# 16th Lambda Literary Awards

The 16th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2004 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2003.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Pioneer Award | Samuel R. Delany, Blanche Wiesen Cook |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Anthologies/Fiction | Michael Bronski, ed., Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps | Jon Jeffrey, Chris Kenry, William J. Mann and Ben Tyler, All I Want for Christmas Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 Karl Woelz, M2M Lydia Hall, Telling Moments |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Bob Guter and John Killacky, eds., Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories | Kevin Bentley, Boyfriends from Hell Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer, Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS Greg Wharton, The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name Toni Amato and Mary Davies, Pinned Down by Pronouns |
| Autobiography/Memoir | Lillian Faderman, Naked in the Promised Land | Robert Tewdwr Moss, Cleopatra’s Wedding Present Billy Bean, Going the Other Way Marijane Meaker, Highsmith: A Romance Jennifer Finney Boylan, She’s Not There |
| Biography | Andrew Wilson, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | Lois W. Banner, Intertwined Lives John D'Emilio, Lost Prophet Keith Fleming, Original Youth Robert Schanke, That Furious Lesbian |
| Children's/Young Adult | David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy | Brent Hartinger, Geography Club Tea Benduhn, Gravel Queen Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret Alex Sánchez, Rainbow High |
| Drama | Brian Drader, Prok | Ben Hodges, Forbidden Acts C. E. Gatchalian, Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays Mart Crowley, The Band Plays Robert Schanke, Women in Turmoil: Six Plays |
| Erotica | Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 | Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2004 Aren X. Tulchinsky, Hot and Bothered 4 Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe and Jeff Mann, Masters of Midnight James Johnstone, Quickies 3 |
| Gay Fiction | Christopher Bram, Lives of the Circus Animals | Philip Gambone, Beijing Monique Truong, The Book of Salt Paul Russell, War Against the Animals William J. Mann, Where the Boys Are |
| Gay Mystery | John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye | Greg Herren, Bourbon Street Blues Mark Richard Zubro, Dead Egotistical Morons Elliott Mackle, It Takes Two David Stukas, Wearing Black to the White Party |
| Gay Poetry | Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge | Henri Cole, Middle Earth Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood: Poems Peter Pereira, Saying the World Rafael Campo, The Healing Art |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel, Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For | Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth, Chelsea Boys Michael Alvear, Men are Pigs, But We Love Bacon Michael Thomas Ford, My Big Fat Queer Life Joel Perry, That’s Why They’re in Cages, People! |
| Lesbian Fiction | Nina Revoyr, Southland | Susan J. Leonardi, And Then They Were Nuns Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies Lucy Jane Bledsoe, This Wild Silence Carla Trujillo, What Night Brings |
| Lesbian Mystery | Elizabeth Sims, Damn Straight | Baxter Clare, Cry Havoc Lauren Maddison, Epitaph for an Angel Ida Swearingen, Owl of the Desert Bett Reece Johnson, The Woman Who Found Grace |
| Lesbian Poetry | Minnie Bruce Pratt, The Dirt She Ate | Terry Wolverton, Embers Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl Susan McCabe, Swirl Michelle Tea, The Beautiful |
| LGBT Studies | Devon Carbado and Donald Weise, eds.. Time on Two Crosses | Wayne Besen, Anything But Straight Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky, Love in the Time of HIV James McCourt, Queer Street Mack Friedman, Strapped for Cash |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Lonthar Schirmer, ed., Women Seeing Women | John Peterson and Martin Bedogne, A Face in the Crowd: Expressions of Gay Life in America Laurie Toby Edison, Familiar Men Roslyn Banish, Focus on Living Lawrence Schimel and Sebas, Vacation in Ibiza |
| Romance | Karin Kallmaker, Maybe Next Time Michael Thomas Ford, Last Summer | Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 Dave Benbow, Daytime Drama Michelle Sawyer, They Say She Tastes Like Honey |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Helen Sandler, ed., Necrologue | David M. Pierce, Elf Child Diana Rivers, The Red Line of Yarmald Perry Brass, The Substance of God Michael Schiefelbein, Vampire Thrall |
| Spirituality | Fenton Johnson, Keeping Faith | Wayne Besen, Anything But Straight Toby Johnson, Gay Perspective Christopher Penczak, Gay Witchcraft Theodore W. Jennings, The Man Jesus Loved |
| Transgender | Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There | Donna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco and Jean Noble, The Drag King Anthology Justin Tanis, Trans-gendered Virginia Ramey Mollenkott and Vanessa Sheridan, Transgender Journeys |