8th Lambda Literary Awards

The 8th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1996 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1995.

Special awards

Category	Winner
Editor's Choice	Patrick Califia and Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada
Pioneer Award	L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, Lambda Rising
Publisher's Service	Nancy Bereano, Firebrand Press Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley, Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial

Nominees and winners

Category	Winner	Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction	E. J. Levy, ed., Tasting Life Twice	Catherine McKinley and L. Joyce Delaney, eds., Afrekete Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz, eds., The New Fuck You Pat Califia and Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada Robert Drake, His
Anthologies/Non-Fiction	Claude J. Summers, ed., Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage	Karla Jay, ed., Dyke Life Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber, eds., Tomboys Leslea Newman, ed., A Loving Testimony Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas and Eric Marcus, eds., Out in All Directions
Children's/Young Adult	Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun	Francesca Lia Block, Baby Bebop Judith Vinga, My Two Uncles Kurt Chandler, Passages of Pride Daniel Vilmure, Toby’s Lie
Drama	Tony Kushner, Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche, Go Fish	Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, eds., The Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! Michael Kearns, T-Cells and Sympathy
Gay Biography/Autobiography	Lyle Leverich, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams	Bill T. Jones and Peggy Gillespie, Last Night on Earth Gore Vidal, Palimpsest Edmund White, Our Paris Leroy F. Aarons, Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son
Gay Fiction	Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood	Jim Grimsley, Dream Boy Christopher Bram, Father of Frankenstein Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin Felice Picano, Like People in History
Gay Mystery	R. D. Zimmerman, Closet	Steven Saylor, Venus Throw Richard Stevenson, Shock to the System Mark Richard Zubro, Another Dead Teenager George Baxt, Queer Kind of Umbrella
Gay Poetry	Mark Doty, Atlantis	Carl Phillips, Cortege David Laurents, Badboy Book of Erotic Verse James Merrill, Scattering of Salts Timothy Liu, Burnt Offerings
Gay Studies	Joseph Carrier, De Los Otros	Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality Pierre Seel, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal Daniel Halperin, Saint=Foucault
Humor	Ellen Orleans, The Butches of Madison County	Diane DiMassa, Revenge of HotHead Paisan Alison Bechdel, Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For Funny Gay Males, Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out Mabel Maney, Ghost in the Closet
Lesbian Biography/Autobiography	Erica Fischer, Aimee & Jaguar	Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure Claudia Brenner and Hannah Ashley, Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch, And Say Hi to Joyce Susan E. Cayliff, Babe
Lesbian Fiction	Jacqueline Woodson, Autobiography of a Family Photo	Stephanie Grant, Passion of Alice Sarah Schulman, Rat Bohemia Louise Blum, Amnesty Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Sweat
Lesbian Mystery	Jean M. Redmann, Intersection of Law and Desire	Elizabeth Pincus, Hangdog Hustle Ellen Hart, Faint Praise Jaye Maiman, Someone to Watch Penny Mickelbury, Night Songs
Lesbian Poetry	Adrienne Rich, Dark Fields of the Republic	Eileen Myles, Maxfield Parrish Jewelle Gomez, Oral Tradition Chrystos, Fire Power Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Key to Everything
Lesbian Studies	Karla Jay, Dyke Life	Urvashi Vaid, Virtual Equality Minnie Bruce Pratt, S/he Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber, Tomboys Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie, Parker and Hulme
Photography/Visual Arts	Andrea Weiss, Paris Was a Woman	Howard Cruse, Stuck Rubber Baby M.G. Soares, Butch/Femme Emmanuel Cooper, Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography Geoff Manasse and Jean Swallow, Making Love Visible
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Melissa Scott, Shadow Man Nicola Griffith, Slow River	Felice Picano, Dryland’s End Pam Keesey, Dark Angels Samuel R. Delany, Atlantis: Three Tales
Small Press	Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz, The New Fuck You	Minnie Bruce Pratt, S/He Staszek, Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells Adam Klein, The Medicine Burns Vega Press, Milking Black Bull
Spirituality	Brian Bouldrey, Wrestling with the Angel	Will Roscoe, Queer Spirits Peter Cashorali, Gay Fairy Tales Nancy Wilson, Our Tribe John J. McNeill, Freedom, Glorious Freedom

External links

• 8th Lambda Literary Awards