Lambda Literary Award Gay Memoir/Biography Winners — Complete List (1994–2026) Home › Lambda Literary Awards › Gay Memoir/Biography TAKE MY NAME BUT SAY IT SLOW: ESSAYS by Thomas Dai 2026LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop RADIANT: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch 2025LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Tweakerworld by Jason Yamas 2024LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez 2023LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome 2022LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi 2021LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones 2020LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore 2019LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien 2018LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop When We Rise by Cleve Jones 2017LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop James Merrill: Life and Art by Langdon Hammer 2016LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr 2015LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop A Heaven of Words by Jerry Rosco(editor) 2014LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr 2013LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood by Glen Retief 2012LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Secret Historian by Justin Spring 2011LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back by Reynolds Price 2010LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham 2009LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums 2008LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop The Bill From My Father by Bernard Cooper 2007LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Bosie by Douglas Murray 2001LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop The Velveteen Father by Jesse Green 2000LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Wisecracker by William J. Mann 1999LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop The Poetry of Healing by Rafael Campo 1998LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson 1997LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich 1996LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop My Own Country by Abraham Verghese 1995LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop Genet by Edmund White 1994LambdaGay Memoir AmazonBookshop
