Editors and contributors celebrate the LGBT Nonfiction Anthology win for “Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy.” | DONNA ACETO
PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO | At the 28th annual Lambda Literary Award ceremony, held June 6 at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, winners were recognized in 26 categories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition, special recognition was given to Hilton Als, a staff writer at the New Yorker and author of “White Girls,” and to poet Eileen Myles.
Victor Yates, LGBT Debut Fiction winner for “A Love Like Blood.” | DONNA ACETO
2016 Lambda Literary Award Winners
Lesbian Fiction
Chinelo Okparanta, “Under the Udala Trees”
Gay Fiction
Hasan Namir, “God in Pink”
Bisexual Fiction
Anna North, “The Life and Death of Sophie Stark”
Bisexual Nonfiction
Emily Bingham, “Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham”
Willy Wilkinson, Transgender Nonfiction winner for “Born on the Edge of Race and Gender.” | DONNA ACETO
Kate Carroll de Gutes, Lesbian Memoir/ Biography winner for “Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear”| DONNA ACETO
Alex Gino, LGBT Children’s/ Young Adult Fiction winner for “George.” | DONNA ACETO
Transgender Fiction Roz Kaveney, “Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners”
LGBT Debut Fiction Victor Yates, “A Love Like Blood”
LGBT Nonfiction Marcia M. Gallo, “‘No One Helped’: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy”
Transgender Nonfiction Willy Wilkinson, “Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency”
Lesbian Poetry Dawn Lundy Martin, “Life in a Box is a Pretty Life”
Ann Aptake, one of two Lesbian Mystery winners, for “Tarnished Gold.” | DONNA ACETO
Special honoree Hilton Als. | DONNA ACETO
Gay Poetry (tie) Nicholas Wong, “Crevasse”
Carl Phillips, “Reconnaissance”
Transgender Poetry kari edwards, “succubus in my pocket”
Lesbian Mystery (tie) Victoria Brownworth, “Ordinary Mayhem”
Ann Aptaker, “Tarnished Gold”
Gay Mystery Marshall Thornton, “Boystown 7: Bloodlines”
Lesbian Memoir/ Biography
Kate Carroll de Gutes, “Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear”
Special honoree Eileen Myles reads her poetry. | DONNA ACETO
E.K. Weaver, LGBT Graphic Novel winner for “The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amala.” | DONNA ACETO
Gay Memoir/ Biography Langdon Hammer, “James Merrill: Life and Art”
Lesbian Romance Julie Blair, “Making A Comeback”
Gay Romance Debbie McGowan, “When Skies Have Fallen”
Lesbian Erotica Meghan O'Brien, “The Muse”
Gay Erotica Miodrag Kojadinovic, “Érotiques Suprèmes”
Marcia M. Gallo, LGBT Nonfiction winner for “‘No One Helped,’” about the Kitty Genovese murder. | DONNA ACETO
LGBT Anthology — Fiction Sfé R. Monster (editor) & Taneka Stotts (assistant editor), “Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology”
LGBT Anthology — Nonfiction Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács & Sabina Ibarrola (editors), “Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy”
LGBT Children’s/ Young Adult Alex Gino, “George”
LGBT Drama
Tanya Barfield, “Bright Half Life”
Award presenter David Eberdhoff, author of the novel “The Danish Girl.” | DONNA ACETO
LGBT Graphic Novel
E.K. Weaver, “The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal”
LGBT SF/F/Horror
Kirsty Logan, “The Gracekeepers”
LGBT Studies
Hiram Pérez, “A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire”
The evening’s emcee, comedienne Kate Clinton. | DONNA ACETO
Editor's Note: In the print edition and an earlier version of this online story, Kate Carroll de Gutes was misidentified as Alex Gino. Pictures of both awardees now appear above and Gay City News regrets the error.
