Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Romance & Erotica

The Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Romance & Erotica is an annual literary award established in 2002 and presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation that awards books with LGBTQ+ characters and "whose content is principally of an erotic nature."^[1] "Anthologies, novels, novellas, graphic novels, memoirs, and short story collections" are eligible for the award.

Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Romance & Erotica
Awarded for	LGBT Erotica
Sponsored by	Lambda Literary Foundation
Date	Annual
Lambda Literary Award

The award has been presented in the following categories: Gay Erotica, Lesbian Erotica, and LGBTQ+ Erotica.

Recipients

Lambda Literary Award for Erotica winners and finalists

Year	Category	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2002	Erotica	Ian Philips	See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent	Winner	[2]
		M. Christian	Dirty Words	Finalist	[2]
		Lawrence Schimel	His Tongue
		Karen X. Tulchinsky	Hot & Bothered 3
		Lori Selke	Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica
2003	Erotica	Tristan Taormino (editor)	Best Lesbian Erotica 2003	Winner	[3]
		Richard Labonte editor)	Best Gay Erotica 2003	Finalist	[3]
		Leslea Newman (editor)	Bedroom Eyes
		Bob Vickery	Cocksure
		Stephen Greco	The Sperm Engine
2004	Erotica	Tristan Taormino (editor)	Best Lesbian Erotica 2004	Winner	[4]
		Richard Labonte (editor)	Best Gay Erotica 2004	Finalist	[4]
		Karen X. Tulchinsky (editor)	Hot and Bothered 4
		Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe, and Jeff Mann	Masters of Midnight
		James Johnstone (editor)	Quickies 3
2005	Erotica	Richard Labonte (editor)	Best Gay Erotica 2005	Winner	[5]
		Karin Kallmaker	All the Wrong Places	Finalist	[5]
		Tristan Taormino (editor)	Best Lesbian Erotica 2005
		Karin Kallmaker, Therese Syzmanski, Julia Watts, and Barbara Johnson	Once Upon a Dyke
		Rachel Kramer Bussel Stacy M. Bias	Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex
2006	Erotica	Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe, (editors)	Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2	Winner	[6]
		Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonté	Best Gay Erotica 2006	Finalist	[6]
		Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino	Best Lesbian Erotica 2006
		Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia	Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica
		Sean Wolfe	Close Contact
2007	Gay Erotica	Jeff Mann	A History of Barbed Wire	Winner	[7]
		Richard Labonte Timothy J. Lambert (editors)	Best Gay Erotica 2007	Finalist	[7]
		Zavo	Hot On His Trail
	Lesbian Erotica	Laurinda D. Brown	Walk Like a Man	Winner	[7]
		Karin Kallmaker	18th & Castro	Finalist	[7]
		Tristan Taormino Emma Donoghue (editors)	Best Lesbian Erotica 2007
		Rachel Kramer Bussel (editor)	Glamour Girls
		Midori	Master Han’s Daughter
2008	Erotica	Simon Sheppard	Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica	Winner	[8][9]
		William Maltese Wayne Gunn	Ardennian Boy	Finalist	[8]
		Fiona Zedde	Every Dark Desire
		J. D. Glass	Red Light
		Victoria Brownworth and Judith M. Redding	The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica
		Lawrence Schimel	The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica
2009	Gay Erotica	Richard Labonte James Lear	Best Gay Erotica 2009	Winner	[10]
		William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith, and J.P. Bowie	Hard Working Men	Finalist	[10]
		James Lear	The Secret Tunnel
	Lesbian Erotica	Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker	In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip	Winner	[10]
		Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia	Lipstick on Her Collar	Finalist	[10]
		Lynne Jamneck	Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures
2010	Gay Erotica	Kevin Killian	Impossible Princess	Winner	[11]
		Sean Wolfe	Eight Inches	Finalist
		Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (editors)	I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire
		Todd Gregory (editor)	Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica
		James Lear	The Low Road
	Lesbian Erotica	Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia (editors)	Lesbian Cowboys	Winner	[11]
		Ronica Black	Flesh and Bone	Finalist
		Diane Anderson-Minshall	Punishment with Kisses
		D.L. King	Where the Girls Are
		Cecilia Tan (editor)	Women of the Bite
2011	Gay Erotica	Jon Macy	Teleny and Camille	Winner	[12][13]
		William Holden	A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men	Finalist	[12]
		Richard Labonté (editor)	Best of the Best Gay Erotica 3
		Jerry Wheeler (editor)	Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top
		Hank Edwards	Vancouver Nights
	Lesbian Erotica	Tristan Taormino (editor)	Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica	Winner	[13]
		Kathleen Warnock (editor); Lea DeLaria (introduction)	Best Lesbian Erotica 2011	Finalist	[12]
		D Alexandria	This Is How We Do It: A Raw Mix of Lesbian Erotica
