# Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Romance & Erotica

The Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Romance & Erotica is an annual literary award established in 2002 and presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation that awards books with LGBTQ+ characters and "whose content is principally of an erotic nature." "Anthologies, novels, novellas, graphic novels, memoirs, and short story collections" are eligible for the award.
The award has been presented in the following categories: Gay Erotica, Lesbian Erotica, and LGBTQ+ Erotica.

## Recipients

Lambda Literary Award for Erotica winners and finalists :
| Year | Category | Author(s) | Title | Result |
| 2002 | Erotica | Ian Philips | See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent | Winner |
| 2002 | Erotica | M. Christian | Dirty Words | Finalist |
| 2002 | Erotica | Lawrence Schimel | His Tongue | Finalist |
| 2002 | Erotica | Karen X. Tulchinsky | Hot & Bothered 3 | Finalist |
| 2002 | Erotica | Lori Selke | Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica | Finalist |
| 2003 | Erotica | Tristan Taormino (editor) | Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 | Winner |
| 2003 | Erotica | Richard Labonte editor) | Best Gay Erotica 2003 | Finalist |
| 2003 | Erotica | Leslea Newman (editor) | Bedroom Eyes | Finalist |
| 2003 | Erotica | Bob Vickery | Cocksure | Finalist |
| 2003 | Erotica | Stephen Greco | The Sperm Engine | Finalist |
| 2004 | Erotica | Tristan Taormino (editor) | Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 | Winner |
| 2004 | Erotica | Richard Labonte (editor) | Best Gay Erotica 2004 | Finalist |
| 2004 | Erotica | Karen X. Tulchinsky (editor) | Hot and Bothered 4 | Finalist |
| 2004 | Erotica | Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe, and Jeff Mann | Masters of Midnight | Finalist |
| 2004 | Erotica | James Johnstone (editor) | Quickies 3 | Finalist |
| 2005 | Erotica | Richard Labonte (editor) | Best Gay Erotica 2005 | Winner |
| 2005 | Erotica | Karin Kallmaker | All the Wrong Places | Finalist |
| 2005 | Erotica | Tristan Taormino (editor) | Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 | Finalist |
| 2005 | Erotica | Karin Kallmaker, Therese Syzmanski, Julia Watts, and Barbara Johnson | Once Upon a Dyke | Finalist |
| 2005 | Erotica | Rachel Kramer Bussel Stacy M. Bias | Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex | Finalist |
| 2006 | Erotica | Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe, (editors) | Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 | Winner |
| 2006 | Erotica | Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonté | Best Gay Erotica 2006 | Finalist |
| 2006 | Erotica | Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino | Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 | Finalist |
| 2006 | Erotica | Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia | Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica | Finalist |
| 2006 | Erotica | Sean Wolfe | Close Contact | Finalist |
| 2007 | Gay Erotica | Jeff Mann | A History of Barbed Wire | Winner |
| 2007 | Gay Erotica | Richard Labonte Timothy J. Lambert (editors) | Best Gay Erotica 2007 | Finalist |
| 2007 | Gay Erotica | Zavo | Hot On His Trail | Finalist |
| 2007 | Lesbian Erotica | Laurinda D. Brown | Walk Like a Man | Winner |
| 2007 | Lesbian Erotica | Karin Kallmaker | 18th & Castro | Finalist |
| 2007 | Lesbian Erotica | Tristan Taormino Emma Donoghue (editors) | Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 | Finalist |
| 2007 | Lesbian Erotica | Rachel Kramer Bussel (editor) | Glamour Girls | Finalist |
| 2007 | Lesbian Erotica | Midori | Master Han’s Daughter | Finalist |
| 2008 | Erotica | Simon Sheppard | Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica | Winner |
| 2008 | Erotica | William Maltese Wayne Gunn | Ardennian Boy | Finalist |
| 2008 | Erotica | Fiona Zedde | Every Dark Desire | Finalist |
| 2008 | Erotica | J. D. Glass | Red Light | Finalist |
| 2008 | Erotica | Victoria Brownworth and Judith M. Redding | The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica | Finalist |
| 2008 | Erotica | Lawrence Schimel | The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica | Finalist |
| 2009 | Gay Erotica | Richard Labonte James Lear | Best Gay Erotica 2009 | Winner |
| 2009 | Gay Erotica | William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith, and J.P. Bowie | Hard Working Men | Finalist |
| 2009 | Gay Erotica | James Lear | The Secret Tunnel | Finalist |
| 2009 | Lesbian Erotica | Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker | In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip | Winner |
