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Finalists For 2017 Lambda Literary Awards Announced

The "Lammys" honor acclaimed LGBT works in fiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, YA, science fiction, academic studies and more.

Finalists for the 29th annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced today, representing a diverse roster of acclaimed LGBT works in fiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, YA, science fiction, academic studies and more.

Tig Notaro was nominated in the Lesbian Memoir section for I‘m Just a Person, which chronicles how, in the span of four months, she was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease, suffered the loss of her mother, broke up with her girlfriend, and was diagnosed with breast cancer.

How to Survive a Plague

In LGBTQ Nonfiction, David France was nominated for the adaptation of his ACT UP documentary, How to Survive a Plague, alongside Sarah Schulman's Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair and David Greven's Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity.

Theatre Communications Group

Three works were nominated for Lammys in the Drama category:

Robert O'Hara's Barbecue/Bootycandy, Lois Fine's Freda and Jem’s Best of the Week and Topher Payne's Perfect Arrangement.

“Never in my lifetime have LGBTQ stories felt so important as a means of being recognized and counted, as a form of resistance to this dangerous political climate we find ourselves in,” said Lambda Literary director Tony Valenzuela. “The Lammys are a celebration of great queer literature, and this year they’re also a reminder that our community of writers, publishers, and readers is not only strong, but part of a vital pathway to asserting our humanity.”

The 29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards ceremony will be held Monday, June 12, at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Below, view the full list of nominees.

Lesbian Fiction

A Thin Bright Line, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, University of Wisconsin Press

Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson, Amistad

Bull & Other Stories, Kathy Anderson, Autumn House Press

The Day After Death, Lynn C. Miller, University of New Mexico Press

Here Comes the Sun, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Liveright Publishing Corporation

Pretend I’m Your Friend, MB Caschetta, Engine Books

Tears in the Grass, Lynda A. Archer, Dundurn

They May Not Mean To, But They Do, Cathleen Schine, Sarah Crichton Books

Gay Fiction

The Angel of History, Rabih Alameddine, Atlantic Monthly Press

Black Deutschland, Darryl Pinckney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman, The Feminist Press

Hide, Matthew Griffin, Bloomsbury USA

Jazz Moon, Joe Okonkwo, Kensington Books

Moonstone, Sjón, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Rope Swing, Jonathan Corcoran, Vandalia Press

What Belongs To You, Garth Greenwell, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Bisexual Fiction

Beautiful Gravity, Martin Hyatt, Antibookclub

Marrow Island, Alexis M. Smith, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mouth to Mouth, Abigail Child, EOAGH

When Watched, Leopoldine Core, Penguin Books

Transgender Fiction

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir, Kai Cheng Thom, Metonymy Press

If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo, Flatiron Books

Small Beauty, j ia qing wilson-yang, Metonymy Press

LGBTQ Nonfiction

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair, Sarah Schulman, Arsenal Pulp Press

Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York, Donald Albrecht, Skira Rizzoli

Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity, David Greven, State University of New York Press

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, David France, Knopf

Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City, Jurek Wajdowicz, The New Press

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Duke University Press Books

The Estrangement Principle, Ariel Goldberg, Nightboat Books

The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability, Kristen Hogan, Duke University Press Books

Bisexual Nonfiction

Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me, Ana Castillo, The Feminist Press

The Body’s Alphabet, Ann Tweedy, Headmistress Press

I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris, Elizabeth Hall, Tarpaulin Sky Press

Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Sara Lubowitz, Lexington Books

Transgender Nonfiction

Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China, Lei Ming, Transgress Press

Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity, Morgan Mann Willis, Riverdale Avenue Books

Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism, Julia Serano, Switch Hitter Press

Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir, Samuel Peterson, Transgress Press

You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolbloom, Coach House Books

Lesbian Poetry

Bestiary, Donika Kelly, Graywolf Press

Complete Works of Pat Parker, edited by Julie R. Enszer, Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night’s Press

Journal of Ugly Sites, Stacy Szymaszek, Fence Books

Night, Etel Adnan, Nightboat Books

play dead, francine j. harris, Alice James Books

Swarm Queen’s Crown, Stephanie Adams-Santos, Fathom Books

The Old Philosopher, Vi Khi Nao, Nightboat Books

You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, ArisaWhite, Augury Books

Gay Poetry

DIG, Bryan Borland, Stillhouse Press

Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong, Copper Canyon Press

Primer, Aaron Smith, University of Pittsburgh Press

Rapture, Sjohnna McCray, Graywolf Press

The Halo, C. Dale Young, Four Way Books

The Taxidermist’s Cut, Rajiv Mohabir, Four Way Books

Thief in the Interior, Phillip B. Williams, Alice James Books

Trouble the Water, Derrick Austin, BOA

Transgender Poetry

even this page is white, Vivek Shraya, Arsenal Pulp Press

The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide, Jai Arun Ravine, Timeless, Infinite Light

Reacquainted with Life, Kokumo, Topside Press

Safe Space, Jos Charles, Ahsahta Press

Sympathetic Little Monster, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Ricochet Editions

