15th Lambda Literary Awards

The 15th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2003 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2002.

Special awards

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Category Winner
Bridge Builder Award Betty DeGeneres
Editor's Choice Award John D'Emilio, The World Turned
Pioneer Award Barbara Grier, Judy Shepard
Small Press Award Kings Crossing Publishing

Nominees and winners

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Category Winner Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Don Weise, eds., Black Like Us
Anthologies/Non-Fiction Bruce Shenitz, The Man I Might Become
Autobiography/Memoir Betty Berzon, Surviving Madness
Biography David Kaufman, Ridiculous!
Children's/Young Adult Bonnie Shimko, Letters in the Attic
Erotica Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2003
Gay Fiction Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
Gay Mystery Christopher Rice, The Snow Garden
Gay Poetry J. D. McClatchy, Hazmat
Humor Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah
Lesbian Fiction Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
Lesbian Mystery Elizabeth Woodcraft, Good Bad Woman
Lesbian Poetry Ellen Bass, Mules of Love
LGBT Studies Neil Miller, Sex-Crime Panic
Romance Andrew W. M. Beierle, The Winter of Our Discothèque
Science fiction, fantasy or horror Michael Rowe, ed., Queer Fear II
Spirituality Geoffrey Duncan, Courage to Love
Transgender Noelle Howey, Dress Codes
Visual arts Dominique Fernandez, A Hidden Love
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