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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE May 14, 1999
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Top gay writers honored at gala awards ceremony
Los Angeles-Oscarwinning screenwriter Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters), celebrity mom Betty DeGeneres, activist David Mixner, Party of Five star Mitchell Anderson, comedians Bob Smith and Kate Clinton and playwrightperformance artist Michael Kearns were among the notables assembled to honor the gay community's best writers
at the 11th Annual Lambda Literary Awards ceremony. The awards were
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Presented each year by the Lambda Literary Foundation, the prestigious "Lammy" awards recognize excellence in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender literature and publishing. Previous Lammy winners include Edmund White, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Clive Barker, Randy Shilts, Tony Kushner, and Michael Cunningham.
"We are very proud of the role the Lammys have played in raising awareness and expanding the scope of GLBT literature" said Jim Marks, executive director of the Lambda Literary Foundation and publisher of the Lambda Book Report and the James White Review.
A host of celebrity guests presented Lammys in twenty different categories ranging from Lesbian Poetry to Spirituality and Religion. The awards were open to Englishlanguage gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender books published in 1998 and generally available in the U.S. A panel of judges, representing a broad cross-section of the GLBT literary community selected the best from among the five finalists in each category, but results were sealed until the evening of the Lammy celebration.
This year's ceremony featured the first presentation of the Monette-Horwitz Award for outstanding research in the field of gay and lesbian history, awarded to Jonathan Ned Katz and Lillian Faderman, and for the first time ever, national GLBT organizations, including the Gay and Lesbian Victory Foundation and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, presented literary awards in special categories.
Ken Yeager was awarded the Victory Foundation's award while the GLSEN Contribution Toward Excellence in Education Award was given to the Columbia University Press title, Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia, edited by James T. Sears and Walter L. Williams.
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GLSEN's executive director, Kevin Jennings, also won a Lammy Award for his book Telling Tales Out of School: Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals Revisit Their School Days, published by Alyson Publications.
Other awards include the Pioneer Award, which honors individuals whose long-term work has fostered the GLBT writing and publishing industry. This year's award went to lesbian mystery writer and editor Katherine V. Forrest. Mystery writer Joan M. Drury, publisher of Spinsters Ink and part owner of the feminist Seal Press, was awarded the Publisher Service Award.
Also, winning the Editors' Choice Award was Naeem Murr for his novel The Boy, published by Houghton Mifflin. This award is selected by the editors at the Lambda Literary Foundation and gives credit to a title overlooked by the media and other award programs.
Notable highlights of the evening include RedBone Press' repeat win in the category of Gay and Lesbian Small Press. This year's title, the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth, follows last year's winning anthology, Does Your Mama Know, edited by Lisa C. Moore. Dorothy Allison took second-time Lammy honors for her novel Cavedweller, which won the Lesbian Fiction category.
Since their inception, the Lammys have helped raise and expand the awareness and growth of GLBT literature. For further information about the Lambda Literary Awards, contact the Lambda Literary Foundation at P.O. Box 73910, Washington, D.C., 200563910; phone 202-462-7924; or web site http://www.lambdalit.org.
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