Lammys – Transgender

Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys) : Transgender Categories
YearCategoryTitleAuthorPublisherStatus
1997TransgenderBody AlchemyLoren CameronCleis PressWinner
Gender ShockPhyllis BurkeAnchorFinalist
Honey, Honey Miss ThangLeon E. PettiwayTemple University PressFinalist
Lieutenant NunCatalina de ErausoBeacon PressFinalist
Transgender WarriorsLeslie FeinbergBeacon PressFinalist
1998TransgenderThe Last Time I Wore a DressDaphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith AdamsG.P. PutnamWinner-Tie
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and SexualityCarol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (editors)Cleis PressWinner-Tie
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of GenderRiki Anne WilchinsFirebrand BooksFinalist
Sex ChangesPat CalifiaCleis PressFinalist
Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and MachosAnnick PrieurCleis PressFinalist
1999TransgenderThe Empress Is a ManMichael R. GormanHarrington Park PressWinner
Female MasculinityJudith HalberstamDuke University PressFinalist
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy TiptonDiane Wood MiddlebrookHoughton MifflinFinalist
Trans LiberationLeslie FeinbergBeacon PressFinalist
Boy-Wives and Female HusbandsWill Roscoe and Stephen Murray (editors)St. Martin’s PressFinalist
2000TransgenderTrumpetJackie KayPantheon BooksWinner
From Toads to QueensJacobo SchifterRoutledgeFinalist
The Drag King BookDel LaGrace Volcano and Judith HalberstamSerpent’s TailFinalist
Transmen and FTMsJason CromwellUniversity of Illinois PressFinalist
CrossingDeirdre McCloskeyUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
2001TransgenderThe Danish GirlDavid EbershoffVikingWinner
As Nature Made HimJohn ColapintoHarperCollinsFinalist
Out of the OrdinaryNoelle Hawley and Ellen Samuels (editors)St. Martin’s PressFinalist
Trans-Sister RadioChris BohjalianHarmonyFinalist
Are You a Boy or a Girl?Karleen Pendleton JimenezGreen DragonFinalist
2002Transgender/BisexualOmnigender: A Trans-religious ApproachVirginia Ramey MollenkottPilgrimWinner
Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered ChristianVanessa SheridanPilgrimFinalist
Dragged!! To His SensesJonathan BrantonYellow HouseFinalist
Synthetic Bi ProductsSparrow L. PattersonAkashic BooksFinalist
Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2Bill Brnt and Carol Queen (editors)Circlet PressFinalist
2003TransgenderDress CodesNoelle HoweyPicadorWinner
GenderQueerJoan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (editors)Alyson BooksFinalist
MiddlesexJeffrey EugenidesFarrar, Strauss & GirouxFinalist
Some of the PartsT CooperAkashic BooksFinalist
Brazen FemmeChloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri (editors)Arsenal Pulp PressFinalist
2004Transgender/GenderqueerShe’s Not ThereJennifer Finney BoylanBroadwayWinner
The Drag King AnthologyDonna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco, and Jean Noble (editors)Harrington Park PressFinalist
Trans-genderedJustin TanisPilgrimFinalist
Transgender JourneysVirginia Ramey Mollenkott and Vanessa SheridanPilgrimFinalist
2005Transgender/GenderqueerThe Gender FrontierMariette Pathy AllenKehrer VerlagWinner
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and BeyondMorty Diamond (editor)Manic DFinalist
LunaJulie Anne PetersLittle, Brown BYR (Books for Young Readers)Finalist
My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a CrossdresserHelen BoydThunder’s MouthFinalist
Becoming a Visible ManJamison GreenVanderbilt UniversityFinalist
2006Transgender/GenderqueerChoir BoyCharlie AndersSoft Skull PressWinner
Deliver Me from NowhereTennessee JonesSoft Skull PressFinalist
In a Queer Time and PlaceJudith HalberstamNew York University PressFinalist
Just Add HormonesMatt KaileyBeacon PressFinalist
The Riddle of GenderDeborah RudacillePantheon BooksFinalist
2007TransgenderThe Transgender Studies ReaderSusan Stryker & Stephen Whittle (editors)RoutledgeWinner
SupervillainzAlicia E. GoransonSuspect ThoughtsFinalist
The Testosterone FilesMax Wolf ValerioSeal PressFinalist
Transgender RightsPaisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter (editors)University of Minnesota PressFinalist
Drag King DreamsLeslie FeinbergCarroll & GrafFinalist
2008TransgenderTransparentCris BeamHarcourtWinner
Nobody PassesMattilda, aka Matt Bernstein SycamoreSeal PressFinalist
The Marrow’s TellingEli ClareHomofactus PressFinalist
What Becomes YouAaron Raz Link & Hilda RazUniversity of Nebraska PressFinalist
Male Bodies, Women’s SoulsLeeRay M. Costa, PhDHaworthFinalist
2009TransgenderIntersex (For Lack of a Better Word)Thea HillmanManic D PressWinner
Boy with FlowersEly ShipleyBarrow Street PressFinalist
