LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Congratulations to this year's Lambda Literary Award winners, which were announced last night in West Hollywood. And a special shout out to my friend Susan Lucci Greg Herren, who finally picked up a writing award after 37 nominations.

LGBT ANTHOLOGY
First Person Queer, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel
Arsenal Pulp Press

LGBT ARTS & CULTURE
The View From Here, by Matthew Hays
Arsenal Pulp Press

LGBT CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
Hero, by Perry Moore
Hyperion
NOTE: a really good, fun book!

LGBT DRAMA/THEATER
Return to the Caffe Cino, edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa
Moving Finger Press

LGBT EROTICA
Homosex, by Simon Sheppard
Running Press

LGBT NONFICTION
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture, by Michael S. Sherry
University of North Carolina Press

LGBT POETRY
Blackbird and Wolf, by Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
The Dust of Wonderland, by Lee Thomas
Alyson Books

LGBT STUDIES
Between Women, by Sharon Marcus
Princeton University Press

BISEXUAL
Split Screen, by Brett Hartinger
HarperCollins Children's Books

TRANSGENDER
Transparent, by Cris Beam
Harcourt

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking, by Aoibheann Sweeney
The Penguin Press

GAY DEBUT FICTION
A Push and a Shove, by Christopher Kelly
Alyson Books

WOMEN'S FICTION
The IHOP Papers, by Ali Leibegott
Carroll & Graf

WOMEN'S ROMANCE
Out of Love, by KG MacGregor
Bella Books

WOMEN'S MYSTERY
Wall of Silence, by Gabrielle Goldsby
Bold Strokes Books


WOMEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party by Nicola Griffith
Payseur & Schmidt

MEN'S FICTION
Call Me By Your Name, by Andre Aciman
Farrar Straus Giroux

MEN's ROMANCE
Changing Tides, by Michael Thomas Ford
Kensington

MEN's MYSTERY
Murder in the Rue Chartres, by Greg Herren
Alyson Books

MEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Mississippi Sissy, by Kevin Sessums
St. Martin's Press


By the way, Andre Aciman -- the Men's Romance winner -- is heterosexual. See how tolerant the 'mos are?