4th Lambda Literary Awards

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

Special awards

Category	Winner
Editor's Choice	Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America
Publisher Service	Barbara Grier and Donna McBride, Naiad Press

Nominees and winners

Category	Winner	Nominated
Children's/Young Adult	Johnny Valentine and Lynette Schmidt, The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans and Other Stories	Leslea Newman and Russell Crocker, Gloria Goes to Gay Pride Ann Heron, Meredith Maran and Kris Kovick, How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay? Nancy Garden, Lark in the Morning Aaron Fricke and Walter Fricke, Sudden Strangers
Gay Anthology	Essex Hemphill, ed., Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men	Edmund White, Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction John Preston, Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton, Indivisible: New Short Fiction Mark Thompson, Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice
Gay Fiction	Harlan Greene, What the Dead Remember	Dennis Cooper, Frisk Paul Monette, Halfway Home Philip Gambone, Language We Use Up Here Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms
Gay Mystery	Joseph Hansen, A Country of Old Men	Stan Cutler, Best Performance by a Patsy Stan Cutler, The Face on the Cutting Room Floor Larry Townsend, Master’s Counterpoints Mark Richard Zubro, Sorry Now?
Gay Non-Fiction	Will Roscoe, The Zuni Man-Woman	David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration Martin Duberman, Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey Roger Austen and John W. Crowley, Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard Bruce R. Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England
Gay Poetry	Assotto Saint, ed., The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets	Mark Doty, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight John Ash, The Burnt Pages David Trinidad, Hand Over Heart Perry Brass, Sex-Charge
Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror	Frank M. Robinson, The Dark Beyond the Stars	Eric Garber, Embracing the Dark Perry Brass, Mirage Jay B. Laws, Steam Jeffrey N. McMahan, Vampires Anonymous
Humor	Joe Keenan, Putting on the Ritz	Elizabeth Dean, Linda Wells and Andrea Curren, Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games Ben Davis, Strange Angel Kris Kovick, What I Love About Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With Rosalind Warren, Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor
Lesbian Anthology	Carla Trujillo, ed., Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About	Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka'ahumanu, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake, Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers Judith Barrington, An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow and Adrienne Smith, Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition
Lesbian Fiction	Blanche McCrary Boyd, The Revolution of Little Girls Jewelle Gomez, The Gilda Stories	Diane Salvatore, Benediction Judith McDaniel, Just Say Yes Anna Livia, Minimax
Lesbian Mystery	Katherine V. Forrest, Murder by Tradition	Claire McNab, Cop Out Sandra Scoppettone, Everything You Have is Mine Mary Morell, Final Session Amanda Kyle Williams, The Providence File
Lesbian Non-Fiction	Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum, Cancer in Two Voices	Diana Souhami, Gertrude and Alice Judith Barrington, An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America Minnie Bruce Pratt, Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991
Lesbian Poetry	Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991	Eloise Klein Healy, Artemis in Echo Park Maureen Seaton, Fear of Subways Becky Birtha, The Forbidden Poems Eileen Myles, Not Me
Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror	Jewelle Gomez, The Gilda Stories	B.L. Holmes, Mega Chris Anne Wolfe, Shadows of Aggar Camarin Grae, Stranded Judith Alguire, Zeta Base
Small Press	Winston Leyland, ed., Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine	Pat Califia, The Advocate Advisor Bad Object-Choices, How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos Edisol W. Dotson, Putting Out ’91 Garbo, Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really

External links

• 4th Lambda Literary Awards