23rd Lambda Literary Awards

{{short description|2011 Lambda Literary Awards}}

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The 23rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2011, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2010.

Beginning with the 2011 awards, the Lambda Literary Foundation took over the administration and presentation of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, formerly a program of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.

Special awards

Nominees and winners

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align="center"| Bisexual Fiction

| Myrlin Hermes, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet

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align="center"| Bisexual Non-Fiction

| Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools

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align="center"| Gay Debut Fiction

| David Pratt, Bob the Book

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align="center"| Gay Erotica

| Jon Macy, Teleny and Camille

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align="center"| Gay Fiction

| Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic

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align="center"| Gay Memoir/Biography

| Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade

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align="center"| Gay Mystery

| David Lennon, Echoes

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align="center"| Gay Poetry

| Brian Teare, Pleasure

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align="center"| Gay Romance

| Erik Orrantia, Normal Miguel

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align="center"| Lesbian Debut Fiction

| Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa

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align="center"| Lesbian Erotica

| Tristan Taormino, ed., Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica

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align="center"| Lesbian Fiction

| Eileen Myles, Inferno (a poet's novel)

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align="center"| Lesbian Memoir/Biography

| Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Julie Marie Wade, Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures

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align="center"| Lesbian Mystery

| Val McDermid, Fever of the Bone

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align="center"| Lesbian Poetry

| Anna Swanson, The Nights Also

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align="center"| Lesbian Romance

| Cate Culpepper, River Walker

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align="center"| LGBT Anthology

| Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

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

| Jane Eagland, Wildthorn

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align="center"| LGBT Drama

| Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play

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align="center"| LGBT Non-Fiction

| Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory

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  • Stuart Biegel, The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools
  • Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
  • Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community
  • Jallen Rix, Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse
align="center"| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

| Sandra McDonald, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories

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align="center"| LGBT Studies

| Scott Herring, Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality

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  • 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
  • Fran Martin, Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
align="center"| Transgender Fiction

| Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for As Long As Possible

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align="center"| Transgender Non-Fiction

| Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community

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