# 5th Lambda Literary Awards

The 5th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1993 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1992.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Richard Mohr, Gay Ideas |
| Publisher Service | Craig Rodwell, Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Author | Title | Ref. |
| Children's/Young Adult | Penny Raife Durant | When Heroes Die | Winner |
| Children's/Young Adult | Joan Alden and Catherine Hopkins | A Boy’s Best Friend | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Bette Greene | Drowning of Stephan Jones | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Johnny Valentine and Lynette Schmidt | The Daddy Machine | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Johnny Valentine and Lynette Schmidt | The Day They Put a Tax on Rainbows | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | John Preston (ed.) | A Member of the Family | Winner |
| Gay Anthology | Dennis Cooper | Discontents | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | John Preston | Flesh and the Word | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Assotto Saint | Here to Dare | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | George Stambolian | Men on Men 4 | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Randall Kenan | Let the Dead Bury Their Dead | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Christopher Bram | Almost History | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Bo Huston | Dream Life | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Jaime Manrique | Latin Moon in Manhattan | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Lev Raphael | Winter Eyes | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Michael Nava | The Hidden Law | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | Steve Johnson | Final Atonement | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Grant Michaels | Love You to Death | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Richard Stevenson | Third Man Out | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Larry Townsend | One for the Master, Two for the Fool | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Paul Monette | Becoming a Man | Winner |
| Gay Non-Fiction | John D'Emilio | Making Trouble | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Allen Ellenzweig | Homoerotic Photograph | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Eric Marcus | Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Darrell Yates Rist | Heartlands | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Edward Field | Counting Myself Lucky | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | Tim Dlugos | Strong Place | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Thom Gunn | The Man with Night Sweats | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Essex Hemphill | Ceremonies | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Rudy Kikel | Long Division | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Maureen F. McHugh | China Mountain Zhang | Winner |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Poppy Z. Brite | Lost Souls | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Lewis Gannett | The Living One | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Anne Rice | The Tale of the Body Thief | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Thomas T. Thomas | Cry Gender | Finalist |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel | Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel | Winner |
| Humor | Jane Caminos | That’s Ms. Bulldyke to You, Charlie | Finalist |
| Humor | Rupert Kinnard | BB and the Diva | Finalist |
| Humor | Andrea Natalie | The Night Audrey’s Vibrator Spoke | Finalist |
| Humor | Eric Orner | The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Joan Nestle | The Persistent Desire | Winner |
| Lesbian Anthology | Tee Corinne | Poetry of Sex | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Katherine V. Forrest and Barbara Grier | Erotic Naiad | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Anne MacKay | Wolf Girls at Vassar | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Anita L. Pace | Write from the Heart | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Judith Katz | Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Carol Anshaw | Aquamarine | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Madelyn Arnold | On Ships at Sea | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Rebecca Brown | Terrible Girls | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Schulman | Empathy | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jaye Maiman | Crazy for Loving | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Elizabeth Pincus | Two-Bit Tango | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Nikki Baker | Lavender House Murder | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Stage Fright | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | J.M. Redmann | Deaths of Jocasta | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Blanche Wiesen Cook | Eleanor Roosevelt | Winner |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Jeanne DuPrau | The Earth House | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Carol Givens and L. Diane Fortier | Practicing Eternity | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Joan Nestle | Persistent Desire | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Robert A. Schanke | Shattered Applause | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Audre Lorde | Undersong | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Lori Anderson | Cultivating Excess | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Nancy Boutilier | According to Her Contours | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Diane Stein | Lady Sun, Lady Moon | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Terry Wolverton | Black Slip | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Nicola Griffith | Ammonite | Winner |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Judith Katz | Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Severna Park | Speaking Dreams | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Melissa Scott | Dreamships | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jean Stewart | Return to Isis | Finalist |
| Small Press | David Wojnarowicz | Memories That Smell Like Gasoline | Winner |
| Small Press | Natalie Barney | A Perilous Advantage | Finalist |
| Small Press | Jyl Lynn Felman | Hot Chicken Wings | Finalist |
| Small Press | Michael Rumaker | To Kill a Cardinal | Finalist |
| Small Press | Assotto Saint | Here to Dare | Finalist |