# 8th Lambda Literary Awards

The 8th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1996 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1995.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Patrick Califia and Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada |
| Pioneer Award | L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, Lambda Rising |
| Publisher's Service | Nancy Bereano, Firebrand Press Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley, Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial |

## Nominees and winners

8th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists :
| Category | Author/Editor | Title | Result |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | E. J. Levy (ed.) | Tasting Life Twice | Winner |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Pat Califia and Janine Fuller | Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Robert Drake | His | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Catherine McKinley and ` (eds.) | Afrekete | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (eds.) | The New Fuck You | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Non-Fiction) | Claude J. Summers (ed.) | Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage | Winner |
| Anthologies (Non-Fiction) | Karla Jay (ed.) | Dyke Life | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Non-Fiction) | Leslea Newman (ed.) | A Loving Testimony | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Non-Fiction) | Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus (eds.) | Out in All Directions | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Non-Fiction) | Lynn Yamaguchi and Karin Barber (eds.) | Tomboys | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Jacqueline Woodson | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun | Winner |
| Children's and Young Adult | Francesca Lia Block | Baby Bebop | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Kurt Chandler | Passages of Pride | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Daniel Vilmure | Toby’s Lie | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Judith Vinga | My Two Uncles | Finalist |
| Drama | Tony Kushner | Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) | Winner |
| Drama | Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche | Go Fish | Winner |
| Drama | Michael Kearns | T-Cells and Sympathy | Finalist |
| Drama | Eric Lane and Nina Shengold (eds.) | The Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays | Finalist |
| Drama | Terrence McNally | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Lyle Leverich | Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams | Winner |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Leroy F. Aarons | Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Bill T. Jones and Peggy Gillespie | Last Night on Earth | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Gore Vidal | Palimpsesta | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Edmund White | Our Paris | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Michael Cunningham | Flesh and Blood | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Christopher Bram | Father of Frankenstein | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Jim Grimsley | Dream Boy | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Scott Heim | Mysterious Skin | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Felice Picano | Like People in History | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | R. D. Zimmerman | Closet | Winner |
| Gay Mystery | George Baxt | Queer Kind of Umbrella | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Steven Saylor | The Venus Throw | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Richard Stevenson | Shock to the System | Finalist |
| Gay Mystery | Mark Richard Zubro | Another Dead Teenager | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Mark Doty | Atlantis | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | David Laurents | Badboy Book of Erotic Verse | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Timothy Liu | Burnt Offerings | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | James Merrill | Scattering of Salts | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Carl Phillips | Cortege | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Joseph Carrier | De Los Otros | Winner |
| Gay Studies | Daniel Halperin | Saint=Foucault | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Jonathan Ned Katz | The Invention of Heterosexuality | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Pierre Seel | I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Andrew Sullivan | Virtually Normal | Finalist |
| Humor | Ellen Orleans | The Butches of Madison County | Winner |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel | Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For | Finalist |
| Humor | Diane DiMassa | Revenge of HotHead Paisan | Finalist |
| Humor | Funny Gay Males | Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out | Finalist |
| Humor | Mabel Maney | Ghost in the Closet | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Erica Fischer | Aimee & Jaguar | Winner |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Dorothy Allison | Two or Three Things I Know for Sure | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Claudia Brenner and Hannah Ashley | Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Susan E. Cayliff | Babe | Finalist |
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch | And Say Hi to Joyce | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jacqueline Woodson | Autobiography of a Family Photo | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Lucy Jane Bledsoe | Sweat | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Louise Blum | Amnesty | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Stephanie Grant | Passion of Alice | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Schulman | Rat Bohemia | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jean M. Redmann | Intersection of Law and Desire | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Faint Praise | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jaye Maiman | Someone to Watch | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Penny Mickelbury | Night Songs | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Elizabeth Pincus | Hangdog Hustle | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Adrienne Rich | Dark Fields of the Republic | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Chrystos | Fire Power | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Jewelle Gomez | Oral Tradition | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Eileen Myles | Maxfield Parrish | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | Key to Everything | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Karla Jay | Dyke Life | Winner |
| Lesbian Studies | Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie | Parker and Hulme | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Minnie Bruce Pratt | S/he | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Urvashi Vaid | Virtual Equality | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Lynn Yamaguchi and Karin Barber | Tomboys | Finalist |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Andrea Weiss | Paris Was a Woman | Winner |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Emmanuel Cooper | Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography | Finalist |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Howard Cruse | Stuck Rubber Baby | Finalist |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Geoff Manasse and Jean Swallow | Making Love Visible | Finalist |
| Photography and Visual Arts | M.G. Soares | Butch/Femme | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Nicola Griffith | Slow River | Winner |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Melissa Scott | Shadow Man | Winner |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Samuel R. Delany | Atlantis: Three Tales | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Pam Keesey | Dark Angels | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Felice Picano | Dryland’s End | Finalist |
| Small Press | Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz | The New Fuck You | Winner |
| Small Press | Staszek | Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells | Finalist |
| Small Press | Adam Klein | The Medicine Burns | Finalist |
| Small Press | Minnie Bruce Pratt | S/He | Finalist |
| Small Press | Vega Press | Milking Black Bull | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Brian Bouldrey | Wrestling with the Angel | Winner |
| Spirituality | Peter Cashorali | Gay Fairy Tales | Finalist |
| Spirituality | John J. McNeill | Freedom, Glorious Freedom | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Will Roscoe | Queer Spirits | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Nancy Wilson | Our Tribe | Finalist |