The winners of the 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”) were announced June 6 in a gala ceremony that comedienne Kate Clinton hosted (for the fifth consecutive year) at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Among other developments, poet Natalie Diaz introduced the celebrated poet Eileen Myles, who received Lambda’s Pioneer Award. In addition, Hilton Als, New Yorker writer and author of the award-winning White Girls, received the Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature.
Some of the awardees included:
—Gay Fiction: God in Pin, by Hasan Namir
—Transgender Fiction: Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners, by Roz Kaveney
—Lesbian Fiction: (tie) Ordinary Mayhem, by Victoria Brownworth; and Tarnished Gold, by Ann Aptaker
—Gay Memoir/Biography: James Merrill: Life and Art, by Langdon Hammer
—Gay Mystery: Boystown 7: Bloodlines, by Marshall Thornton
—Lesbian Erotica: The Muse, by Meghan O’Brien
—LGBT Graphic Novels: The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal, by EK Weaver
See the full list at LambdaLiterary.org.