# 10th Lambda Literary Awards

The 10th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1998 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1997.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Patricia Nell Warren, Billy's Boy |
| Pioneer Award | Ron Hanby, Bookazine |
| Publisher Service | Douglas Mitchell, University of Chicago Press |

## Nominees and winners

10th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists :
| Category | Author/Editor | Title | Result |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton (eds.) | His(2) | Winner |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Brian Bouldrey (ed.) | Best American Gay Fiction 2 | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Peter Burton (ed.) | The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Christian McEwen (ed.) | Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Tristan Taormino (ed.) | Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (eds.) | Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance | Winner |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Michael Lowenthal | Gay Men at the Millennium | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Rictor Norton | My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (eds.) | PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Jess Wells | Lesbians Raising Sons | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Jacqueline Woodson | The House You Pass On the Way | Winner |
| Children's and Young Adult | Jeanne Arnold | Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What's a Lesbian? | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Liza Ketchum | Blue Coyote | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Adam Mastoon | The Shared Heart | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Paul Monette | Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods | Finalist |
| Drama | Moises Kaufman | Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde | Winner |
| Drama | Harry M. Benshoff | Monsters in the Closet | Finalist |
| Drama | Jonathan Larson | Rent | Finalist |
| Drama | Lillian Schlissel | Three Plays by Mae West | Finalist |
| Drama | Chay Yew | Porcelain and A Language of Their Own | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir or Biography | Rafael Campo | The Poetry of Healing | Winner |
| Gay Memoir or Biography | Michael Klein | Track Conditions | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir or Biography | Felice Picano | A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir or Biography | Gary Schmidgall | Walt Whitman: a Gay Life | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir or Biography | Mark Thompson | Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Aryeh Lev Stollman | The Far Euphrates | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Neil Bartlett | The House on Brooke Street | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Christopher Bram | Gossip | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Allan Gurganus | Plays Well With Others | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Edmund White | The Farewell Symphony | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | David Hunt | The Magician's Tale | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | Christopher Bram | Gossip | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Michael Nava | The Burning Plain | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | John Morgan Wilson | Revision of Justice | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | R. D. Zimmerman | Hostage | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Cyrus Cassells | Beautiful Signor | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | Frank Bidart | Desire | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | James Broughton, edited by Jim Cory) | Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Tom Carey | Desire: Poems 1986-1996 | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Justin Chin | Bite Hard | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Charles Kaiser (ed.) | Gay Metropolis | Winner |
| Gay Studies | Martin Duberman | Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Gabriel Rotello | Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Michelangelo Signorile | Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Mark Thompson | Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self | Finalist |
| Humor | Bob Smith | Openly Bob | Winner |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel | Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For | Finalist |
| Humor | Erika Lopez | Flaming Iguanas | Finalist |
| Humor | David Sedaris | Naked | Finalist |
| Humor | Sarah Strohmeyer | Barbie Unbound | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Barbara Wilson | Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood | Winner |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Kim Chernin | My Life as a Boy | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Hermione Lee | Virginia Woolf | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Margaret Peters | May Sarton: a Biography | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams | The Last Time I Wore a Dress | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Elana Dykewomon | Beyond the Pale | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Persimmon Blackbridge | Prozac Highway | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Blanche McCrary Boyd | Terminal Velocity | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Frankie Hucklenbroich | A Crystal Diary | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Ruthann Robson | A/K/A | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Randye Lordon | Father Forgive Me | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest | Apparition Alley | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Carole LaFavor | Evil Dead Center | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jaye Maiman | Old Black Magic | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Cynthia Webb | No Daughter of the South | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Joan Larkin | Cold River | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Eileen Myles | School of Fish | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Pat Califia | Diesel Fuel | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Emma Donoghue | Poems Between Women | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Lisa C. Moore | Does Your Mama Know? | Winner |
| Lesbian Studies | Susan K. Raffo | Queerly Classed | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias | Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Diana Souhami | Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Arlene Stein | Sex and Sensibility | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel | Bending the Landscape | Winner |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Harry M. Benshoff (ed.) | Monsters in the Closet | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Perry Brass | The Harvest | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | William J. Mann Mann | Grave Passions | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Lawrence Schimel (ed.) | The Drag Queen of Elfland | Finalist |
| Small Press | Lisa C. Moore | Does Your Mama Know? | Winner |
| Small Press | Bruce Benderson | Toward the New Degeneracy | Finalist |
| Small Press | Justin Chin | Bite Hard | Finalist |
| Small Press | Elana Dykewomon | Beyond the Pale | Finalist |
| Small Press | Sarah Strohmeyer | Barbie Unbound | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Rebecca Alpert | Like Bread on the Seder Plate | Winner |
| Spirituality | Bruce Bawer | Stealing Jesus | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Randy P. Conner | Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Andrew Harvey | The Essential Gay Mystics | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Winston Leyland | Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists | Finalist |
| Transgender | Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (eds.) | PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality | Winner |
| Transgender | Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams | The Last Time I Wore a Dress | Winner |
| Transgender | Pat Califia | Sex Changes | Finalist |
| Transgender | Annick Prieur | Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos | Finalist |
| Transgender | Riki Anne Wilchins | Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender | Finalist |
| Visual Arts | Robert Giard | Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers | Winner |
| Visual Arts | David Leddick | Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 | Winner |
| Visual Arts | Joani Blank | I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves | Finalist |
| Visual Arts | Anderson Jones and David Fields | Men Together | Finalist |
| Visual Arts | John Waters | John Waters: Director's Cut | Finalist |