More than 200 booksellers, writers, editors, publicists, and readers gathered May 18 in Washington, D.C., to witness the presentation of the 18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. The winners in various categories were:
Anthology: Freedom in the Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men's Writing, ed. E. Lynn Harris ( Carroll & Graf )
Belles Lettres: The Tricky Part by Martin Moran ( Beacon Press )
Biography: February House by Sherrill Tippins ( Houghton Mifflin )
Children's/Young Adult: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai ( Tundra Books )
Erotica: Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2, edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe ( Bold Strokes )
Gay Men's Debut Fiction: You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre ( Carroll & Graf )
Gay Men's Fiction: The Sluts by Dennis Cooper ( Carroll & Graf )
Gay Men's Mystery: One of These Things is Not Like the Others by D. Travers Scott ( Suspect Thoughts )
Gay Men's Poetry: Crush by Richard Siken ( Yale )
Humor: Don't Get too Comfortable by David Rakoff ( Doubleday )
Lesbian Debut Fiction: The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Leibegott ( Suspect Thoughts )
Lesbian Fiction: ( Tie ) Babyji by Abha Dawesar ( Anchor Books ) and Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys ( W. W. Norton )
Lesbian Mystery: Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar de Alba ( Arte Publico )
Lesbian Poetry: Directed by Desire: Collected Poems by June Jordan ( Copper Canyon )
LGBT Studies: When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman
Nonfiction: Words to Our Now by Thomas Glave ( Minnesota )
Romance: Silent Thunder by Radclyffe ( Bold Strokes )
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror: Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine Forrest ( Alyson Books )
Spirituality: Qu ( e ) erying Evangelism by Cheri DiNovo ( The Pilgrim Press )
Transgender/GenderQueer: Choir Boy by Charlie Anders ( Soft Skull Press )