The 8th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1996 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1995. [1]
Category | Winner |
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Editor's Choice | Patrick Califia and Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada |
Pioneer Award | L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, Lambda Rising |
Publisher's Service | Nancy Bereano, Firebrand Press Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley, Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial |
Category | Author/Editor | Title | Result |
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Anthologies (Fiction) | E. J. Levy (ed.) | Tasting Life Twice | Winner |
Pat Califia and Janine Fuller | Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada | Finalist | |
Robert Drake | His | Finalist | |
Catherine McKinley and ` (eds.) | Afrekete | Finalist | |
Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (eds.) | The New Fuck You | Finalist | |
Anthologies (Non-Fiction) | Claude J. Summers (ed.) | Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage | Winner |
Karla Jay (ed.) | Dyke Life | Finalist | |
Leslea Newman (ed.) | A Loving Testimony | Finalist | |
Lynn Witt , Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus (eds.) | Out in All Directions | Finalist | |
Lynn Yamaguchi and Karin Barber (eds.) | Tomboys | Finalist | |
Children's and Young Adult | Jacqueline Woodson | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun | Winner |
Francesca Lia Block | Baby Bebop | Finalist | |
Kurt Chandler | Passages of Pride | Finalist | |
Daniel Vilmure | Toby’s Lie | Finalist | |
Judith Vinga | My Two Uncles | Finalist | |
Drama | Tony Kushner | Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) | Winner |
Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche | Go Fish | Winner | |
Michael Kearns | T-Cells and Sympathy | Finalist | |
Eric Lane and Nina Shengold (eds.) | The Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays | Finalist | |
Terrence McNally | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Finalist | |
Gay Biography and Autobiography | Lyle Leverich | Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams | Winner |
Leroy F. Aarons | Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son | Finalist | |
Bill T. Jones and Peggy Gillespie | Last Night on Earth | Finalist | |
Gore Vidal | Palimpsesta | Finalist | |
Edmund White | Our Paris | Finalist | |
Gay Fiction | Michael Cunningham | Flesh and Blood | Winner |
Christopher Bram | Father of Frankenstein | Finalist | |
Jim Grimsley | Dream Boy | Finalist | |
Scott Heim | Mysterious Skin | Finalist | |
Felice Picano | Like People in History | Finalist | |
Gay Mystery | R. D. Zimmerman | Closet | Winner |
George Baxt | Queer Kind of Umbrella | Finalist | |
Steven Saylor | The Venus Throw | Finalist | |
Richard Stevenson | Shock to the System | Finalist | |
Mark Richard Zubro | Another Dead Teenager | Finalist | |
Gay Poetry | Mark Doty | Atlantis | Winner |
David Laurents | Badboy Book of Erotic Verse | Finalist | |
Timothy Liu | Burnt Offerings | Finalist | |
James Merrill | Scattering of Salts | Finalist | |
Carl Phillips | Cortege | Finalist | |
Gay Studies | Joseph Carrier | De Los Otros | Winner |
Daniel Halperin | Saint=Foucault | Finalist | |
Jonathan Ned Katz | The Invention of Heterosexuality | Finalist | |
Pierre Seel | I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual | Finalist | |
Andrew Sullivan | Virtually Normal | Finalist | |
Humor | Ellen Orleans | The Butches of Madison County | Winner |
Alison Bechdel | Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For | Finalist | |
Diane DiMassa | Revenge of HotHead Paisan | Finalist | |
Funny Gay Males | Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out | Finalist | |
Mabel Maney | Ghost in the Closet | Finalist | |
Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Erica Fischer | Aimee & Jaguar | Winner |
Dorothy Allison | Two or Three Things I Know for Sure | Finalist | |
Claudia Brenner and Hannah Ashley | Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence | Finalist | |
Susan E. Cayliff | Babe | Finalist | |
Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch | And Say Hi to Joyce | Finalist | |
Lesbian Fiction | Jacqueline Woodson | Autobiography of a Family Photo | Winner |
Lucy Jane Bledsoe | Sweat | Finalist | |
Louise Blum | Amnesty | Finalist | |
Stephanie Grant | Passion of Alice | Finalist | |
Sarah Schulman | Rat Bohemia | Finalist | |
Lesbian Mystery | Jean M. Redmann | Intersection of Law and Desire | Winner |
Ellen Hart | Faint Praise | Finalist | |
Jaye Maiman | Someone to Watch | Finalist | |
Penny Mickelbury | Night Songs | Finalist | |
Elizabeth Pincus | Hangdog Hustle | Finalist | |
Lesbian Poetry | Adrienne Rich | Dark Fields of the Republic | Winner |
Chrystos | Fire Power | Finalist | |
Jewelle Gomez | Oral Tradition | Finalist | |
Eileen Myles | Maxfield Parrish | Finalist | |
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | Key to Everything | Finalist | |
Lesbian Studies | Karla Jay | Dyke Life | Winner |
Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie | Parker and Hulme | Finalist | |
Minnie Bruce Pratt | S/he | Finalist | |
Urvashi Vaid | Virtual Equality | Finalist | |
Lynn Yamaguchi and Karin Barber | Tomboys | Finalist | |
Photography and Visual Arts | Andrea Weiss | Paris Was a Woman | Winner |
Emmanuel Cooper | Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography | Finalist | |
Howard Cruse | Stuck Rubber Baby | Finalist | |
Geoff Manasse and Jean Swallow | Making Love Visible | Finalist | |
M.G. Soares | Butch/Femme | Finalist | |
Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Nicola Griffith | Slow River | Winner |
Melissa Scott | Shadow Man | Winner | |
Samuel R. Delany | Atlantis: Three Tales | Finalist | |
Pam Keesey | Dark Angels | Finalist | |
Felice Picano | Dryland’s End | Finalist | |
Small Press | Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz | The New Fuck You | Winner |
Staszek | Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells | Finalist | |
Adam Klein | The Medicine Burns | Finalist | |
Minnie Bruce Pratt | S/He | Finalist | |
Vega Press | Milking Black Bull | Finalist | |
Spirituality | Brian Bouldrey | Wrestling with the Angel | Winner |
Peter Cashorali | Gay Fairy Tales | Finalist | |
John J. McNeill | Freedom, Glorious Freedom | Finalist | |
Will Roscoe | Queer Spirits | Finalist | |
Nancy Wilson | Our Tribe | Finalist |
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