NEWS: Lambda Literary Awards - Most Transgender Titles Ever!

Some fantastic news from the good folks over at the Lambda Literary Society today – it seems 2010 will be a record-breaking year for the Lambda Literary Awards, with the most books ever nominated (509 as of Dec. 31st). More importantly, for the first time in the award's history, enough Transgender titles have been submitted to create separate Fiction and Nonfiction categories.

For those of you partaking of the Gender Identity & Expression Reading Challenge, this might be a good place to start your search for relevant titles (hint, hint).

Here is the complete list of Transgender nominees to-date:

TRANSGENDER – Fiction
♥ Always Kiss the Corpse on Whidbey Island, by Sandy Frances Duncan & George Szanto
♥ Coming to Life: Poems, by Joy Ladin
♥ Confessions of an Empty Purse, by S. McDonald
♥ Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, by Sandra McDonald
♥ The End: Five Queer Kids Save the World, by Nora Olsen
♥ f2m: the boy within, by Hazel Edwards & Ryan Kennedy
♥ Flight of the Jaguar Magician: Tome 1 – The Initiation, a New Queer Mythology, by c. huilo c.
♥ Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny, by Justin Hall
♥ Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch, by Tom Bradley
♥ Holding Still for as Long as Possible, by Zoe Whittall
♥ Jumpstart the World, by Catherine Ryan Hyde
♥ La Di Da Di Bloody Da, by Robin Anderson
♥ Sawdust Confessions: The Pleasures Are Guilty as a Diva Disappears from Florida’s Gayest Campground, by William Sievert
♥ Spanking New, by Clifford Henderson
♥ The Woman I Was Born to Be, by Aleshia Brevard

TRANSGENDER – Nonfiction
♥ Assume Nothing, by Rebecca Swan
♥ Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality, by Gayle Salaman
♥ Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, edited by Noach Dzmura
♥ The Color of Sunlight, by Michelle Alexander
♥ Feeling Wrong in Your Own Body: Understanding What It Means to Be Transgender, by Jaime A. Seba
♥ Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman
♥ Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, by Kristen Schilt
♥ Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism, by Patricia Gherovici
♥ Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination, by Sheila L. Cavanagh
♥ Smashing Stereotypes: What Does It Mean to Be Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgender, by Jamie Seba
♥ The Woman I Was Born to Be, by Aleshia Brevard

Support these wonderful writers and get reading - MasterCard bill be damned, I've definitely got my shopping list ready!

         

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