In lieu of a traditional acceptance speech, author, Rakesh Satyal, sang this thanks to the tune of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance." Rakesh's novel, "Blue Boy," won the Gay Debut Fiction Award at the the 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards in New York City on May 27, 2010.
Read a review of "Blue Boy" here:
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/fiction/06/08/blue-boy-by-rakesh-satyal/
The Lambda Literary Awards honor the finest lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans literature available in the United States. The "Lammy" is the most prestigious, competitive, and comprehensive literary award offered specifically to LGBT authors. For more than two decades the Lambda Literary Awards has brought attention to and honored exceptional writing about queer lives across multiple genres published by large and small presses.
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/
I am officially enamored with whatever this man does.
TheAlaskanPirate 1 year ago