Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature

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Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature
Awarded forTransgender Literature
Sponsored by Lambda Literary Foundation
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Website lambdaliterary.org/awards/
Lambda Literary Award

The Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards books with transgender content. Awards are granted based on literary merit and transgender content, and therefore, the writer may be cisgender. [1] The award can be separated into three categories: transgender fiction, transgender nonfiction, and transgender poetry, [1] though early iterations of the award included categories for bisexual/transgender literature, transgender/genderqueer literature, and transgender literature.

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Criteria

Transgender fiction

The award for transgender fiction recognizes "[n]ovels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies with prominent ... trans characters and/or content of strong significance to the ... trans communities." [1] The list "[m]ay include historical novels, comics, cross-genre works of fiction, humor, and other styles of fiction." [1]

Transgender nonfiction

The award for transgender nonfiction recognizes "[n]onfiction works with content of strong significance to members of the ... trans communities," including "a wide range of subjects for the general or academic reader." [1]

Transgender poetry

The award for transgender poetry recognizes individual volumes of poems and poem collections with transgender content. [1] Chapbooks are ineligible for the prize, as well as "[u]pdated editions of previously published works ... unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new." [1]

History

Though the Lambda Literary Foundation has been giving out awards since 1989, a category honoring works with transgender content was not added until 1997. [2] In the history of the awards, the categories for transgender and bisexual literature have remained contentious. [3] Between 1997 and 2009, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry with transgender content was combined into a single category, transgender literature, aside from 2001, in which the bisexual and transgender literature was counted as one category. [3]

Controversy

Bailey's The Man Who Would Be Queen

On February 2, 2004, the Lambda Literary Foundation added The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey to their list of finalists or a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature but removed the book on March 12, 2004 after people protested and petitioned for the removal due to transphobic content. [4] [3] Executive Director Jim Marks had approved the book and defended its inclusion in the awards. [4] He resigned the following year after serving the Foundation since 1996, [5] and the Foundation closed their website, eliminating any evidence of the controversy. [4]

Critics noted that two major issues with the committee that led to such an issue. First, books are nominated by publishers, then made finalists by booksellers, making the award more about potential sales than literary merit. [4] Second, the committee held no members of the transgender community, "which explains how they were unaware that the vast majority of the community found the book defamatory and irresponsible." [4]

The Foundation launched a new website in 2006 under the guidance of Executive Director Charles Flowers, who also worked to improve the award process. While books would still be nominated by publishers and booksellers, the Foundation would have their own committee of judges, which would include at least one transgender individual. [4]

Despite recovery efforts, many outlets have continued to use the fact that the Foundation nominated The Man Who Would Be Queen for an award as a way to validate the book's message. [6]

Dreger's Galileo's Middle Finger

In 2016, the Lambda Literary Foundation nominated Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, even though the author "endorse[d] and actively promote[d] the theories in Bailey's book," The Man Who Would Be Queen. "[A] half-dozen national LGBT organizations" urged the Foundation to remove Galileo's Middle Finger from their list of nominees for the award, a request the Foundation later granted, stating, "“The nomination process did not include full vetting of all works to be certain that each work is consistent with the mission of affirming LGBTQ lives.” [6]

