1994 Lambda Literary Awards
The 6th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1994, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1993.
Special awards
Nominees and winners
6th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists
| Category
|
Author
|
Title
|
Result
|
| Anthologies
|
Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin
|
Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
|
Winner
|
| Raymond Luczak
|
Eyes of Desire
|
Finalist
|
| Leslea Newman and Annette Hegel
|
Saturday is Pattyday
|
Finalist
|
| Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe
|
Lesbian Culture
|
Finalist
|
| Bennett L. Singer
|
Growing Up Gay
|
Finalist
|
| Arlene Stein
|
Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers
|
Finalist
|
| Children's/Young Adult
|
Hilary Mullins
|
The Cat Came Back
|
Winner
|
| Rik Isensee
|
We’re Not Alone
|
Finalist
|
| Christina Salat
|
Living in Secret
|
Finalist
|
| Michael Willhoite
|
Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit!!
|
Finalist
|
| Drama
|
Tony Kushner
|
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
|
Winner
|
| Claudia Allen
|
She’s Always Liked the Girls Best
|
Finalist
|
| William Finn
|
Falsettos
|
Finalist
|
| Larry Kramer
|
The Destiny of Me
|
Finalist
|
| Julia Willis
|
We Oughta Be in Pictures
|
Finalist
|
| Gay Biography/Autobiography
|
Edmund White
|
Genet
|
Winner
|
| Reinaldo Arenas
|
Before Night Falls
|
Finalist
|
| James Broughton
|
Coming Unbuttoned
|
Finalist
|
| Lars Eighner
|
Travels With Lizbeth
|
Finalist
|
| Brad Gooch
|
City Poet
|
Finalist
|
| Gay Fiction
|
Joseph Hansen
|
Living Upstairs
|
Winner
|
| Steven Corbin
|
Fragments that Remain
|
Finalist
|
| Bo Huston
|
The Listener
|
Finalist
|
| Fenton Johnson
|
Scissors, Paper, Rock
|
Finalist
|
| Dale Peck
|
Martin and John
|
Finalist
|
| Gay Mystery
|
Steven Saylor
|
Catilina's Riddle
|
Winner
|
| George Baxt
|
Mae West Murder Case
|
Finalist
|
| John Peyton Cooke
|
Torsos
|
Finalist
|
| Joseph Hansen
|
Bohannon’s Country
|
Finalist
|
| Grant Michaels
|
Dead on Your Feet
|
Finalist
|
| Gay Poetry
|
Michael Klein
|
1990
|
Winner
|
| James Schuyler
|
Collected Poems
|
Finalist
|
| William Bory
|
Orpheus in his Underwear
|
Finalist
|
| Carl Cook
|
Tranquil Lake of Love
|
Finalist
|
| Mark Doty
|
My Alexandria
|
Finalist
|
| Gay Studies
|
Randy Shilts
|
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military
|
Winner
|
| Martin Duberman
|
Stonewall
|
Finalist
|
| Bruce Bawer
|
A Place at the Table
|
Finalist
|
| Wayne Koestenbaum
|
The Queen’s Throat
|
Finalist
|
| Esther Newman
|
Cherry Grove/Fire Island
|
Finalist
|
| Humor
|
Alison Bechdel
|
Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For
|
Winner
|
| Charles Busch
|
Whores of Lost Atlantis
|
Finalist
|
| Diane DiMassa
|
Hothead Paisan
|
Finalist
|
| Robert Rodi
|
Closet Case
|
Finalist
|
| Michael Willhoite
|
Members of the Tribe
|
Finalist
|
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
|
Josyane Savigneau
|
Marguerite Yourcenar
|
Winner
|
| Phyllis Burke
|
Family Values
|
Finalist
|
| Rose Gladney
|
How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith
|
Finalist
|
| Jewelle Gomez
|
Forty-Three Septembers
|
Finalist
|
| David Sweetman
|
Mary Renault
|
Finalist
|
| Lesbian Fiction
|
Jeanette Winterson
|
Written on the Body
|
Winner
|
| Leslie Feinberg
|
Stone Butch Blues
|
Finalist
|
| Jenifer Levin
|
Sea of Light
|
Finalist
|
| Paula Martinac
|
Home Movies
|
Finalist
|
| Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch
|
Women on Women 2
|
Finalist
|
| Lesbian Mystery
|
Mary Wings
|
Divine Victim
|
Winner
|
| Nikki Baker
|
Long Goodbyes
|
Finalist
|
| Mabel Maney
|
Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse
|
Finalist
|
| Sandra Scoppettone
|
I’ll Be Leaving You Always
|
Finalist
|
| Barbara Wilson
|
Trouble in Transylvania
|
Finalist
|
| Lesbian Poetry
|
Audre Lorde
|
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance
|
Winner
|
| Cheryl Clarke
|
Experimental Love Poetry
|
Finalist
|
| Cherrie Moraga
|
The Last Generation
|
Finalist
|
| Kate Rushin
|
The Black Back-Ups
|
Finalist
|
| May Sarton
|
Collected Poems (1930-1993)
|
Finalist
|
| Lesbian Studies
|
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis
|
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold
|
Winner
|
| Terry Castle
|
The Apparitional Lesbian
|
Finalist
|
| Judy Grahn
|
Blood, Bread, and Roses
|
Finalist
|
| Adrienne Rich
|
What Is Found There
|
Finalist
|
| Andrea Weiss
|
Vampires & Violets
|
Finalist
|
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror
|
Starhawk
|
The Fifth Sacred Thing
|
Winner
|
| Poppy Z. Brite
|
Drawing Blood
|
Finalist
|
| Sybil Claiborne
|
In the Garden of Dead Cars
|
Finalist
|
| Jay B. Laws
|
The Unfinished
|
Finalist
|
| Melissa Scott
|
Burning Bright
|
Finalist
|
| Small Press
|
Leslie Feinberg
|
Stone Butch Blues
|
Winner
|
| Other Countries
|
Sojourner
|
Winner
|
| Raymond Luczak
|
Eyes of Desire
|
Finalist
|
| Denise Ohio
|
Blue
|
Finalist
|
| Ratti Rakesh
|
Lotus of Another Color
|
Finalist
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