2nd Lambda Literary Awards
The 2nd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1990 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1989.
Special awards[edit]
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Editor's Choice | Gertrude Stein (Rebecca Mark, ed.), Lifting Belly |
| Publisher's Service | Carol Seajay, Feminist Bookstore News |
Recipients[edit]
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIDS Literature | Larry Kramer | Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist | Winner |
| Christopher Bram | In Memory of Angel Clare | Finalist | |
| Billy Howard | Epitaphs for the Living | Finalist | |
| John Preston | Personal Dispatches | Finalist | |
| Susan Sontag | AIDS and Its Metaphors | Finalist | |
| Gay Anthology | Martin B. Duberman | Hidden from History | Winner |
| Christie Balka and Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | Finalist | |
| Charles Ludlam | Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam | Finalist | |
| Michael Nava | Finale: Stories of Mystery | Finalist | |
| John Preston | Personal Dispatches | Finalist | |
| Gay Debut Fiction | John Weir | The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket | Winner |
| David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed | Finalist | |
| Mickey C. Fleming | About Courage | Finalist | |
| M. S. Hunter | The Buccaneer | Finalist | |
| Randall Kenan | A Visitation of Spirits | Finalist | |
| Gay Fiction | David B. Feinberg | Eighty-Sixed | Winner |
| Christopher Bram | In Memory of Angel Clare | Finalist | |
| Dennis Cooper | Closer | Finalist | |
| Kevin Killian | Shy | Finalist | |
| Armistead Maupin | Sure of You | Finalist | |
| Gay Mystery | Mark Richard Zubro | Simple Suburban Murder | Winner |
| Stan Leventhal | Faultlines: Stories of Suspense | Finalist | |
| Jeffrey N. McMahan | Somewhere in the Night | Finalist | |
| Michael Nava | Finale | Finalist | |
| Samuel M. Steward | Caravaggio Shawl | Finalist | |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Neil Miller | In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change | Winner |
| Richard A. Isay | Being Homosexual | Finalist | |
| Sheppard B. Kominars | Accepting Ourselves | Finalist | |
| Harold Norse | Memoirs of a Bastard Angel | Finalist | |
| W. J. Weatherby | James Baldwin: Artist on Fire | Finalist | |
| Gay science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jeffrey N. McMahan | Somewhere in the Night | Winner |
| William K. Eakins | Key West 2720 AD | Finalist | |
| Mercedes Lackey | Magic’s Pawn | Finalist | |
| Geoff Mains | Gentle Warriors | Finalist | |
| Thom Nickels | Walking Water/After All This | Finalist | |
| Humor | Robert Triptow | Gay Comics | Winner |
| Elizabeth Dean | Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups | Finalist | |
| N. Leigh Dunlap | Run That Sucker at Six!!! | Finalist | |
| Celeste West | Lesbian Love Advisor | Finalist | |
| T. R. Witomski | Kvetch | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Anthology | Tee Corinne | Intricate Passions | Winner |
| Martin B. Duberman | Hidden from History | Winner | |
| C. McEwen and S. O’Sullivan | Out the Other Side | Winner | |
| Irene Zahava | Lesbian Love Stories | Finalist | |
| Terry Woodrow | Lesbian Bedtime Stories | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Patricia R. Schwartz | The Names of the Moons of Mars | Winner |
| Nisa Donnelly | The Bar Stories: A Novel After All | Finalist | |
| Paula Martinac and Carla Tomaso | Voyages Out | Finalist | |
| Roz Perry | Rose Penski | Finalist | |
| Ruthann Robson | Eye of a Hurricane | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Nisa Donnelly | The Bar Stories: A Novel After All | Winner |
| Valerie Miner | Trespassing and Other Stories | Finalist | |
| Jane Rule | After the Fire | Finalist | |
| May Sarton | Education of Harriet Hatfield | Finalist | |
| Shay Youngblood | The Big Mama Stories | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest | The Beverly Malibu | Winner |
| Antoinette Azolakov | The Contactees Die Young | Finalist | |
| Ellen Hart | Hallowed Murder | Finalist | |
| Claire McNab | Fatal Reunion | Finalist | |
| Barbara Wilson | Dog Collar Murders | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Judy Grahn | Really Reading Gertrude Stein | Winner |
| Christie Balka and Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | Finalist | |
| Loralee MacPike | There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You | Finalist | |
| Cynthia Rich | Desert Years | Finalist | |
| Celeste West | Lesbian Love Advisor | Finalist | |
| Lesbian science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jessica Amanda Salmonson | What Did Miss Darrington See? | Winner |
| Nancy Tyler Glenn | Clicking Stones | Finalist | |
| Lee Lynch | Sue Slate: Private Eye | Finalist | |
| Susanna J. Sturgis | Memories and Visions | Finalist | |
| Lauren Wright Douglas | In the Blood | Finalist | |
| Poetry | Michael Klein | Poets for Life | WInner |
| Cheryl Clarke | Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry | Finalist | |
| Robert Glück | Reader | Finalist | |
| Christian McEwen | Naming the Waves | Finalist | |
| Adrienne Rich | Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988 | Finalist | |
| Small Press | Larry Mitchell | My Life As a Mole | Winner |
| Judy Dahl | River of Promise | Finalist | |
| Mike Hippler | Matlovich: The Good Soldier | Finalist | |
| Joan Lindau | Letting in the Night | Finalist | |
| Vega Studios | Men of Color | Finalist | |
| Young adult/children's | MaryKate Jordan | Losing Uncle Tim | Winner |
| Susan Cohen and Daniel Cohen | When Someone You Know Is Gay | Finalist | |
| A.M. Homes | Jack | Finalist | |
| Leslea Newman and Diana Souza | Heather Has Two Mommies | Finalist | |
| George Shannon | Unlived Affections | Finalist |