# Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies

The Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, presented to scholarly work that address "issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, and oriented toward academia, libraries, cultural professionals, and the more academic reader." Most works are published by university presses.

## Recipients

Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies Recipients :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2002 | Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price | Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court | Winner |
| 2002 | Gay Wachman | Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties | Finalist |
| 2002 | Suzanna Danuta Walters | All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America | Finalist |
| 2002 | William J. Mann | Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 | Finalist |
| 2002 | Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard (editors) | The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s | Finalist |
| 2003 | Neil Miller | Sex-Crime Panic | Winner |
| 2003 | Craig Rimmerman | From Identity to Politics | Finalist |
| 2003 | Colm Tóibín | Love in a Dark Time | Finalist |
| 2003 | Ruth Vanita (editor) | Queering India | Finalist |
| 2003 | David Nimmons | Soul Beneath the Skin | Finalist |
| 2004 | Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (editors) | Time on Two Crosses | Winner |
| 2004 | Wayne Besen | Anything But Straight | Finalist |
| 2004 | Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky | Love in the Time of HIV | Finalist |
| 2004 | James McCourt | Queer Street | Finalist |
| 2004 | Mack Friedman | Strapped for Cash | Finalist |
| 2005 | Elisabeth Kirtsoglou | For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town | Winner |
| 2005 | Andrea Barnet | All-Night Party | Finalist |
| 2005 | Will Fellows | {A Passion to Preserve | Finalist |
| 2005 | Abigail Garner | Families Like Mine | Finalist |
| 2005 | Evan Wolfson | Why Marriage Matters | Finalist |
| 2006 | Susan Ackerman | When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David | Winner |
| 2006 | Jennifer Kelly | Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause | Finalist |
| 2006 | Dwight A. McBride | Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch | Finalist |
| 2006 | Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (editors) | Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet | Finalist |
| 2006 | Ruth Vanita | Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West | Finalist |
| 2007 | Horace Griffin | Their Own Receive Them Not | Winner |
| 2007 | Robert McRuer | Crip Theory | Finalist |
| 2007 | Kathryn Stockton | Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame | Finalist |
| 2007 | Carellin Brooks | Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc. | Finalist |
| 2007 | David Eisenbach | Gay Power: An American Revolution | Finalist |
| 2008 | Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Winner |
| 2008 | Bertram Cohler | Writing Desire | Finalist |
| 2008 | Pagan Kennedy | The First Man-Made Man | Finalist |
| 2008 | Mark Padilla | Caribbean Pleasure Industry | Finalist |
| 2008 | Robert Reid-Pharr | Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual | Finalist |
| 2009 | Regina Kunzel | Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality | Winner |
| 2009 | Michelle Ann Abate | Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History | Finalist |
| 2009 | Amin Ghaziani | The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington | Finalist |
| 2009 | Kevin P. Murphy | Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform | Finalist |
| 2009 | Linda Williams | Screening Sex | Finalist |
| 2010 | Margot Canaday | The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America | Winner |
| 2010 | Armando Maggi | The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade | Finalist |
| 2010 | Julie Abraham | Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities | Finalist |
| 2010 | Deborah B. Gould | Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS | Finalist |
| 2010 | Kathryn Bond Stockton | The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century | Finalist |
| 2011 | Scott Herring | Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism | Winner |
| 2011 | Gayle Salamon | Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality | Winner |
| 2011 | Fran Martin | Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary | Finalist |
| 2011 | Deborah Cohler | Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain | Finalist |
| 2011 | Rafael de la Dehesa | Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lisa L. Moore | Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes | Winner |
| 2012 | Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors) | Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex | Finalist |
| 2012 | Chandan Reddy | Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State | Finalist |
| 2012 | Margot Weiss | Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jafari S. Allen | ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ramón H. Rivera-Servera | Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics | Winner |
| 2013 | Louis-Georges Tin | The Invention of Heterosexual Culture | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ernesto Javier Martínez | On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ashley Currier | Out of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa | Finalist |
| 2013 | Bernadette C. Barton | Pray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays | Finalist |
| 2013 | Brenna M. Munro | South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom | Finalist |
| 2013 | Sara Warner | Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ann Cvetkovich | Depression: A Public Feeling | Finalist |
| 2013 | Tracy Baim | Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America | Finalist |
| 2013 | David M. Halperin | How To Be Gay | Finalist |
| 2014 | Christina B. Hanhardt | Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence | Winner |
| 2014 | Marlon M. Bailey | Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit | Finalist |
| 2014 | Victoria Hesford | Feeling Women’s Liberation | Finalist |
| 2014 | Colin R. Johnson | Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lisa Henderson | Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production | Finalist |
