23rd Lambda Literary Awards

The 23rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2011, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2010.

Beginning with the 2011 awards, the Lambda Literary Foundation took over the administration and presentation of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, formerly a program of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.

Special awards edit

Category Winner
Pioneer Award Edward Albee, Val McDermid
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Alex Sánchez, Susan Stinson

Nominees and winners edit

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Myrlin Hermes, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
Bisexual Non-Fiction Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools
Gay Debut Fiction David Pratt, Bob the Book
Gay Erotica Jon Macy, Teleny and Camille
Gay Fiction Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic
Gay Memoir/Biography Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade
Gay Mystery David Lennon, Echoes
Gay Poetry Brian Teare, Pleasure
Gay Romance Erik Orrantia, Normal Miguel
Lesbian Debut Fiction Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa
Lesbian Erotica Tristan Taormino, ed., Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica
Lesbian Fiction Eileen Myles, Inferno (a poet's novel)
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Julie Marie Wade, Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures
Lesbian Mystery Val McDermid, Fever of the Bone
Lesbian Poetry Anna Swanson, The Nights Also
Lesbian Romance Cate Culpepper, River Walker
LGBT Anthology Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Jane Eagland, Wildthorn
LGBT Drama Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play
LGBT Non-Fiction Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory
  • Stuart Biegel, The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools
  • Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
  • Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community
  • Jallen Rix, Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Sandra McDonald, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
LGBT Studies Scott Herring, Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
  • Deborah Cohler, Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
  • Rafael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
  • Fran Martin, Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
Transgender Fiction Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for As Long As Possible
Transgender Non-Fiction Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community

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