| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
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| Bisexual Literature |
 Emily Bingham, Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham[2]
Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark[2] |
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| Gay Erotica |
Miodrag Kojadinovic, Érotiques Suprèmes[2] |
- Jennifer Levine and Rian Darcy, Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales
- Natty Soltesz, College Dive Bar, 1 AM
- William Holden, Grave Desires
- Michael Ampersant, Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of)
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| Gay Fiction |
Hasan Namir, God in Pink[2] |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography |
Langdon Hammer, James Merrill: Life and Art[2] |
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| Gay Mystery |
Marshall Thornton, Boystown 7: Bloodlines[2] |
- Jeffrey Round, After the Horses
- Tom Mendicino, The Boys from Eighth and Carpenter
- Jon Wilson, Cheap as Beasts
- Wallace Godfrey, Introducing Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives
- Rhys Ford, Murder and Mayhem
- Christopher Bollen, Orient
- Robert Karjel, The Swede
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| Gay Poetry |
Nicholas Wong, Crevasse[2]
Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance[2] |
- Roberto F. Santiago, Angel Park
- Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn
- Francisco X. Alarcón, Canto Hondo/Deep Song
- Ben Ladouceur, Otter
- Jee Leong Koh, Steep Tea
- Ralph Hamilton, Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail
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| Gay Romance |
Debbie McGowan, When Skies Have Fallen[2] |
- Vanessa North, Blueberry Boys
- Ralph Josiah Barsley, Brothers
- Alexis Hall, For Real
- L. A. Witt, General Misconduct
- Garrett Leigh, Misfits
- Jay Bell, Something Like Stories, Volume One
- Brad Boney, Yes
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| Lesbian Erotica |
Meghan O'Brien, The Muse[2] |
- Salome Wilde and Talon Rihai, Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica
- Sinclair Sexsmith, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica
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| Lesbian Fiction |
Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees[2] |
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| Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Kate Carroll de Gutes, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear[2] |
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| Lesbian Mystery |
Ann Aptaker, Tarnished Gold[2]
Victoria Brownworth, Ordinary Mayhem[2] |
- Ellen Hart, The Grave Soul
- Stevie Mikayne, Illicit Artifacts
- Cari Hunter, No Good Reason
- Lee Winter, The Red Files
- R. E. Bradshaw, Relatively Rainey
- Debra Hyde, The Tattered Heiress
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| Lesbian Poetry |
Dawn Lundy Martin, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life[2] |
- Melissa Buzzeo, The Devastation
- Claudia Rodriguez, Everybody’s Bread
- Sara Jane Stoner, Experience in the Medium of Destruction
- Margot Douaihy, Girls Like You
- Jessica Jacobs, Pelvis with Distance
- J. P. Howard, Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories
- Stephanie Gray, Shorthand and Electric Language Stars
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| Lesbian Romance |
Julie Blair, Making a Comeback[2] |
- Shelley Thrasher, Autumn Spring
- Andrea Bramhall, The Chameleon’s Tale
- Dillon Watson, Full Circle
- Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game
- Jackie D. Bold, Infiltration
- Blythe H. Warren, My Best Friend’s Girl
- Amy Dunne, The Renegade
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| LGBT Anthology |
Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács and Sabina Ibarrola, Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy[2]
Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts, Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology[2] |
- Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana and Jill Dolan, Memories of the Revolution
- Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
- Julie Bozza, A Pride of Poppies: Modern GLBTQI Fiction of the Great War
- Nívea Castro and Geny Cabral, Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians
- Torsten Højer, Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction
- Merritt Kopas, Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation
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| LGBT Children's/Young Adult |
Alex Gino, George[2] |
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| LGBT Debut Fiction |
Victor Yates, A Love Like Blood[2] |
- Austin Bunn, The Brink
- Mark S. Luckie, Do U.
- Paul Brownsey, His Steadfast Love and Other Stories
- Ioannis Pappos, Hotel Living
- Meliza Bañales, Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific
- James Driggers, Lovesick
- Libby Ware, Lum
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| LGBT Drama |
Tanya Barfield, Bright Half Life[2] |
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| LGBT Graphic Novel |
E. K. Weaver, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal[2] |
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| LGBT Non-Fiction |
Marcia M. Gallo, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy[2] |
- Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski, Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
- Corbett Joan O'Toole, Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History
- Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science
- Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
- Joshua Gamson, Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship
- Robert Lorway, Namibia’s Rainbow Project
- Jarrett Neal, What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity
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| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror |
Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers[2] |
- John Inman, The Boys on the Mountain
- Fletcher DeLancey, The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea – Book #1)
- Ally Blue, Down
- Robert Levy, The Glittering World
- J. A. Rock, Minotaur
- Kate Sherwood, Sacrati
- Jude McLaughlin, Wonder City Stories
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| LGBT Studies |
Hiram Pérez, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire[2] |
- Clare Sears, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
- L. H. Stallings, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
- Aaron Goodfellow, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
- Madhavi Menon, Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
- Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
- Petrus Liu, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
- Valerie Traub, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
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| Transgender Fiction |
Roz Kaveney, Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners[2] |
- Michael Scott Monje, Jr., Defiant
- Sassafras Lowrey, Lost Boi
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| Transgender Non-Fiction |
Willy Wilkinson, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency[2] |
- Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
- Zane Thimmesch-Gill, Hiding in Plain Sight
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| Transgender Poetry |
Kari Edwards, succubus in my pocket[2] |
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