18th Lambda Literary Awards

The 18th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2006, to honor works of LGBT literature published in 2005.

Nominees and winners

Category	Winner	Nominated
Anthologies	E. Lynn Harris, ed., Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present [1]	Anna Camilleri, Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts Katherine V. Forrest, Lesbian Pulp Fiction Wendell Ricketts, Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men Emanuel Xavier, Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry
Belles Lettres	Martin Moran, The Tricky Part [1]	Sybille Bedford, Quicksands Tab Hunter and Eddie Muller, Tab Hunter Confidential Tania Katan, My One Night Stand with Cancer Robert Trachtenberg and Tom Bachtell, When I Knew
Biography	Sherrill Tippins, February House[1]	Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester John Geiger, Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin Mary Meigs and Lise Weil, Beyond Recall Diana Souhami, Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art
Children's/Young Adult	Shyam Selvadurai, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea[1]	Rigoberto González, Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio James Howe, Totally Joe Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, And Tango Makes Three Alex Sánchez, Rainbow Road
Erotica	Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe, eds., Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2[1]	Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2006 Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica Sean Wolfe, Close Contact
Gay Debut Fiction	Vestal McIntyre, You Are Not the One: Stories[1]	Mack Friedman, Setting the Lawn on Fire Richard McCann, Mother of Sorrows Barry McCrea, The First Verse Sulayman X, Bilal’s Bread
Gay Fiction	Dennis Cooper, The Sluts[1]	Harlan Greene, The German Officer’s Boy Aaron Hamburger, Faith for Beginners Kief Hillsbery, What We Do Is Secret Keith McDermott, Acqua Calda
Gay Mystery	D. Travers Scott, One of These Things is Not Like the Other[1]	Rick Copp, The Actor’s Guide to Greed Dorien Grey, The Paper Mirror Michael Allen Dymmoch, White Tiger W. Randy Haynes, Cajun Snuff
Gay Poetry	Richard Siken, Crush[1]	Mark Doty, School of the Arts Timothy Lui, For Dust Thou Art Martin Pousson, Sugar Aaron Smith, Blue on Blue Ground
Humor	David Rakoff, Don't Get Too Comfortable[1]	Alison Bechdel, Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For Jennifer Camper, Juicy Mother Kate Clinton, What the L? Cheryl Peck, Revenge of the Paste Eaters
Lesbian Debut Fiction	Ali Liebegott, The Beautifully Worthless[1]	Katia Noyes, Crashing America Michelle Embree, Manstealing for Fat Girls Ronica Black, In Too Deep Fiona Zedde, Bliss
Lesbian Fiction	Abha Dawesar, Babyji[1]	Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs Lauren Sanders, With or Without You Karen X. Tulchinsky, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
Lesbian Mystery	Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders[1]	Katherine V. Forrest, Women of Mystery Ellen Hart, The Iron Girl Penny Mickelbury, Darkness Descending Radclyffe, Justice Served
Lesbian Poetry	June Jordan, Directed by Desire: Collected Poems[1]	Samiya Bashir, Where the Apple Falls Jackie Kay, Life Mask Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume II Amber Flora Thomas, Eye of Water
LGBT Studies	Susan Ackerman, When Heroes Love: The Ambiguities of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David[1]	Jennifer Kelly, Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause Dwight A. McBride, Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove, Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs and the Internet Ruth Vanita, Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
Non-Fiction	Thomas Glave, Words to Our Now[1]	Dennis Altman, Gore Vidal’s America Keith Boykin, Beyond the Down Low Peggy Drexler, Raising Boys without Men Tirza True Latimer, Women Together/Women Apart
Romance	Radclyffe, Distant Shores, Silent Thunder[1]	Randy Boyd, Walt Loves the Bearcat Gerri Hill, Artist’s Dream Karin Kallmaker, Just Like That M. J. Pearson, The Price of Temptation
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Katherine V. Forrest, Daughters of an Emerald Dusk[1]	Octavia Butler, Fledgling David B. Coe, Shapers of Darkness Jane Fletcher, Temple Landfall Jeanne G'Fellers, No Sister of Mine
Spirituality	Cheri DiNovo, Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In[1]	Munya Andrews, The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades Michael Thomas Ford, The Path of the Green Man Daniel Gebhardt, I Am This One Walking Beside Me Craig Hickman, Fumbling Toward Divinity
Transgender	Charlie Anders, Choir Boy[1]	Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place Tennessee Jones, Deliver Me from Nowhere Matt Kailey, Just Add Hormones Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender

References

Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (2005-04-09). "Lambda Literary". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 2018-07-28.

External links

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[:0-1] Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (2005-04-09). "Lambda Literary". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved 2018-07-28.