17th Lambda Literary Awards

The 17th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2005 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2004.

Special awards

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Category Winner
Independent Press Award Suspect Thoughts Press, Bella Books

Nominees and winners

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Category Winner Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction Edmund White and Donald Weise, eds., Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction
Anthologies/Non-Fiction Greg Wharton and Ian Philips, eds., I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage
Autobiography/Memoir Alison Smith, Name All the Animals
Biography Alexis De Veaux, Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Children's/Young Adult Alex Sánchez, So Hard to Say
Drama Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Erotica Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2005
Gay Debut Fiction Blair Mastbaum, Clay's Way
Gay Fiction Colm Tóibín, The Master
Gay Mystery Anthony Bidulka, Flight of Aquavit
Gay Poetry Luis Cernuda, Written in Water
Humor David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Lesbian Debut Fiction Judith Frank, Crybaby Butch
Lesbian Fiction Stacey D'Erasmo, A Seahorse Year
Lesbian Mystery Katherine V. Forrest, Hancock Park
Lesbian Poetry Beverly Burch, Sweet to Burn
LGBT Studies Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town
Photography/Visual Arts Evan Bachner and Harry Abrams, At Ease: Navy Men of World War II
Romance Steve Kluger, Almost Like Being in Love
Religion/Spirituality Will Roscoe, Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love
Science fiction, fantasy or horror Jim Grimsley, The Ordinary
Transgender Mariette Pathy Allen, The Gender Frontier
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