Category Author Title Result AIDS Literature Paul Monette Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir Winner Emmanuel Dreuilhe Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS Finalist Andrew Holleran Ground Zero Finalist Ines Rieder Patricia Ruppelt AIDS: The Women Finalist Cindy Ruskin Matt Herron , and Deborah Zemke The Quilt Finalist Gay Debut Fiction Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming Pool Library Winner C.F. Borgman River Road Finalist Russell A. Brown Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde Finalist Joe Keenan Blue Heaven Finalist Stan Leventhal Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square Finalist Gay Fiction Edmund White The Beautiful Room Is Empty Winner Christopher Davis Valley of the Shadow Finalist Robert Ferro Second Son Finalist Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming Pool Library Finalist Stephen Spender The Temple Finalist Gay Mystery/Science Fiction Michael Nava Golden Boy Winner George Baxt Who’s Next Finalist Michael Bishop Unicorn Mountain Finalist Joseph Hansen Obedience Finalist Donald Ward Death Takes the Stage Finalist Gay Non-Fiction Paul Monette Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir Winner Betty Berzon Permanent Partners Finalist Warren Blumenfeld Diane Raymond Looking At Gay and Lesbian Life Finalist Eric Marcus The Male Couple’s Guide to Living Together Finalist Will Roscoe Living the Spirit Finalist Gay Small Press Ahmad al-Tifashi Edward A. Lacey (trans.)The Delight of Hearts, or What You Will Not Find in Any Book Winner Michael Nava Golden Boy Winner Thomas Cowan Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World Finalist Charles Jurrist Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction Finalist Leigh W. Rutledge Unnatural Quotations Finalist Lesbian Debut Fiction Madelyn Arnold Bird-Eyes Winner Joyce Bright Sunday’s Child Finalist Judy Grahn Mundane’s World Finalist Denise Ohio The Finer Grain Finalist Katherine Sturtevant A Mistress Moderately Fair Finalist Lesbian Fiction Dorothy Allison Trash: Short Stories Winner Rita Mae Brown Bingo Finalist Jan Clausen The Prosperine Papers Finalist Camarin Grae The Secret in the Bird Finalist Sarah Schulman After Delores Finalist Lesbian Mystery/Science Fiction Antoinette Azolakov Skiptrace Winner Sandy Bayer The Crystal Curtain Finalist Judy Grahn Mundane’s World Finalist Dolores Klaich Heavy Gilt Finalist Claire McNab Lessons in Murder Finalist Lesbian Non-Fiction Sarah Lucia Hoagland Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value Winner Betty Berzon Permanent Partners Finalist Karla Jay The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien Finalist Audre Lorde A Burst of Light Finalist Karen Thompson Julie Andrzejewski Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? Finalist Lesbian Small Press Dorothy Allison Trash: Short Stories Winner Alison Bechdel More Dykes to Watch Out For Finalist Pat Califia Macho Sluts Finalist Karen Thompson Julie Andrzejewski Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? Finalist A. Weiss G. Schiller Before Stonewall Finalist Poetry Carl Morse Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time Winner Josephine Balmer Sappho: Poems and Fragments Finalist James Merrill The Inner Room Finalist Paul Monette Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog Finalist May Sarton The Silence Now Finalist