| 2009 | Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia | Lipstick on Her Collar | Finalist |
| 2009 | Lesbian Erotica | Lynne Jamneck | Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures | Finalist |
| 2010 | Gay Erotica | Kevin Killian | Impossible Princess | Winner |
| 2010 | Gay Erotica | Sean Wolfe | Eight Inches | Finalist |
| 2010 | Gay Erotica | Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (editors) | I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire | Finalist |
| 2010 | Gay Erotica | Todd Gregory (editor) | Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica | Finalist |
| 2010 | Gay Erotica | James Lear | The Low Road | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia (editors) | Lesbian Cowboys | Winner |
| 2010 | Lesbian Erotica | Ronica Black | Flesh and Bone | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lesbian Erotica | Diane Anderson-Minshall | Punishment with Kisses | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lesbian Erotica | D.L. King | Where the Girls Are | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lesbian Erotica | Cecilia Tan (editor) | Women of the Bite | Finalist |
| 2011 | Gay Erotica | Jon Macy | Teleny and Camille | Winner |
| 2011 | Gay Erotica | William Holden | A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men | Finalist |
| 2011 | Gay Erotica | Richard Labonté (editor) | Best of the Best Gay Erotica 3 | Finalist |
| 2011 | Gay Erotica | Jerry Wheeler (editor) | Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top | Finalist |
| 2011 | Gay Erotica | Hank Edwards | Vancouver Nights | Finalist |
| 2011 | Lesbian Erotica | Tristan Taormino (editor) | Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica | Winner |
| 2011 | Lesbian Erotica | Kathleen Warnock (editor); Lea DeLaria (introduction) | Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 | Finalist |
| 2011 | Lesbian Erotica | D Alexandria | This Is How We Do It: A Raw Mix of Lesbian Erotica | Finalist |
| 2012 | Gay Erotica | Dirk Vanden | All Together | Winner |
| 2012 | Gay Erotica | Natty Soltesz | Backwoods | Finalist |
| 2012 | Gay Erotica | Richard Labonte (editor) | Best Gay Erotica 2012 | Finalist |
| 2012 | Gay Erotica | Steven Haas (editor) | Gay Erotica | Finalist |
| 2012 | Gay Erotica | Richard Labonte (editor) | History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lesbian Erotica | Debra Hyde | Story of L | Winner |
| 2012 | Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green | A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green (editor) | Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lesbian Erotica | Lesley Gowan | The Collectors | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gay Erotica | Mykola Dementiuk | The Facialist | Winner |
| 2013 | Gay Erotica | Lukas Hand | Coming To: A Collection of Erotic and Other Epiphanies | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gay Erotica | Jerry L. Wheele | Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gay Erotica | Todd Gregory (editor) | Raising Hell: Demonic Gay Erotica | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gay Erotica | William Holden | Secret Societies | Finalist |
| 2013 | Lesbian Erotica | D.L. King | The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica | Winner |
| 2013 | Lesbian Erotica | Ily Goyanes (editor) | Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica | Finalist |
| 2013 | Lesbian Erotica | Catt Kingsgrave | One Saved to the Sea | Finalist |
| 2014 | Gay Erotica | Alex Jeffers | The Padisah’s Son and the Fox: an erotic novella | Winner |
| 2014 | Gay Erotica | Aleksandr Voinov L.A. Witt | Capture & Surrender | Finalist |
| 2014 | Gay Erotica | Michael Luongo (editor) | Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories | Finalist |
| 2014 | Gay Erotica | Richard Labonte (editor) | Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories | Finalist |
| 2014 | Gay Erotica | Winston Gieseke (editor) | Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green (editor) | Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories | Winner |
| 2014 | Lesbian Erotica | Rebekah Weatherspoon | At Her Feet | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lesbian Erotica | Kathleen Warnock (editor) | Best Lesbian Erotica 2014 | Finalist |
| 2015 | Gay Erotica | Tiffany Reisz | The King | Winner |
| 2015 | Gay Erotica | Hushicho | Incubus Tales | Finalist |
| 2015 | Gay Erotica | Raven Kaldera | Leather Spirit Stallion | Finalist |
| 2015 | Gay Erotica | Jerry Wheeler | The Bears of Winter | Finalist |
| 2015 | Gay Erotica | William Holden | The Thief Taker | Finalist |
| 2015 | Lesbian Erotica | Diana Cage | Lesbian Sex Bible | Winner |
