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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

10th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists
Category Author/Editor Title Result
Anthologies (Fiction) Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton (eds.) His(2) Winner
Brian Bouldrey (ed.) Best American Gay Fiction 2 Finalist
Peter Burton (ed.) The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories Finalist
Christian McEwen (ed.) Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit Finalist
Tristan Taormino (ed.) Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 Finalist
Anthologies (Nonfiction) Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (eds.) Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance Winner
Michael Lowenthal Gay Men at the Millennium Finalist
Rictor Norton My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries Finalist
Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (eds.) PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality Finalist
Jess Wells Lesbians Raising Sons Finalist
Children's and Young Adult Jacqueline Woodson The House You Pass On the Way Winner
Jeanne Arnold Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What's a Lesbian? Finalist
Liza Ketchum Blue Coyote Finalist
Adam Mastoon The Shared Heart Finalist
Paul Monette Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods Finalist
Drama Moises Kaufman Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Winner
Harry M. Benshoff Monsters in the Closet Finalist
Jonathan Larson Rent Finalist
Lillian Schlissel Three Plays by Mae West Finalist
Chay Yew Porcelain and A Language of Their Own Finalist
Gay Memoir or Biography Rafael Campo The Poetry of Healing Winner
Michael Klein Track Conditions Finalist
Felice Picano A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay Finalist
Gary Schmidgall Walt Whitman: a Gay Life Finalist
Mark Thompson Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow Finalist
Gay Fiction Aryeh Lev Stollman The Far Euphrates Winner
Neil Bartlett The House on Brooke Street Finalist
Christopher Bram Gossip Finalist
Allan Gurganus Plays Well With Others Finalist
Edmund White The Farewell Symphony Finalist
Gay Mystery David Hunt The Magician's Tale Winner
Christopher Bram Gossip Finalist
Michael Nava The Burning Plain Finalist
John Morgan Wilson Revision of Justice Finalist
R. D. Zimmerman Hostage Finalist
Gay Poetry Cyrus Cassells Beautiful Signor Winner
Frank Bidart Desire Finalist
James Broughton, edited by Jim Cory) Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 Finalist
Tom Carey Desire: Poems 1986-1996 Finalist
Justin Chin Bite Hard Finalist
Gay Studies Charles Kaiser (ed.) Gay Metropolis Winner
Martin Duberman Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures Finalist
Gabriel Rotello Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men Finalist
Michelangelo Signorile Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men Finalist
Mark Thompson Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self Finalist
Humor Bob Smith Openly Bob Winner
Alison Bechdel Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For Finalist
Erika Lopez Flaming Iguanas Finalist
David Sedaris Naked Finalist
Sarah Strohmeyer Barbie Unbound Finalist
Lesbian Biography and Autobiography Barbara Wilson Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood Winner
Kim Chernin My Life as a Boy Finalist
Hermione Lee Virginia Woolf Finalist
Margaret Peters May Sarton: a Biography Finalist
Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams The Last Time I Wore a Dress Finalist
Lesbian Fiction Elana Dykewomon Beyond the Pale Winner
Persimmon Blackbridge Prozac Highway Finalist
Blanche McCrary Boyd Terminal Velocity Finalist
Frankie Hucklenbroich A Crystal Diary Finalist
Ruthann Robson A/K/A Finalist
Lesbian Mystery Randye Lordon Father Forgive Me Winner
Katherine V. Forrest Apparition Alley Finalist
Carole LaFavor Evil Dead Center Finalist
Jaye Maiman Old Black Magic Finalist
Cynthia Webb No Daughter of the South Finalist
Lesbian Poetry Joan Larkin Cold River Winner
Eileen Myles School of Fish Winner
Pat Califia Diesel Fuel Finalist
Emma Donoghue Poems Between Women Finalist
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry Finalist
Lesbian Studies Lisa C. Moore Does Your Mama Know? Winner
Susan K. Raffo Queerly Classed Finalist
Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers Finalist
Diana Souhami Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter Finalist
Arlene Stein Sex and Sensibility Finalist
Science fiction, fantasy or horror Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel Bending the Landscape Winner
Harry M. Benshoff (ed.) Monsters in the Closet Finalist
Perry Brass The Harvest Finalist
William J. Mann Mann Grave Passions Finalist
Lawrence Schimel (ed.) The Drag Queen of Elfland Finalist
Small Press Lisa C. Moore Does Your Mama Know? Winner
Bruce Benderson Toward the New Degeneracy Finalist
Justin Chin Bite Hard Finalist
Elana Dykewomon Beyond the Pale Finalist
Sarah Strohmeyer Barbie Unbound Finalist
Spirituality Rebecca Alpert Like Bread on the Seder Plate Winner
Bruce Bawer Stealing Jesus Finalist
Randy P. Conner Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit Finalist
Andrew Harvey The Essential Gay Mystics Finalist
Winston Leyland Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists Finalist
Transgender Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (eds.) PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality Winner
Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams The Last Time I Wore a Dress Winner
Pat Califia Sex Changes Finalist
Annick Prieur Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos Finalist
Riki Anne Wilchins Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender Finalist
Visual Arts Robert Giard Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers Winner
David Leddick Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 Winner
Joani Blank I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves Finalist
Anderson Jones and David Fields Men Together Finalist
John Waters John Waters: Director's Cut Finalist