# 28th Lambda Literary Awards

The 28th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 6, 2016, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2015. The list of nominees was released on March 8.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Pioneer Award | Eileen Myles |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Bryan Borland, JP Howard |
| Trustee Award | Hilton Als |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Bisexual Literature | Emily Bingham, Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark | Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time Zoe Pilger, Eat My Heart Out Kevin Hogan, My Riastrad |
| Gay Erotica | Miodrag Kojadinovic, Érotiques Suprèmes | Jennifer Levine and Rian Darcy, Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales Natty Soltesz, College Dive Bar, 1 AM William Holden, Grave Desires Michael Ampersant, Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of) |
| Gay Fiction | Hasan Namir, God in Pink | Andy Sinclair, Breathing Lessons Truman Capote, The Early Stories of Truman Capote Paul Russell, Immaculate Blue Mark Merlis, JD Michael Golding, A Poet of the Invisible World John Whittier Treat, The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House James Sie, Still Life, Las Vegas |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Langdon Hammer, James Merrill: Life and Art | Jean Findlay, Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator Arsham Parsi and Marc Colbourne, Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist Matthew Spender, The House in St. John’s Wood Bernard Cooper, My Avant-Garde Education Michael V. Smith, My Body Is Yours Brad Gooch, Smash Cut Jameson Currier, Until My Heart Stops |
| Gay Mystery | Marshall Thornton, Boystown 7: Bloodlines | Jeffrey Round, After the Horses Tom Mendicino, The Boys from Eighth and Carpenter Jon Wilson, Cheap as Beasts Wallace Godfrey, Introducing Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives Rhys Ford, Murder and Mayhem Christopher Bollen, Orient Robert Karjel, The Swede |
| Gay Poetry | Nicholas Wong, Crevasse Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance | Roberto F. Santiago, Angel Park Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn Francisco X. Alarcón, Canto Hondo/Deep Song Ben Ladouceur, Otter Jee Leong Koh, Steep Tea Ralph Hamilton, Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail |
| Gay Romance | Debbie McGowan, When Skies Have Fallen | Vanessa North, Blueberry Boys Ralph Josiah Bardsley, Brothers Alexis Hall, For Real L. A. Witt, General Misconduct Garrett Leigh, Misfits Jay Bell, Something Like Stories, Volume One Brad Boney, Yes |
| Lesbian Erotica | Meghan O'Brien, The Muse | Salome Wilde and Talon Rihai, Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica Sinclair Sexsmith, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica |
| Lesbian Fiction | Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees | Virginie Despentes, Apocalypse Baby Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Blue Talk and Love Tiya Miles, The Cherokee Rose Miranda July, The First Bad Man LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine Debra Busman, Like a Woman Violette Leduc, Thérèse and Isabelle |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Kate Carroll de Gutes, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear | Cat Cora, Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dirty River Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Allison Gruber, You’re Not Edith |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ann Aptaker, Tarnished Gold Victoria Brownworth, Ordinary Mayhem | Ellen Hart, The Grave Soul Stevie Mikayne, Illicit Artifacts Cari Hunter, No Good Reason Lee Winter, The Red Files Debra Hyde, The Tattered Heiress |
| Lesbian Poetry | Dawn Lundy Martin, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life | Melissa Buzzeo, The Devastation Claudia Rodriguez, Everybody’s Bread Sara Jane Stoner, Experience in the Medium of Destruction Margot Douaihy, Girls Like You Jessica Jacobs, Pelvis with Distance J. P. Howard, Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories Stephanie Gray, Shorthand and Electric Language Stars |
| Lesbian Romance | Julie Blair, Making a Comeback | Shelley Thrasher, Autumn Spring Andrea Bramhall, The Chameleon’s Tale Dillon Watson, Full Circle Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game Jackie D. Bold, Infiltration Blythe H. Warren, My Best Friend’s Girl Amy Dunne, The Renegade |
| LGBT Anthology | Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács and Sabina Ibarrola, Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts, Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology | Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana and Jill Dolan, Memories of the Revolution Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories Julie Bozza, A Pride of Poppies: Modern GLBTQI Fiction of the Great War Nívea Castro and Geny Cabral, Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians Torsten Højer, Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction Merritt k, Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation |
| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Alex Gino, George | Sarah McCarry, About a Girl Will Walton, Anything Could Happen Jerome Pohlen, Gay and Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights Brian Selznick, The Marvels Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not I. W. Gregorio, None of the Above Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda |
| LGBT Debut Fiction | Victor Yates, A Love Like Blood | Austin Bunn, The Brink Mark S. Luckie, Do U. Paul Brownsey, His Steadfast Love and Other Stories Ioannis Pappos, Hotel Living Meliza Bañales, Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific James Driggers, Lovesick Libby Ware, Lum |
| LGBT Drama | Tanya Barfield, Bright Half Life | Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, Fun Home Taylor Mac, Hir Deborah Salem Smith, Love Alone Bathsheba Doran, The Mystery of Love and Sex |
| LGBT Graphic Novel | E. K. Weaver, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal | Jeremy Sorese, Curveball Maggie Thrash, Honor Girl Blue Delliquanti, O Human Star: Volume One Ed Luce, Wuvable Oaf |
| LGBT Non-Fiction | Marcia M. Gallo, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy | Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski, Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics Corbett Joan O'Toole, Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Joshua Gamson, Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship Robert Lorway, Namibia’s Rainbow Project Jarrett Neal, What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity |
| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers | John Inman, The Boys on the Mountain Fletcher DeLancey, The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea – Book #1) Ally Blue, Down Robert Levy, The Glittering World J. A. Rock, Minotaur Kate Sherwood, Sacrati Jude McLaughlin, Wonder City Stories |
| LGBT Studies | Hiram Pérez, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire | Clare Sears, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco L. H. Stallings, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures Aaron Goodfellow, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship Madhavi Menon, Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men Petrus Liu, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Valerie Traub, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns |
| Transgender Fiction | Roz Kaveney, Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners | Michael Scott Monje, Jr., Defiant Sassafras Lowrey, Lost Boi |
| Transgender Non-Fiction | Willy Wilkinson, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency | Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family Zane Thimmesch-Gill, Hiding in Plain Sight |
| Transgender Poetry | kari edwards, succubus in my pocket | Ryka Aoki, Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul Joy Ladin, Impersonation |