Transgender HistorySusan StrykerSeal PressFinalist
Two Truths and a LieScott SchofieldHomofactus PressFinalist
10,000 DressesMarcus Ewert & Rex RaySeven Stories PressFinalist
2010TransgenderLynnee Breedlove’s One Freak ShowLynn BreedloveManic D PressWinner
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind YouS. Bear BergmanArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
TransmigrationJoy LadinSheep Meadow PressFinalist
Troglodyte RoseAdam LoweCadaverine PublicationsFinalist
Bharat JivaKari EdwardsLitmus PressFinalist
2011Transgender FictionHolding Still for as Long as PossibleZoe WhittallHouse of Anansi PressWinner
Jumpstart the WorldCatherine Ryan HydeRandom House Children’s BooksFinalist
Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super TrannyJustin Hall with Diego Gomez, Fred Noland & Jon MacyNorthwest PressFinalist
Transgender NonfictionBalancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish CommunityNoach Dzmura (editor)North Atlantic BooksWinner
Gender Outlaws: The Next GenerationKate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman (editors)Seal PressFinalist
Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender InequalityKristen SchiltUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
The Color of SunlightMichelle Alexander and Michelle Diane RoseSelf-publishedFinalist
Assume NothingRebecca SwanSoft Skull PressFinalist
2012Transgender FictionTake Me There: Trans and Genderqueer EroticaTristan Taormino (editor)Cleis PressWinner
StaticL.A. WittAmber Allure/Amber Quill PressFinalist
The Book of Broken HymnsRafe PoseyFlying RabbitFinalist
The Butterfly and the FlameDana De YoungiUniverseFinalist
I am JCris BeamLittle, Brown BYR (Books for Young Readers)Finalist
Transgender NonfictionTango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High HeelsJustin Vivian BondThe Feminist Press at CUNYWinner
Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in RetrospectMegan M. Rohrer and Zander Keig (editors)Wilgefortis PressFinalist
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of LawDean SpadeSouth End PressFinalist
Re-Dressing America’s Frontier PastPeter BoagUniversity of California PressFinalist
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial ComplexEric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (editors)AK PressFinalist
2013Transgender FictionThe Collection: Short Fiction From The Transgender VanguardTom Léger and Riley MacLeod (editors)Topside PressWinner
Dialectic of the FleshRoz KaveneyA Midsummer Night’s PressFinalist
First Spring Grass FireRae SpoonArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
OffspringMichael QuadlandRed Hen PressFinalist
Being EmilyRachel GoldBella BooksFinalist
Transgender NonfictionTransfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender StudiesAnne Enke (editor)Temple University PressWinner
Teeny Weenies and Other Short SubjectsMatt KaileyOutskirts PressFinalist
TransposesDylan EdwardsNorthwest PressFinalist
Seasonal VelocitiesRyka AokiTrans-Genre PressFinalist
2014Transgender FictionWanting in ArabicTrish SalahTSAR PublicationsWinner
TiresiasDevon Llywelyn JonesDevon Llywelyn JonesFinalist
Nevada, a novelImogen BinnieTopside PressFinalist
Transgender NonfictionThe End of San FranciscoMattilda Bernstein SycamoreCity Lights PublishersWinner
Testo JunkieBeatriz PreciadoThe Feminist PressFinalist
Blood, Marriage, Wine & GlitterS. Bear BergmanArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
2015Transgender FictionA Safe Girl To LoveCasey PlettTopside PressWinner
Everything Must GoLa JohnJosephITNA PRESSFinalist
For Today I Am a BoyKim FuHoughton Mifflin HarcourtFinalist
Moving Forward Sideways like a CrabShani MootooDoubleday CanadaFinalist
Revolutionary: A NovelAlex MyersSimon & SchusterFinalist
Transgender NonfictionMan Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a ManThomas Page McBeeCity Lights/Sister SpitWinner
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much MoreJanet MockAtria BooksFinalist
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender CommunityLaura Erickson-SchrothOxford University PressFinalist
2016Transgender FictionTiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in MannersRoz KaveneyTeam Angelica PublishingWinner
Lost BoiSassafras LowreyArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
DefiantMichael Scott Monje, Jr.Autonomous PressFinalist
Transgender NonfictionBorn on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural CompetencyWilly WilkinsonHapa Papa PressWinner
Hiding in Plain SightZane Thimmesch-GillRiverdale Avenue BooksFinalist
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American FamilyAmy Ellis NuttRandom HouseFinalist
