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The 25th
Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary Foundation, Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ+ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ+ literatur ...
were held on June 3, 2013, to honor works of
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published in 2012."Op-ed: The Transgenderest Lammys Ever"
''
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'', June 14, 2013.
Yolanda Wallace became the first
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writer to win the Lesbian Romance category with her win for ''Month of Sundays''. Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod, co-editors of the anthology ''The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard'', were the first
transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...
authors to win the Transgender Fiction award. 2013 was also the first year in the history of the awards that the Transgender Fiction award was both presented by and accepted by trans authors.


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25th Lambda Literary Awards
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Lambda Lambda (; uppercase , lowercase ; , ''lám(b)da'') is the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoen ...
Lists of LGBTQ-related award winners and nominees 2013 in LGBTQ history
Lambda Lambda (; uppercase , lowercase ; , ''lám(b)da'') is the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoen ...