March 1, 2007--Finalists for the 19th annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced on March 1 by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Awards are presented in 25 categories, and winners will be announced on Thursday, May 31, at the Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony in New York City.

Finalists were chosen by a jury of judges who come from all walks of literary life: journalists, authors, booksellers, librarians, playwrights, illustrators. In all, 87 judges participated in the selection of finalists from the pool of 381 books that were nominated.

Here is the complete list of this year’s nominees.

Finalists for ARTS & CULTURE

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
• Cinemachismo by Sergio de la Mora (University of Texas Press)
• Sex Objects by Jennifer Doyle (University of Minnesota Press)
• GAY L.A. by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons (Basic Books)
• Blood Beats: Vol 1 by Ernest Hardy (Redbone Press)

Finalists for BISEXUAL

• Eros by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio (Harrington Park Press)
• Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men by Ronald C. Fox (Harrington Park Press)
• Three Sides to Every Story by Clarence Nero (Harlem Moon/Broadway)
• Bi Guys, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha (Harrington Park Press)
• Bi Men, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha & Pete Chvany (Harrington Park Press)
• The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe, Michael Szymanski & Nicole Kristal (Alyson)

Finalists for CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

• The Manny Files by Christian Burch (Simon & Schuster)
• The Full Spectrum, edited by David Levithan & Billy Merrell (Random House Childrens Books)
• Between Mom & Jo by Julie Anne Peters (Little Brown)
• Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan (Simon & Schuster)
• Erik & Isabelle's Junior Year at Foresthill High by Kim Wallace (Foglight Press)

Finalists for DRAMA/THEATER

• Questa by Victor Bumbalo (Broadway Publishing Inc.)
• Confessions of a Mormon Boy by Steven Fales (Alyson)
• 1001 Beds by Tim Miller (University of Wisconsin)

Finalists for HUMOR

• Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
• My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan (Little Brown)
• Roy & Al by Ralf Konig (Arsenal Pulp Press)

Finalists for LGBT NONFICTION

• Hello, Cruel World by Kate Bornstein (Seven Stories)
• GAY L.A. by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons (Basic Books)
• Different Daughters by Marcia Gallo (Carroll & Graf)
• Behind the Mask of the Mattachine by James T. Sears (Harrington Park Press)
• Unspeakable Love by Brian Whitaker (University of California)

Finalists for LGBT STUDIES

• Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc. by Carellin Brooks (UBC Press)
• Gay Power: An American Revolution by David Eisenbach (Carroll & Graf)
• Their Own Receive Them Not by Horace Griffin (Pilgrim Press)
• Crip Theory by Robert McRuer (NYU Press)
• Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame by Kathryn Stockton (Duke University Press)

Finalists for SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

• Carnival by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
• Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg (Alyson)
• A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R.W. Day (Iris Print)
• Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)
• Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (Bantam Spectra)

Finalists for SPIRITUALITY

• Sex & the Sacred by Daniel Helminiak (Harrington Park Press)
• The After-Death Room by Michael McColly (Soft Skull Press)
• Spirited edited by Lisa Moore & G. Winston James (Redbone Press)
• The Singing of Swans by Mary Saracino (Pearlsong Press )
• Mobius Trip by Giti Thadani (Spinifex Press)

Finalists for TRANSGENDER

• Transgender Rights edited Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter (University of Minnesota Press)
• Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg (Carroll & Graf)
• Supervillainz by Alicia E. Goranson (Suspect Thoughts)
• The Transgender Studies Reader edited by Susan Stryker & Stephen Whittle (Routledge)
• The Testosterone Files by Max Wolf Valerio (Seal Press)

Finalists for LESBIAN FICTION

• Punk Like Me by JD Glass (Bold Strokes)
• Slipstream by Leslie Larson (Crown)
• Outrageous by Sheila Ortiz Taylor (Spinsters Ink)
• Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea (Macadam Cage)
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books

Finalists for LESBIAN ROMANCE

• Fresh Tracks by Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes)
• Wild Abandon by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
• Finders Keepers by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
• Chance by Grace Lennox (Bold Strokes)
• Turn Back Time by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

Finalists for LESBIAN MYSTERY

• Sleep of Reason by Rose Beecham, Rose (Bold Strokes)
• Night Vision by Ellen Hart (St. Martins)
• The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
• Idaho Code by Joan Opyr (Bywater Books)
• The Weekend Visitor by Jessica Thomas (Bella Books)

Finalists for LESBIAN POETRY

• Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
• Days of Good Looks by Cheryl Clarke (Carroll & Graf)
• The Truant Lover by Juliet Patterson (Nightboat Books)
• Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books)
• Touch to Affliction by Nathalie Stephens (Coach House Books)

Finalists for LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

• Intimate Politics by Bettina Aptheker (Seal Press)
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
• Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
• Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend (Marlowe & Co.)
• Incognito Street by Barbara Sjoholm (Seal Press)

Finalists for LESBIAN EROTICA

• Walk Like a Man by Laurinda D. Brown (Q-Boro Books)
• Glamour Girls edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Harrington Park Press)
• 18th & Castro by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
• Master Han's Daughter by Midori (Circlet Press)
• Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 edited by Tristan Taromino & Emma Donoghue (Cleis Press)

Finalists for LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

• The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery (Riverhead)
• Black Marks by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte (Akashic)
• Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara (Redbone Press)
• Slipstream by Leslie Larson (Crown)
• Origami Striptease by Peggy Munson (Suspect Thoughts)

Finalists for GAY FICTION

• Every Visible Thing by Lisa Carey (William Morrow)
• Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)
• Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley (Simon & Schuster)
• Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer (Houghton Mifflin)
• Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)

Finalists for GAY ROMANCE

• Someone Like You by Timothy James Beck (Kensington)
• When the Stars Come Out by Rob Byrnes (Kensington)
• Two Boys in Love by Lawrence Schimel (Seventh Window)
• Surf 'N Turf by Scott & Scott (Romentics)
• Going Down in La-La Land by Andy Zeffer (Harrington Park Press)

Finalists for GAY MYSTERY

• Mardi Gras Mambo by Greg Herren (Kensington)
• The Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon (I-Universe)
• The Back Passage by James Lear (Cleis Press)
• Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues by Randall Peffer (Bleak House Books)
• The Lucky Elephant Restaurant by Garry Ryan (NeWest Press)

Finalists for GAY POETRY

• Gutted by Justin Chin (Manic D Press)The Album That Changed
• My Life by Jeffrey Conway (Cold Calm Press)
• A History of My Tattoo by Jim Elledge (Stonewall)
• Other Fugitives & Other Strangers by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Tupelo Press)
• When the Eye Forms by Dwaine Rieves (Tupelo Press)

Finalists for GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

• Untold Stories by Alan Bennett (FSG)
• The Bill From My Father by Bernard Cooper (Simon & Schuster)
• Tweaked by Patrick Moore (Kensington)
• History of Swimming by Kim Powers (Carroll & Graf)
• My Father's Keeper by Jonathan Silin (Beacon)

Finalists for GAY EROTICA

• Best Gay Erotica 2007 edited by Richard Labonte & Timothy J. Lambert (Cleis Press)
• A History of Barbed Wire by Jeff Mann (Suspect Thoughts)
• Hot On His Trail by Zavo (Alyson)

Finalists for GAY DEBUT FICTION

• A Scarecrow's Bible by Martin Hyatt (Suspect Thoughts)
• The Zookeeper by Alex MacLennan (Alyson)
• Send Me by Patrick Ryan (Dial Press)
• Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)
• 5 Minutes & 42 Seconds by Timothy Williams (Amistad)

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