Transgender Poetrysuccubus in my pocketkari edwardsEOAGH BooksWinner
Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This SoulRyka AokiBiyuti PublishingFinalist
ImpersonationJoy LadinThe Sheep Meadow PressFinalist
2017Transgender FictionSmall Beautyjia qing wilson-yangMetonymy PressWinner
If I Was Your GirlMeredith RussoFlatiron BooksFinalist
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous MemoirKai Cheng ThomMetonymy PressFinalist
Transgender NonfictionLife Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in ChinaLei MingTransgress PressWinner
Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer MasculinityMorgan Mann WillisRiverdale Avenue BooksFinalist
Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans FeminismJulia SeranoSwitch Hitter PressFinalist
Trunky (Transgender Junky): A MemoirSamuel PetersonTransgress PressFinalist
You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and TransitionChase Joynt and Mike HoolbloomCoach House BooksFinalist
Transgender PoetryReacquainted with LifeKokumoTopside PressWinner
Safe SpaceJos CharlesAhsahta PressFinalist
Sympathetic Little MonsterCameron Awkward-RichRicochet EditionsFinalist
The Romance of Siam: A Pocket GuideJai Arun RavineTimeless, Infinite LightFinalist
even this page is whiteVivek ShrayaArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
2018Transgender FictionTranscendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative FictionBogi Takács (editor)Lethe PressWinner
Nerve Endings: The New Trans EroticTobi Hill-Meyer (editor)Instar BooksFinalist
Resilience: Surviving in the Face of EverythingAmy Heart, Sugi Pyrrophyta, and Larissa Glasser (editors)Heartspark PressFinalist
The Black EmeraldJeanne ThorntonInstar BooksFinalist
Long Black VeilJennifer Finney BoylanCrownFinalist
Transgender NonfictionBlack on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans IdentityC. Riley SnortonUniversity of Minnesota PressWinner
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli MurrayRosalind RosenbergOxford University PressFinalist
Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among MenBrice SmithTransgress PressFinalist
Surpassing CertaintyJanet MockAtria BooksFinalist
What About the Rest of Your LifeSung YimPerfect Day PublishingFinalist
Transgender PoetryrecombinantChing-In ChenKelsey Street PressWinner
Mucus in My Pineal GlandJuliana HuxtableWonder / CapriciousFinalist
Of MongrelitudeJulian Talamantez BrolaskiWave BooksFinalist
What Runs OverKayleb Rae CandrilliYesYes BooksFinalist
a place called No HomelandKai Cheng ThomArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
2019Transgender FictionLittle FishCasey PlettArsenal Pulp PressWinner
FreshwaterAkwaeke EmeziGrove Atlantic / Grove PressFinalist
InvasionsCalvin GimpelevichInstar BooksFinalist
SketchtasyMattilda Bernstein SycamoreArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
Confessions of the Fox: A NovelJordy RosenbergOne World / Random HouseFinalist
Transgender NonfictionHistories of the Transgender ChildJulian Gill-PetersonUniversity of Minnesota PressWinner
I’m Afraid of MenVivek ShrayaPenguin CanadaFinalist
Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender ReassignmentAren Z. AizuraDuke University PressFinalist
The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender PerspectiveJoy LadinBrandeis University PressFinalist
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a ManThomas Page McBeeScribnerFinalist
Transgender Poetrylo terciario / the tertiaryRaquel Salas RiveraTimeless, Infinite LightWinner
Holy WildGwen BenawayBook*hug PressFinalist
If the Color Is FugitiveSara MithraNomadic PressFinalist
Some AnimalEly ShipleyNightboat BooksFinalist
Heal Your LoveLuna MerbrujaBiyuti PublishingFinalist
2020Transgender FictionLittle Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)Hazel Jane PlanteMetonymy PressWinner
Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the SeerM.Z. McDonnellSelf-publishedFinalist
The Beatrix GatesRachel PollackPM PressFinalist
The Trans Space Octopus CongregationBogi TakácsLethe PressFinalist
Honey WallsBones McKayMcKay & Gray PublicationsFinalist
Transgender NonfictionWe Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou SullivanEllis Martin and Zach OzmaNightboat BooksWinner
Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding GenderS.J. LangerJessica Kingsley PublishersFinalist
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves ThroughT FleischmannCoffee House PressFinalist
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red StatesSamantha AllenLittle, Brown & CompanyFinalist
Transgender PoetryHULLXandria PhillipsNightboat BooksWinner
EXTRATRANSMISSIONAndrea Abi-KaramKelsey Street PressFinalist
