The 16th annual Lambda Literary Awards were presented June 3 in Chicago, and the top prizes for fiction went to Christopher Bram's Lives of the Circus Animals and Nina Revoyr's Southland. Novelist E. Lynn Harris won the Lambda Literary Foundation Bridge Builder award for his memoir, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? Here is a complete list of winners: Children, Young Adult: Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan LGBT Humor: Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-based Life Forms to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel LGBT Drama: Prok, Brian Drader LBBT Erotica: Best Lesbian Erotica 2004, edited by Tristan Taormino Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror: Necrologue, edited by Helen Sandler Spirituality: Keeping Faith, Fenton Johnson Visual Arts: Women Seeing Women, edited by Lonthar Schirmer LGBT Romance (tie): Last Summer, Michael Thomas Ford; Maybe Next Time, Karin Kallmaker LGBT Fiction Anthology: Pulp Friction, edited by Michael Bronski LGBT Non-Fiction Anthology: Queer Crips, edited by Bob Guter and Robert Killacky Gay Men's Mystery: Blind Eye, John Morgan Wilson Lesbian Mystery: Damn Straight, Elizabeth Sims LGBT Biography: Beautiful Shadow, Andrew Wilson LGBT Memoir/Autobiography: Naked in the Promised Land, Lillian Faderman Lesbian Poetry: The Dirt She Ate, Minnie Bruce Pratt Gay Men's Poetry (tie): Middle Earth, Henri Cole; Sky Lounge, Mark Bibbins Transgender: She's Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan LGBT Studies: Time on Two Crosses, edited by Devon Carbado and Donald Weise Gay Men's Fiction: Lives of the Circus Animals, Christopher Bram Lesbian Fiction: Southland, Nina Revoyr
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