Lesbian Mystery

Blood Money Murder, Jessie Chandler, Bella Books

Bury Me When I’m Dead, Cheryl A. Head, Bywater Books

Collide-O-Scope, Andrea Bramhall, Ylva Publishing

Final Cut, Lynn Ames, Phoenix Rising Press

Pathogen, Jessica L. Webb, Bold Strokes Books

Requiem for Immortals, Lee Winter, Ylva Publishing

Under Contract, Jennifer L. Jordan, Clover Valley Press

Walk-in, T.L. Hart, Bella Books

Gay Mystery

Bitter Legacy by Dal Maclean, Blind Eye Books

Homo Superiors by L. A. Fields, Lethe Press

Lay Your Sleeping Head by Michael Nava, Korima Press

Nights in Berlin by Janice Law, Head of Zeus

Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery by J. Aaron Sanders, Plume

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain, Christina Crosby, NYU Press

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder, Ma-Nee Chacaby, University of Manitoba Press

I‘m Just a Person, Tig Notaro, Ecco

Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier, Joanne Passet, Bella Books

The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde, Gloria Joseph, PhD, Villarosa Media

Gay Memoir/Biography

Books For Living, Will Schwalbe, Knopf

Boy Erased, Garrard Conley, Riverhead Books

Capsid: A Love Song, Joseph Osmundson, Indolent Books

Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann, Frederic Spotts, Yale University Press

Lust & Wonder, Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin’s Press

One Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin, Michael Schreiber, Bruno Gmuender Books

Proxies, Brian Blanchfield, Nightboat Books

When We Rise, Cleve Jones, Hachette Books

Lesbian Romance

The Scorpion’s Empress, Yoshiyuki Ly, Solstice Publishing

Coils, Barbara Ann Wright, Bold Strokes Books

Finding Lizzie, Karma Kingsley, NineStar Press

Little Lies, Lila Bruce, Self-Published

Lost in the Starlight, Kiki Archer, K.A. Books

Loving Eleanor, Susan Wittig Albert, Persevero Press

Perfect Pairing, Rachel Spangler, Bywater Books

The Liberators of Willow Run, Marianne K. Martin, Bywater Books

Gay Romance

Into the Blue, Pene Henson, Interlude Press

Pansies, Alexis Hall, Riptide Publishing

Femme, Marshall Thornton, Kenmore Books

Rank, Richard Compson Sater, Bold Strokes Books

Country, Jeff Mann, Lethe Press

Adulting 101, Lisa Henry, Riptide Publishing

Rented Heart, Garrett Leigh, Riptide Publishing

Caught Inside, Jamie Deacon, Beaten Track Publishing

LGBTQ Anthology

ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics, Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery, Editors, Stacked Deck Press

Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, Editors, University of Alaska Press / Snowy Owl Books Imprint

No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies, E. Patrick Johnson, Duke University Press Books

The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care, Zena Sharman, Arsenal Pulp Press

Queer, David J. Getsy, MIT Press

LGBTQ Children‘s/Young Adult

Beast, Brie Spangler, Alfred A. Knopf

Girl Mans Up, M.E. Girard, Harper Teen

Gravity, Juliann Rich, Bold Stroke Books

Highly Illogical Behavior, John Corey Whaley, Dial Books

Not Your Sidekick, C.B. Lee, Duet

Our Chemical Hearts, Krystal Sutherland, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

Symptoms of Being Human, Jeff Garvin, Balzer + Bray

The Midnight Star, Marie Lu, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

LGBTQ Drama

Barbecue/Bootycandy, Robert O’Hara, Theatre Communications Group

Freda and Jem’s Best of the Week, Lois Fine, Playwrights Canada Press

Perfect Arrangement, Topher Payne, Samuel French, Inc.

LGBTQ Erotica

Camp Rewind, Meghan O’Brien, Bold Strokes Books

Roped In, Marie Sexton and L.A. Witt, Amber Quill

Steel and Promise, Alexa Black, Bold Strokes Books

Soul to Keep, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Bold Strokes Books

Skyscraper, Scott Alexander Hess, Unzipped Books

LGBTQ Graphic Novels

Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures Of An Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist And Her Friends, Written by P. Kristen Enos with Heidi Ho; Illustrated by Derek Chua, Leesamarie Croal, Casandra Grullon, Beth Varni, Dan Parent, Furia Press

The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker, Eric Liberge and Arnaud Delalande, Translated by David Homel, Arsenal Pulp Press

Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal, Ed Luce, Fantagraphics Books

LGBTQ SF/F/Horror

All Good Children, Dayna Ingram, Lethe Press

The Devourers, Indra Das, Del Rey

Irish Black, David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing

Kissing Booth Girl, A.C. Wise, Lethe Press

Lily, Michael Thomas Ford, illustrated by Staven Andersen, Lethe Press

A Little Queermas Carol, Sassafras Lowrey, PoMo Freakshow

Style of Attack Report, By Ras Mashramani, Rasheedah Phillips, Alex Smith, and M. Eighteen Téllez, Metropolarity

Will Do Magic for Small Change, Andrea Hairston, Aqueduct Press

LGBTQ Studies

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory, Qwo-Li Driskill, University of Arizona Press

Homintern, Gregory Woods, Yale University Press

Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community, Andrew J. Jolivette, University of Washington Press

Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility, Jonathan Goldberg, Duke University Press

Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis, Kevin Mumford, University of North Carolina Press

Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution, Omar G. Encarnación, Oxford University Press

Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics, Timothy Stewart-Winter, University of Pennsylvania Press

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display, Jennifer Tyburczy, University of Chicago Press

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