# 2nd Lambda Literary Awards

The 2nd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1990 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1989.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Gertrude Stein (Rebecca Mark, ed.), Lifting Belly |
| Publisher's Service | Carol Seajay, Feminist Bookstore News |

## Recipients

2nd Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| AIDS Literature | Larry Kramer | Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist | Winner |
| AIDS Literature | Christopher Bram | In Memory of Angel Clare | Finalist |
| AIDS Literature | Billy Howard | Epitaphs for the Living | Finalist |
| AIDS Literature | John Preston | Personal Dispatches | Finalist |
| AIDS Literature | Susan Sontag | AIDS and Its Metaphors | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Martin B. Duberman | Hidden from History | Winner |
| Gay Anthology | Christie Balka and Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Charles Ludlam | Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | Michael Nava | Finale: Stories of Mystery | Finalist |
| Gay Anthology | John Preston | Personal Dispatches | Finalist |
| Gay Debut Fiction | John Weir | The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket | Winner |
| Gay Debut Fiction | David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed | Finalist |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Mickey C. Fleming | About Courage | Finalist |
| Gay Debut Fiction | M. S. Hunter | The Buccaneer | Finalist |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Randall Kenan | A Visitation of Spirits | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Christopher Bram | In Memory of Angel Clare | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Dennis Cooper | Closer | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Kevin Killian | Shy | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Armistead Maupin | Sure of You | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Mark Richard Zubro | Simple Suburban Murder | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | Stan Leventhal | Faultlines: Stories of Suspense | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Jeffrey N. McMahan | Somewhere in the Night | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Michael Nava | Finale | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Samuel M. Steward | Caravaggio Shawl | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Neil Miller | In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change | Winner |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Richard A. Isay | Being Homosexual | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Sheppard B. Kominars | Accepting Ourselves | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Harold Norse | Memoirs of a Bastard Angel | Finalist |
| Gay Non-Fiction | W. J. Weatherby | James Baldwin: Artist on Fire | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jeffrey N. McMahan | Somewhere in the Night | Winner |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | William K. Eakins | Key West 2720 AD | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Mercedes Lackey | Magic’s Pawn | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Geoff Mains | Gentle Warriors | Finalist |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Thom Nickels | Walking Water/After All This | Finalist |
| Humor | Robert Triptow | Gay Comics | Winner |
| Humor | Elizabeth Dean | Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups | Finalist |
| Humor | N. Leigh Dunlap | Run That Sucker at Six!!! | Finalist |
| Humor | Celeste West | Lesbian Love Advisor | Finalist |
| Humor | T. R. Witomski | Kvetch | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Tee Corinne | Intricate Passions | Winner |
| Lesbian Anthology | Martin B. Duberman | Hidden from History | Winner |
| Lesbian Anthology | C. McEwen and S. O'Sullivan | Out the Other Side | Winner |
| Lesbian Anthology | Irene Zahava | Lesbian Love Stories | Finalist |
| Lesbian Anthology | Terry Woodrow | Lesbian Bedtime Stories | Finalist |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Patricia R. Schwartz | The Names of the Moons of Mars | Winner |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Nisa Donnelly | The Bar Stories: A Novel After All | Finalist |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Paula Martinac and Carla Tomaso | Voyages Out | Finalist |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Roz Perry | Rose Penski | Finalist |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Ruthann Robson | Eye of a Hurricane | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Nisa Donnelly | The Bar Stories: A Novel After All | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Valerie Miner | Trespassing and Other Stories | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jane Rule | After the Fire | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | May Sarton | Education of Harriet Hatfield | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Shay Youngblood | The Big Mama Stories | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest | The Beverly Malibu | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Antoinette Azolakov | The Contactees Die Young | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Hallowed Murder | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Claire McNab | Fatal Reunion | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Barbara Wilson | Dog Collar Murders | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Judy Grahn | Really Reading Gertrude Stein | Winner |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Christie Balka and Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Loralee MacPike | There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Cynthia Rich | Desert Years | Finalist |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Celeste West | Lesbian Love Advisor | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jessica Amanda Salmonson | What Did Miss Darrington See? | Winner |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Nancy Tyler Glenn | Clicking Stones | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Lee Lynch | Sue Slate: Private Eye | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Susanna J. Sturgis | Memories and Visions | Finalist |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Lauren Wright Douglas | In the Blood | Finalist |
| Poetry | Michael Klein | Poets for Life | WInner |
| Poetry | Cheryl Clarke | Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry | Finalist |
| Poetry | Robert Glück | Reader | Finalist |
| Poetry | Christian McEwen | Naming the Waves | Finalist |
| Poetry | Adrienne Rich | Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988 | Finalist |
| Small Press | Larry Mitchell | My Life As a Mole | Winner |
| Small Press | Judy Dahl | River of Promise | Finalist |
| Small Press | Mike Hippler | Matlovich: The Good Soldier | Finalist |
| Small Press | Joan Lindau | Letting in the Night | Finalist |
| Small Press | Vega Studios | Men of Color | Finalist |
| Young adult/children's | MaryKate Jordan | Losing Uncle Tim | Winner |
| Young adult/children's | Susan Cohen and Daniel Cohen | When Someone You Know Is Gay | Finalist |
| Young adult/children's | A.M. Homes | Jack | Finalist |
| Young adult/children's | Leslea Newman and Diana Souza | Heather Has Two Mommies | Finalist |
| Young adult/children's | George Shannon | Unlived Affections | Finalist |