalist | |
Richard McCann | Ghost Letters | Finalist | |
Paul Monette | West of Yesterday, East of Summer | Finalist | |
Assotto Saint | Wishing for Wings | Finalist | |
Gay Studies | George Chauncey | Gay New York | Winner |
John Boswell | Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe | Finalist | |
David B. Feinberg | Queer and Loathing | Finalist | |
Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | Finalist | |
Mark Thompson | Gay Soul | Finalist | |
Humor | Ellen Galford | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | Winner |
Kevin Dilallo and Jack Krumholtz | Unofficial Gay MANual | Finalist | |
Mabel Maney | Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend | Finalist | |
Christian McLaughlin | Glamourpuss | Finalist | |
David Sedaris | Barrel Fever | Finalist | |
Lesbian Biography & Autobiography | Renate Stendhal | Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures | Winner |
Elizabeth Bishop | One Art: Letters | Finalist | |
Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher | Serving in Silence | Finalist | |
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas | Finalist | |
Mab Segrest | Memoir of a Race Traitor | Finalist | |
Lesbian Fiction | Rebecca Brown | The Gifts of the Body | Winner |
Emma Donoghue | Sir Fry | Finalist | |
Ellen Galford | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | Finalist | |
Heather Lewis | House Rules | Finalist | |
Eileen Myles | Chelsea Girls | Finalist | |
Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Small Sacrifice | Winner |
Randye Lordon | Sister’s Keeper | Finalist | |
Mabel Maney | Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend | Finalist | |
Claire McNab | Body Guard | Finalist | |
Sandra Scoppettone | My Sweet Untraceable You | Finalist | |
Lesbian Poetry | Marilyn Hacker | Winter Numbers | Winner |
Sapphire | American Dreams | Finalist | |
June Jordan | Haruko/Love Poems | Finalist | |
Mary Oliver | White Pine | Finalist | |
Linda Smukler | Normal Sex | Finalist | |
Lesbian Studies | Dorothy Allison | Skin | Winner |
Lillian Faderman | Chloe Plus Olivia | Finalist | |
Susan Fox Rogers | Sportsdykes | Finalist | |
Sarah Schulman | My American History | Finalist | |
Kiss and Tell Collective | Her Tongue on My Theory | Finalist | |
Photography & Visual Arts | Nancy Andrews | Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America | Winner |
Jim French | Art of the Male Nude | Finalist | |
Jack Kugelmass | Masked Culture | Finalist | |
Out | Out in America | Finalist | |
Mark Thompson | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist | |
Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Melissa Scott | Trouble and Her Friends | Winner |
Suzy McKee Charnas | The Furies | Finalist | |
Mercedes Lackey | Storm Warning | Finalist | |
Nancy Springer | Metal Angel | Finalist | |
Jean Stewart | Warriors of Isis | Finalist | |
Small Press | Kiss and Tell Collective | Her Tongue on My Theory | Winner |
Sapphire | American Dreams | Finalist | |
Dorothy Allison | Skin | Finalist | |
James Earl Hardy | B-Boy Blues | Finalist | |
Achy Obejas | We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? | Finalist |
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