Lambda Literary Awards re-cap !!!
OK, so let’s get it out right up front: I didn’t win the “Lammie” award in my category at the Lambda Literary Awards on Thursday night. No, I wasn’t crushed or devastated, (sure, I was a little disappointed, though!). David Sedaris won, and you know…just to be competing in the same category with David Sedaris, (and Augusten Burroughs, too), is an awesome honor for me, so, that was really quite a consolation. The whole awards ceremony was interesting and well done; Lea Delaria hosted, raucously and no-holds-barred and quite funny. I also got to see a plethora of well-known gay authors and figures in the gay media, and truly historic people like Martin Duberman. My category came up early, too, so I didn’t have to sit there all evening on the edge of my seat waiting for the announcement; after it was announced, I was able to breathe and sit back and relax & enjoy the rest of the show. I was fortunate to have K.M. Soehnlein, the author of the excellent The World of Normal Boys, sitting next to me for the ceremony, (we have the same editor at Kensington Books), and being able to chat with him between awards kinda’ took the edge off the whole thing. Towards the end of the evening, it occurred to me how I used to look up to so many of the authors there at the awards ceremony, (I still do, actually), and how I used to dream about somehow getting my own work into their arena some day. And now, here I was, my own book nominated for an award at this ceremony, the epitome of gay literary recognition. So, really…this was a great, great evening!