| 2015 | Lesbian Erotica | Andi Marquette R.G. Emanuelle | All You Can Eat. A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance | Finalist |
| 2015 | Lesbian Erotica | Cheyenne Blue | Forbidden Fruit: stories of unwise lesbian desire | Finalist |
| 2016 | Gay Erotica | Miodrag Kojadinovic | Érotiques Suprèmes | Winner |
| 2016 | Gay Erotica | Jennifer Levine Rian Darcy | Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales | Finalist |
| 2016 | Gay Erotica | Natty Soltesz | College Dive Bar, 1 AM | Finalist |
| 2016 | Gay Erotica | William Holden | Grave Desires | Finalist |
| 2016 | Gay Erotica | Michael Ampersant | Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of) | Finalist |
| 2016 | Lesbian Erotica | Meghan O'Brien | The Muse | Winner |
| 2016 | Lesbian Erotica | Salome Wilde Talon Rihai (editors) | Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica | Finalist |
| 2016 | Lesbian Erotica | Sinclair Sexsmith | Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica | Finalist |
| 2017 | Erotica | Rebekah Weatherspoon | Soul to Keep | Winner |
| 2017 | Erotica | Meghan O'Brien | Camp Rewind | Finalist |
| 2017 | Erotica | Marie Sexton L.A. Witt | Roped In | Finalist |
| 2017 | Erotica | Scott Alexander Hess | Skyscraper | Finalist |
| 2017 | Erotica | Alexa Black | Steel and Promise | Finalist |
| 2018 | Erotica | Steve Berman | His Seed | Winner |
| 2018 | Erotica | Siri Caldwell | Mistletoe Mishap | Finalist |
| 2018 | Erotica | L.A. Witt | The Master Will Appear | Finalist |
| 2018 | Erotica | D.L. King | Unspeakably Erotic | Finalist |
| 2018 | Erotica | Sacchi Green | Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms | Finalist |
| 2019 | Erotica | Blue Delliquanti and Kazimir Lee | Miles & Honesty in SCFSX! | Winner |
| 2019 | Erotica | Sacchi Green | Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3 | Finalist |
| 2019 | Erotica | Niki Smith | Crossplay | Finalist |
| 2019 | Erotica | Matthew Bright | Gents: Steamy Stories From the Age of Steam | Finalist |
| 2019 | Erotica | Tom Cardamone | The Lurid Sea | Finalist |
| 2020 | Erotica | LA Warman | Whore Foods | Winner |
| 2020 | Erotica | Vikram Kolmannskog | Lord of the Senses | Finalist |
| 2020 | Erotica | Rosalind Chase | Lot’s Wife: An Erotic Novella | Finalist |
| 2020 | Erotica | Thomas Kearnes | Texas Crude | Finalist |
| 2020 | Erotica | Gary Garth McCann | The Shape of the Earth | Finalist |
| 2021 | Erotica | Lee Suksi | The Nerves | Winner |
| 2021 | Erotica | Sinclair Sexsmith | Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5 | Finalist |
| 2021 | Erotica | Anne Shade | Femme Tales | Finalist |
| 2021 | Erotica | Andrea Purcell | Smut Peddler Presents: Silver | Finalist |
| 2021 | Erotica | Kel Hardy, Tianna Henry, and MJ Lyons | Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50 | Finalist |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Erotica | Samuel R. Delany | Big Joe | Winner |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Erotica | MJ Lyons | Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories | Finalist |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Erotica | Tab Kimpton and Harry-Anne Bentley (eds.) | Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology | Finalist |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Erotica | Tab Kimpton and Jade Sarson (eds.) | Ambrosia: Trans Masc and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology | Finalist |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Erotica | Levi Huxton | The Lodger, That Summer | Finalist |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Romance and Erotica | Alison Cochrun | Kiss Her Once For Me | Winner |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Romance and Erotica | Ruby Barrett | The Romance Recipe | Finalist |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Romance and Erotica | Meryl Wilsner | Mistakes Were Made | Finalist |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Romance and Erotica | Edie Cay | A Lady’s Finder | Finalist |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Romance and Erotica | Joseph Brennan | Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey | Finalist |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | laura q | A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories | Winner |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | TJ Alexander | Chef's Choice | Finalist |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Andie Burke | Fly with Me | Finalist |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Ashley Herring Blake | Iris Kelly Doesn't Date | Finalist |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Alexandria Bellefleur | The Fiancee Farce | Finalist |