Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies

The Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, presented to scholarly work that address "issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, and oriented toward academia, libraries, cultural professionals, and the more academic reader." Most works are published by university presses.

Recipients +Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies Recipients Year Author Title Result 2002 and Deb PriceCourting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme CourtWinner Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties Finalist All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 and William Reichard (editors) The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's 2003Sex-Crime PanicWinnerFrom Identity to PoliticsFinalistLove in a Dark Time (editor)Queering IndiaSoul Beneath the Skin2004 and Donald Weise (editors)Time on Two CrossesWinnerAnything But StraightFinalist and Lisa TroshinskyLove in the Time of HIVQueer StreetStrapped for Cash2005For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial TownWinnerAll-Night PartyFinalistFamilies Like MineWhy Marriage Matters2006When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and DavidWinnerZest for Life: Lesbians' Experience of MenopauseFinalistWhy I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch and Penny Sablove (editors)Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the InternetLove's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West2007Their Own Receive Them NotWinnerCrip TheoryFinalistBeautiful Bottom, Beautiful ShameEvery Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc.Gay Power: An American Revolution2008Between WomenWinnerWriting DesireFinalistCaribbean Pleasure IndustryOnce You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual2009Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American SexualityWinnerTomboys: A Literary & Cultural HistoryFinalistPolitical Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive ReformScreening Sex2010WinnerFinalistMetropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of CitiesMoving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS2011Another Country: Queer Anti-UrbanismWinnerAssuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of MaterialityBackward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic ImaginaryFinalistCitizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century BritainQueering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies2012Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian LandscapesWinner and Nat Smith (editors)Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial ComplexFinalistFreedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US StateTechniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba2013Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, PoliticsWinnerFinalistOn Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of IntelligibilityOut of Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South AfricaPray the Gay Away The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt GaysSouth Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for FreedomActs of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of PleasureDepression: A Public FeelingGay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in AmericaHow To Be Gay2014Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of ViolenceWinnerButch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in DetroitFinalistFeeling Women's LiberationJust Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural AmericaLove and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural ProductionOye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban MiamiProfessing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary IranShanghai LalasTomorrow's Parties: Sex and the UntimelyTransforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law2015, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride (editors)Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave CultureWinnerAfter Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet CubaFinalistCharity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early AmericaQueen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in VenezuelaSexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina LongingsUnder Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene2016WinnerArresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San FranciscoFinalistFunk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual CulturesGay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of KinshipIndifference to Difference: On Queer UniversalismNot Gay: Sex between Straight White MenQueer Marxism in Two ChinasThinking Sex with the Early Moderns2017Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of DisplayWinnerAsegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit MemoryFinalistHominternIndian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit CommunityMelodrama: An Aesthetics of ImpossibilityNot Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS CrisisOut in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights RevolutionQueer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics2018Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of SicknessWinnerBehind the MaskFinalistLavender and RedTime SlipsUnmaking Love and Trevor HoppeWelcome to Fairyland2019Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in HoustonWinnerBlack. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral HistoryFinalistErotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer CaribbeanGay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer PoliticsHerlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States and Leigh MoscowitzMedia and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team SportsPost-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant CritiqueSemi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers2020All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End ViolenceWinnerArchiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde FinalistBeside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth CenturyQueer Times, Black Futures Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and VodouReading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American FictionScorpio Rising: A Queer Film ClassicTrans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement2021Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack WorldWinnerInformation Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media TechnologiesFinalist2022Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before StonewallWinnerHomo Psyche: On Queer Theory and ErotophobiaFinalistRacial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of DesireTranstopia in the Sinophone Pacific2023Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero ComicsWinnerLesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and QueerFinalistSissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life 2024WinnerAmbivalent Af inities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War IIFinalistCare without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China 2025, edited by McKenzie Wark When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker ReaderWinnerDysphoric Modernism: Using Gender in French LiteratureFinalistJill Johnston in Motion: Dance, Writing, and Lesbian LifeQueer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability2026Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying WorldWinnerAbolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation StateFinalistIntersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization, with LaWhore VagistanLessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and AuntiesSodomy's Solicitations: A Right to Queerness

See also List of LGBTQ literary awards

References

External links Lambda Literary Awards