Our Weather Our SeaSamuel AceBlack Radish BooksFinalist
The Year of Blue WaterYanyiYale University PressFinalist
DispatchCameron Awkward-RichPersea BooksFinalist
2021Transgender FictionThe Thirty Names of NightZeyn JoukhadarAtria BooksWinner
The SeepChana PorterSoho PressFinalist
The SubtweetVivek ShrayaECW PressFinalist
Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary AdventuresLydia RogueMicrocosm PublishingFinalist
FinnaNina CipriTordotcom PublishingFinalist
Transgender NonfictionThe Black Trans Prayer BookJ Mase III & Dane Figueroa EdidiThe Black Trans Prayer BookWinner
Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global ShiftL HeidenreichUniversity of Nebraska PressFinalist
The Freezer DoorMattilda Bernstein SycamoreSemiotext(e)Finalist
Trans CareHil MalatinoUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist
Fairest: A MemoirMeredith TalusanVikingFinalist
Transgender PoetryI Love You and I’m Not DeadSade LaNayArgos BooksWinner
More Than OrgansKay Ulanday BarrettSibling Rivalry PressFinalist
The Nancy Reagan CollectionMaxe CrandallFuturepoem BooksFinalist
Theories of PerformanceJay BesemerThe Lettered Streets PressFinalist
GreyhoundAeon GinsbergNoemi PressFinalist
2022Transgender FictionSummer FunJeanne ThorntonSoho PressWinner
Detransition, BabyTorrey PetersOne WorldFinalist
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing BodyMegan MilksThe Feminist PressFinalist
She Who Became the SunShelley Parker-ChanTor BooksFinalist
A Natural History of TransitionCallum AngusMetonymy PressFinalist
Transgender NonfictionBelly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-BlacknessDa’Shaun HarrisonNorth Atlantic BooksWinner
Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Seuxality in Chicanx/Latinx StudiesFrancisco GalarteUniversity of Texas PressFinalist
Care Of: Letters, Connections, and CuresIvan CoyoteMcClelland & StewartFinalist
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval HagiographyEdited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake GuttAmsterdam University PressFinalist
Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic EmbodimentsLucie FieldingRoutledgeFinalist
Transgender PoetryCrossbones on My LifeMason JNomadic PressWinner
Salamat sa IntersectionalityDani PutneyOkay Donkey PressFinalist
TransverseLindsay ChoiFuturepoem BooksFinalist
VillainyAndrea Abi-KaramNightboat BooksFinalist
x/ex/exisRaquel Salas RiveraUniversity of Arizona PressFinalist
2023Transgender FictionThe Call-OutCat FitzpatrickSeven Stories PressWinner
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to CarlottaJames HannahamLittle, Brown & CompanyFinalist
ManywhereMorgan ThomasFarrar, Straus & Giroux/MCDFinalist
Wrath Goddess SingMaya DeaneWilliam MorrowFinalist
All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away FromIzzy WassersteinNeon HemlockFinalist
Transgender NonfictionThe Third PersonEmma GroveDrawn & QuarterlyWinner
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My RapistCecilia GentiliLittlePuss PressFinalist
Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New YorkJeremiah MossW.W. Norton & CompanyFinalist
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans MaladjustmentCameron Awkward-RichDuke University PressFinalist
Before We Were Trans: A New History of GenderKit HeyamBasic BooksFinalist
Transgender PoetryMissSettlKamden Ishmael HilliardNightboat BooksWinner
A Queen in Bucks CountyKay GabrielNightboat BooksFinalist
All the Flowers KneelingPaul TranPenguin BooksFinalist
EmanationsPrathna LorWolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.Finalist
A Dead Name That Learned How to LiveGoldenGame Over BooksFinalist
2024Transgender FictionTBAWinner
BelliesNicola DinanHanover Square PressFinalist
GirlfriendsEmily ZhouLittlePuss PressFinalist
The Rage LettersValérie Bah; translator Kama La MackerelMetonymy PressFinalist
TrashSylvia Aguilar ZélenyDeep VellumFinalist
Wild GeeseSoula EmmanuelFeminist PressFinalist
Transgender NonfictionTBAWinner
Love and Money, Sex and DeathMcKenzie WarkVerso BooksFinalist
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans RevolutionaryMiss Major and Toshio MeronekVerso BooksFinalist
On CommunityCasey PlettBiblioasisFinalist
Tar Hollow Trans: EssaysStacy Jane GroverUniversity Press of KentuckyFinalist
Transland: Consent, Kink, and PleasureMx. SlyArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
Transgender PoetryTBAWinner
Hood VacationsMichal ‘MJ’ JonesBlack Lawrence PressFinalist
Portraits as Animal: PoemsVictoriano CárdenasBloomsday LiteraryFinalist
Short Film Starring my Beloved’s Red BroncoK. IverMilkweed EditionsFinalist
Taking to WaterJennifer ConlonAutumn House PressFinalist
TransitorySubhaga Crystal BaconBOA EditionsFinalist