16th Lambda Literary Awards
Category Winner Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction Michael Bronski , ed. , Pulp Friction : Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps Jon Jeffrey , Chris Kenry , William J. Mann and Ben Tyler , All I Want for Christmas Angela Brown , Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 Karl Woelz , M2M Lydia Hall , Telling Moments
Anthologies/Non-Fiction Bob Guter and John Killacky , eds. , Queer Crips : Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories Kevin Bentley , Boyfriends from Hell Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer , Mortal Secrets : Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS Greg Wharton , The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name Toni Amato and Mary Davies , Pinned Down by Pronouns
Autobiography/Memoir Lillian Faderman , Naked in the Promised Land Robert Tewdwr Moss , Cleopatras Wedding Present Billy Bean , Going the Other Way Marijane Meaker , Highsmith : A Romance Jennifer Finney Boylan , Shes Not There
Biography Andrew Wilson , Beautiful Shadow : A Life of Patricia Highsmith Lois W. Banner , Intertwined Lives John D'Emilio , Lost Prophet Keith Fleming , Original Youth Robert Schanke , That Furious Lesbian
Children's/Young Adult David Levithan , Boy Meets Boy Brent Hartinger , Geography Club Tea Benduhn , Gravel Queen Julie Anne Peters , Keeping You a Secret Alex Sánchez , Rainbow High
Drama Brian Drader , Prok Ben Hodges , Forbidden Acts C. E. Gatchalian , Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays Mart Crowley , The Band Plays Robert Schanke , Women in Turmoil : Six Plays
Erotica Tristan Taormino , ed. , Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 Richard Labonté , Best Gay Erotica 2004 Karen X. Tulchinsky , Hot and Bothered 4 Michael Thomas Ford , William J. Mann , Sean Wolfe and Jeff Mann , Masters of Midnight James Johnstone , Quickies 3
Gay Fiction Christopher Bram , Lives of the Circus Animals Philip Gambone , Beijing Monique Truong , The Book of Salt Paul Russell , War Against the Animals William J. Mann , Where the Boys Are
Gay Mystery John Morgan Wilson , Blind Eye Greg Herren , Bourbon Street Blues Mark Richard Zubro , Dead Egotistical Morons Elliott Mackle , It Takes Two David Stukas , Wearing Black to the White Party
Gay Poetry Mark Bibbins , Sky Lounge Henri Cole , Middle Earth Reginald Shepherd , Otherhood : Poems Peter Pereira , Saying the World Rafael Campo , The Healing Art
Humor Alison Bechdel , Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth , Chelsea Boys Michael Alvear , Men are Pigs , But We Love Bacon Michael Thomas Ford , My Big Fat Queer Life Joel Perry , Thats Why Theyre in Cages , People !
Lesbian Fiction Nina Revoyr , Southland Susan J. Leonardi , And Then They Were Nuns Ann-Marie MacDonald , The Way the Crow Flies Lucy Jane Bledsoe , This Wild Silence Carla Trujillo , What Night Brings
Lesbian Mystery Elizabeth Sims , Damn Straight Baxter Clare , Cry Havoc Lauren Maddison , Epitaph for an Angel Ida Swearingen , Owl of the Desert Bett Reece Johnson , The Woman Who Found Grace
Lesbian Poetry Minnie Bruce Pratt , The Dirt She Ate Terry Wolverton , Embers Daphne Gottlieb , Final Girl Susan McCabe , Swirl Michelle Tea , The Beautiful
LGBT Studies Devon Carbado and Donald Weise , eds.. Time on Two Crosses Wayne Besen , Anything But Straight Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky , Love in the Time of HIV James McCourt , Queer Street Mack Friedman , Strapped for Cash
Photography/Visual Arts Lonthar Schirmer , ed. , Women Seeing Women John Peterson and Martin Bedogne , A Face in the Crowd : Expressions of Gay Life in America Laurie Toby Edison , Familiar Men Roslyn Banish , Focus on Living Lawrence Schimel and Sebas , Vacation in Ibiza
Romance Karin Kallmaker , Maybe Next Time Michael Thomas Ford , Last Summer Angela Brown , Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 Dave Benbow , Daytime Drama Michelle Sawyer , They Say She Tastes Like Honey
Science fiction , fantasy or horror Helen Sandler , ed. , Necrologue David M. Pierce , Elf Child Diana Rivers , The Red Line of Yarmald Perry Brass , The Substance of God Michael Schiefelbein , Vampire Thrall
Spirituality Fenton Johnson , Keeping Faith Wayne Besen , Anything But Straight Toby Johnson , Gay Perspective Christopher Penczak , Gay Witchcraft Theodore W. Jennings , The Man Jesus Loved
Transgender Jennifer Finney Boylan , She 's Not There Donna Troka , Kathleen Lebesco and Jean Noble , The Drag King Anthology Justin Tanis , Trans-gendered Virginia Ramey Mollenkott and Vanessa Sheridan , Transgender Journeys
Nominees and winners
The 16th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2004 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2003.