8th Lambda Literary Awards

The 8th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1996 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1995.^[1]

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

8th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists

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