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- ↑ "Previous Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ↑ "Thorn Kief Hillsbery | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ↑ "The Next Brokeback". The Advocate , May 9, 2006.
