# 27th Lambda Literary Awards

The 27th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 1, 2015, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2014. The list of nominees was released on March 4.
The ceremony was held at Cooper Union.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Pioneer Award | Rita Mae Brown |
| Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award | Anne Balay, Daisy Hernández |
| Trustee Award | John Waters |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Bisexual Fiction | Ana Castillo, Give It to Me | Sheela Lambert, Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction Ron Suresha, Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin Susie Hara, Finder of Lost Objects Vivek Shraya, She of the Mountains |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones | Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams, Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men |
| Gay Erotica | Tiffany Reisz, The King | Jerry Wheeler, Bears of Winter Hushicho, Incubus Tales Raven Kaldera, Leather Spirit Stallion William Holden, The Thief Taker |
| Gay Fiction | Tom Spanbauer, I Loved You More | Judith Frank, All I Love and Know Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda Tatamkhulu Afrika, Bitter Eden Michael Nava, The City of Palaces Michael Carroll, Little Reef and Other Stories Keith Banner, Next to Nothing John R. Gordon, Souljah |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Richard Blanco, The Prince of Los Cocuyos John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | Sean Strub, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival Brent Phillips, Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance Rob Smith, Closets, Combat and Coming Out: Coming of Age as a Gay Man in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Army Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris Alain Mabanckou, Letter to Jimmy Philip Gefter, Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe |
| Gay Mystery | Katie Gilmartin, Blackmail, My Love | Marshall Thornton, Boystown 6: From the Ashes David Swatling, Calvin’s Head David Lennon, DeadFall Josh Lanyon, Fair Game Jameson Currier, A Gathering Storm Janice Law, Moon Over Tangier Rafe Haze, The Next |
| Gay Poetry | Danez Smith, [insert] boy | David J. Daniels, Clean Timothy Liu, Don’t Go Back to Sleep C. A. Conrad, ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness Jericho Brown, The New Testament Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise Michael Broder, This Life Now Hieu Minh Nguyen, This Way to the Sugar |
| Gay Romance | Jeff Mann, Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War | Lloyd A. Meeker, The Companion Barry Lowe, Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Four Tales of M/M Romance Timothy Lambert and R. D. Cochrane, Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction Georgina Li, Like They Always Been Free Jim Provenzano, Message of Love David Reddish, The Passion of Sergius & Bacchus L. C. Chase, Pulling Leather |
| Lesbian Erotica | Diana Cage, Lesbian Sex Bible | Andi Marquette and R. G. Emanuelle, All You Can Eat. A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance Cheyenne Blue, Forbidden Fruit: stories of unwise lesbian desire |
| Lesbian Fiction | Alexis De Veaux, Yabo | Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset Qiu Miaojin, Last Words of Montmartre Francine Prose, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 M. B. Caschetta, Miracle Girls Shelly Oria, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 Brandy T. Wilson, The Palace Blues Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Alethia Jones, Virginia Eubanks and Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building | Lynette Loeppky, Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire Kelly Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger Ariel Gore, The End of Eve Terry Mutchler, Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart, The Old Deep and Dark | Anne Laughlin, The Acquittal Charles Atkins, Done to Death Valerie Bronwen, Slash and Burn Stevie Mikayne, UnCatholic Conduct |
| Lesbian Poetry | Valerie Wetlaufer, Mysterious Acts by My People | Lenelle Moïse, Haiti Glass Rachel Zolf, Janey’s Arcadia Meg Day, Last Psalm at Sea Level Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar Sina Queyras, MxT Megan Volpert, Only Ride Susanna Mishler, Termination Dust |
| Lesbian Romance | Robbi McCoy, The Farmer’s Daughter | Kate McLachlan, Christmas Crush Lisa Girolami, The Heat of Angels Kris Bryant, Jolt Andrea Bramhall, Nightingale Jesse J. Thoma, Seneca Falls Marianne K. Martin, Tangled Roots Clare Ashton, That Certain Something |
| LGBT Anthology | Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman, Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History | Charles Stephens and Steven G. Fullwood, Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call Bruce Gillespie, A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships Mark McNease and Stephen Dolainski, Outer Voices Inner Lives Douglas Ray, The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South |
| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Tim Federle, Five, Six, Seven, Nate! | Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out Bridget Birdsall, Double Exposure Karelia Stetz-Waters, Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves Jay Jordan Hawke, Pukawiss the Outcast Suki Fleet, This is Not a Love Story Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies |
| LGBT Debut Fiction | Abdi Nazemian, The Walk-In Closet | Vinton Rafe McCabe, Death in Venice, California Megan Milks, Kill Marguerite and Other Stories Elizabeth Earley, A Map of Everything Bob Sennett, The Music Teacher Dia Felix, Nochita Dan Lopez, Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea Alden Jones, Unaccompanied Minors |
| LGBT Drama | Robert O'Hara, Bootycandy | Adelina Anthony, The Beast of Times Daniel Pearle, A Kid Like Jake Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale Steve Yockey, Wolves |
| LGBT Graphic Novel | Joyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli, Second Avenue Caper | Elisha Lim, 100 Crushes Kathleen Jacques, Band Vs. Band Comix Volume 1 A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag Nick Sumida, Snackies |
| LGBT Non-Fiction | Martin Duberman, Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | Lee Lynch, An American Queer: The Amazon Trail Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality Rebecca J. Anderson, Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS Hilton Als, Ann Temkin, Claudia Carson, Robert Gober, Paulina Pobocha and Christian Scheidemann, Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor Robert Hofler, Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos Aaron Devor, The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future Clayton Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973 |
| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Chaz Brenchley, Bitter Waters | Daryl Gregory, Afterparty Lee Thomas, Butcher’s Road A. M. Dellamonica, Child of a Hidden Sea Max Gladstone, Full Fathom Five Lea Daley, FutureDyke Craig Laurance Gidney, Skin Deep Magic |
| LGBT Studies | Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture | Noelle M. Stout, After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America Marcia Ochoa, Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela Lisa Tatonetti, The Queerness of Native American Literature Juana Maria Rodriguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings Susan S. Lanser, The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic Bobby Benedicto, Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene |
| Transgender Fiction | Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love | La JohnJoseph, Everything Must Go Kim Fu, For Today I Am a Boy Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab Alex Myers, Revolutionary |
| Transgender Non-Fiction | Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man | Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community |