Darnell Moore, Casey Plett, and More Win Big at the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards

Darnell Moore, Casey Plett, and More Win Big at the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary held its 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards on Monday, June 3, in New York City. Hosted by cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond, the Lammys celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors as well as books on LGBTQ+ themes.

Check out the full list of 2019 winners below.

Publishing Professional Award

Barbara Smith

Trustee Award

Alexander Chee

Visionary Award

Masha Gessen

Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction

Karen Tongson

Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emergencing LGBTQ Writers

Robert Fieseler and Hannah Ensor

Lesbian Fiction

La Bastarda, Trionia Melibea Obono (trans. Lawrence Schimel)
The Evolution of Love, Lucy Jane Bledsoe
The Fifth Woman, Nona Caspers
Maggie Terry, Sarah Schulman
Pretend We Live Here, Genevieve Hudson
Sodom Road Exit, Amber Dawn
The Tiger Flu, Larissa Lai
Two Moons: Stories, Krystal A. Smith

Gay Fiction

Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego Tyler, Lovers, John R. Gordon
History of Violence, Edouard Louis (trans. Lorin Stein)
The House of Impossible Beauties, Joseph Cassara
Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead
Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, Martin Duberman
Some Hell, Patrick Nathan
Speak No Evil, Uzodinma Iweala
State of the Nation, David Jackson Ambrose

Bisexual Fiction

Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1, Jude Lucens
The Best Bad Things, Katrina Carrasco
Bhopal Dance, Jennifer Natalya Fink
Disoriental, Negar Djavadi (trans. Tina Kover)
Jilted, Lilah Suzanne
The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions, Nathan Alling Long
Palmetto Rose, J.E. Sumerau
The Wild Birds, Emily Strewlow

Transgender Fiction

Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
Invasions, Calvin Gimpelevich
Little Fish, Casey Plett
Sketchtasy, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Bisexual Nonfiction

Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s), Sophie Lucido Johnson
No Archive Will Restore You, Julietta Singh
Out of Step: A Memoir, Anthony Moll

Transgender Nonfiction

Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man, Thomas Page McBee
Histories of the Transgender Child, Julian Gill-Peterson
I'm Afraid of Men, Vivek Shraya
Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment, Aren Z. Aizura
The Soul in the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, Joy Ladin

LGBTQ Fiction

The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago's First Century, Jim Elledge
Butch Heroes, Ria Brodell
Has the Gay Movement Failed?, Martin Duberman
Ladies Lazarus, Piper J. Daniels
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Imani Perry
No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas, C.J. Janovy, University Press of Kansas
Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII, Avery Cassell
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, Charlene A. Carruthers

Lesbian Poetry

Body Work, Emilia Nielsen
Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House, Ru Puro
Evolution, Eileen Myles
Gaze Back, Marylyn Tan
Obits., Tess Liem
Past Lives, Future Bodies, Kristin Chang
Surge, Etel Adnan
Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions, Jane Miller

Gay Poetry

ESL or You Weren't Here, Aldrin Valdez
Indecency, Justin Phillip Reed
Inquisition, Kazim Ali
Junk, Tommy Pico
Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen
Stereo(TYPE), Jonah Mixon-Webster
Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution, Brane Mozetic (trans. Barbara Jursa)
Wild Is the Wind: Poems, Carl Phillips

Bisexual Poetry

Cenzontle, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
If They Come for Us, Fatimah Asghar
Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems, Frances Donovan
My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths, Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul
We Play a Game, Duy Doan

Transgender Poetry

Heal Your Love, Luna Merbruja
Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway
If the Color Is Fugitive, Sara Mithra
lo terciario / the tertiary, Raquel Salas Rivera
Some Animal, Ely Shipley

Lesbian Mystery

A Matter of Blood, Catherine Maiorisi
A Study in Honor: A Novel, Claire O'Dell
A Whisper of Bones: A Jane Lawless Mystery, Ellen Hart
Alice Isn't Dead: A Novel, Joseph Fink
Gnarled Hollow, Charlotte Greene
The Locket, Gerri Hill
Secrets of the Last Castle, A. Rose Mathieu
Stolen: A Kieran Yeats Mystery, Linda J. Wright

