Before we say goodbye to June and Pride, let’s take a couple more hours to celebrate the winners of the 2015 Lambda Literary Awards with some of the winners who live right here in New York City. Readers will include Diana Cage, author of Lesbian Sex Bible: The New Guide to Sexual Love for Same-Sex Couples (winner for Lesbian Erotica), as well as Whitney Strub, a contributor to Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (winner for LGBT Anthology) and some still to be determined guests.

Diana Cage was editor of the lesbian magazine On Our Backs and host of The Diana Cage Show on SiriusXM Radio. Her work has appeared in Curve, Girlfriends, Quartz, Shewired, The Advocate, Esquire, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Pratt Institute.

Whitney Strub is an associate professor of History and director of the Women’s & Gender Studies program at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (Columbia, 2011) and Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression (Kansas, 2013).