Kenji Yoshino, the winner of this year’s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction for Covering, celebrates with fellow nominee Bernard Cooper and their shared publicist, Kimberly Burns; Carroll & Graf‘s Don Weise makes sure I get a picture of Bob Smith talking to InsightOut Books director Michael Connor at the post-ceremony reception, and TOSOS II co-director Mary Louise Mooney loosens her tie and relaxes. (For full-size versions of these photos, visit my Flickr page.)
The other winners at this year’s Triangle Awards, honoring the best in gay and lesbian publishing were:
- Debut Fiction: Martin Hyatt, A Scarecrow’s Bible
- Lesbian Nonfiction: Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
- Gay Male Poetry: Justin Chin, Gutted
- Lesbian Poetry: Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
- Fiction, Women: Lisa Carey, Every Visible Thing
- Fiction, Men: Christopher Bram, Exiles in America
- Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement: Andrew Holleran
- Robert Chesley Playwrighting Awards: Eric Bentley, Chris Weikel