By LJ Staff

The Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing, on May 12 presented its 2003 awards for best gay and lesbian writing. Lillian Faderman won the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction for her volume Naked in the Promised Land (Houghton Mifflin). For Gay Nonfiction, John D'Emilio won for Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (Free Pr.). The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry went to Daphne Gottlieb for Final Girl (Soft Skull Pr.), while Brian Teare's The Room Where I Was Born (Univ. of Wisconsin) earned him the Publishing Triangle Award for Gay Poetry. In Gay and Lesbian Fiction, Nina Revoyr won for Southland (Akashic). Additionally, Faderman received the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lastly, the organization presented a special Leadership Award to Barbara Gittings, who headed the American Library Association's Gay Task Force from 1971 to 1986 and edited its Gay Bibliography and other gay reading lists.