The 32nd Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2020,[1] to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there was no gala ceremony; instead, the winners were announced exclusively through social media and the press.

The nominees were announced in March 2020.[2][3] Winners are in bold.[4][5][6]

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Trustee AwardJericho Brown
Visionary AwardJane Wagner
Publishing Professional Award Brian Lam
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize Larissa Lai
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer AwardXandria Phillips and Calvin Gimpelevich

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Fiona Alison Duncan, Exquisite Mariposa
  • Garrett Leigh, Jude
  • Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
  • Tomaz Moniz, Big Familia
  • Carley Moore, The Not Wives
  • Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan
  • Jess Taylor, Just Pervs
  • Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder (Sophie Hughes, tr.)
Bisexual Nonfiction Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
  • Victoria Freeman, A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
  • Janet W. Hardy, IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant
Bisexual Poetry Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds
  • Dorothy Chan, Revenge of the Asian Woman
  • mai c. doan, water/tongue
  • Moina Pam Dick, Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart
  • Camonghne Felix, Build Yourself a Boat
  • Faylita Hicks, HoodWitch
  • Ariana Reines, A Sand Book
  • Cam Scott, Romans/Snowmare
Gay Fiction Bryan Washington, Lot
Gay Memoir/Biography Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives
  • Joseph Caldwell, In the Shadow of the Bridge
  • Siddharth Dube, An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex
  • Guy Hocquenghem, The Amphitheater of the Dead (Max Fox, tr.)
  • Isaac Mizrahi, I.M.
  • Alvin Orloff, DISASTERAMA! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997
  • James Oseland, Jimmy Neurosis
  • Chris Rush, The Light Years
Gay Mystery Michael Nava, Carved in Bone
Gay Poetry Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot
  • Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
  • Jericho Brown, The Tradition
  • Douglas Crane, The Revisionist & The Astropastorals
  • Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The Experiment of the Tropics
  • Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Losing Miami
  • Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
  • Brian Teare, Doomstead Days
Gay Romance James Lovejoy, Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life
  • Bryan T. Clark, Escaping Camp Roosevelt
  • Chris Delyani, Best Man
  • Jay Hogan, Digging Deep
  • Garrett Leigh, Kiss Me Again
  • Rick R. Reed, Blue Umbrella Sky
  • R. A. Thorn, My Baby Chased Away the Blues
  • Marshall Thornton, Code Name: Liberty
Lesbian Fiction Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy
  • Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
  • Beth Brant, A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant (Janice Gould, ed.)
  • Carolina de Robertas, Cantoras
  • Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight
  • Shannon Pufahl, On Swift Horses
  • Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven
  • Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Lesbian Mystery Ann McMan, Galileo
Lesbian Poetry t'ai freedom ford, & more black
  • Etel Adnan, Time
  • Rocío Carlos, (the other house)
  • Franny Choi, Soft Science
  • Shira Erlichman, Odes to Lithium
  • Gala Mukomolova, Without Protection
  • Lee Ann Roripaugh, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
  • Sharanpal Ruprai, Pressure Cooker Love Bomb
Lesbian Romance Emily Noon, Aurora's Angel
  • Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
  • Donna K. Ford, Tennessee Whiskey
  • Virginia Hale, The Secret Chord
  • Jae, The Roommate Arrangement
  • M. Ullrich, Pretending in Paradise
  • M. Ullrich, Top of Her Game
  • Erin Zak, Create a Life to Love
LGBTQ Anthology Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
Noam Sienna, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969
  • Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me
  • Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme, Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry
  • Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2
  • The Other Foundation, The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Anthology
  • Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia
  • Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Hazel's Theory of Evolution
Alexandra Villasante, The Grief Keeper
LGBTQ Drama Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
  • Liza Birkenmeier, Dr. Ride’s American Beach House
  • Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs
LGBTQ Erotica L. A. Warman, Whore Foods
  • Rosalind Chase, Lot's Wife
  • Thomas Kearnes, Texas Crude
  • Vikram Kolmannskog, Lord of the Senses
  • Gary Garth McCann, The Shape of the Earth
LGBTQ Graphic Novel Kelsey Wroten, Cannonball
LGBTQ Nonfiction Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
  • W. Ian Bourland, Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s
  • Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name
  • E. Patrick Johnson, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
  • Brett Krutzsch, Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics
  • Hugh Ryan, When Brooklyn Was Queer
  • Karen Tongson, Why Karen Carpenter Matters
  • Selby Wynn Schwartz, The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, The Deep
LGBTQ Studies Emily L. Thuma, All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
  • R. L. Cagle, Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
  • Jian Neo Chen, Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
  • Elizabeth Freeman, Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
  • Robb Hernández, Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
  • Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures
  • Dana Seitler, Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
  • Roberto Strongman, Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou
Transgender Fiction Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
  • M. Z. McDonnell, Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer
  • Bones McKay, Honey Walls
  • Rachel Pollack, The Beatrix Gates
  • Bogi Takács, The Trans Space Octopus Congregation
Transgender Nonfiction Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Transgender Poetry Xandria Phillips, Hull
  • Andrea Abi-Karam, Extratransmission
  • Samuel Ace, Our Weather Our Sea
  • Cameron Awkward-Rich, Dispatch
  • Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water

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