The 25th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 3, 2013, to honor works of LGBT literature published in 2012.[1]
Yolanda Wallace became the first African-American writer to win the Lesbian Romance category with her win for Month of Sundays.[1] Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod, co-editors of the anthology The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, were the first transgender authors to win the Transgender Fiction award.[1] 2013 was also the first year in the history of the awards that the Transgender Fiction award was both presented by and accepted by trans authors.[1]