The 9th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1997 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1996.

Special awards CategoryWinnerEditor's Choice Donald Windham, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965Pioneer Award Helaine Harris, Daedalus BooksPublishers Service Award Norman Laurila, A Different Light

Nominees and winners +9th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalistsCategoryAuthor/EditorTitleResultAnthologies (Fiction) and Naomi Holoch (eds.)Women on Women 3Winner (ed.)Men on Men 6FinalistNight BitesFinalist and Charles H. Rowell (eds.)ShadeFinalist (ed.)Go the Way Your Blood BeatsFinalistAnthologies (Nonfiction Fiction) (ed.)Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & SexWinner (ed.)Beyond QueerFinalist and Seth Clark Silberman (eds.)Generation QFinalist and Akia Woods (eds.)Off the RagFinalist (ed.)Boys Like UsFinalistChildren's and Young AdultGood Moon RisingWinner, Sheila Rudin, and Pam SejkoraMy Dad Has HIVFinalist and Kate KaufmanFree Your MindFinalistFinalistDaddy’s WeddingFinalistDramaSplit BritchesWinnerThree Plays by CrowleyFinalistAmazon All-StarsFinalistClit NotesFinalistActing=LifeFinalistGay Biography and AutobiographyGeography of the HeartWinnerTruth SerumFinalistHeaven’s CoastFinalistLush Life: A Biography of Billy StrayhornFinalistSpells of a Voodoo DollFinalistGay FictionFunny BoyWinnerPagan’s FatherFinalistFinalistIowaFinalistFinalistLambda Literary Award for Gay MysteryWinnerTime to Check OutFinalistMurder on the Appian WayFinalistSimple JusticeFinalistTribeFinalistGay PoetryWhat the Body ToldWinnerAnesthesiaFinalistEros in BoystownFinalistMy Night With Federico Garcia LorcaFinalistAngel, InterruptedFinalistGay Studies (ed.)Boys Like UsWinnerOne More River to CrossFinalistFarm BoysFinalist and Will RoscoeRadically GayFinalistCracks in the Iron ClosetFinalistHumorWinnerKurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both DeadFinalistHistory of Lesbian HairFinalistLesbianism Made EasyFinalist and Sydney PokornySo You Want to Be a Lesbian?FinalistLesbian Memoir or BiographyLife in a DayWinnerAccidental ActivistFinalistFinalistComing Home to AmericaFinalistEva Le GallienneFinalistLesbian FictionMemory MamboWinnerSeven MovesFinalistWhat Keeps Me HereFinalistToward AmnesiaFinalistIf You Had a FamilyFinalistLesbian MysteryRobber's WineWinnerLiberty SquareFinalistBaby, It’s ColdFinalistFinal TakeFinalistInner CircleFinalistLesbian PoetryAll-American GirlWinnerFurious CookingWinnerArc of LoveFinalistShiftFinalistHome in Three Days. Don’t Wash.FinalistLesbian StudiesLove Between WomenWinnerToo QueerFinalistSurface TensionFinalist and Pamela BrandtGirls Next DoorFinalistSappho and the Virgin MaryFinalistPhotography and Visual Arts and Jill PosenerNothing But the GirlWinnerSunnybrookFinalistBody Alchemy: Transsexual PortraitsFinalistDerek Jarman’s GardenFinalist and Jim Van BuskirkGay by the BayFinalistScience fiction, fantasy or horrorSacramentWinner and Jewelle GomezSwords of the RainbowFinalistWomen Who Run With WerewolvesFinalistGodmother NightFinalist and Thomas S. RocheSons of DarknessFinalistSmall PressBody Alchemy: Transsexual PortraitsWinnerToo QueerFinalistShit of GodFinalistMythomaniaFinalistLesbian PolyfidelityFinalistSpiritualityWinnerFinalist and James PrestonWe Were Baptized TooFinalistCongregations in ConflictFinalistJourneys & ArrivalsFinalistTransgenderBody Alchemy: Transsexual PortraitsWinnerGender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and FemaleFinalistLieutenant NunFinalistTransgender WarriorsFinalistHoney, Honey Miss ThangFinalist

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