Recipients

YearCategoryAuthorWorkResultRef.
1997 Literature Loren Cameron Body Alchemy

Winner

[7]
Phyllis Burke Gender Shock

Finalist

[7]
Leon E. Pettiway Honey, Honey Miss Thang
Catalina de Erauso Lieutenant Nun
Leslie Feinberg Warriors
1998 Literature Dylan Scholinski and Jane Meredith AdamsThe Last Time I Wore a DressWinner [8]
Annick Prieur Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and MachosFinalist [8]
Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (editors)PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality
Riki Wilchins Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender
Pat Califia Sex Changes
1999 Literature Michael R. Gorman The Empress Is a Man Winner [9]
Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray (editors)Boy-Wives and Female HusbandsFinalist [9]
Judith Halberstam Female Masculinity
Diane Wood Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Leslie Feinberg Trans Liberation
2000 Literature Jackie Kay TrumpetWinner [10]
Deirdre McCloskey CrossingFinalist [10]
Jacobo Schifter From Toads to Queens
Del LaGrace and Jack Halberstam The Drag King Book
Jason Cromwell Transmen and FTMs
2001 Literature David Ebershoff The Danish Girl Winner [11]
Karleen Pendleton Jimenez Are You a Boy or a Girl?Finalist [11]
John Colapinto As Nature Made Him
Noelle Hawley and Ellen Samuels (editors) Out of the Ordinary
Chris Bohjalian Trans-Sister Radio
2002 Bisexual/Transgender Literature Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Omnigender: A Trans-religious ApproachWinner [12]
Bill Brnt and Carol Queen (editors)Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2Finalist [12]
Vanessa Sheridan Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
Jonathan Branton Dragged!! To His Senses
Sparrow L. Patterson Synthetic Bi Products
2003 Literature Noelle Howey Dress CodesWinner [13] [14]
Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri (editors)Brazen FemmeFinalist [14]
Joan Nestle , Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (editors)GenderQueer
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
T Cooper Some of the Parts
2004 Literature Jennifer Finney Boylan She's Not ThereWinner [15]
Donna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco, and Jean Noble (editors)The Drag King AnthologyFinalist [15]
Justin Tanis Trans-gendered
Virginia Ramey and Vanessa SheridanTransgender Journeys
2005 Literature Mariette Pathy Allen The Gender FrontierWinner [16]
Jamison Green Becoming a Visible ManFinalist [16]
Morty Diamond (editor) From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
Julie Anne Peters Luna
Helen Boyd My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossdresser
2006 Literature Charlie Anders Choir BoyWinner [17]
Tennessee Jones Deliver Me from NowhereFinalist [17]
Judith Halberstam In a Queer Time and Place
Matt Kailey Just Add Hormones
Deborah Rudacille The Riddle of Gender
2007 Literature Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle (editors)The Transgender Studies ReaderWinner [18]
Paisley Currah , Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter (editors)RightsFinalist [18]
Leslie Feinberg Drag King Dreams
Alicia E. Goranson Supervillainz
Max Wolf Valerio The Testosterone Files
2008 Literature Cris Beam TransparentWinner [19] [20]
LeeRay M. Costa, Male Bodies, Women's SoulsFinalist [20]
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Nobody Passes
Eli Clare The Marrow's Telling
Aaron Raz and Hilda RazWhat Becomes You
2009 Literature Thea Hillman Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)Winner [21]
Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray 10,000 Dresses Finalist [21]
Ely Shipley Boy with Flowers
Susan Stryker History
Scott Schofield Two Truths and a Lie
2010 Literature Lynn Breedlove Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak ShowWinner [22]
Kari Edwards Bharat JivaFinalist [22]
S. Bear Bergman The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
Joy Ladin Transmigration
Adam Lowe Troglodyte Rose
2011 Fiction Zoe Whittall Holding Still for As Long As PossibleWinner [23]
Justin Hall with Diego Gomez, Fred Noland, and Jon Macy Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super TrannyFinalist [24]
Catherine Ryan Hyde Jumpstart the World
Nonfiction Noach Dzmura (editor)Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish CommunityWinner [25]
Rebecca Swan Assume NothingFinalist [25]
Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman (editors)Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Kristen Schilt Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
Michelle Alexander and Michelle Diane RoseThe Color of Sunlight
