24th Lambda Literary Awards
{{short description|2012 Lambda Literary Awards}}
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The 24th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2012, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2011.{{Cite web |title=24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists announced |url=https://ew.com/article/2012/03/20/lambda-literary-award/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=EW.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Edit |date=2012-06-05 |title=24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced in New York |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2012/06/24th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced-in-new-york/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}}
Special awards
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| Category | Winner |
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| Pioneer Award | Armistead Maupin, Kate Millett |
| Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Brian Leung, Stacey D'Erasmo |
Nominees and winners
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!Category !Winner !Nominated |
| align="center"| Bisexual Fiction
| Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist |
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| align="center"| Bisexual Non-Fiction
| Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet |
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| align="center"| Gay Debut Fiction
| Rahul Mehta, Quarantine |
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| align="center"| Gay Erotica
| Dirk Vanden, All Together |
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| align="center"| Gay Fiction
| Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family |
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| align="center"| Gay Memoir/Biography
| Glen Retief, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood |
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| align="center"| Gay Mystery
| Richard Stevenson, Red White Black and Blue |
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| align="center"| Gay Poetry
| Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos |
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| align="center"| Gay Romance
| Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Debut Fiction
| Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Erotica
| Debra Hyde, Story of L |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Fiction
| Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Memoir/Biography
| Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Mystery
| Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Dying to Live |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Poetry
| Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Romance
| Kenna White, Taken by Surprise |
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| align="center"| LGBT Anthology
| Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader |
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| align="center"| LGBT Children's/Young Adult
| Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy |
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| align="center"| LGBT Drama
| Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw |
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| align="center"| LGBT Non-Fiction
| Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States |
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| align="center"| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
| Lee Thomas, The German |
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| align="center"| LGBT Studies
| Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes |
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| align="center"| Transgender Fiction
| Tristan Taormino, ed., Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica |
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| align="center"| Transgender Non-Fiction
| Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels |
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