10th Lambda Literary Awards

The 10th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1998 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1997.

Special awards

Category	Winner
Editor's Choice	Patricia Nell Warren, Billy's Boy
Pioneer Award	Ron Hanby, Bookazine
Publisher Service	Douglas Mitchell, University of Chicago Press

Nominees and winners

Category	Winner	Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction	Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton, eds., His(2)	Brian Bouldrey, ed., Best American Gay Fiction 2 Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 Christian McEwen, ed. Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life Peter Burton, ed., The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories
Anthologies/Non-Fiction	Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter, eds., Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance	Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel, eds., PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality Rictor Norton, My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries Jess Wells, Lesbians Raising Sons Michael Lowenthal, Gay Men at the Millennium
Children's/Young Adult	Jacqueline Woodson, The House You Pass On the Way	Adam Mastoon, The Shared Heart Jeanne Arnold, Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What’s a Lesbian? Liza Ketchum, Blue Coyote Paul Monette, Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods
Drama	Moises Kaufman, Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde	Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the Closet Lillian Schlissel, Three Plays by Mae West Chay Yew, Porcelain and A Language of Their Own Jonathan Larson, Rent
Gay Biography/Autobiography	Rafael Campo, The Poetry of Healing	Felice Picano, A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay Michael Klein, Track Conditions Mark Thompson, Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow Gary Schmidgall, Walt Whitman: a Gay Life
Gay Fiction	Aryeh Lev Stollman, The Far Euphrates	Christopher Bram, Gossip Allan Gurganus, Plays Well With Others Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony Neil Bartlett, The House on Brooke Street
Gay Mystery	David Hunt, The Magician's Tale	Christopher Bram, Gossip R. D. Zimmerman, Hostage John Morgan Wilson, Revision of Justice Michael Nava, The Burning Plain
Gay Poetry	Cyrus Cassells, Beautiful Signor	Justin Chin, Bite Hard Frank Bidart, Desire James Broughton (ed. Jim Cory), Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 Tom Carey, Desire: Poems 1986-1996
Gay Studies	Charles Kaiser, ed., Gay Metropolis	Martin Duberman, Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures Mark Thompson, Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self Michelangelo Signorile, Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men Gabriel Rotello, Sexual Ecology|Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men
Humor	Bob Smith, Openly Bob	Sarah Strohmeyer, Barbie Unbound Alison Bechdel, Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For David Sedaris, Naked Erika Lopez, Flaming Iguanas
Lesbian Biography/Autobiography	Barbara Wilson, Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood	Kim Chernin, My Life as a Boy Margaret Peters, May Sarton: a Biography Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams, The Last Time I Wore a Dress Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf
Lesbian Fiction	Elana Dykewomon, Beyond the Pale	Ruthann Robson, A/K/A Frankie Hucklenbroich, A Crystal Diary Persimmon Blackbridge, Prozac Highway Blanche McCrary Boyd, Terminal Velocity
Lesbian Mystery	Randye Lordon, Father Forgive Me	Katherine V. Forrest, Apparition Alley Cynthia Webb, No Daughter of the South Carole LaFavor, Evil Dead Center Jaye Maiman, Old Black Magic
Lesbian Poetry	Joan Larkin, Cold River Eileen Myles, School of Fish	Pat Califia, Diesel Fuel Emma Donoghue, Poems Between Women Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry
Lesbian Studies	Lisa C. Moore, Does Your Mama Know?	Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias, Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers Diana Souhami, Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter Susan K. Raffo, Queerly Classed Arlene Stein, Sex and Sensibility
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, Bending the Landscape	William Mann, Grave Passions Perry Brass, The Harvest Harry M. Benshoff, ed., Monsters in the Closet Lawrence Schimel, ed., The Drag Queen of Elfland
Small Press	Lisa C. Moore, Does Your Mama Know?	Elana Dykewomon, Beyond the Pale Sarah Strohmeyer, Barbie Unbound Justin Chin, Bite Hard Bruce Benderson, Toward the New Degeneracy
Spirituality	Rebecca Alpert, Like Bread on the Seder Plate	Randy P. Conner, Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit Andrew Harvey, The Essential Gay Mystics Winston Leyland, Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists Bruce Bawer, Stealing Jesus
Transgender	Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel, eds., PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams, The Last Time I Wore a Dress	Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender Pat Califia, Sex Changes Annick Prieur, Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos
Visual Arts	David Leddick, Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 Robert Giard, Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers	John Waters, John Waters: Director’s Cut Joani Blank, I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves Anderson Jones and David Fields, Men Together

External links

• 10th Lambda Literary Awards