Here are the wners of the 34th annual Lambda Lerary Awards, cludg the bt Bisexual Fictn, Gay Memoir, LGBTQ YA, and more.
Contents:
- GAY, LBIAN, AND BISEXUAL BOOK AWARD
- LAMBDA LERARY AWARD - GAY EROTI (AWARD BY LAMBDA LERARY FOUNDATN)
GAY, LBIAN, AND BISEXUAL BOOK AWARD
For over 30 years, the Lambda Lerary Awards have intified and honored the bt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr books. * gay fiction awards *
Gay Fictn: 100 Boyiends by Brontez Purnell. Gay Memoir/Bgraphy: Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome. Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad.
"There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety. " Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. "Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life.
LAMBDA LERARY AWARD - GAY EROTI (AWARD BY LAMBDA LERARY FOUNDATN)
* gay fiction awards *
Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy. SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.
The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. The thor of Night Drop, Marshall Thornton lled the novel "the origal gay romance.
Alan Hollghurst famoly qutned the future of the gay novel this year, which is strikg sce he's often viewed as helpg make queer books accsible to a mastream dience. Hollghurst set his pen on the sexual hypocrisi of homophobic policians, many of whom had their own discretns behd closed doors.