| 2014 | Susana Pena | Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami | Finalist |
| 2014 | Afsaneh Najmabadi | Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lucetta Yip Lo Kam | Shanghai Lalas | Finalist |
| 2014 | Peter M. Coviello | Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely | Finalist |
| 2014 | Isaac West | Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law | Finalist |
| 2015 | Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride (editors) | Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture | Winner |
| 2015 | Noelle M. Stout | After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba | Finalist |
| 2015 | Rachel Hope Cleves | Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America | Finalist |
| 2015 | Marcia Ochoa | Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela | Finalist |
| 2015 | Lisa Tatonetti | The Queerness of Native American Literature | Finalist |
| 2015 | Juana María Rodríguez | Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings | Finalist |
| 2015 | Susan S. Lanser | The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bobby Benedicto | Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene | Finalist |
| 2016 | Hiram Pérez | A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire | Winner |
| 2016 | Clare Sears | Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco | Finalist |
| 2016 | L.H. Stallings | Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures | Finalist |
| 2016 | Aaron Goodfellow | Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship | Finalist |
| 2016 | Madhavi Menon | Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jane Ward | Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men | Finalist |
| 2016 | Petrus Liu | Queer Marxism in Two Chinas | Finalist |
| 2016 | Valerie Traub | Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jennifer Tyburczy | Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display | Winner |
| 2017 | Qwo-Li Driskill | Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory | Finalist |
| 2017 | Gregory Woods | Homintern | Finalist |
| 2017 | Andrew Jolivette | Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jonathan Goldberg | Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility | Finalist |
| 2017 | Kevin Mumford | Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis | Finalist |
| 2017 | Omar G. Encarnación | Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution | Finalist |
| 2017 | Timothy Stewart-Winter | Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics | Finalist |
| 2018 | Trevor Hoppe | Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness | Winner |
| 2018 | Alfredo Mirandé | Behind the Mask | Finalist |
| 2018 | Mari Ruti | The Ethics of Opting Out | Finalist |
| 2018 | Emily Hobson | Lavender and Red | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jaclyn Pryor | Time Slips | Finalist |
| 2018 | Ashley T. Shelden | Unmaking Love | Finalist |
| 2018 | David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe | The War on Sex | Finalist |
| 2018 | Julio Capó | Welcome to Fairyland | Finalist |
| 2019 | William T. Hoston | Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston | Winner |
| 2019 | E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History | Finalist |
| 2019 | Lyndon K. Gill | Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean | Finalist |
| 2019 | Myrl Beam | Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics | Finalist |
| 2019 | Keridwen N. Luis | Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States | Finalist |
| 2019 | Andrew Billings and Leigh Moscowitz | Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports | Finalist |
| 2019 | T. Jackie Cuevas | Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique | Finalist |
| 2019 | Anne Balay | Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers | Finalist |
| 2020 | Emily L. Thuma | All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence | Winner |
| 2020 | Robb Hernández | Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde | Finalist |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Freeman | Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kara Keeling | Queer Times, Black Futures | Finalist |
| 2020 | Roberto Strongman | Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou | Finalist |
| 2020 | Dana Seitler | Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction | Finalist |
| 2020 | R.L. Cagle | Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic | Finalist |
| 2020 | Jian Neo Chen | Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement | Finalist |
| 2021 | Zakiyyah Iman Jackson | Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World | Winner |
| 2021 | Cait McKinney | Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies | Finalist |
| 2021 | José Esteban Muñoz | The Sense of Brown | Finalist |
| 2021 | Janet Jakobsen | The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jane Ward | The Tragedy of Heterosexuality | Finalist |
| 2022 | Anna Lvovsky | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | Winner |
| 2022 | Gila Ashtor | Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | Finalist |
| 2022 | C. Winter Han | Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire | Finalist |
| 2022 | Leah DeVun | The Shape of Sex | Finalist |
| 2022 | Howard Chiang | Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific | Finalist |
| 2023 | Darieck Scott | Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics | Winner |
| 2023 | Mairead Sullivan | Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer | Finalist |
| 2023 | Marlon B. Ross | Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness | Finalist |
| 2023 | Vivian L. Huang | Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability | Finalist |
| 2023 | Jafari S. Allen | There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life | Finalist |
| 2024 | Erin L. Durban | The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti | Winner |
| 2024 | Jennifer Dominique Jones | Ambivalent Af inities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II | Finalist |
| 2024 | Christoph Hanssmann | Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine | Finalist |
| 2024 | Margot Canaday | Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America | Finalist |
| 2024 | Travis S. K. Kong | Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China | Finalist |