2012 Fiction Tristan Taormino (editor)Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer EroticaWinner [26]
Cris Beam I am JFinalist
L.A. Witt Static
Rafe Posey The Book of Broken Hymns
Dana De Young The Butterfly and the Flame [3]
Nonfiction Justin Vivian Bond Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High HeelsWinner [26]
Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors)Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial ComplexFinalist
Megan M. Rohrer and Zander Keig (editors)Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect
Dean Spade Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
Peter Boag Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past
2013 Fiction Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod (editors)The Collection: Short Fiction From The Transgender VanguardWinner [27] [28]
Rachel Gold Being Emily Finalist [28]
Roz Kaveney Dialectic of the Flesh
Rae Spoon First Spring Grass Fire
Michael Quadland Offspring
Nonfiction Anne Enke (editor)Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender StudiesWinner [27] [28]
Ryka Aoki Seasonal VelocitiesFinalist [28]
Matt Kailey Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects
Dylan Edwards Transposes
2014 Fiction Trish Salah Wanting in ArabicWinner [29] [30]
Imogen Binnie Nevada Finalist [30]
Devon Llywelyn Jones Tiresias
Nonfiction Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore The End of San FranciscoWinner [29] [30]
S. Bear Bergman Blood, Marriage, Wine and GlitterFinalist [30]
Beatriz Preciado Testo Junkie
2015 Fiction Casey Plett A Safe Girl to LoveWinner [31] [32]
La JohnJoseph Everything Must GoFinalist [33]
Kim Fu For Today I Am a Boy
Shani Mootoo Moving Forward Sideways like a Crab
Alex Myers Revolutionary: A Novel
Nonfiction Thomas Page McBee Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a ManWinner [31]
Janet Mock Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much MoreFinalist [33]
Laura Erickson-Schroth Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
2016 Fiction Roz Kaveney Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in MannersWinner [34] [35]
Michael Scott, Jr. DefiantFinalist [36]
Sassafras Lowrey Lost Boi
Nonfiction Willy Wilkinson Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural CompetencyWinner [34] [35]
Amy Ellis Nutt Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American FamilyFinalist [36]
Zane Thimmesch-Gill Hiding in Plain Sight
Poetry kari edwards succubus in my pocketWinner [34] [35]
Joy Ladin ImpersonationFinalist [36]
Ryka Aoki Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul
2017 Fiction jia qing wilson-yang Small BeautyWinner [37]
Kai Cheng Thom Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous MemoirFinalist [38]
Meredith Russo If I Was Your Girl
Nonfiction Lei Ming Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in ChinaWinner [37]
Morgan Mann Willis Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer MasculinityFinalist [38]
Julia Serano Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism
Samuel Peterson Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir
Sung Yim What About the Rest of Your Life
Chase Joynt and Mike HoolbloomYou Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition
Poetry Kokumo Reacquainted with LifeWinner [37]
Vivek Shraya even this page is whiteFinalist [38]
Jos Charles Safe Space
Cameron Awkward-Rich Sympathetic Little Monster
Jai Arun Ravine The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide
2018 Fiction Bogi Takács (editor)Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative FictionWinner [39] [40]
Jennifer Finney Boylan Long Black VeilFinalist [41]
Tobi Hill-Meyer (editor)Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
Amy Heart , Sugi Pyrrophyta, and Larissa Glasser (editors)Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything
Jeanne Thornton The Black Emerald
Nonfiction C. Riley Snorton Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans IdentityWinner [39] [40]
Rosalind Rosenberg Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli MurrayFinalist [41]
Brice Smith Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among Men
Janet Mock Surpassing Certainty
Poetry Ching-In Chen recombinantWinner [39] [40]
Kai Cheng Thom a place called HomelandFinalist [41]
Juliana Huxtable Mucus in My Pineal Gland
Julian Talamantez Brolaski Of Mongrelitude
Kayleb Rae Candrilli What Runs Over
2019 Fiction Casey Plett Little Fish Winner [42]
Jordy Rosenberg Confessions of the Fox: A Novel Finalist
Akwaeke Emezi Freshwater
Calvin Gimpelevich Invasions
