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The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards (1999–present) are given to works of science fiction, fantasy and horror that explore LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) topics in a positive way. Established in 1998, the awards were initially presented by the Gaylactic Network, with awards first awarded in 1999. In 2002 the awards were given their own organization, the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Foundation.^[1]

The major award categories are for best novel, short fiction, and other works. The winners and short list of recommended nominees are decided by a jury. One of the most recognized authors, Nicola Griffith has received the most awards overall, with three wins. Griffith also jointly holds the record for most nominations with Melissa Scott, both having received five nominations. Works of any format produced before the awards were first given were eligible to be inducted into the "Hall of Fame", although no work has been inducted since 2003. The list of award winners and Hall of Fame inductees has been called a "who's who of science fiction" by GLBTQ.com.^[2] This article lists the winners in each of the categories, and the inductees to the Hall of Fame.

Contents

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  1 Award process
  


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  2 Winners
  
  • 
    2.1 List of winners
    
  
  
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    2.2 Hall of Fame
    
  
  


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  3 See also
  


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  4 References
  


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  5 External links
  

Award process

Since their inception, the awards were given in categories for novels and best other work. Other categories were also added and removed in intervening years, including categories for short fiction (since the second year) and comic books for one year. A short lived "People's Choice" award voted by convention attendees was also awarded to one work from any of the category nominee short lists. The award for best novel was the only one to have been handed out every year since the awards began. As of 2014 there were three regular categories: novels, short fiction and other works. The "other works" category included comic books, graphic novels, movies, television episodes, multimedia, anthologies, story collections, gaming products, artwork, and music.^[3]

Samuel R. Delany won a special Lifetime Achievement award.

The categories are open to submission of English-language works released during the prior calendar year in North America that include "significant positive GLBT content". The time-frame of eligibility is based on copyright date for first printing for written works, cover date for magazines and comic books, release date for films, first air date for television. Works had to have been "professionally" published or distributed to be eligible for consideration and be wholly original and legal. The judges can choose to extend eligibility for a work due to oversight, confusion regarding release dates, or problems with availability. An open nomination/recommendation process is used to identify works to be considered by the judges. Works of any format produced before the inception of the awards are eligible to be inducted into the "Hall of Fame"; these inductees were selected solely by the judges.^[3]

The results are decided by a panel of judges from the list of submitted nominees; nominations can be made by anyone. The judges are volunteers from science fiction fandom and GLBT community, with one volunteer as the "Award Administrator". The judges review each recommended work and the long list of nominees is reduced via review and discussion to a short list of finalists, and then one or more winners is chosen by consensus or vote. The results are generally announced and presented at Gaylaxicon, a convention dedicated to LGBT science fiction, although on occasion they are presented at Worldcon.^[4][5]

Each award consists of an etched image on lucite on a stand, using a spiral galaxy in a triangle logo, based on the logo of the Gaylactic Network. The award winner's name, work title, award year and category are etched on a small plaque on the base or on the plexiglass itself. A small cash stipend is also awarded to winners in the Best Novel category. The cost of the awards is paid through individual donations and fundraising events.^[3]

Winners

Nicola Griffith won the most awards.

See also: List of Gaylactic Spectrum Award winners and nominees for best novel, best short fiction, and best other work

Nicola Griffith won the most awards. Other authors and editors who won the award multiple times are David Gerrold, Keith Hartman, Laurie J. Marks, and Stephen Pagel. Melissa Scott has a novel in the Hall of Fame and won an award for Best Short Fiction. Samuel R. Delany is notable for winning both a special "Lifetime Achievement" award and having a novel in the Hall of Fame. Tanya Huff was a finalist five times without winning. The most successful individual comic book creator is Judd Winick, who was nominated twice and won one award for writing Green Lantern comic books. The creators of Buffy the Vampire Slayer also received five nominations across various media, making it the most successful franchise and television series at the awards.^[6]

List of winners

In the following table, the years correspond to the year of work's release; the ceremonies were always held the following year. The notes column details the type of media for entries in the other works category, or the name of the publication in which the entries were first published in the short fiction category. The years are linked to the appropriate year in literature, comics, television or film articles.

