Lambda Literary Awards 2019

You may have noticed that it is Pride Month! Make sure you show your support at the Pride events around you this month and go spend some money on some of these amazing queer authors!

The Lambda Literary Awards are probably the most comprehensive LBGTQIA+ book awards in the country. Awarded in 24 categories, they highlight fiction, non fiction, poetry, genre writing, erotica and more! These awards were announced at the start of Pride Month on June 3rd. I can’t highlight every book but you can find the full list of winners HERE.

2019 Winners

Lesbian Fiction – The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai – “In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai–her first in sixteen years–a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction.“

Gay Fiction – Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead – ““You’re gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel.”

Bisexual Fiction – Disoriental by Négar Djavadi – “In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph.”

Transgender Fiction – Little Fish by Casey Plett – “Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited, desperate and mirthful, Little Fish explores the winter of discontent in the life of one transgender woman as her past and future become irrevocably entwined.”

LGBTQ Nonfiction – Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry – “A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.”

Bisexual Nonfiction – Out of Step: A Memoir by Anthony Moll – “What makes a pink-haired queer raise his hand to enlist in the military just as the nation is charging into war? In his memoir, Out of Step, Anthony Moll tells the story of a working-class bisexual boy running off to join the army in the midst of two wars and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era.”

Transgender Nonfiction – Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-Peterson – “Histories of the Transgender Child uncovers a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender.”