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Lambda Award Nominations 2006

The Lammy Awards are presented by the Lambda Book Report and cover a range of subjects and categories. Judging is by a large panel of people in publishing, booksellers and others. 2006 award winners are for books published in 2005. The winners this year will be announced May 18th.

Past nominations and winners are Lambda Awards 2005.

And the nominations are: (category winners listed in bold)


Lesbian Debut Fiction

 Crashing America by Katia Noyes
 Manstealing for Girls by Michelle Embree
 Beautifully Worthless by Ali Lelbegott
 In Too Deep by Ronica Black
 Bliss by Fiona Zedde

Lesbian Fiction
 Babyji by Abha Dawesar
 Wild Dogs by Helen Humphrys
 With or Without you by Laauren Sanders
 Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen Tulchinsky
 Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

Gay Men's Debut Fiction
 Setting the Lawn on Fire by Mack Friedman
 Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann
 The First Verse by Barry McCrea
 You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre
 Bilal?s Bread by Sulayman X

Gay Men's Fiction
 The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
 German Officer?s Boy by Harlan Greene
 Faith For Beginners by Aaron Hamburger
 What We Do is Secret by Kief Hillsbery
 Acqua Calda by Keith McDermott

Lesbian Poetry
 Where the Apple Falls by Samlya Bashir
 Directed by Desire: Collected Poems by June Jordan
 Life Mask by Jackie Kay
 New & Selected Poems, vol. 2 by Mary Oliver
 Eye of Water by Amber Flora Thomas

Gay Men's Poetry
 School of the Arts by Mark Doty
 For Dust Thou Art by Timothy Lul
 Sugar by Martin Pousson
 Crus by Richard Siken
 Blue on Blue Ground by Aaron Smith

Lesbian Mystery
 Women of Mystery: An Anthology edited by Katherine V. Forrest
 The Iron Girl by Ellen Hart
 Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar De Alba
 Justice Served by Radclyffe
 Darkness Descending by Penny Mickelbury

Gay Men's Mystery
 One of These Things Is Not Like The Other by D. Travers Scott
 Actor's Guide To Greed by Rick Copp
 The Paper Mirror by Dorien Grey
 White Tiger by Michael Allen Dymmoch
 Cajun Snuff by W. Randy Haynes

Fiction Anthology
 Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts edited by Anna Camilleri
 Lesbian Pulp Fiction: Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback novels 1950–1965 edited by Katherine V. Forrest
 Freedom in this Village: Black Gay men?s Writing 1969 to the Present edited by E. Lynn Harris
 Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men edited by Wendell Rickets
 Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry ed. by Emanuel Xavier

LGBT Studies
 When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman
 Zest for Life: Lesbians' Experience of Menopause by Jennifer Kelly
 Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch by Dwight A. McBride
 Lesbian Communities Festivals, RVs and the Internet edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove
 Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita

Belles Lettres
 Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford
 Tab Hunter Confidential: Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter
 My One Night Stand With Cancer by Tania Katan
 The Tricky Part: A Boy's Story of Sexual Trespass, A Man?s Journey to Forgiveness by Martin Moran
 When I Knew by Robert Trachtenberg

Biography
 Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, the 70s in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson
 Nothing Is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin by John Geiger
 Beyond Recall by Mary Melgs and Lise Well
 Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art by Diana Souhami
 February House by Cherill Tippins

Erotica
 Best Gay Erotica 2006 edited by Richard Labonte
 Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 edited by Tristan Taormino
 Rode Hard Put Away Wet by Saachi Green and Rackelle Valencia
 Close Contact by Sean Wolfe
 Stolen Moments edited by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman

Romance
 Artist's Dream by Gerri Hill
 Just Life That by Karin Kallmaker
 The Price of Temptation by M.J. Pearson
 Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe
 Walt Loves the Bearcat by Randy Boyd

Children's/Young Adult
 And Tango Makes Three by Peter parnell and Justin Richardson
 Antonio's Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio by Rigoberto Conzalez
 Totally Joe by James Howe
 Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez
 Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai

Humor
 Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
 Juicy Mother by Jennifer Camper
 Revenge of the Paste Eaters by Cheryl Peck
 Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff

Spirituality
 Seven Sisters of Pleiades by Munya Andrews
 Qu(e)erying Evangelism by Cheri DiNovo
 I Am This One Walking Beside Be by Marvin M. Ellison
 Fumbling Toward Divinity by Craig Hickman

NonFiction
 Gore Vidal's America by Dennis Altman
 Beyond the Down Low by Keith Boykin
 Words To Our Now by Thomas Glave
 Raising Boys Without Men by Peggy Drexler
 Women Together/ Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris by Tirza True Latimer

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
 Fledgling by Octavia Butler
 Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe
 Temple Landfall by Jane Fletcher
 Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine V. Forrest
 No Sister of Mine by Jeanne G'Fellers

Transgender/GenderQueer
 Choir Boy by Charlie Anders
 In a Queer Time and Place by Judith Halberstam
 Deliver Me From Nowhere by Tennessee Jones
 Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey
 The Riddle of Gender by Deborah Rudacille

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