# 7th Lambda Literary Awards

The 7th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1995 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1994.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Mab Segrest, Traitor to the Race |
| Publisher Service | Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Press |

## Nominees and winners

7th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists :
| Category | Author(s)/Editor(s) | Title | Result |
| Anthologies/Fiction | Lillian Faderman (ed.) | Chloe Plus Olivia | Winner |
| Anthologies/Fiction | David Bergman (ed.) | Men on Men 5 | Finalist |
| Anthologies/Fiction | Sharon Lim-Hing (ed.) | The Very Inside | Finalist |
| Anthologies/Fiction | Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder (ed.) | High Risk 2 | Finalist |
| Anthologies/Fiction | Irene Zahava (ed.) | Lavender Mansions | Finalist |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Joan Nestle and John Preston | Sister and Brother | Winner |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Patrick Higgins (ed.) | Queer Reader | Finalist |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Kevin Jennings (ed.) | One Teacher in Ten | Finalist |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Julia Penelope (ed.) | Out of the Class Closet | Finalist |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Mark Thompson (ed.) | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist |
| Children's & Young Adult | Marion Dane Bauer | Am I Blue? | Winner |
| Children's & Young Adult | Stacey Donovan | Dive | Finalist |
| Children's & Young Adult | Ann Heron | 2 Teenagers in 20 | Finalist |
| Children's & Young Adult | Scott Nunokawa | Oscar Wilde | Finalist |
| Children's & Young Adult | Patricia Quinlan | Tiger Flowers | Finalist |
| Drama | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Perestroika | Winner |
| Drama | David Drake | The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me | Finalist |
| Drama | Carolyn Gage | Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Finalist |
| Drama | Cherrie Moraga | Heroes and Saints & Other Plays | Finalist |
| Drama | Paul Rudnick | Jeffrey | Finalist |
| Gay Biography & Autobiography | Abraham Verghese | My Own Country | Winner |
| Gay Biography & Autobiography | Lawrence Mass | Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite | Finalist |
| Gay Biography & Autobiography | Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | Finalist |
| Gay Biography & Autobiography | John Preston | My Life as a Pornographer | Finalist |
| Gay Biography & Autobiography | Ned Rorem | Knowing When to Stop | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Mark Merlis | American Studies | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Joseph Olshan | Nightswimmer | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Douglas Sadownick | Sacred Lips of the Bronx | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Norman Wong | Cultural Revolution | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | George Baxt | Queer Kind of Love | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Caleb Carr | The Alienist | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Samuel R. Delany | Mad Man | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Grant Michaels | Mask for a Diva | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Thom Gunn | Collected Poems | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | Rafael Campo | The Other Man Was Me | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Richard McCann | Ghost Letters | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Paul Monette | West of Yesterday, East of Summer | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Assotto Saint | Wishing for Wings | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | George Chauncey | Gay New York | Winner |
| Gay Studies | John Boswell | Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | David B. Feinberg | Queer and Loathing | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Mark Thompson | Gay Soul | Finalist |
| Humor | Ellen Galford | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | Winner |
| Humor | Kevin Dilallo and Jack Krumholtz | Unofficial Gay MANual | Finalist |
| Humor | Mabel Maney | Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend | Finalist |
| Humor | Christian McLaughlin | Glamourpuss | Finalist |
| Humor | David Sedaris | Barrel Fever | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography & Autobiography | Renate Stendhal | Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures | Winner |
| Lesbian Biography & Autobiography | Elizabeth Bishop | One Art: Letters | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography & Autobiography | Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher | Serving in Silence | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography & Autobiography | Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography & Autobiography | Mab Segrest | Memoir of a Race Traitor | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Rebecca Brown | The Gifts of the Body | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Emma Donoghue | Sir Fry | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Ellen Galford | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Heather Lewis | House Rules | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Eileen Myles | Chelsea Girls | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Small Sacrifice | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Randye Lordon | Sister’s Keeper | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Mabel Maney | Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Claire McNab | Body Guard | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Sandra Scoppettone | My Sweet Untraceable You | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Marilyn Hacker | Winter Numbers | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Sapphire | American Dreams | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | June Jordan | Haruko/Love Poems | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Mary Oliver | White Pine | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Linda Smukler | Normal Sex | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Dorothy Allison | Skin | Winner |
| Lesbian Studies | Lillian Faderman | Chloe Plus Olivia | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Susan Fox Rogers | Sportsdykes | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Sarah Schulman | My American History | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Kiss and Tell Collective | Her Tongue on My Theory | Finalist |
| Photography & Visual Arts | Nancy Andrews | Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America | Winner |
| Photography & Visual Arts | Jim French | Art of the Male Nude | Finalist |
| Photography & Visual Arts | Jack Kugelmass | Masked Culture | Finalist |
| Photography & Visual Arts | Out | Out in America | Finalist |
| Photography & Visual Arts | Mark Thompson | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Melissa Scott | Trouble and Her Friends | Winner |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Suzy McKee Charnas | The Furies | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Mercedes Lackey | Storm Warning | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Nancy Springer | Metal Angel | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jean Stewart | Warriors of Isis | Finalist |
| Small Press | Kiss and Tell Collective | Her Tongue on My Theory | Winner |
| Small Press | Sapphire | American Dreams | Finalist |
| Small Press | Dorothy Allison | Skin | Finalist |
| Small Press | James Earl Hardy | B-Boy Blues | Finalist |
| Small Press | Achy Obejas | We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? | Finalist |