The 21st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2009, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2008.
Special awards
| Category | Winner | 
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| Pioneer Award | Leslie Feinberg, The Violet Quill | 
Nominees and winners
| Category | Winner | Nominated | 
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| Bisexual Literature | Jenny Block, Open | 
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| Gay Debut Fiction | Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater | 
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| Gay Erotica | Richard Labonté and James Lear, eds., Best Gay Erotica 2009 | 
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| Gay Fiction | Scott Heim, We Disappear | 
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| Gay Memoir/Biography | Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love | 
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| Gay Mystery | Scott Sherman, First You Fall | 
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| Gay Poetry | Mark Doty, Fire to Fire James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy | 
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| Gay Romance | Larry Duplechan, Got 'til it's Gone | 
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| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Magdalena Zurawski, The Bruise | 
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| Lesbian Erotica | Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip | 
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| Lesbian Fiction | Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter Chandra Mayor, All the Pretty Girls | 
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| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Maureen Seaton, Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir | 
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| Lesbian Mystery | Josie Gordon, Whacked | 
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| Lesbian Poetry | Judy Grahn, love belongs to those who do the feeling | 
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| Lesbian Romance | Karin Kallmaker, The Kiss That Counted | 
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| LGBT Anthology | Thomas Glave, Our Caribbean | 
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| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket | 
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| LGBT Drama | Carolyn Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc | 
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| LGBT Non-Fiction | Jane Rule, Loving the Difficult | 
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| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Nicole Kimberling, Turnskin | 
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| LGBT Studies | Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality | 
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| Transgender Literature | Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) | 
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