9th Lambda Literary Awards

The 9th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1997 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1996.

Special awards

Category	Winner
Editor's Choice	Donald Windham, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965
Pioneer Award	Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books
Publishers Service Award	Norman Laurila, A Different Light

Nominees and winners

Category	Winner	Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction	Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch, eds., Women on Women 3	Shawn Stewart Ruff, ed., Go the Way Your Blood Beats David Bergman, ed., Men on Men 6 Victoria Brownworth, ed., Night Bites Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell, eds., Shade
Anthologies/Non-Fiction	Michael Bronski, ed., Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex	Bruce Bawer, ed., Beyond Queer Patrick Merla, ed., Boys Like Us Robin Bernstein and Seth Clark Silberman, eds., Generation Q Lee Lynch and Akia Woods, eds., Off the Rag
Children's/Young Adult	Nancy Garden, Good Moon Rising	Michael Willhoite, Daddy’s Wedding Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman, Free Your Mind Earl Alexander, Sheila Rudin and Pam Sejkora, My Dad Has HIV Michael Thomas Ford, The World Out There
Drama	Sue-Ellen Case, Split Britches	Michael Kearns, Acting=Life Rosemary Keefe Curb, Amazon All-Stars Holly Hughes, Clit Notes Mart Crowley, Three Plays by Crowley
Gay Biography/Autobiography	Fenton Johnson, Geography of the Heart	Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn Assotto Saint, Spells of a Voodoo Doll Bernard Cooper, Truth Serum
Gay Fiction	Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy	Andrew Holleran, The Beauty of Men Patrick Moore, Iowa Dale Peck, The Law of Enclosures Michael Arditti, Pagan’s Father
Gay Mystery	Michael Nava, The Death of Friends	Steven Saylor, Murder on the Appian Way John Morgan Wilson, Simple Justice Grant Michaels, Time to Check Out R. D. Zimmerman, Tribe
Gay Poetry	Rafael Campo, What the Body Told	Kenny Fries, Anesthesia Reginald Shepherd, Angel, Interrupted Michael Lassell, Eros in Boystown Jaime Manrique, My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca
Gay Studies	Patrick Merla, ed., Boys Like Us	David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet Will Fellows, Farm Boys Keith Boykin, One More River to Cross Harry Hay and Will Roscoe, Radically Gay
Humor	Judy Carter, The Homo Handbook	Mary Dugger, History of Lesbian Hair Tim Barela, Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead Helen Eisenbach, Lesbianism Made Easy Liz Tracey and Sydney Pokorny, So You Want to Be a Lesbian?
Lesbian Biography/Autobiography	Doris Grumbach, Life in a Day	Candace Gingrich, Accidental Activist Helen Sheehy, Eva Le Gallienne Torie Osborn, Coming Home to America Honor Moore, The White Blackbird
Lesbian Fiction	Achy Obejas, Memory Mambo	Barbara Wilson, If You Had a Family Carol Anshaw, Seven Moves Sarah Van Arsdale, Toward Amnesia Rebecca Brown, What Keeps Me Here
Lesbian Mystery	Ellen Hart, Robber's Wine	Jaye Maiman, Baby, It’s Cold Jackie Manthorne, Final Take Claire McNab, Inner Circle Katherine V. Forrest, Liberty Square
Lesbian Poetry	Robin Becker, All-American Girl Maureen Seaton, Furious Cooking	Clare Coss, Arc of Love Linda Smukler, Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. Jeredith Merrin, Shift
Lesbian Studies	Bernadette J. Brooten, Love Between Women	Lindsay Van Gelder and Pamela Brandt, Girls Next Door Ruth Vanita, Sappho and the Virgin Mary Meg Daly, Surface Tension Victoria Brownworth, Too Queer
Photography/Visual Arts	Susie Bright and Jill Posener, Nothing But the Girl	Loren Cameron, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits Derek Jarman, Derek Jarman’s Garden Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk, Gay by the Bay Persimmon Blackbridge, Sunnybrook
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Clive Barker, Sacrament	Rachel Pollack, Godmother Night Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche, Sons of Darkness Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez, Swords of the Rainbow Pam Keesey, Women Who Run With Werewolves
Small Press	Loren Cameron, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits	Celeste West, Lesbian Polyfidelity Bernard Welt, Mythomania Diamanda Galas, Shit of God Victoria Brownworth, Too Queer
Spirituality	Peter Gomes, The Good Book	Keith Hartman, Congregations in Conflict Lev Raphael, Journeys & Arrivals Marc Adams, The Preacher’s Son Marilyn Alexander and James Preston, We Were Baptized Too
Transgender	Loren Cameron, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits	Phyllis Burke, Gender Shock Leon E. Pettiway, Honey, Honey Miss Thang Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors

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