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by Renée LaChance
he Lambda Literary Awards honor the
lesbian and gay communities’ finest
writers, editors and publishers. The
awards are sponsored by the Lambda
Book Report (published by the Lambda
Rising bookstores based in Washington,
are bestowed every June at a posh banquet. This
year’s event took place at the Palmer House in
Chicago on June 2.
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John Preston. The Children’ s/Young Adult award
went to Am 1 Blue? a collection of stories for young
adults by lesbian, gay and heterosexual authors.
This was the first year Canadian books were
eligible for the Lammys. The Small Press award
went and
to Her Tongue on My Theory by the Kiss and
D.C.)
Tell lesbian writers collective and published by
Vancouver, B.C.’s Press Gang.
The Publisher’s Service award went to Barbara
Smith for founding, with the late Audre Lorde,
Kitchen Table Press. And the Editor’s Choice award
went to Mab Segrest for her book Memoir o f a Race
Traitor.
The theme of connections between lesbians and
gay men unite several winners of this year’s Lambda
Literary Awards— affectionately known as the
Lammys. Sister and Brother won the nonfiction
anthology award. It was co-edited by Joan Nestle and
The Lambda Literary Awards began in 1989, and
two authors who took honors at the first banquet also
won awards this year: in the Lesbian Studies cat
egory, Dorothy Allison for Skin, and in the Gay
Men’s Fiction category, Alan Hollinghurst for The
Folding Star.
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Gay Men’s Fiction
Lesbian and Gay Anthologies/Nonfiction
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HarperCollins
Viking
Lesbian Studies
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by M elissa Scott
Firebrand Books
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Lesbian and Gay Humor
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Basic Books
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Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
Lesbian and Gay Drama
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Simon and Schuster
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Algonquin Press
HarperSanFrancisco
Lesbian Poetry
Lesbian and Gay Children’s/Young Adult
Norton
I B lue ?
edited by Marion Dane Bauer
HarperChildren 's
Gay Men’s Poetry
Lesbian and Gay Small Press
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Farrar Strauss and Giroux
Press Gang
Lesbian M ystery
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Random House
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