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Bechdel, Bornstein honored, Lambda Literary winners named
2014-06-03

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The winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the "Lammys") were announced June 2 in a gala ceremony that comedienne Kate Clinton hosted in New York City.

Alison Bechdel and Kate Bornstein received special honors. Cartoonist Justin Hall, award-winning creator of the series True Travel Tales, presented the Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Literature to Bechdel (the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For; graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother). Bornstein received the Pioneer Award from her life partner, Barbara Carrellas.

Among the many category winners were Luis Negron's Mundo Cruel: Stories (Gay General Fiction), Chinelo Okparanta's Happiness, Like Water (Lesbian General Fiction), Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's The End of San Francisco (Transgender Nonfiction), Susan Choi's My Education (Bisexual Fiction) and Nik Nicholson's Descendants of Hagar (LGBT Debut).

See www.LambdaLiterary.org .

From a press release New York, NY - The winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards ( the "Lammys" ) were announced last night in a gala ceremony hosted by comedienne Kate Clinton at The Great Hall at Cooper Union. It occurred on the heels of BookExpo America, the book publishing industry's largest annual gathering of booksellers, publishers, authors, and readers. The Lambda ceremony brought together over 500 attendees, sponsors, and celebrities to celebrate excellence in LGBT literature and 26 years of the groundbreaking literary awards. Obie Award-winning performance artist and past Lambda Award winner Justin Vivian Bond graced the ceremony with a special "half-time" performance. The celebration continued at the VIP After-Party hosted by Scholastic at the Scholastic Greenhouse & Terrace with DJ Sean McMahill.

The ceremony opened with a powerful montage of video clips from the "What LGBTQI Book Changed Your Life" campaign, a project conducted in conjunction with the Lammys to recognize LGBT literature of all types, from poetry to erotica, that has influenced millions of readers. As master of ceremonies for the third consecutive year, Clinton treated the audience to her signature brand of topical, political comedy. She kept the audience laughing with lines like "Happy Pride Month, the month formerly known as June," and "I'm happy about the new pope. He's our first Christian one."

Cartoonist Justin Hall, award-winning creator of the series True Travel Tales in presenting the Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Literature to Alison Bechdel said that her body of work from her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For to graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? solidify her unique place in the comic book cannon. Bechdel gave a funny and moving acceptance speech filled with memories from when she won her first Lammy in 1991.

Appropriately, Bechdel presented the first award for the new category of best LGBT Graphic Novel to Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir by Nicole J. Georges.

Kate Bornstein was presented the Pioneer Award by her life partner, Barbara Carrellas who said that when people are asked what Kate Bornstein means to them, "the overwhelming answer is 'Kate Bornstein saved my life.'" Bornstein's call to action to stop the history of shaming with regard to sex and gender brought the audience to a standing ovation.

Michael Thomas Ford and Radclyffe were awarded with the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize and Imogen Binnie and Charles Rice-Gonzalez were presented with the Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award.

Justin Vivian Bond provided the "half-time" entertainment with three songs from ve's recent show, "The Drift," all of which were inspired by classic literature.

"Throughout the beautiful ceremony, we were reminded of the meaningfulness of LGBT literature and writers in our lives," said Tony Valenzuela, Lambda Literary Foundation Executive Director. "Congratulations to all the winners and honorees."

Once again, the stage glittered with a stellar roster of presenters from the worlds of film, television, theatre, politics, religion, sex, and, of course, literature. Just some of the presenters who graced the stage were: Mike Albo, Henry Alford, Hilton Als, Masha Gessen, A.M. Homes, Sassafras Lowrey, David Mixner, Pauline Park, Seth Rudetsky, Ira Silverberg and Urvashi Vaid.

26th ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNERS

GAY GENERAL FICTION

Mundo Cruel: Stories, Luis Negron; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press

LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION

Happiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta, Mariner Books ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt )

LGBT DEBUT

Descendants of Hagar, Nik Nicholson, AuthorHouse

BISEXUAL FICTION

My Education, Susan Choi, Penguin Group/Viking

TRANSGENDER FICTION

Wanting in Arabic, Trish Salah, TSAR Publications

LGBT NONFICTION

White Girls, Hilton Als, McSweeney's Publishing

TRANSGENDER NONFICTION

The End of San Francisco, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, City Lights Publishers

BISEXUAL NONFICTION

The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Maria San Filippo, Indiana University Press

GAY POETRY

Unpeopled Eden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Four Way Books

LESBIAN POETRY

Rise in the Fall, Ana Bozicevic, Birds, LLC

LGBT GRAPHIC NOVEL

Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir, Nicole J. Georges, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

LGBT CHILDREN'S/YA - TIE

If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan, Algonquin Books

Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, by Glenway Wescott, Ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Body Geographic, Barrie Jean Borich, University of Nebraska Press

GAY MYSTERY

The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media

LESBIAN MYSTERY

High Desert, Katherine V. Forrest, Spinsters Ink

GAY ROMANCE

Into This River I Drown, TJ Klune, Dreamspinner Press

LESBIAN ROMANCE

Clean Slate, Andrea Bramhall, Bold Strokes Books

GAY EROTICA

The Padisah's Son and the Fox: an erotic novella, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press

LESBIAN EROTICA

Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories, Ed. Sacchi Green, Cleis Press

LGBT ANTHOLOGY

FICTION Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, MaThoko's Books

NON-FICTION Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, Eds. Jim Elledge and David Groff, The University of Wisconsin Press

LGBT DRAMA

Tom at the Farm, Michel Marc Bouchard, Talonbooks

LGBT SF/F/HORROR

Death by Silver, Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, Lethe Press

LGBT STUDIES

Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt, Duke University Press


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