9th Lambda Literary Awards
The 9th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1997 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1996.
Special awards
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Editor's Choice | Donald Windham, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 |
| Pioneer Award | Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books |
| Publishers Service Award | Norman Laurila, A Different Light |
Nominees and winners
| Category | Author/Editor | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch (eds.) | Women on Women 3 | Winner |
| David Bergman (ed.) | Men on Men 6 | Finalist | |
| Victoria Brownworth | Night Bites | Finalist | |
| Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell (eds.) | Shade | Finalist | |
| Shawn Stewart Ruff (ed.) | Go the Way Your Blood Beats | Finalist | |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction Fiction) | Michael Bronski (ed.) | Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex | Winner |
| Bruce Bawer (ed.) | Beyond Queer | Finalist | |
| Robin Bernstein and Seth Clark Silberman (eds.) | Generation Q | Finalist | |
| Lee Lynch and Akia Woods (eds.) | Off the Rag | Finalist | |
| Patrick Merla (ed.) | Boys Like Us | Finalist | |
| Children's and Young Adult | Nancy Garden | Good Moon Rising | Winner |
| Earl Alexander, Sheila Rudin, and Pam Sejkora | My Dad Has HIV | Finalist | |
| Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman | Free Your Mind | Finalist | |
| Michael Thomas Ford | The World Out There | Finalist | |
| Michael Willhoite | Daddy’s Wedding | Finalist | |
| Drama | Sue-Ellen Case | Split Britches | Winner |
| Mart Crowley | Three Plays by Crowley | Finalist | |
| Rosemary Keefe Curb | Amazon All-Stars | Finalist | |
| Holly Hughes | Clit Notes | Finalist | |
| Michael Kearns | Acting=Life | Finalist | |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Fenton Johnson | Geography of the Heart | Winner |
| Bernard Cooper | Truth Serum | Finalist | |
| Mark Doty | Heaven’s Coast | Finalist | |
| David Hajdu | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn | Finalist | |
| Assotto Saint | Spells of a Voodoo Doll | Finalist | |
| Gay Fiction | Shyam Selvadurai | Funny Boy | Winner |
| Michael Arditti | Pagan’s Father | Finalist | |
| Andrew Holleran | The Beauty of Men | Finalist | |
| Patrick Moore | Iowa | Finalist | |
| Dale Peck | The Law of Enclosures | Finalist | |
| Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | Michael Nava | The Death of Friends | Winner |
| Grant Michaels | Time to Check Out | Finalist | |
| Steven Saylor | Murder on the Appian Way | Finalist | |
| John Morgan Wilson | Simple Justice | Finalist | |
| R. D. Zimmerman | Tribe | Finalist | |
| Gay Poetry | Rafael Campo | What the Body Told | Winner |
| Kenny Fries | Anesthesia | Finalist | |
| Michael Lassell | Eros in Boystown | Finalist | |
| Jaime Manrique | My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca | Finalist | |
| Reginald Shepherd | Angel, Interrupted | Finalist | |
| Gay Studies | Patrick Merla (ed.) | Boys Like Us | Winner |
| Keith Boykin | One More River to Cross | Finalist | |
| Will Fellows | Farm Boys | Finalist | |
| Harry Hay and Will Roscoe | Radically Gay | Finalist | |
| David Tuller | Cracks in the Iron Closet | Finalist | |
| Humor | Judy Carter | The Homo Handbook | Winner |
| Tim Barela | Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead | Finalist | |
| Mary Dugger | History of Lesbian Hair | Finalist | |
| Helen Eisenbach | Lesbianism Made Easy | Finalist | |
| Liz Tracey and Sydney Pokorny | So You Want to Be a Lesbian? | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Memoir or Biography | Doris Grumbach | Life in a Day | Winner |
| Candace Gingrich | Accidental Activist | Finalist | |
| Honor Moore | The White Blackbird | Finalist | |
| Torie Osborn | Coming Home to America | Finalist | |
| Helen Sheehy | Eva Le Gallienne | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Achy Obejas | Memory Mambo | Winner |
| Carol Anshaw | Seven Moves | Finalist | |
| Rebecca Brown | What Keeps Me Here | Finalist | |
| Sarah Van Arsdale | Toward Amnesia | Finalist | |
| Barbara Wilson | If You Had a Family | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Robber's Wine | Winner |
| Katherine V. Forrest | Liberty Square | Finalist | |
| Jaye Maiman | Baby, It’s Cold | Finalist | |
| Jackie Manthorne | Final Take | Finalist | |
| Claire McNab | Inner Circle | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Poetry | Robin Becker | All-American Girl | Winner |
| Maureen Seaton | Furious Cooking | Winner | |
| Clare Coss | Arc of Love | Finalist | |
| Jeredith Merrin | Shift | Finalist | |
| Linda Smukler | Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Studies | Bernadette J. Brooten | Love Between Women | Winner |
| Victoria Brownworth | Too Queer | Finalist | |
| Meg Daly | Surface Tension | Finalist | |
| Lindsay Van Gelder and Pamela Brandt | Girls Next Door | Finalist | |
| Ruth Vanita | Sappho and the Virgin Mary | Finalist | |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Susie Bright and Jill Posener | Nothing But the Girl | Winner |
| Persimmon Blackbridge | Sunnybrook | Finalist | |
| Loren Cameron | Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits | Finalist | |
| Derek Jarman | Derek Jarman’s Garden | Finalist | |
| Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk | Gay by the Bay | Finalist | |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Clive Barker | Sacrament | Winner |
| Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez | Swords of the Rainbow | Finalist | |
| Pam Keesey | Women Who Run With Werewolves | Finalist | |
| Rachel Pollack | Godmother Night | Finalist | |
| Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche | Sons of Darkness | Finalist | |
| Small Press | Loren Cameron | Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits | Winner |
| Victoria Brownworth | Too Queer | Finalist | |
| Diamanda Galas | Shit of God | Finalist | |
| Bernard Welt | Mythomania | Finalist | |
| Celeste West | Lesbian Polyfidelity | Finalist | |
| Spirituality | Peter Gomes | The Good Book | Winner |
| Marc Adams | The Preacher’s Son | Finalist | |
| Marilyn Alexander and James Preston | We Were Baptized Too | Finalist | |
| Keith Hartman | Congregations in Conflict | Finalist | |
| Lev Raphael | Journeys & Arrivals | Finalist | |
| Transgender | Loren Cameron | Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits | Winner |
| Phyllis Burke | Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female | Finalist | |
| Catalina de Erauso | Lieutenant Nun | Finalist | |
| Leslie Feinberg | Transgender Warriors | Finalist | |
| Leon E. Pettiway | Honey, Honey Miss Thang | Finalist |