15th Lambda Literary Awards

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The 15th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2003 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2002.

Special awards

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CategoryWinner
Bridge Builder AwardBetty DeGeneres
Editor's Choice AwardJohn D'Emilio, The World Turned
Pioneer AwardBarbara Grier, Judy Shepard
Small Press AwardKings Crossing Publishing

Nominees and winners

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align="center"| Anthologies/Fiction

| Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Don Weise, eds., Black Like Us

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align="center"| Anthologies/Non-Fiction

| Bruce Shenitz, The Man I Might Become

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align="center"| Autobiography/Memoir

| Betty Berzon, Surviving Madness

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align="center"| Biography

| David Kaufman, Ridiculous!

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align="center"| Children's/Young Adult

| Bonnie Shimko, Letters in the Attic

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align="center"| Erotica

| Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2003

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align="center"| Gay Fiction

| Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys

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align="center"| Gay Mystery

| Christopher Rice, The Snow Garden

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align="center"| Gay Poetry

| J. D. McClatchy, Hazmat

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align="center"| Humor

| Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah

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align="center"| Lesbian Fiction

| Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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align="center"| Lesbian Mystery

| Elizabeth Woodcraft, Good Bad Woman

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align="center"| Lesbian Poetry

| Ellen Bass, Mules of Love

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align="center"| LGBT Studies

| Neil Miller, Sex-Crime Panic

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align="center"| Romance

| Andrew W. M. Beierle, The Winter of Our Discothèque

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align="center"| Science fiction, fantasy or horror

| Michael Rowe, ed., Queer Fear II

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align="center"| Spirituality

| Geoffrey Duncan, Courage to Love

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align="center"| Transgender

| Noelle Howey, Dress Codes

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align="center"| Visual arts

| Dominique Fernandez, A Hidden Love

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