Category Author/Editor Title Result Anthologies (Fiction) Robert Drake Terry Wolverton (eds.)His(2) Winner Brian Bouldrey Best American Gay Fiction 2 Finalist Peter Burton The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories Finalist Christian McEwen Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit Finalist Tristan Taormino Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 Finalist Anthologies (Nonfiction) Gordon Brent Ingram AnneMarie Bouthillette , and Yolanda Retter (eds.)Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance Winner Michael Lowenthal Gay Men at the Millennium Finalist Rictor Norton My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries Finalist Carol Queen Lawrence Schimel (eds.)PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality Finalist Jess Wells Lesbians Raising Sons Finalist Children's and Young Adult Jacqueline Woodson The House You Pass On the Way Winner Jeanne Arnold Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What's a Lesbian? Finalist Liza Ketchum Blue Coyote Finalist Adam Mastoon The Shared Heart Finalist Paul Monette Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods Finalist Drama Moises Kaufman Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Winner Harry M. Benshoff Monsters in the Closet Finalist Jonathan Larson Rent Finalist Lillian Schlissel Three Plays by Mae West Finalist Chay Yew Porcelain and A Language of Their Own Finalist Gay Memoir or Biography Rafael Campo The Poetry of Healing Winner Michael Klein Track Conditions Finalist Felice Picano A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay Finalist Gary Schmidgall Walt Whitman: a Gay Life Finalist Mark Thompson Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow Finalist Gay Fiction Aryeh Lev Stollman The Far Euphrates Winner Neil Bartlett The House on Brooke Street Finalist Christopher Bram Gossip Finalist Allan Gurganus Plays Well With Others Finalist Edmund White The Farewell Symphony Finalist Gay Mystery David Hunt The Magician's Tale Winner Christopher Bram Gossip Finalist Michael Nava The Burning Plain Finalist John Morgan Wilson Revision of Justice Finalist R. D. Zimmerman Hostage Finalist Gay Poetry Cyrus Cassells Beautiful Signor Winner Frank Bidart Desire Finalist James Broughton Jim Cory )Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 Finalist Tom Carey Desire: Poems 1986-1996 Finalist Justin Chin Bite Hard Finalist Gay Studies Charles Kaiser Gay Metropolis Winner Martin Duberman Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures Finalist Gabriel Rotello Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men Finalist Michelangelo Signorile Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men Finalist Mark Thompson Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self Finalist Humor Bob Smith Openly Bob Winner Alison Bechdel Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For Finalist Erika Lopez Flaming Iguanas Finalist David Sedaris Naked Finalist Sarah Strohmeyer Barbie Unbound Finalist Lesbian Biography and Autobiography Barbara Wilson Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood Winner Kim Chernin My Life as a Boy Finalist Hermione Lee Virginia Woolf Finalist Margaret Peters May Sarton: a Biography Finalist Daphne Scholinski The Last Time I Wore a Dress Finalist Lesbian Fiction Elana Dykewomon Beyond the Pale Winner Persimmon Blackbridge Prozac Highway Finalist Blanche McCrary Boyd Terminal Velocity Finalist Frankie Hucklenbroich A Crystal Diary Finalist Ruthann Robson A/K/A Finalist Lesbian Mystery Randye Lordon Father Forgive Me Winner Katherine V. Forrest Apparition Alley Finalist Carole LaFavor Evil Dead Center Finalist Jaye Maiman Old Black Magic Finalist Cynthia Webb No Daughter of the South Finalist Lesbian Poetry Joan Larkin Cold River Winner Eileen Myles School of Fish Winner Pat Califia Diesel Fuel Finalist Emma Donoghue Poems Between Women Finalist Gerry Gomez Pearlberg Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry Finalist Lesbian Studies Lisa C. Moore Does Your Mama Know? Winner Susan K. Raffo Queerly Classed Finalist Catherine Reid Holly Iglesias Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers Finalist Diana Souhami Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter Finalist Arlene Stein Sex and Sensibility Finalist Science fiction, fantasy or horror Nicola Griffith Stephen Pagel Bending the Landscape Winner Harry M. Benshoff Monsters in the Closet Finalist Perry Brass The Harvest Finalist William J. Mann Mann Grave Passions Finalist Lawrence Schimel The Drag Queen of Elfland Finalist Small Press Lisa C. Moore Does Your Mama Know? Winner Bruce Benderson Toward the New Degeneracy Finalist Justin Chin Bite Hard Finalist Elana Dykewomon Beyond the Pale Finalist Sarah Strohmeyer Barbie Unbound Finalist Spirituality Rebecca Alpert Like Bread on the Seder Plate Winner Bruce Bawer Stealing Jesus Finalist Randy P. Conner Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit Finalist Andrew Harvey The Essential Gay Mystics Finalist Winston Leyland Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists Finalist Transgender Carol Queen Lawrence Schimel (eds.)PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality Winner Daphne Scholinski Jane Meredith Adams The Last Time I Wore a Dress Winner Pat Califia Sex Changes Finalist Annick Prieur Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos Finalist Riki Anne Wilchins Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender Finalist Visual Arts Robert Giard Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers Winner David Leddick Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 Winner Joani Blank I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves Finalist Anderson Jones Men Together Finalist John Waters John Waters: Director's Cut Finalist