# 11th Lambda Literary Awards

The 11th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1999 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1998.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice Award | Naeem Murr, The Boy |
| Pioneer Award | Katherine V. Forrest |
| Publisher Service Award | Joan M. Drury, Spinsters Ink |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Author/Editor | Title | Result |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Byrne R. Fone (ed.) | Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature | Winner |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Michele Karlsberg and Aren X. Tulchinsky | To Be Continued | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Lawrence Schimel | Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Joel Tan | Men on Men 7 | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Joel Tan | Queer PAPI Porn | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Nisa Donnelly (ed.) | Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life | Winner |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | David L. Eng | Q & A: Queer in Asian America | Winner |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Lucy Jane Bledsoe | Lesbian Travels | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Clifford Chase | Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Kevin Jennings | Telling Tales Out of School | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Kevin Jennings | Telling Tales Out of School | Winner |
| Children's and Young Adult | Francesca Lia Block | I Was a Teenage Fairy | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Clifford Chase | Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Michael Thomas Ford | Outspoken | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Joseph Kennedy | Lucy Goes to the Country | Finalist |
| Drama | Holly Hughes | O Solo Homo | Winner |
| Drama | Eve Ensler | The Vagina Monologues | Finalist |
| Drama | Jim Grimsley and David Roman | Mr. Universe and Other Plays | Finalist |
| Drama | D. A. Miller | Place For Us | Finalist |
| Drama | Sarah Schulman | Stagestruck | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | William J. Mann | Wisecracker | Winner |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Graham Caveney | Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Gavin Geoffrey Dillard | In the Flesh | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Norman Page | Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Andrew Tobias | The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Mark Merlis | An Arrow's Flight | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Rabih Alameddine | Koolaids: The Art of War | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Michael Cunningham | The Hours | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Jameson Currier | Where the Rainbow Ends | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Keith Ridgway | The Long Falling | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | R. D. Zimmerman | Outburst | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | Randy Boyd | Uprising | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Fred Hunter | Federal Fag | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Grant Michaels | Dead as a Doornail | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Richard Stevenson | Strachey’s Folly | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | J. D. McClatchy | Ten Commandments | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | Mark Doty | Sweet Machine | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Edward Field | A Frieze for a Temple of Love | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Michael Lassell | A Flame for the Touch That Matters | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Timothy Liu | Say Goodnight | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | John Loughery | The Other Side of Silence | Winner |
| Gay Studies | Michael Bronski | The Pleasure Principle | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman | Becoming Visible | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Will Roscoe | Changing Ones | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Andrew Sullivan | Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival | Finalist |
| Humor | Michael Thomas Ford | Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life | Winner |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel | Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For | Finalist |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel | The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out | Finalist |
| Humor | Kate Clinton | Don’t Get Me Started | Finalist |
| Humor | Dan Savage | Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Alison Bechdel | The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out | Winner |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Sally Cline | Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Joan Nestle | A Fragile Union | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Rodger Streitmatter | Empty Without You | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Kate Summerscale | The Queen of Whale Cay | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Dorothy Allison | Cavedweller | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sharon Bridgforth | the bull-jean stories | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Rebecca Brown | The Dogs | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Erika Lopez | They Call Me Mad Dog | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Schulman | Shimmer | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Sarah Dreher | Shaman's Moon | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Nicola Griffith | The Blue Place | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Wicked Games | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Randye Lordon | Mother May I | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Claire McNab | Past Due | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Beatrix Gates | In the Open | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Letta Neely | Juba | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Leslea Newman | The Little Butch Book | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Pamela Sneed | Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Joan Nestle | A Fragile Union | Winner |
| Lesbian Studies | Zsa Zsa Gershick | Gay Old Girls | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Judith Halberstam | Female Masculinity | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Sarah Schulman | Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Barbara Smith | The Truth That Never Hurts | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (eds.) | Bending the Landscape II: Science Fiction | Winner |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Clive Barker | Galilee | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Elizabeth Brownrigg | Falling to Earth | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Ulysses G. Dietz | Desmond | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Lawrence Schimel | Things Invisible to See | Finalist |
| Small Press | Sharon Bridgforth | the bull-jean stories | Winner |
| Small Press | Alison Bechdel | The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out | Finalist |
| Small Press | Randy Boyd | Uprising | Finalist |
| Small Press | Bruce LaBruce | The Reluctant Pornographer | Finalist |
| Small Press | Barbara Summerhawk | Queer Japan | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Donna Minkowitz | Ferocious Romance | Winner |
| Spirituality | Perry Brass | How to Survive Your Own Gay Life | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Peter J. Gomes | Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living | Finalist |
| Spirituality | John J. McNeill | Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Richard Rambuss | Closet Devotions | Finalist |
| Transgender / Bisexual | Michael R. Gorman | The Empress Is a Man | Winner |
| Transgender / Bisexual | Leslie Feinberg | Trans Liberation | Finalist |
| Transgender / Bisexual | Judith Halberstam | Female Masculinity | Finalist |
| Transgender / Bisexual | Diane Wood Middlebrook | Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton | Finalist |
| Transgender / Bisexual | Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray | Boy-Wives and Female Husbands | Finalist |
| Visual Arts | David Leddick | The Male Nude | Winner |
| Visual Arts | Barbara Seyda and Diana Herrera | Women in Love | Winner |
| Visual Arts | Deborah Bright | The Passionate Camera | Finalist |
| Visual Arts | Russell Bush | Affectionate Men | Finalist |
| Visual Arts | Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman | Becoming Visible | Finalist |