Year	Author(s) / Editor(s) / Director(s)	Title	Publisher / Producer	Note	Category	Ref.
1999	Ann Harris	Accidental Creatures	Tor	Novel	Novel	[7]
1999	Stephen Leigh	Dark Water's Embrace	Avon Eos	Novel	Novel	[7]
1999	Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel	Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction	Overlook	Anthology	Other work	[8]
2000	Keith Hartman	The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse	Meisha Merlin	Novel	Novel[A]	[8]
2000	Peg Kerr	The Wild Swans	Warner Aspect	Novel	Novel	[8]
2000	Eleanor Arnason	"Dapple"	Bantam Dell	in Asimov's SF 09/99	Short fiction	[8]
2000	Spike Jonze & Charlie Kaufman	Being John Malkovich	USA Films	Film	Other work	[8]
2001	David Gerrold	Jumping Off the Planet	Tor	Novel	Novel	[9]
2001	Joss Whedon et al.	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Fox/Mutant Enemy Prod.	Television series	Other work[A]	[9]
2002	Hugh Nissenson	The Song of the Earth	Algonquin	Novel	Novel	[10]
2002	Alexis Glynn Latner	"Kindred"	Overlook	in Bending the Landscape: Horror	Short fiction	[10]
2002	Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel	Bending the Landscape: Horror	Overlook	Anthology	Other work	[10]
2003	Laurie J. Marks	Fire Logic	Tor	Novel	Novel	[11]
2003	Sarah Monette	"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"	Small Beer Press	Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11	Short fiction	[11]
2003	Mark Millar et al.	The Authority issues #28-29	DC Comics	Comic book issues	Comic/graphic novel	[11]
2003	Judd Winick et al.	Green Lantern issues #153-155, "Hate Crime"	DC Comics	Comic book issues	Comic/graphic novel	[11]
2003	Michael Rowe (ed.)	Queer Fear II	Arsenal Pulp Press	Anthology	Other work	[11]
2004	Nalo Hopkinson	The Salt Roads	Warner	Novel	Novel	[12][13]
2004	Barth Anderson	"Lark Till Dawn, Princess"	Warner Aspect	in Mojo: Conjure Stories	Short fiction	[12][13]
2004	Tony Kushner	Angels in America	HBO	Television series	Other work	[12][13]
2004	Greg Rucka & Michael Lark	Gotham Central issues #6–10, "Half a Life"	DC Comics	Comic book issues	Other work	[12][13]
2005	Laurie J. Marks	Earth Logic	Tor	Novel	Novel	[14]
2005	Richard Hall	"Country People"	Southern Tier	in Shadows of the Night	Short fiction	[14]
2006	Karin Lowachee	Cagebird	Warner Aspect	Novel	Novel	[15]
2007	Hal Duncan	Vellum	Del Rey	Novel	Novel	[16]
2007	David Gerrold	"In the Quake Zone"	SFBC	in Down These Dark Spaceways	Short fiction	[16][17]
2007	Joy Parks	"Instinct"	Arsenal Pulp	in The Future Is Queer	Short fiction	[16][17]
2007	Christopher Barzak	"The Language of Moths"	Sovereign Media	in Realms of Fantasy	Short fiction	[16][17]
2007	Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds.)	The Future Is Queer	Arsenal Pulp	Anthology	Other work	[16][17]
2007	Russell T Davies et al.	Torchwood Season 1	BBC	Television series	Other work	[16][17]
2007	James McTeigue James McTeigue et al.	V for Vendetta	Warner Bros.	Film	Other work	[16][17]
2008	Ginn Hale	Wicked Gentlemen	Blind Eye Books	Novel	Novel	[18][19]
2008	Joshua Lewis	Ever So Much More Than Twenty	Lethe Press	in So Fey	Short fiction	[18][19]
2009	Elizabeth Bear	The Stratford Man (Hell and Earth/Ink and Steel)	Roc	Duology	Novel
2010	Richard Morgan	The Steel Remains	Del Rey	Novel	Novel
2010	Hal Duncan	The Behold of the Eye	Lethe Press	in Lone Star Stories/Wilde Stories 2009	Short fiction
2010	Melissa Scott	The Rocky Side of the Sky	Lethe Press	in Periphery	Short fiction
2011	Kathe Koja	Under the Poppy	Small Beer Press	Novel	Novel
2012	J. A. Pitts	Honeyed Words	Tor	Novel	Novel
2013	Madeline Miller	The Song of Achilles	Ecco Press	Novel	Novel
2014	Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold	Death By Silver	Lethe Press	Novel	Novel	[20]
2015	Melissa Scott	Fairs' Point	Lethe Press	Novel	Novel	[20]
2016	Ian McDonald	Luna: New Moon	Tor	Novel	Novel	[21]
2017	Heather Rose Jones	Mother of Souls	Bella Books	Novel	Novel	[22]

^A People's Choice award winner.

Hall of Fame

Year	Author(s) / Editor(s)	Book Title	Publisher / Producer	Media	Ref.
1999	Maureen F. McHugh	China Mountain Zhang	Tor	Novel	[7]
1999	Eric Garber & Lyn Paleo (eds.)	Uranian Worlds: A Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror	G. K. Hall	Non-fiction	[7]
2000	Nicola Griffith	Slow River	Del Rey	Novel	[23]
2000	Ellen Kushner	Swordspoint	Tor	Novel	[23]
2000	Theodore Sturgeon	The World Well Lost	Universe (June 1953)	Short fiction	[8]
2000	Donald P. Bellisario	Quantum Leap episode "Running for Honor"	Belisarius Prod.	Media (TV)	[8]
2000	Richard O'Brien & Jim Sharman	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	20th Century Fox	Media (Film)	[8]
2001	Arthur C. Clarke	Imperial Earth	Orion	Novel	[24]
2001	Mary Doria Russell	The Sparrow & Children of God	Fawcett	Novels	[24]
2001	Francesca Lia Block	Dangerous Angels aka The Weetzie Bat books	Harpercollins	Novel series	[24]
2002	Samuel R. Delany	Dhalgren	Bantam	Novel	[25]
2002	Joanna Russ	The Female Man	Bantam	Novel	[25]
2002	Scott Lobdell et al.	Alpha Flight issue #106	Marvel Comics	Comic book	[25]
2002	Geoff Ryman	Was	Harpercollins	Novel	[25]
2003	Suzy McKee Charnas	The Holdfast Chronicles	Ballantine, Tor	Novel	[11]
2003	Ursula Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness	Ace	Novel	[11]
2003	Melissa Scott	Shadow Man	Tor	Novel[A]	[11]
2003	Diane Duane	Tale of the Five series aka The Middle Kingdoms	Tor	Novel	[11]

^A People's Choice Award winner.

See also

• 
  LGBT portal
  


• 
  Speculative fiction portal
  

• LGBT themes in science fiction and fantasy


• LGBT themes in horror fiction


• LGBT themes in comics


• List of science fiction awards


• Lambda Literary Awards winners and nominees for science fiction, fantasy and horror

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