Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies Annual literary award
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."[ 1] Most works are published by university presses.[ 1]
Recipients
Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies Recipients
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2002
Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price
Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
Winner
[ 2]
Gay Wachman
Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties
Finalist
[ 2]
Suzanna Danuta Walters
All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
William J. Mann
Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard (editors)
The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s
2003
Neil Miller
Sex-Crime Panic
Winner
[ 3] [ 4]
Craig Rimmerman
From Identity to Politics
Finalist
[ 4]
Colm Tóibín
Love in a Dark Time
Ruth Vanita (editor)
Queering India
David Nimmons
Soul Beneath the Skin
2004
Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (editors)
Time on Two Crosses
Winner
[ 5]
Wayne Besen
Anything But Straight
Finalist
[ 5]
Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky
Love in the Time of HIV
James McCourt
Queer Street
Mack Friedman
Strapped for Cash
2005
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
Winner
[ 6]
Andrea Barnet
All-Night Party
Finalist
[ 6]
Will Fellows
{A Passion to Preserve
Abigail Garner
Families Like Mine
Evan Wolfson
Why Marriage Matters
2006
Susan Ackerman
When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David
Winner
[ 7]
Jennifer Kelly
Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause
Finalist
[ 7]
Dwight A. McBride
Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch
Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (editors)
Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet
Ruth Vanita
Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
2007
Horace Griffin
Their Own Receive Them Not
Winner
[ 8]
Robert McRuer
Crip Theory
Finalist
[ 8]
Kathryn Stockton
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
Carellin Brooks
Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc.
David Eisenbach
Gay Power: An American Revolution
2008
Sharon Marcus
Between Women
Winner
[ 9] [ 10]
Bertram Cohler
Writing Desire
Finalist
[ 9]
Pagan Kennedy
The First Man-Made Man
Mark Padilla
Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Robert Reid-Pharr
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual
2009
Regina Kunzel
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Winner
[ 11]
Michelle Ann Abate
Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History
Finalist
[ 11]
Amin Ghaziani
The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
Kevin P. Murphy
Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform
Linda Williams
Screening Sex
2010
Margot Canaday
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America
Winner
[ 12]
Armando Maggi
The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
Finalist
[ 12]
Julie Abraham
Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
Deborah B. Gould
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS
Kathryn Bond Stockton
The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
2011
Scott Herring
Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
Winner
[ 13]
Gayle Salamon
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Fran Martin
Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
Finalist
[ 14]
Deborah Cohler
Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Rafael de la Dehesa
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
2012
Lisa L. Moore
Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
Winner
[ 15] [ 16]
Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors)
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Finalist
Chandan Reddy
Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Margot Weiss
Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
Jafari S. Allen
¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
2013
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics
Winner
[ 17]
Louis-Georges Tin
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
Finalist
[ 18]
Ernesto Javier Martínez
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
Ashley Currier
Out of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Bernadette C. Barton
Pray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays
Brenna M. Munro
South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom
Sara Warner
Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
Ann Cvetkovich
Depression: A Public Feeling
Tracy Baim
Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America
David M. Halperin
How To Be Gay
2014
Christina B. Hanhardt
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
Winner
[ 19] [ 20] [ 21]
Marlon M. Bailey
Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
Finalist
[ 21]
Victoria Hesford
Feeling Women’s Liberation
Colin R. Johnson
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Lisa Henderson
Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
Susana Pena
Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
Lucetta Yip Lo Kam
Shanghai Lalas
Peter M. Coviello
Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely
Isaac West
Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law
[ 21] [ 22]
2015
Vincent Woodard , Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride (editors)
Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
Winner
[ 23]
Noelle M. Stout
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
Finalist
[ 24]
Rachel Hope Cleves
Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Marcia Ochoa
Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Lisa Tatonetti
The Queerness of Native American Literature
Juana María Rodríguez
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
Susan S. Lanser
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic
Bobby Benedicto
Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
2016
Hiram Pérez
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire
Winner
[ 25]
Clare Sears
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Finalist
[ 26]
L.H. Stallings
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Aaron Goodfellow
Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
Madhavi Menon
Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
Jane Ward
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
Petrus Liu
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Valerie Traub
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
2017
Jennifer Tyburczy
Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display
Winner
[ 27]
Qwo-Li Driskill
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory
Finalist
[ 28]
Gregory Woods
Homintern
Andrew Jolivette
Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
Jonathan Goldberg
Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
Kevin Mumford
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
Omar G. Encarnación
Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
2018
Trevor Hoppe
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Winner
[ 29] [ 30]
Alfredo Mirandé
Behind the Mask
Finalist
[ 31]
Mari Ruti
The Ethics of Opting Out
Emily Hobson
Lavender and Red
Jaclyn Pryor
Time Slips
Ashley T. Shelden
Unmaking Love
David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe
The War on Sex
Julio Capó
Welcome to Fairyland
2019
William T. Hoston
Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston
Winner
[ 32]
E. Patrick Johnson
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
Finalist
Lyndon K. Gill
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
Myrl Beam
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
Keridwen N. Luis
Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States
Andrew Billings and Leigh Moscowitz
Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports
T. Jackie Cuevas
Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Anne Balay
Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
2020
Emily L. Thuma
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
Winner
[ 33] [ 34] [ 35] [ 36]
Robb Hernández
Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
Finalist
[ 37] [ 38] [ 39]
Elizabeth Freeman
Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
[ 38] [ 39]
Kara Keeling
Queer Times, Black Futures
[ 37] [ 38] [ 39]
Roberto Strongman
Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou
[ 38] [ 39]
Dana Seitler
Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
R.L. Cagle
Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
Jian Neo Chen
Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
2021
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Winner
[ 40] [ 37] [ 41]
Cait McKinney
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Finalist
[ 42]
José Esteban Muñoz
The Sense of Brown
Janet Jakobsen
The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics
[ 42] [ 37]
Jane Ward
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
2022
Anna Lvovsky
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
Winner
[ 43]
Gila Ashtor
Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia
Finalist
[ 44]
C. Winter Han
Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
Leah DeVun
The Shape of Sex
Howard Chiang
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
2023
Darieck Scott
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics
Winner
[ 45]
Mairead Sullivan
Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer
Finalist
[ 46]
Marlon B. Ross
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
Vivian L. Huang
Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability
Jafari S. Allen
There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life
2024
Erin L. Durban
The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
Winner
[ 47]
Jennifer Dominique Jones
Ambivalent Af inities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II
Finalist
[ 48]
Christoph Hanssmann
Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine
Margot Canaday
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
Travis S. K. Kong
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China
See also
References
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