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Compiled by GayToday Lambda Literary Foundation
This year's finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards will be announced at the Tribeca Rooftop on May 2, 2002, at a gala banquet event here. Special guest comic Margaret Cho will provide entertainment, and performance poet Emanuel Xavier will preside as emcee. The awards show will be preceded by four literary events. In New York, finalists will first congregate to present their work on March 6th and March 20th at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. San Francisco finalists will read from their books on April 11th at the San Francisco Main Public Library. Washington, D.C. will welcome Lammys finalists to the Jewish Community Center on April 18th. Winners are chosen from various categories or types of gay and lesbian literature, their works selected for excellence in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender literature.
In Manhattan on May 2, over 70 judges representing a broad cross-section of the gay and lesbian literary community will select a single book from each category to win what the Lambda Literary Foundation calls its Lammy. The finalists are: Lesbian Fiction Days of Awe, Achy Obejas, Ballantine Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat, Erika Lopez, Simon & Schuster Light, Coming Back, Ann Wadsworth, Alyson Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg , Farrar, Straus and Giroux Yin Fire, Alexandra Grilikhes, Alice Street Editions/Haworth Press Gay Men's Fiction The Heart is Deceitful in all Things, JT LeRoy, Bloomsbury In the City of Shy Hunters, Tom Spanbauer, Grove Press The Marble Quilt, David Leavitt, Houghton Mifflin The Practical Heart, Allan Gurganus, Knopf The Rose City, David Ebershoff, Viking Lesbian Poetry Fox, Adrienne Rich, Norton Here, Letta Neely, Wildheart Press Mr. Bluebird, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Painted Leaf Skies, Eileen Myles, Black Sparrow Press Why Things Burn, Daphne Gottlieb, Soft Skull Press Gay Men's Poetry Before Time Could Change Them, Constantine Cavafy, Harcourt Harmless Medicine, Justin Chin, Manic D Press Hard Evidence, Timothy Liu, Talisman House Love Speaks Its Name, JD McClatchy, Knopf Source, Mark Doty, Harper Collins Lesbian Mystery Back to Salem, Alex Marcoux, Alice Street Editions/Haworth Press Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy, Mabel Maney, Harper Entertainment Merchant of Venus, Ellen Hart, St. Martin's Moving Targets, Pat Welch, Bella Books Witchfire, Lauren Maddison, Alyson Gay Men's Mystery Boy Toy, Michael Craft, St. Martin's Press The Butcher's Son, Dorien Grey, GLB Publishers Making a Killing, Warren Dunford, Alyson Rag and Bone, Michael Nava, G.P. Putnam Sex and Murder.Com, Mark Richard Zubro, St. Martin's Press Spirituality Coming Out Young and Faithful, Leanne McCall Tigert and Timothy Brown, eds., The Pilgrim Press Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian, Vanessa Sheridan, The Pilgrim Press Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest, Bernard Duncan Mayes, University Press of Virginia Gifted by Otherness, L. William Countryman & M.R. Ritley, Morehouse Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, Ken Stone, ed., The Pilgrim Press Small Press Calendar Boy, Andy Quan, New Star Books Conversaciones!, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Cleis Press Creating Man, Michael G. Cornelius, Vineyard Press Scared Straight: Why It's So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It's So Hard to Be Human, Robert N. Minor, HumanityWorks! The Wild Man, Patricia Nell Warren, Wildcat SF/Fantasy/Horror Bending the Landscape: Horror, Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, eds., Overlook Bound in Blood, David Thomas Lord, Kensington Gumshoe Gorilla, Keith Hartman, Meisha Merlin Point of Dreams, Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, Tor Vampire Vow, Michael Schiefelbein, Alyson Romance Any Kind of Luck, William Jack Sibley, Kensington Mirrors, Marianne K. Martin, Bella Books Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Substitute for Love, Karin Kallmaker, Naiad Vadriel Vail, Vincent Virga, Alyson Fiction Anthologies Bending the Landscape: Horror, Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, eds., Overlook Diva Book of Short Stories, Helen Sandler, ed., Millivres