2012	Gay Erotica	Dirk Vanden	All Together	Winner	[14]
		Natty Soltesz	Backwoods	Finalist
		Richard Labonte (editor)	Best Gay Erotica 2012
		Steven Haas (editor)	Gay Erotica
		Richard Labonte (editor)	History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall
	Lesbian Erotica	Debra Hyde	Story of L	Winner	[14]
		Sacchi Green	A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales	Finalist
		Sacchi Green (editor)	Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations
		Lesley Gowan	The Collectors
2013	Gay Erotica	Mykola Dementiuk	The Facialist	Winner	[15]
		Lukas Hand	Coming To: A Collection of Erotic and Other Epiphanies	Finalist	[15]
		Jerry L. Wheele	Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits
		Todd Gregory (editor)	Raising Hell: Demonic Gay Erotica
		William Holden	Secret Societies
	Lesbian Erotica	D.L. King	The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica	Winner	[16][15]
		Ily Goyanes (editor)	Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica	Finalist	[15]
		Catt Kingsgrave	One Saved to the Sea
2014	Gay Erotica	Alex Jeffers	The Padisah’s Son and the Fox: an erotic novella	Winner	[17][18]
		Aleksandr Voinov L.A. Witt	Capture & Surrender	Finalist	[19]
		Michael Luongo (editor)	Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories
		Richard Labonte (editor)	Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories
		Winston Gieseke (editor)	Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories
	Lesbian Erotica	Sacchi Green (editor)	Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories	Winner	[17][20]
		Rebekah Weatherspoon	At Her Feet	Finalist	[19]
		Kathleen Warnock (editor)	Best Lesbian Erotica 2014
2015	Gay Erotica	Tiffany Reisz	The King	Winner	[19]
		Hushicho	Incubus Tales	Finalist	[21]
		Raven Kaldera	Leather Spirit Stallion
		Jerry Wheeler	The Bears of Winter
		William Holden	The Thief Taker
	Lesbian Erotica	Diana Cage	Lesbian Sex Bible	Winner	[19]
		Andi Marquette R.G. Emanuelle	All You Can Eat. A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance	Finalist	[21]
		Cheyenne Blue	Forbidden Fruit: stories of unwise lesbian desire
2016	Gay Erotica	Miodrag Kojadinovic	Érotiques Suprèmes	Winner	[22][23]
		Jennifer Levine Rian Darcy	Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales	Finalist	[24]
		Natty Soltesz	College Dive Bar, 1 AM
		William Holden	Grave Desires
		Michael Ampersant	Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of)
	Lesbian Erotica	Meghan O'Brien	The Muse	Winner	[22][23]
		Salome Wilde Talon Rihai (editors)	Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica	Finalist	[24]
		Sinclair Sexsmith	Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica
2017	Erotica	Rebekah Weatherspoon	Soul to Keep	Winner	[25][26]
		Meghan O'Brien	Camp Rewind	Finalist	[27]
		Marie Sexton L.A. Witt	Roped In
		Scott Alexander Hess	Skyscraper
		Alexa Black	Steel and Promise
2018	Erotica	Steve Berman	His Seed	Winner	[28][29]
		Siri Caldwell	Mistletoe Mishap	Finalist	[30]
		L.A. Witt	The Master Will Appear
		D.L. King	Unspeakably Erotic
		Sacchi Green	Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms
2019	Erotica	Blue Delliquanti and Kazimir Lee	Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!	Winner	[31]
		Sacchi Green	Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3	Finalist	[32]
		Niki Smith	Crossplay
		Matthew Bright	Gents: Steamy Stories From the Age of Steam
		Tom Cardamone	The Lurid Sea		[33][34]
2020	Erotica	LA Warman	Whore Foods	Winner	[35][36][37]
		Vikram Kolmannskog	Lord of the Senses	Finalist	[38][39]
		Rosalind Chase	Lot’s Wife: An Erotic Novella
		Thomas Kearnes	Texas Crude
		Gary Garth McCann	The Shape of the Earth
2021	Erotica	Lee Suksi	The Nerves	Winner	[40][41][42]
		Sinclair Sexsmith	Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5	Finalist	[43]
		Anne Shade	Femme Tales
		Andrea Purcell	Smut Peddler Presents: Silver
		Kel Hardy, Tianna Henry, and MJ Lyons	Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50
2022	LGBTQ Erotica	Samuel R. Delany	Big Joe	Winner	[44]
		MJ Lyons	Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories	Finalist	[45]
		Tab Kimpton and Harry-Anne Bentley (eds.)	Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology
		Tab Kimpton and Jade Sarson (eds.)	Ambrosia: Trans Masc and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology
		Levi Huxton	The Lodger, That Summer
2023	LGBTQ Romance and Erotica	Alison Cochrun	Kiss Her Once For Me	Winner	[46]
		Ruby Barrett	The Romance Recipe	Finalist	[47]
		Meryl Wilsner	Mistakes Were Made
		Edie Cay	A Lady’s Finder
		Joseph Brennan	Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey
2024	LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica	laura q	A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories	Winner	[48]
		TJ Alexander	Chef's Choice	Finalist	[49]
		Andie Burke	Fly with Me
		Ashley Herring Blake	Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
		Alexandria Bellefleur	The Fiancee Farce

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