# 3rd Lambda Literary Awards

The 3rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1991 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1990.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Wayne Dynes, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality |
| Publisher Service | Phil Willkie and Greg Baysans, The James White Review |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| AIDS Literature | Elizabeth Osbourn | The Way We Live Now | Winner |
| AIDS Literature | ACT UP/New York Women | Women, AIDS & Activism | Finalist |
| AIDS Literature | Michael Callen | Surviving AIDS | Finalist |
| AIDS Literature | Douglas Crimp | AIDS Demo Graphics | Finalist |
| AIDS Literature | Cindy Patton | Inventing AIDS | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | George Stambolian | Men on Men 3 | Winner |
| Gay Anthology | Franklin Abbott | Men & Intimacy | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Robert Kus | Gay Men of Alcoholics Anonymous | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Robert Kus | Keys to Caring | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Richard L. Stone, Marsh Cassady, and Richard Stephen Smith | Triple Fiction | Finalist |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Lev Raphael | Dancing on Tisha B’av | Winner |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Allen Barnett | The Body and Its Dangers | Finalist |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Bo Huston | Horse and Other Stories | Finalist |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Patrick Moore | This Every Night | Finalist |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Matthew Stadler | Landscape: Memory | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Allen Barnett | The Body and Its Dangers | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Michael Cunningham | A Home at the End of the World | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | John Gilgun | Music I Never Dreamed Of | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | David Leavitt | A Place I’ve Never Been | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Paul Monette | Afterlife | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Michael Nava | Howtown | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | Joseph Hansen | Boy Who Was Buried This Morning | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Stan Leventhal | Black Marble Pool | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Grant Michaels | Body to Dye For | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Mark Richard Zubro | Why Isn’t Becky Twitchell Dead? | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Allan Bérubé | Coming Out Under Fire | Winner |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Mike Hippler | So Little Time | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Mary Ann Humphrey | My Country, My Right to Serve | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Dave Pallone | Behind the Mask | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Stuart Timmons | Trouble With Harry Hay | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Michael Lassell | Decade Dance | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | Francisco X. Alarcón | Body in Flames | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Mark Ameen | Buried Body | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | James Broughton | Special Deliveries | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Kenny Fries | Healing Notebooks | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Toby Johnson | Secret Matter | Winner |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Mercedes Lackey | Magic's Price | Winner |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Marsh Cassady | Alternate Casts | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Storm Constantine | Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Scott Edelman | The Gift | Finalist |
| Gay Small Press | Michael Willhoite | Daddy's Roommate | Winner |
| Gay Small Press | Robert Chesley | Hard Plays/Stiff Parts | Finalist |
| Gay Small Press | Kate Dyer | Gays in Uniform | Finalist |
| Gay Small Press | Jack Fritscher | Some Dance to Remember | Finalist |
| Gay Small Press | Stuart Timmons | Trouble With Harry Hay | Finalist |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel | New, Improved Dykes to Watch Out For | Winner |
| Humor | Susie Bright | Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World | Finalist |
| Humor | Andrea Natalie | Stonewall Riots | Finalist |
| Humor | Gail Sausser | More Lesbian Etiquette | Finalist |
| Humor | Terry Woodrow | Meatmen Vol. 8 | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Joan Nestle and Nona Caspers | Women on Women | Winner |
| Lesbian Anthology | Jeffner Allen | Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow | Lesbian Texts and Contexts | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Terry Woodrow | Lesbian Bedtime Stores 2 | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Irene Zahava | Speaking Four Ourselves | Finalist |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Cherry Muhanji | Her | Winner |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Julie Blackwomon and Nona Caspers | Voyages Out 2 | Finalist |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Renee Hansen | Take Me to the Underground | Finalist |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Karen Marie Christa Minns | Virago | Finalist |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Vickie Sears | Simple Songs | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Paula Martinac | Out of Time | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jane DeLynn | Don Juan in the Village | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz | My Jewish Face | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Anna Livia | Incidents Involving Mirth | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Schulman | People in Trouble | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Lauren Wright Douglas | Ninth Life | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Barbara Wilson | Gaudi Afternoon | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Sarah Dreher | A Captive in Time | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Camarin Grae | Slick | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Claire McNab | Death Down Under | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Bonnie Zimmerman | The Safe Sea of Women | Winner |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Susie Bright | Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Becky Butler | Ceremonies of the Heart | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Marcia Freedman | Exile in the Promised Land | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Kate Millett | Loony-Bin Trip | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Marilyn Hacker | Going Back to the River | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | S. Diane Bogus | Chant of the Women of Magdalena | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Irena Klepfisz | A Few Words in the Mother Tongue | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Minnie Bruce Pratt | Crime Against Nature | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Yvonne Zipter | Patience of Metal | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Gael Baudino | Gossamer Axe | Winner |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Pat Califia | Doc and Fluff | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Lynda Lyons | Priorities | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Karen Marie Christa Minns | Virago | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Melissa Scott | Mighty Good Road | Finalist |
| Lesbian Small Press | Louise Rafkin (ed.) | Different Mothers | Winner |
| Lesbian Small Press | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | Making Face/Making Soul | Finalist |
| Lesbian Small Press | Bev Jo, Linda Strega, and Ruston | Dykes-Loving-Dykes | Finalist |
| Lesbian Small Press | Susan E. Johnson | Staying Power: Long Term Lesbian Couples | Finalist |
| Lesbian Small Press | Evelyn C. White | Black Women’s Health Book | Finalist |