The Lambda Literary Awards were presented on May 2nd in New York City. 
The awards are given out annually by the Lambda Literary Foundation, 
which is "devoted to the recognition & promotion of gay, lesbian, 
transgender, and bisexual writing." The winner in the 
Photography/Visual Arts category was "Dear friends: American 
photographs of men together, 1840-1918" by David Deitcher (Harry N. 
Abrams, 2001).

The other nominees in the Photography/Visual Arts were:

* The Male Nude Now, by David Leddick, Universe
* Intimacies, by Tee A. Corinne, Last Gasp
* Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of Paperback, by 
Susan Stryker, Chronicle Books
* Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon, by Robert Mainardi, 
Council Oak Books 

More info on the foundation and awards can be found at 
http://www.lambdalit.org

I would like to especially encourage art libraries to consider these 
books for their collections. One of the nominated books is a collection 
of photographs by Tee Corinne, my co-editor on the newsletter of the 
Queer Caucus for Art. Tee has long been a strong supporter of libraries 
and their role in artists' lives. Last Gasp has been very generous to 
its books, keeping them in print when a mainstream house might pull the 
plug.

So I'll make a plug for Tee's book -- buy it! Press release and 
ordering info below.

Thanks.
Sherman Clarke, NYU
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PRESS RELEASE

INTIMACIES   Photographs by Tee A. Corinne,  Introduction by Jonathan D.
Katz, Ph.D.
Essays by Tamsin Wilton and Tee A. Corinne
Published by Last Gasp of San Francisco <www.lastgasp.com>
ISBN 0-86719-526-6, 6½ x 9 inches, hardbound, $29.95
60 duotone photographs, 92 pages

INTIMACIES, a 2002 Lambda Literary Award finalist, gathers a quarter-of-
a-century's worth of Tee A. Corinne's darkroom-altered black-and-white 
images which follow in the art tradition of Man Ray's experimental 
work. The pictures are tender, sensual, and overtly sexual. Jonathan D. 
Katz, in his introduction to Intimacies, observes that "here is an 
erotic art that's smart formally, a formal art that's erotic. In 
Corinne's photography, body and mind can't be sundered."

According to Finger Licking Good author Tamsin Wilton, "Tee Corinne's 
work is widely accepted by those lesbian feminists who would not be 
seen dead with a copy of one of the 1990s lesbian sex magazines in 
their hands. Yet this acceptance is in some ways contradictory. For, 
whereas some of her contemporaries are primarily interested in gender, 
and concerned to deconstruct it and its relationship to sexuality ... 
Corinne is primarily interested in sex, and in sexual pleasure."

As an award-winning artist, writer, and anthology editor, Ms. Corinne 
has been active in lesbian, feminist, and queer publishing for three 
decades. According to Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian 
Encyclopedia, she "is one of the most visible and accessible lesbian 
artists in the world." Tee Corinne holds a Master of Fine Arts degree 
from Pratt Institute. She is the author of  the Cunt Coloring Book and  
two previous books of photographs, Yantras of Womanlove and Lesbian 
Muse. She  received the Women's Caucus for Art President's Award (1997) 
and the Abdill-Ellis Lambda Award for Lifetime Achievement (2000).

Intimacies is distributed by Publishers Group West, Bookpeople, and 
Last Gasp.

See also: The Cunt Coloring Book $7.95, ISBN 0-86719-371-9, Last Gasp,
http://www.lastgasp.com

for review copies contact Erick Gilbert <[log in to unmask]> 
for interviews contact: Tee A. Corinne <[log in to unmask]>

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