16th Lambda Literary Awards

2004 Lambda Literary Awards

The 16th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2004 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2003.

Special awards

Category	Winner
Pioneer Award	Samuel R. Delany, Blanche Wiesen Cook

Nominees and winners

Category	Winner	Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction	Michael Bronski, ed., Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps	Jon Jeffrey, Chris Kenry, William J. Mann and Ben Tyler, All I Want for Christmas Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 Karl Woelz, M2M Lydia Hall, Telling Moments
Anthologies/Non-Fiction	Bob Guter and John Killacky, eds., Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories	Kevin Bentley, Boyfriends from Hell Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer, Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS Greg Wharton, The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name Toni Amato and Mary Davies, Pinned Down by Pronouns
Autobiography/Memoir	Lillian Faderman, Naked in the Promised Land	Robert Tewdwr Moss, Cleopatra’s Wedding Present Billy Bean, Going the Other Way Marijane Meaker, Highsmith: A Romance Jennifer Finney Boylan, She’s Not There
Biography	Andrew Wilson, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith	Lois W. Banner, Intertwined Lives John D'Emilio, Lost Prophet Keith Fleming, Original Youth Robert Schanke, That Furious Lesbian
Children's/Young Adult	David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy	Brent Hartinger, Geography Club Tea Benduhn, Gravel Queen Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret Alex Sánchez, Rainbow High
Drama	Brian Drader, Prok	Ben Hodges, Forbidden Acts C. E. Gatchalian, Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays Mart Crowley, The Band Plays Robert Schanke, Women in Turmoil: Six Plays
Erotica	Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2004	Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2004 Aren X. Tulchinsky, Hot and Bothered 4 Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe and Jeff Mann, Masters of Midnight James Johnstone, Quickies 3
Gay Fiction	Christopher Bram, Lives of the Circus Animals	Philip Gambone, Beijing Monique Truong, The Book of Salt Paul Russell, War Against the Animals William J. Mann, Where the Boys Are
Gay Mystery	John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye	Greg Herren, Bourbon Street Blues Mark Richard Zubro, Dead Egotistical Morons Elliott Mackle, It Takes Two David Stukas, Wearing Black to the White Party
Gay Poetry	Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge	Henri Cole, Middle Earth Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood: Poems Peter Pereira, Saying the World Rafael Campo, The Healing Art
Humor	Alison Bechdel, Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For	Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth, Chelsea Boys Michael Alvear, Men are Pigs, But We Love Bacon Michael Thomas Ford, My Big Fat Queer Life Joel Perry, That’s Why They’re in Cages, People!
Lesbian Fiction	Nina Revoyr, Southland	Susan J. Leonardi, And Then They Were Nuns Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies Lucy Jane Bledsoe, This Wild Silence Carla Trujillo, What Night Brings
Lesbian Mystery	Elizabeth Sims, Damn Straight	Baxter Clare, Cry Havoc Lauren Maddison, Epitaph for an Angel Ida Swearingen, Owl of the Desert Bett Reece Johnson, The Woman Who Found Grace
Lesbian Poetry	Minnie Bruce Pratt, The Dirt She Ate	Terry Wolverton, Embers Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl Susan McCabe, Swirl Michelle Tea, The Beautiful
LGBT Studies	Devon Carbado and Donald Weise, eds.. Time on Two Crosses	Wayne Besen, Anything But Straight Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky, Love in the Time of HIV James McCourt, Queer Street Mack Friedman, Strapped for Cash
Photography/Visual Arts	Lonthar Schirmer, ed., Women Seeing Women	John Peterson and Martin Bedogne, A Face in the Crowd: Expressions of Gay Life in America Laurie Toby Edison, Familiar Men Roslyn Banish, Focus on Living Lawrence Schimel and Sebas, Vacation in Ibiza
Romance	Karin Kallmaker, Maybe Next Time Michael Thomas Ford, Last Summer	Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 Dave Benbow, Daytime Drama Michelle Sawyer, They Say She Tastes Like Honey
Science fiction, fantasy or horror	Helen Sandler, ed., Necrologue	David M. Pierce, Elf Child Diana Rivers, The Red Line of Yarmald Perry Brass, The Substance of God Michael Schiefelbein, Vampire Thrall
Spirituality	Fenton Johnson, Keeping Faith	Wayne Besen, Anything But Straight Toby Johnson, Gay Perspective Christopher Penczak, Gay Witchcraft Theodore W. Jennings, The Man Jesus Loved
Transgender	Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There	Donna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco and Jean Noble, The Drag King Anthology Justin Tanis, Trans-gendered Virginia Ramey Mollenkott and Vanessa Sheridan, Transgender Journeys