Body Counts
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Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival, by POZ founder Sean Strub, is a Lambda Literary Award finalist in the Gay Memoir/Biography category, according to an announcement from the organization.

At least two other HIV-related books are among the finalists: Martin Duberman’s Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS and Rebecca J. Anderson’s Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS. Both are nominated in the LGBT Nonfiction category.

The Lambda Literary Awards, or Lammys, recognize outstanding LGBT stories in categories such as Bisexual Fiction, Gay General Fiction, Lesbian Poetry and LGBT Children’s/Young Adult. Winners will be announced during a June 1 ceremony in New York City.

Stub founded POZ in 1994 and is currently the executive director of the Sero Project, which fights unjust HIV criminalization. His memoir was published last year by Scribner and was excerpted in an issue of POZ (pictured above).

Also check out POZ’s interview with Duberman about Hold Tight Gently and POZ blogger Mark S. King’s interview with Strub about the legacy of AIDS.