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4th Lambda Literary Awards

{{short description|1992 Lambda Literary Awards}}

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The 4th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1992 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1991.

Special awards

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CategoryWinner
Editor's ChoiceLillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America
Publisher ServiceBarbara Grier and Donna McBride, Naiad Press

Nominees and winners

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!Result

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

|{{sortname|last=Valentine|first=Johnny|link=Johnny Valentine (writer)}} and Lynette Schmidt

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans and Other Stories|nolink=1}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Fricke|first=Aaron}} and Walter Fricke

|Sudden Strangers

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Garden|first=Nancy}}

|Lark in the Morning

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Heron|first=Ann}}, Meredith Maran, and Kris Kovick

|How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay?

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Newman|first=Leslea}} and Russell Crocker

|Gloria Goes to Gay Pride

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Anthology

|{{sortname|last=Hemphill|first=Essex}} (ed.)

|Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Drake|first=Robert|link=Robert Drake (editor)}} and Terry Wolverton

|Indivisible: New Short Fiction

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Preston|first=John|link=John Preston (American author)}}

|Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Thompson|first=Mark|link=Mark Thompson (writer)}}

|Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=White|first=Edmund}}

|Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Fiction

|{{sortname|last=Greene|first=Harlan}}

|What the Dead Remember

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Cooper|first=Dennis}}

|Frisk

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Dixon|first=Melvin}}

|Vanishing Rooms

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Gambone|first=Philip}}

|Language We Use Up Here

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Monette|first=Paul}}

|Halfway Home

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Mystery

|{{sortname|last=Hansen|first=Joseph|link=Joseph Hansen (writer)}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Country of Old Men|nolink=1}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Cutler|first=Stan}}

|Best Performance by a Patsy

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Cutler|first=Stan}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Face on the Cutting Room Floor|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Townsend|first=Larry}}

|Master’s Counterpoints

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Zubro|first=Mark Richard}}

|Sorry Now?

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Non-Fiction

|{{sortname|last=Roscoe|first=Will}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Zuni Man-Woman|nolink=1}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Austen|first=Roger}} and John W. Crowley

|Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Duberman|first=Martin}}

|Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Bruce R.}}

|Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England

|Finalist

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

|Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Poetry

|{{sortname|last=Saint|first=Assotto}} (ed.)

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets|nolink=1}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Ash|first=John|link=John Ash (writer)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Burnt Pages|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Brass|first=Perry}}

|Sex-Charge

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Doty|first=Mark}}

|Bethlehem in Broad Daylight

|Finalist

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

|Hand Over Heart

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror

|{{sortname|last=Robinson|first=Frank M.}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Dark Beyond the Stars}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Brass|first=Perry}}

|Mirage

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Garber|first=Eric}}

|Embracing the Dark

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Laws|first=Jay B.}}

|Steam

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=McMahan|first=Jeffrey N.}}

|Vampires Anonymous

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Humor

|{{sortname|last=Keenan|first=Joe|link=Joe Keenan (writer)}}

|Putting on the Ritz

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Davis|first=Ben|link=Ben Davis (writer)}}

|Strange Angel

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Dean|first=Elizabeth|link=Elizabeth Dean (writer)}}, Linda Wells, and Andrea Curren

|Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Kovick|first=Kris}}

|What I Love About Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Warren|first=Rosalind}}

|Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Anthology

|{{sortname|last=Trujillo|first=Carla}} (ed.)

|Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Barrington|first=Judith|link=Judith Barrington (poet)}}

|An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Hutchins|first=Loraine}} and Lani Ka'ahumanu

|Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Sang|first=Barbara}}, Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne Smith

|Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Wolverton|first=Terry}} and Robert Drake

|Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Fiction

|{{sortname|last=Boyd|first=Blanche McCrary}}

|{{Sortname|The|Revolution of Little Girls|nolink=1}}

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Gomez|first=Jewelle}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Gilda Stories}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Livia|first=Anna|link=Anna Livia (author)}}

|Minimax

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=McDaniel|first=Judith}}

|Just Say Yes

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Salvatore|first=Diane}}

|Benediction

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Mystery

|{{sortname|last=Forrest|first=Katherine V.}}

|Murder by Tradition

|Winner

{{sortname|last=McNab|first=Claire}}

|Cop Out

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Morell|first=Mary}}

|Final Session

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Scoppettone|first=Sandra}}

|Everything You Have is Mine

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Williams|first=Amanda Kyle}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Providence File|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Non-Fiction

|{{sortname|last=Butler|first=Sandra|link=Sandra Butler (writer)}} and Barbara Rosenblum

|Cancer in Two Voices

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Barrington|first=Judith|link=Judith Barrington (writer)}}

|An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Faderman|first=Lillian}}

|Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Pratt|first=Minnie Bruce}}

|Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Souhami|first=Diana}}

|Gertrude and Alice

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Poetry

|{{sortname|last=Rich|first=Adrienne}}

|{{sortname|1=An|2=Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991|nolink=1}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Birtha|first=Becky}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Forbidden Poems|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Healy|first=Eloise Klein}}

|Artemis in Echo Park

|Finalist

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

|Not Me

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Seaton|first=Maureen}}

|Fear of Subways

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror

|{{sortname|last=Gomez|first=Jewelle}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Gilda Stories}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Alguire|first=Judith}}

|Zeta Base

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Grae|first=Camarin}}

|Stranded

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Holmes|first=B.L.}}

|Mega

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Wolfe|first=Chris Anne}}

|Shadows of Aggar

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Small Press

|{{sortname|last=Leyland|first=Winston}} (ed.)

|Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Califia|first=Pat}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Advocate Advisor|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Dotson|first=Edisol W.}}

|Putting Out ’91

|Finalist

Bad Object-Choices

|How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos

|Finalist

Garbo

|Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really

|Finalist

External links

  • [http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/13/lambda-literary-awards-1991/ 4th Lambda Literary Awards]

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