10th Lambda Literary Awards

|+10th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists

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!Author/Editor

!Title

!Result

! rowspan="5" |Anthologies (Fiction)

|{{sortname|last=Drake|first=Robert|link=Robert Drake (writer)}} and Terry Wolverton (eds.)

|His(2)

|Winner

|Best American Gay Fiction 2

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

|Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit

|Finalist

|Best Lesbian Erotica 1997

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Anthologies (Nonfiction)

|{{sortname|last=Ingram|first=Gordon Brent}}, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (eds.)

|Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance

|Winner

|Gay Men at the Millennium

|Finalist

|My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries

|Finalist

|PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

|Finalist

|Lesbians Raising Sons

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Children's and Young Adult

|{{sortname|last=Woodson|first=Jacqueline}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=House You Pass On the Way|nolink=1}}

|Winner

|Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What's a Lesbian?

|Finalist

|Blue Coyote

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Shared Heart|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

|Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Drama

|{{sortname|last=Kaufman|first=Moises}}

|Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

|Winner

|Monsters in the Closet

|Finalist

|Rent

|Finalist

|Three Plays by Mae West

|Finalist

|Porcelain and A Language of Their Own

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Gay Memoir or Biography

|{{sortname|last=Campo|first=Rafael|link=Rafael Campo (poet)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Poetry of Healing|nolink=1}}

|Winner

|Track Conditions

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=A|2=House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

|Walt Whitman: a Gay Life

|Finalist

|Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Gay Fiction

|{{sortname|last=Stollman|first=Aryeh Lev}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Far Euphrates|nolink=1}}

|Winner

|{{sortname|1=The|2=House on Brooke Street|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

|Gossip

|Finalist

|Plays Well With Others

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Farewell Symphony}}

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Gay Mystery

|{{sortname|last=Hunt|first=David|link=David Hunt (writer)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Magician's Tale|nolink=1}}

|Winner

|Gossip

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Burning Plain|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

|Revision of Justice

|Finalist

|Hostage

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Gay Poetry

|{{sortname|last=Cassells|first=Cyrus}}

|Beautiful Signor

|Winner

|Desire

|Finalist

|Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996

|Finalist

|Desire: Poems 1986-1996

|Finalist

|Bite Hard

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Gay Studies

|{{sortname|last=Kaiser|first=Charles}} (ed.)

|Gay Metropolis

|Winner

|Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures

|Finalist

|Sexual Ecology|Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men

|Finalist

|Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men

|Finalist

|Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Humor

|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Bob|link=Bob Smith (comedian)}}

|Openly Bob

|Winner

|Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For

|Finalist

|Flaming Iguanas

|Finalist

|Naked

|Finalist

|Barbie Unbound

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Biography and Autobiography

|{{sortname|last=Wilson|first=Barbara|link=Barbara Wilson (author)}}

|Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood

|Winner

|My Life as a Boy

|Finalist

|Virginia Woolf

|Finalist

|May Sarton: a Biography

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Last Time I Wore a Dress|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Fiction

|{{sortname|last=Dykewomon|first=Elana}}

|Beyond the Pale

|Winner

|Prozac Highway

|Finalist

|Terminal Velocity

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Crystal Diary|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

|A/K/A

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Mystery

|{{sortname|last=Lordon|first=Randye}}

|Father Forgive Me

|Winner

|Apparition Alley

|Finalist

|Evil Dead Center

|Finalist

|Old Black Magic

|Finalist

|No Daughter of the South

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Poetry

|{{sortname|last=Larkin|first=Joan}}

|Cold River

|Winner

|{{sortname|last=Myles|first=Eileen}}

|School of Fish

|Winner

|Diesel Fuel

|Finalist

|Poems Between Women

|Finalist

|Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Studies

|{{sortname|last=Moore|first=Lisa C.}}

|Does Your Mama Know?

|Winner

|Queerly Classed

|Finalist

|Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers

|Finalist

|Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

|Finalist

|Sex and Sensibility

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Science fiction, fantasy or horror

|{{sortname|last=Griffith|first=Nicola}} and Stephen Pagel

|Bending the Landscape

|Winner

|Monsters in the Closet

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Harvest|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

|Grave Passions

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Drag Queen of Elfland|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Small Press

|{{sortname|last=Moore|first=Lisa C.}}

|Does Your Mama Know?

|Winner

|Toward the New Degeneracy

|Finalist

|Bite Hard

|Finalist

|Beyond the Pale

|Finalist

|Barbie Unbound

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Spirituality

|{{sortname|last=Alpert|first=Rebecca}}

|Like Bread on the Seder Plate

|Winner

|Stealing Jesus

|Finalist

|Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit

|Finalist

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Essential Gay Mystics|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

|Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Transgender

|{{sortname|last=Queen|first=Carol}} and Lawrence Schimel (eds.)

|PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality

|Winner

|{{sortname|last=Scholinski|first=Daphne}} and Jane Meredith Adams

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Last Time I Wore a Dress|nolink=1}}

|Winner

|Sex Changes

|Finalist

|Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos

|Finalist

|Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender

|Finalist

! rowspan="5" |Visual Arts

|{{sortname|last=Giard|first=Robert}}

|Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers

|Winner

|{{sortname|last=Leddick|first=David}}

|Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955

|Winner

|I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves

|Finalist

|Men Together

|Finalist

|John Waters: Director's Cut

|Finalist