# 22nd Lambda Literary Awards

The 22nd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2010, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2009.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Pioneer Award | Larry Kramer, Kate Clinton |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Bisexual Fiction | Mykola Dementiuk, Holy Communion Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Love You Two | Bobbie Geary, The Janeid J. E. Knowles, Arusha Amber Lehman, Torn |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents | Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life Emanuel Levy, Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer Edna O'Brien, Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life Audrey Beth Stein, Map |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Rakesh Satyal, Blue Boy | James Hannaham, God Says No G. Winston James, Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories James Magruder, Sugarless Lance Reynald, Pop Salvation |
| Gay Erotica | Kevin Killian, Impossible Princess | Todd Gregory, ed., Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel, eds., I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire James Lear, The Low Road Sean Wolfe, Eight Inches |
| Gay Fiction | Vestal McIntyre, Lake Overturn | Matt Dean, The River in Winter Peter Gadol, Silver Lake James Morrison, Said and Done Abdellah Taia, Salvation Army |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Reynolds Price, Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back | Jon Ginoli, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division Douglas A. Martin, Once You Go Back David Plante, The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s |
| Gay Mystery | Michael Thomas Ford, What We Remember | Ralph Ashworth, Killer of Orchids Josh Aterovis, All Lost Things Rob Byrnes, Straight Lies Greg Herren, Murder in the Garden District |
| Gay Poetry | Benjamin S. Grossberg, Sweet Core Orchard | Brent Goodman, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me Tom Healy, What the Right Hand Knows Charles Jensen, The First Risk Randall Mann, Breakfast with Thom Gunn |
| Gay Romance | Frank Anthony Polito, Drama Queers! | H. Leigh Aubrey, A Keen Edge J. P. Bowie, Time After Time Erastes, Transgressions Dan Stone, The Rest of Our Lives |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Rhiannon Argo, The Creamsickle | Z Egloff, Verge Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World Maida Tilchen, Land Beyond Maps |
| Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Lesbian Cowboys | Diane Anderson-Minshall, Punishment with Kisses Ronica Black, Flesh and Bone D. L. King, Where the Girls Are Cecilia Tan, ed., Women of the Bite |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception | Elana Dykewomon, Risk Nairne Holtz, This One's Going to Last Forever Jennifer McMahon, Dismantled Emma Pérez, Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Joan Schenkar, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith | Mary Cappello, Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life Alix Dobkin, My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement Terry Galloway, Mean Little Deaf Queer Ariel Schrag, Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jean M. Redmann, Death of a Dying Man | Paulette Callen, Command of Silence Josie Gordon, Toasted Ellen Hart, The Mirror and the Mask Joan Opyr, From Hell to Breakfast |
| Lesbian Poetry | Stacie Cassarino, Zero at the Bone | Samiya Bashir, Gospel: Poems Ana Božičević, Stars of the Night Commute Marilyn Hacker, Names Kristin Naca, Bird Eating Bird |
| Lesbian Romance | Colette Moody, The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin | Karin Kallmaker, Stepping Stone KG MacGregor, Worth Every Step Tracey Richardson, No Rules of Engagement Carsen Taite, It Should Be a Crime |
| LGBT Anthology | Ariel Gore, ed., Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City | Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation David Bergman, Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris Gilbert Herdt, Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights Michael Montlack, My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them |
| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Dale Peck, Sprout | Nick Burd, The Vast Fields of Ordinary Michael Cart, How Beautiful the Ordinary Malinda Lo, Ash P. E. Ryan, In Mike We Trust |
| LGBT Drama | Mart Crowley, The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley | Bonnie J. Morris, Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles |
| LGBT Non-Fiction | James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love | Nathaniel Frank, Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America Drewey Wayne Gunn, The Golden Age of Gay Fiction Audre Lorde (Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds.), I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde Sarah Schulman, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences |
| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest | Tom Cardamone, Pumpkin Teeth Amber Dawn, Fist of the Spider Woman Rebecca Ore, Centuries Ago and Very Fast Lee Thomas, In the Closet, Under the Bed |
| LGBT Studies | Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America | Julie Abraham, Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS Armando Maggi, The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade Kathleen Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century |
| Transgender Literature | Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show | S. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You Kari Edwards, Bharat Jiva Joy Ladin, Transmigration Adam Lowe, Troglodyte Rose |