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Sketchtasy
Nonfiction Julian Gill-Peterson Histories of the Transgender ChildWinner [42]
Thomas Page McBee Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a ManFinalist
Vivek Shraya I'm Afraid of Men
Aren Z. Aizura Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
Samantha Allen Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
Joy Ladin The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
Poetry Raquel Salas Rivera lo terciario / the tertiaryWinner [42]
Luna Merbruja Heal Your LoveFinalist
Gwen Benaway Holy Wild
Sara Mithra If the Color Is Fugitive
Ely Shipley Some Animal
2020 Fiction Hazel Jane Plante Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)Winner [43] [44] [45]
Bones McKay Honey WallsFinalist [46] [47]
M.Z. McDonnell Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer
Rachel Pollack The Beatrix Gates
Bogi Takács The Trans Space Octopus Congregation
Nonfiction Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (editors) We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou SullivanWinner [43] [44] [45]
Andrea Long Chu Females Finalist [46] [47]
S.J. Langer Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender
T Fleischmann Time Is the Thing A Body Moves Through
Poetry Xandria Phillips HULLWinner [43] [44] [45]
Cameron Awkward-Rich DispatchFinalist [46] [47]
Andrea Abi-Karam EXTRATRANSMISSION
Samuel Ace Our Weather Our Sea
Yanyi The Year of Blue Water
2021 Fiction Zeyn Joukhadar The Thirty Names of Night Winner [48] [49] [50]
Nino Cipri FinnaFinalist [51]
Chana Porter The Seep
Vivek Shraya The Subtweet
Lydia Rogue (editor)Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers
Nonfiction J Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi The Black Trans Prayer BookWinner [48] [49] [50]
Meredith Talusan Fairest: A MemoirFinalist [51]
L Heidenreich Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore The Freezer Door
Hil Malatino Trans Care
Poetry Sade LaNay I Love You and I'm Not DeadWinner [48] [49] [50]
Aeon Ginsberg GreyhoundFinalist [51]
Kay Ulanday Barrett More Than Organs
Maxe Crandall The Nancy Reagan Collection
Jay Besemer Theories of Performance
2022 Fiction Jeanne Thornton Summer FunWinner [52] [53]
Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby Finalist [54] [55]
Callum AngusA Natural History of Transition [55]
Megan Milks Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Shelley Parker-Chan She Who Became the Sun
Nonfiction Da’Shaun Harrison Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-BlacknessWinner [52] [53]
Francisco Galarte Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx StudiesFinalist [55]
Ivan Coyote Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (Eds.)Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
Lucie Fielding Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments
Poetry Mason J Crossbones on My LifeWinner [53]
Dani Putney Salamat sa IntersectionalityFinalist [55]
Lindsay Choi Transverse
Andrea Abi-Karam Villainy
Raquel Salas Rivera x/ex/exis
2023 Fiction Cat Fitzpatrick The Call-OutWinner [56]
James Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Finalist [57] [58]
Izzy Wasserstein All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From
Morgan ThomasManywhere
Maya Deane Wrath Goddess Sing
Nonfiction Emma Grove The Third Person Winner [56]
Kit Heyam Before We Were Trans: A New History of GenderFinalist [59] [58]
Cecilia Gentili Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist
Jeremiah Moss Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
Cameron Awkward-Rich The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment
Transgender Poetry Kamden Ishmael Hilliard MissSettlWinner [56]
GoldenA Dead Name That Learned How to LiveFinalist [58]
Kay Gabriel A Queen in Bucks County
Paul Tran All the Flowers Kneeling
Prathna Lor Emanations
2024 Transgender Fiction Nicola Dinan Bellies Finalist [60]
Emily Zhou Girlfriends
Valérie Bah , translated by Kama La Mackerel The Rage Letters
Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny Trash
Soula Emmanuel Wild Geese
Transgender Nonfiction McKenzie Wark Love and Money, Sex and Death Finalist
Miss Major and Toshio Meronek Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Casey Plett On Community
Stacy Jane Grover Tar Hollow Trans: Essays
Mx. Sly Transland: Consent, Kink and Pleasure
Transgender Poetry Michal "MJ" Jones Hood Vacations Finalist
Victoriano Cárdenas Portraits as Animals: Poems
K. Iver Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco
Jennifer Conlon Taking to Water
Subhaga Crystal Bacon Transitory

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