Mike Curato, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Jennifer Finney Boylan are among the winners of the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards.
The Lambda Literary Foundation announced the winners of its prizes, given to outstanding works of LGBTQ+ literature, at a ceremony at Sony Hall in New York on Friday evening.
Curato won in the LGBTQ+ comics category for Gaysians; he previously won a Lambda Award in 2021 for his young-adult graphic novel Flamer. Yuknavitch took home the bisexual nonfiction award for Reading the Waves, while Boylan, who was honored with a Lambda Award in 2004 for She’s Not There, won the transgender nonfiction prize for Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.
The lesbian fiction prize went to Kat Dunn for Hungerstone, while Charlie Porter took home the gay fiction award for Nova Scotia House. Milo Todd won in the trangender fiction category for The Lilac People, and Demree McGhee was awarded the bisexual fiction award for Sympathy for Wild Girls.
Jerrold Connors took home the LGBTQ+ Children's Books award for Jim!: Six True Stories About One Great Artist: James Marshall. The LGBTQ+ Middle Grade prize went to Rainie Oet for Glitch Girl!, and Riley Redgate won the LGBTQ+ Young Adult award for Come Home to My Heart.
The Lambda Literary Awards, popularly known as the Lammys, were established in 1989. A full list of this year’s winners are available at the Lambda Literary Foundation’s website.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
