| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Bisexual Fiction | Susan Choi, My Education [2] | |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television [2] | |
| Gay Erotica | Alex Jeffers, The Padisah's Son and the Fox [2] | |
| Gay Fiction | Luis Negrón (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), Mundo Cruel [2] | |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Glenway Wescott (ed. Jerry Rosco), A Heaven of Words: Last Journals [2] | - Alysia Abbott, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
- Blake Bailey, Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
- Jim Elledge, Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist
- Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims
- Perry N. Halkitis, The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
- Hillary Holladay, American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement
- David Margolick, Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
- Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography
- Tim Teeman, In Bed With Gore Vidal
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| Gay Mystery | Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera [2] | |
| Gay Poetry | Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden [2] | |
| Gay Romance | TJ Klune, Into This River I Drown [2] | - Larry Benjamin, Unbroken
- L. C. Chase, Pickup Men
- L. A. Fields, My Dear Watson
- Alexis Hall, Glitterland
- Edmond Manning, King Mai
- Madison Parker, Play Me, I’m Yours
- J. H. Trumble, Where You Are
- Lynley Wayne, Rocky’s Road
- L. A. Witt, Covet Thy Neighbor
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| Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green, ed., Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories [2] | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water [2] | |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic [2] | |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest, High Desert [2] | - Laura Antoniou, The Killer Wore Leather
- R.E. Bradshaw, The Rainey Season
- Ian Hamilton, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
- Ellen Hart, Taken by the Wind
- Anne Holt, Death of the Demon
- Val McDermid, Cross and Burn
- Jenna Rae, Turning on the Tide
- Ann Roberts, Point of Betrayal
- Jean Sheldon, She Overheard Murder
- Diane Wood, Web of Obsessions
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| Lesbian Poetry | Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall [2] | |
| Lesbian Romance | Andrea Bramhall, Clean Slate [2] | |
| LGBT Anthology | Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction
Jim Elledge and David Groff, Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners [2] | - Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris, An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings
- Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibran Guido, Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollentions of Consciousness and Coming Out
- Brittany Fonte and Regie Cabico, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry
- Evan J. Peterson and Vincent Kovar, Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5
- Vivek Shraya, What I LOVE about being QUEER
- Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu and Mireille Miller-Young, The Feminist Porn Book
- T. C. Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
- Megan Volpert, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching
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| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing [2] | |
| LGBT Debut Fiction | Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar [2] | |
| LGBT Drama | Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm [2] | |
| LGBT Graphic Novel | Nicole Georges, Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir [2] | |
| LGBT Non-Fiction | Hilton Als, White Girls [2] | - Dennis Altman, The End of the Homosexual?
- Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini and Michael Amico, You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People
- Jeff Chu, Does Jesus Really Love Me?
- Thomas Glave, Among the Bloodpeople
- Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
- Matt Richardson, The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
- Daniel Winunwe Rivers, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II
- Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi and Edmund White, Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983
- Phil Tiemeyer, Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants
- Jaime Woo, Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect
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| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Death by Silver [2] | - Richard Bowes, Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
- Nathan Burgoine, Light
- Isabella Carter, Dragon Slayer
- Marie Castle, Hell’s Belle
- Roberta Degnore, Invisible Soft Return
- Alex Jeffers, Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy
- Mary Anne Mohanraj, The Stars Change
- Lee Thomas, Like Light for Flies
- Deborah Wheeler, Collaborators
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| LGBT Studies | Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence [2] | - Marlon M. Bailey, Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
- Peter M. Coviello, Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely
- Lisa Henderson, Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
- Victoria Hesford, Feeling Women’s Liberation
- Colin R. Johnson, Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
- Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, Shanghai Lalas
- Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
- Susana Pena, Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
- Isaac West, Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law
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| Transgender Fiction | Trish Salah, Wanting in Arabic [2] | |
| Transgender Non-Fiction | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The End of San Francisco [2] | |