Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best religion books of 1999, the book was also nominated for a Lambda Award.

Award and the Lambda Award.

The English edition (Algonquin Books, 1994) earned a Lambda Award.

In 1992, he received a Lambda Award for Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963-1992.

Her 2009 book, Palimpsest, won the Lambda Award for GLBT Science Fiction or Fantasy.

Other lesbians, such as Lambda Award winning author Elana Dykewomon, have chosen separatism as a lifelong practice.