Gay Mystery

Black Diamond Fall, Joseph Olshan
Boystown 11: Heart's Desire, Marshall Thornton
Death Checks In, David S. Pederson
Dodging and Burning: A Mystery, John Copenhaver
The God Game: A Dan Sharp Mystery, Jeffrey Round
Late Fees: A Pinx Video Mystery, Marshall Thornton
Somewhere Over Lorain Road, Bud Gundy
Survival Is a Dying Art: An Angus Green Novel, Neil S. Plakcy

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

Apocalypse, Darling, Barrie Jean Borich
Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, Julia Van Haaften
A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir, Sandra Gail Lambert
Chronology, Zahra Patterson
Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter, Marusya Bociurkiw
MINE: Essays, Sarah Viren
My Butch Career: A Memoir, Esther Newton
nitisanak, Lindsay Nixon

Gay Memoir/Biography

Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, Lillian Faderman
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, Darnell L. Moore
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope, Deray Mckesson
The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers and Jacqueline Kennedy, Jerry Torre & Tony Maietta
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading, Edmund White
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir, Casey Gerald

Lesbian Romance

Autumn's Light, Aurora Rey
Beowulf For Cretins: A Love Story, Ann McMan
Breaking Down Her Walls, Erin Zak
Charming the Vicar, Jenny Frame
In Development, Rachel Spangler
Just For Show, Jae
The Music And The Mirror, Lola Keeley
The Talebearer, Sheri Lewis Wohl

Gay Romance

The CEO's Christmas Manny, Angela McCallister
Crashing Upwards, S.C. Wynne
Detour, Reesa Herberth & Michelle Moore
Learn with Me, Kris Jacen
No Luck, Kayleigh Sky
Of Sunlight and Stardust, Christina Lee & Riley Hart
Point of Contact, Melanie Hansen
Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling, Jenny Holiday

LGBTQ Anthology (Fiction and Nonfiction Winners)

As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Volume II, The Other Foundation (fiction winner)
Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology, Taneka Stotts & Sfe R. Monster
Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1, Miah Jeffra, Chad Koch, et al.
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, Roxane Gay (nonfiction winner)
Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts, Peter Dickinson, C.E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, Dalbir Singh
Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Rikki Beadle-Blair, John R. Gordon
Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents, Sadie Epstein-Fine & Makeda Zook
Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, Lexie Bean

LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult

Anger Is a Gift: A Novel, Mark Oshiro
The Dangerous Art of Blending In, Angelo Surmelis
Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Adib Khorram
Girl Made of Stars, Ashley Herring Blake
Hurricane Child, Kacen Callender
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
Sawkill Girls, Claire Legrand
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story, Kacen Callender

LGBTQ Drama

Black Light, Daniel Alexander Jones
Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties, Jen Silverman
Draw the Circle, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Plot Points in Our Sexual Development, Miranda Rose Hall
Singlet, Erin Markey

LGBTQ Erotica

Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3, Sacchi Green
Crossplay, Niki Smith
Gents: Steamy Stories From the Age of Steam, Matthew Bright
The Lurid Sea, Tom Cardamone
Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!, Blue Delliquanti & Kazimir Lee

LGBTQ Graphic Novels

Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Mark Russell (Writer), Sean Parsons, Mark Morales, Howard Porter, Mike Feehan (Illustrators)
The Lie and How We Told It, Tommi Parrish
Love Letters to Jane's World, Paige Braddock
On a Sunbeam, Tillie Walden
Our Wretched Town Hall, Eric Kostiuk Williams
The Pervert, Michelle Perez (Writer), Remy Boydell (Illustrator)
Unpacking, Steve MacIsaac
We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology, Jeanne Thornton & Tara Madison Avery

LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

The Barrow Will Send What It May, Margaret Killjoy
The Breath of the Sun, Isaac R. Fellman
The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang
Forget the Sleepless Shores, Sonya Taaffe
In the Vanishers' Palace, Aliette de Bodard
Metabolize, If Able, Clay AD
Resilience, Fletcher DeLancey
Witchmark, C.L. Polk

LGBTQ Studies

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History, E. Patrick Johnson
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean, Lyndon K. Gill
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics, Myrl Beam
Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States, Keridwen N. Luis
Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports, Andrew Billings & Leigh Moscowitz
Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique, T. Jackie Cuevas
Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers, Anne Balay
Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston, William T. Hoston