7th Lambda Literary Awards
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1995 literary awards ceremony
The 7th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1995 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1994.
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Editor's Choice | Mab Segrest, Traitor to the Race |
| Publisher Service | Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Press |
Nominees and winners
| Category | Author(s)/Editor(s) | Title | Result |
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| Anthologies/Fiction | Lillian Faderman (ed.) | Chloe Plus Olivia | Winner |
| David Bergman (ed.) | Men on Men 5 | Finalist | |
| Sharon Lim-Hing (ed.) | The Very Inside | Finalist | |
| Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder (ed.) | High Risk 2 | Finalist | |
| Irene Zahava (ed.) | Lavender Mansions | Finalist | |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Joan Nestle and John Preston | Sister and Brother | Winner |
| Patrick Higgins (ed.) | Queer Reader | Finalist | |
| Kevin Jennings (ed.) | One Teacher in Ten | Finalist | |
| Julia Penelope (ed.) | Out of the Class Closet | Finalist | |
| Mark Thompson (ed.) | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist | |
| Children's & Young Adult | Marion Dane Bauer | Am I Blue? | Winner |
| Stacey Donovan | Dive | Finalist | |
| Ann Heron | 2 Teenagers in 20 | Finalist | |
| Scott Nunokawa | Oscar Wilde | Finalist | |
| Patricia Quinlan | Tiger Flowers | Finalist | |
| Drama | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Perestroika | Winner |
| David Drake | The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me | Finalist | |
| Carolyn Gage | Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Finalist | |
| Cherrie Moraga | Heroes and Saints & Other Plays | Finalist | |
| Paul Rudnick | Jeffrey | Finalist | |
| Gay Biography & Autobiography | Abraham Verghese | My Own Country | Winner |
| Lawrence Mass | Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite | Finalist | |
| Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | Finalist | |
| John Preston | My Life as a Pornographer | Finalist | |
| Ned Rorem | Knowing When to Stop | Finalist | |
| Gay Fiction | Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star | Winner |
| Mark Merlis | American Studies | Finalist | |
| Joseph Olshan | Nightswimmer | Finalist | |
| Douglas Sadownick | Sacred Lips of the Bronx | Finalist | |
| Norman Wong | Cultural Revolution | Finalist | |
| Gay Mystery | John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Winner |
| George Baxt | Queer Kind of Love | Finalist | |
| Caleb Carr | The Alienist | Finalist | |
| Samuel R. Delany | Mad Man | Finalist | |
| Grant Michaels | Mask for a Diva | Finalist | |
| Gay Poetry | Thom Gunn | Collected Poems | Winner |
| Rafael Campo | The Other Man Was Me | Finalist | |
| Richard McCann | Ghost Letters | Finalist | |
| Paul Monette | West of Yesterday, East of Summer | Finalist | |
| Assotto Saint | Wishing for Wings | Finalist | |
| Gay Studies | George Chauncey | Gay New York | Winner |
| John Boswell | Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe | Finalist | |
| David B. Feinberg | Queer and Loathing | Finalist | |
| Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | Finalist | |
| Mark Thompson | Gay Soul | Finalist | |
| Humor | Ellen Galford | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | Winner |
| Kevin Dilallo and Jack Krumholtz | Unofficial Gay MANual | Finalist | |
| Mabel Maney | Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend | Finalist | |
| Christian McLaughlin | Glamourpuss | Finalist | |
| David Sedaris | Barrel Fever | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Biography & Autobiography | Renate Stendhal | Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures | Winner |
| Elizabeth Bishop | One Art: Letters | Finalist | |
| Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher | Serving in Silence | Finalist | |
| Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas | Finalist | |
| Mab Segrest | Memoir of a Race Traitor | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Rebecca Brown | The Gifts of the Body | Winner |
| Emma Donoghue | Sir Fry | Finalist | |
| Ellen Galford | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | Finalist | |
| Heather Lewis | House Rules | Finalist | |
| Eileen Myles | Chelsea Girls | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Small Sacrifice | Winner |
| Randye Lordon | Sister’s Keeper | Finalist | |
| Mabel Maney | Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend | Finalist | |
| Claire McNab | Body Guard | Finalist | |
| Sandra Scoppettone | My Sweet Untraceable You | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Poetry | Marilyn Hacker | Winter Numbers | Winner |
| Sapphire | American Dreams | Finalist | |
| June Jordan | Haruko/Love Poems | Finalist | |
| Mary Oliver | White Pine | Finalist | |
| Linda Smukler | Normal Sex | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Studies | Dorothy Allison | Skin | Winner |
| Lillian Faderman | Chloe Plus Olivia | Finalist | |
| Susan Fox Rogers | Sportsdykes | Finalist | |
| Sarah Schulman | My American History | Finalist | |
| Kiss and Tell Collective | Her Tongue on My Theory | Finalist | |
| Photography & Visual Arts | Nancy Andrews | Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America | Winner |
| Jim French | Art of the Male Nude | Finalist | |
| Jack Kugelmass | Masked Culture | Finalist | |
| Out | Out in America | Finalist | |
| Mark Thompson | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist | |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Melissa Scott | Trouble and Her Friends | Winner |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | The Furies | Finalist | |
| Mercedes Lackey | Storm Warning | Finalist | |
| Nancy Springer | Metal Angel | Finalist | |
| Jean Stewart | Warriors of Isis | Finalist | |
| Small Press | Kiss and Tell Collective | Her Tongue on My Theory | Winner |
| Sapphire | American Dreams | Finalist | |
| Dorothy Allison | Skin | Finalist | |
| James Earl Hardy | B-Boy Blues | Finalist | |
| Achy Obejas | We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? | Finalist |
References
- "7th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Awards. 1995-07-14. Retrieved 2025-08-23.
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