# 14th Lambda Literary Awards

The 14th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2002 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2001. The event was held at the Tribeca Rooftop on DesBrosses Street in Tribeca and hosted by poet Emanuel Xavier.

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Anthologies/Fiction | Helen Sandler, ed., Diva Book of Short Stories | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, Bending the Landscape: Horror Jess Wells, Love Shook My Heart 2 Jay Quinn, Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors Quang Bao, Hanya Yanagihara and Timothy Liu, Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Delroy Constantine-Simms, ed., The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities | Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias, His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers Terry Goldie, In a Queer Country Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson, Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation Winston Leyland, Out in the Castro |
| Autobiography/Memoir | Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression | Carol Guess, Gaslight Kirk Read, How I Learned to Snap Brian Bouldrey, Monster: Adventures in American Machismo William Storandt, Outbound |
| Biography | Barry Werth, The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin | Alison Lurie, Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson Caroline Zilboorg, The Masks of Mary Renault Margaret Reynolds, The Sappho Companion Nancy Mitford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Children's/Young Adult | Julia Watts, Finding H.F. | Sara Ryan, Empress of the World Marilyn Reynolds, Love Rules Alex Sánchez, Rainbow Boys Todd Tuttle, Spot |
| Erotica | Ian Philips, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent | M. Christian, Dirty Words Lawrence Schimel, His Tongue Aren X. Tulchinsky, Hot & Bothered 3 Lori Selke, Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica |
| Gay Fiction | Allan Gurganus, The Practical Heart | JT LeRoy, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters David Leavitt, The Marble Quilt David Ebershoff, The Rose City |
| Gay Mystery | Michael Nava, Rag and Bone | Michael Craft, Boy Toy Dorien Grey, The Butcher’s Son Warren Dunford, Making a Killing Mark Richard Zubro, Sex and Murder.Com |
| Gay Poetry | Mark Doty, Source | Constantine Cavafy, Before Time Could Change Them Justin Chin, Harmless Medicine Timothy Liu, Hard Evidence J.D. McClatchy, Love Speaks Its Name |
| Humor | David Rakoff, Fraud | Patrick Price, Drama Queen Erika Lopez, Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat Ellen Orleans, The Inflatable Butch Michael Thomas Ford, My Little Book of Neuroses |
| Lesbian Fiction | Achy Obejas, Days of Awe | Erika Lopez, Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You Alexandra Grilikhes, Yin Fire |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart, Merchant of Venus | Alex Marcoux, Back to Salem Mabel Maney, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy Pat Welch, Moving Targets Lauren Maddison, Witchfire |
| Lesbian Poetry | Adrienne Rich, Fox | Letta Neely, Here Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Mr. Bluebird Eileen Myles, Skies Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn |
| LGBT Studies | Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price, Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court | Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America William J. Mann, Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s Gay Wachman, Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting |
| Photography/Visual Arts | David Deitcher, Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 | Tee Corinne, Intimacies David Leddick, Male Nude Now Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp Robert Mainardi, Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon |
| Romance | Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You | William Jack Sibley, Any Kind of Luck Marianne K. Martin, Mirrors Karin Kallmaker, Substitute for Love Vincent Virga, Vadriel Vail |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, Point of Dreams | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, Bending the Landscape: Horror David Thomas Lord, Bound in Blood Keith Hartman, Gumshoe Gorilla Michael Schiefelbein, Vampire Vow |
| Small press | Mariana Romo-Carmona, Conversaciones! | Andy Quan, Calendar Boy Michael G. Cornelius, Creating Man Robert N. Minor, Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human Patricia Nell Warren, The Wild Man |
| Spirituality | Ken Stone, ed., Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible Bernard Mayes, Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest | Leanne McCall Tigert and Timothy Brown, Coming Out Young and Faithful Vanessa Sheridan, Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian L. William Countryman and M. R. Ritley, Gifted by Otherness |
| Transgender or Bisexual | Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach | Bill Brent and Carol Queen, Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 Vanessa Sheridan, Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian Jonathan Branton, Dragged!! To His Senses Sparrow L. Patterson, Synthetic Bi Products |