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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Lammy nominations are pouring in

The Lambda Literary Foundation started posting Lammy nominations in all 22 categories Dec. 10. Not all nominees have been processed as of this posting, according to the Lambda Literary Foundation Web site.

Some of 2008’s hottest, controversial, and best fiction and nonfiction titles that made the list are:

Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love & Desire, Lisa M. Diamond, Harvard University Press

Labor of Love, Thomas Beatie, Seal Press

Transgender History, Susan Stryker, Seal Press

Cool Thing: The Best New Gay Fiction from Young American Writers, edited by Blair Maustbaum & Will Fabro, Running Press

Latina Lesbians, edited by Juanita Ramos, Sinister Wisdom, Inc

Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry, edited by Emanuel Xavier, Floricanto Press


Gay America: Struggle for Equality, Linas Alsenas, Amulet Books

My Life: The Musical, Maryrose Wood, Random House Children's Books

What They Always Tell Us, Martin Wilson, Random House Children's Books

Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays, Martin Duberman, The New Press

Out Plays: Landmark Gay & Lesbian Plays of the 20th Century, Ben Hodges, Alyson Books

Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003, William N. Eskridge Jr, Penguin Group

Courting Change, Kimberly Richman, NYU Press

Straight Acting, Angelo Pezzote, Kensington

Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades, Catherine Lundoff, Lethe Press

The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism, Tina Fetner, Univ of Minnesota Press

Greetings from the Gayborhood, Donald F. Reuter, Abrams Image

Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations, Jane Ward, Vanderbilt University Press

Passing for Black, Linda Villarosa, Kensington

Made for You, Geneva St. James, Alpha World Press

As Far As Far Enough, Claire Rooney, Bella

Lipstick on Her Collar, Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Pretty Things Press

Babies, Bikes & Broads, Cynn Chadwick, Bywater Books

Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, Susan Griffin, Shambhala Publications

The Decade of Blind Dates, Richard Alther, I-Universe

The Distance Between Us, Bart Yates, Kensington

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr, Michael Seth Starr, Applause Books / Hal Leonard

Hiding in Hip Hop, Terrance Dean, Simon and Schuster

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