# 6th Lambda Literary Awards

The 6th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1994, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1993.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Coleman Dowell, A Star Bright Lie |
| Publisher Service | Michael Denneny, St. Martin's Press |

## Nominees and winners

6th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Anthologies | Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin | Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader | Winner |
| Anthologies | Raymond Luczak | Eyes of Desire | Finalist |
| Anthologies | Leslea Newman and Annette Hegel | Saturday is Pattyday | Finalist |
| Anthologies | Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe | Lesbian Culture | Finalist |
| Anthologies | Bennett L. Singer | Growing Up Gay | Finalist |
| Anthologies | Arlene Stein | Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Hilary Mullins | The Cat Came Back | Winner |
| Children's/Young Adult | Rik Isensee | We’re Not Alone | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Christina Salat | Living in Secret | Finalist |
| Children's/Young Adult | Michael Willhoite | Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit!! | Finalist |
| Drama | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Winner |
| Drama | Claudia Allen | She’s Always Liked the Girls Best | Finalist |
| Drama | William Finn | Falsettos | Finalist |
| Drama | Larry Kramer | The Destiny of Me | Finalist |
| Drama | Julia Willis | We Oughta Be in Pictures | Finalist |
| Gay Biography/Autobiography | Edmund White | Genet | Winner |
| Gay Biography/Autobiography | Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls | Finalist |
| Gay Biography/Autobiography | James Broughton | Coming Unbuttoned | Finalist |
| Gay Biography/Autobiography | Lars Eighner | Travels With Lizbeth | Finalist |
| Gay Biography/Autobiography | Brad Gooch | City Poet | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Joseph Hansen | Living Upstairs | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Steven Corbin | Fragments that Remain | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Bo Huston | The Listener | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Fenton Johnson | Scissors, Paper, Rock | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Dale Peck | Martin and John | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Steven Saylor | Catilina's Riddle | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | George Baxt | Mae West Murder Case | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | John Peyton Cooke | Torsos | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Joseph Hansen | Bohannon’s Country | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Grant Michaels | Dead on Your Feet | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Michael Klein | 1990 | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | James Schuyler | Collected Poems | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | William Bory | Orpheus in his Underwear | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Carl Cook | Tranquil Lake of Love | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Mark Doty | My Alexandria | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Randy Shilts | Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military | Winner |
| Gay Studies | Martin Duberman | Stonewall | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Bruce Bawer | A Place at the Table | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Wayne Koestenbaum | The Queen’s Throat | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Esther Newman | Cherry Grove/Fire Island | Finalist |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel | Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For | Winner |
| Humor | Charles Busch | Whores of Lost Atlantis | Finalist |
| Humor | Diane DiMassa | Hothead Paisan | Finalist |
| Humor | Robert Rodi | Closet Case | Finalist |
| Humor | Michael Willhoite | Members of the Tribe | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Winner |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Phyllis Burke | Family Values | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Rose Gladney | How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Jewelle Gomez | Forty-Three Septembers | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | David Sweetman | Mary Renault | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jeanette Winterson | Written on the Body | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Leslie Feinberg | Stone Butch Blues | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jenifer Levin | Sea of Light | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Paula Martinac | Home Movies | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch | Women on Women 2 | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Mary Wings | Divine Victim | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Nikki Baker | Long Goodbyes | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Mabel Maney | Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Sandra Scoppettone | I’ll Be Leaving You Always | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Barbara Wilson | Trouble in Transylvania | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Audre Lorde | The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Cheryl Clarke | Experimental Love Poetry | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Cherrie Moraga | The Last Generation | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Kate Rushin | The Black Back-Ups | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | May Sarton | Collected Poems (1930-1993) | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Winner |
| Lesbian Studies | Terry Castle | The Apparitional Lesbian | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Judy Grahn | Blood, Bread, and Roses | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Adrienne Rich | What Is Found There | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Andrea Weiss | Vampires & Violets | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Starhawk | The Fifth Sacred Thing | Winner |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Poppy Z. Brite | Drawing Blood | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Sybil Claiborne | In the Garden of Dead Cars | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jay B. Laws | The Unfinished | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Melissa Scott | Burning Bright | Finalist |
| Small Press | Leslie Feinberg | Stone Butch Blues | Winner |
| Small Press | Other Countries | Sojourner | Winner |
| Small Press | Raymond Luczak | Eyes of Desire | Finalist |
| Small Press | Denise Ohio | Blue | Finalist |
| Small Press | Ratti Rakesh | Lotus of Another Color | Finalist |