Books Love Shook My Heart 2, Jess Wells, ed., Alyson Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors, Jay Quinn, ed., Second Tier/Haworth Press Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America, Quang Bao, Hanya Yanagihara, Timothy Lui, eds., Asian American Writers' Workshop Nonfiction Anthologies The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities, Delroy Constantine-Simms, ed., Alyson Pub. His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers, Catherine Reid & Holly K. Iglesias, eds., Alice Street Editions/Haworth Press In a Queer Country, Terry Goldie, ed., Arsenal Pulp Press Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation, Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson, eds., Rutgers University Press Out in the Castro: Desire, Promise, Activism, Winston Leyland, ed., Leyland Pub. Humor Drama Queen, Patrick Price, St. Martin's Press Fraud, David Rakoff, Doubleday Hoochie Mama, Erika Lopez, Simon and Schuster The Inflatable Butch, Ellen Orleans, Alyson My Little Book of Neuroses, Michael Thomas Ford, Alyson GLBT Studies All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, Suzanna Danuta Walters, University of Chicago Press Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969, William J. Mann, Viking Press Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court, Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price, Basic Books The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's, Ricardo J. Brown; William Reichard, ed., Univ. of Minn. Press Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties, Gay Wachman, Rutgers University Press Children/Young Adult Empress of the World, Sara Ryan, Viking Finding H.F., Julia Watts, Alyson Love Rules, Marilyn Reynolds, Morning Glory Press Rainbow Boys, Alex Sanchez, Simon & Schuster Spot, Todd Tuttle, Window Books GLBT Biography Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson, Alison Lurie, Viking The Masks of Mary Renault, Caroline Zilboorg, University of Missouri Press The Sappho Companion, Margaret Reynolds, ed., St. Martin's Press Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Mitford, Random House The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin..., Barry Werth, Doubleday GLBT Autobiography/Memoir Gaslight, Carol Guess, Odd Girls How I Learned to Snap, Kirk Read, Hill Street Monster: Adventures in American Machismo, Brian Bouldrey, Council Oaks Books Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon, Scribner Outbound, William Storandt, University of Wisconsin Press Erotica Dirty Words, M. Christian, Alyson His Tongue, Lawrence Schimel, North Atlantic Books Hot & Bothered 3, Karen X. Tulchinsky, Arsenal Pulp Press See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent, Ian Philips, AttaGirl Press Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica, Lori Selke, Black Books Transgender/Bisexual Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2, Bill Brent and Carol Queen, eds., Black Books/Circlet Press Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian, Vanessa Sheridan, The Pilgrim Press Dragged!! To His Senses, Jonathan Branton, Yellow House Press Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, The Pilgrim Press Synthetic Bi Products, Sparrow L. Patterson, Akashic Books Photography/Visual Arts The Male Nude Now, David Leddick, Universe Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918, David Deitcher, Harry N. Abrams Intimacies, Tee A. Corinne, Last Gasp Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of Paperback, Susan Stryker, Chronicle Books Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon, Robert Mainardi, Council Oak Books For further information about the awards program or banquet tickets, please contact the Lambda Literary Foundation, P.O. Box 73910, Washington, D.C. 20056-13910; telephone the LAMMYS LINE at (202) 682-0952; or e-mail Jim_Marks@lambdalit.org. Lambda Literary Foundation: www.lambdalit.org |
The Male Nude Now is a Lambda Literary finalist in the Photography/Visual Arts category 
Among the five finalists in the category for Small Presses stands a book that has been particularly celebrated in GayToday, namely Scared Straight: Why It's So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It's So Hard to Be Human by Robert N. Minor, Ph.D., published by Humanity Works! Dr. Minor's essays are published regularly in GayToday.
