Creating a new award for LGBTQ books

There has been a kerfuffle over the Lambda Literary Foundation erecting a "straights keep out" sign in front of the Lambda awards, not helped by the fact that the wording of said sign appears to also exclude bi and gay women who write m/m (and various other permutations of not-Kinsey0 authors and subject matter found in erotic romance).

One of the responses to the irritation expressed by some of the authors concerned has been "well, you can always set up your own awards for LGBT content books if you don't like what Lambda has done".

That is in fact what is going on. In particular, one of the m/m romance reviewers has set to work. More details at her LiveJournal. If you're interested in LGBTQ fiction, please wander over and see if you're interested in helping, even if just providing useful snippets of information.

And yes, the point here is to cover *all* of LGBTQ, not just the G. If you're into femmeslash, or books that showcase bi characters, or books with trans heroes and heroines, or books that are queer, you're wanted too.

(For those who don't know Elisa -- she's an Italian romance fan who reads and reviews in English as well as Italian.)