# 4th Lambda Literary Awards

The 4th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1992 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1991.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America |
| Publisher Service | Barbara Grier and Donna McBride, Naiad Press |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Children's/Young Adult | Johnny Valentine and Lynette Schmidt | The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans and Other Stories | Winner |
| Children's/Young Adult | Aaron Fricke and Walter Fricke | Sudden Strangers | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Nancy Garden | Lark in the Morning | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Ann Heron, Meredith Maran, and Kris Kovick | How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay? | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Leslea Newman and Russell Crocker | Gloria Goes to Gay Pride | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Essex Hemphill (ed.) | Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men | Winner |
| Gay Anthology | Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton | Indivisible: New Short Fiction | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | John Preston | Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Mark Thompson | Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Edmund White | Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Harlan Greene | What the Dead Remember | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Dennis Cooper | Frisk | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Melvin Dixon | Vanishing Rooms | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Philip Gambone | Language We Use Up Here | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Paul Monette | Halfway Home | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Joseph Hansen | A Country of Old Men | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | Stan Cutler | Best Performance by a Patsy | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Stan Cutler | The Face on the Cutting Room Floor | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Larry Townsend | Master’s Counterpoints | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Mark Richard Zubro | Sorry Now? | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Will Roscoe | The Zuni Man-Woman | Winner |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Roger Austen and John W. Crowley | Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Martin Duberman | Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Bruce R. Smith | Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | David Wojnarowicz | Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Assotto Saint (ed.) | The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | John Ash | The Burnt Pages | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Perry Brass | Sex-Charge | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Mark Doty | Bethlehem in Broad Daylight | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | David Trinidad | Hand Over Heart | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Frank M. Robinson | The Dark Beyond the Stars | Winner |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Perry Brass | Mirage | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Eric Garber | Embracing the Dark | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jay B. Laws | Steam | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jeffrey N. McMahan | Vampires Anonymous | Finalist |
| Humor | Joe Keenan | Putting on the Ritz | Winner |
| Humor | Ben Davis | Strange Angel | Finalist |
| Humor | Elizabeth Dean, Linda Wells, and Andrea Curren | Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games | Finalist |
| Humor | Kris Kovick | What I Love About Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With | Finalist |
| Humor | Rosalind Warren | Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Carla Trujillo (ed.) | Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About | Winner |
| Lesbian Anthology | Judith Barrington | An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka'ahumanu | Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne Smith | Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake | Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Blanche McCrary Boyd | The Revolution of Little Girls | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jewelle Gomez | The Gilda Stories | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Anna Livia | Minimax | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Judith McDaniel | Just Say Yes | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Diane Salvatore | Benediction | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest | Murder by Tradition | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Claire McNab | Cop Out | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Mary Morell | Final Session | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Sandra Scoppettone | Everything You Have is Mine | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Amanda Kyle Williams | The Providence File | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum | Cancer in Two Voices | Winner |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Judith Barrington | An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Lillian Faderman | Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Minnie Bruce Pratt | Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Diana Souhami | Gertrude and Alice | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Adrienne Rich | An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Becky Birtha | The Forbidden Poems | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Eloise Klein Healy | Artemis in Echo Park | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Eileen Myles | Not Me | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Maureen Seaton | Fear of Subways | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jewelle Gomez | The Gilda Stories | Winner |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Judith Alguire | Zeta Base | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Camarin Grae | Stranded | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | B.L. Holmes | Mega | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Chris Anne Wolfe | Shadows of Aggar | Finalist |
| Small Press | Winston Leyland (ed.) | Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine | Winner |
| Small Press | Pat Califia | The Advocate Advisor | Finalist |
| Small Press | Edisol W. Dotson | Putting Out ’91 | Finalist |
| Small Press | Bad Object-Choices | How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos | Finalist |
| Small Press | Garbo | Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really | Finalist |