| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
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| Bisexual Literature |
 Jenny Block, Open |
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| Gay Debut Fiction |
Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater |
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| Gay Erotica |
Richard Labonté and James Lear, eds., Best Gay Erotica 2009 |
- James Lear, The Secret Tunnel
- William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith and J.P. Bowie, Hard Working Men
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| Gay Fiction |
Scott Heim, We Disappear |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography |
Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love |
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| Gay Mystery |
Scott Sherman, First You Fall |
- Stephen Anable, The Fisher Boy
- Anthony Bidulka, Sundowner Ubuntu
- Neil Plakcy, Mahu Fire
- John Morgan Wilson, Spider Season
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| Gay Poetry |
Mark Doty, Fire to Fire
James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy |
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| Gay Romance |
Larry Duplechan, Got 'til it's Gone |
- Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon, Mexican Heat
- N. L. Gassert, The Protector
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| Lesbian Debut Fiction |
Magdalena Zurawski, The Bruise |
- Jill Malone, Red Audrey & the Roping
- Linda Villarosa, Passing for Black
- Meri Weiss, Closer to Fine
- Chavisa Woods, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind
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| Lesbian Erotica |
Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip |
- Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Lipstick on Her Collar
- Lynne Jamneck, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures
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| Lesbian Fiction |
Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter
Chandra Mayor, All the Pretty Girls |
- Ivan Coyote, The Slow Fix
- Stephanie Grant, Map of Ireland
- Ruth Perkinson, Breaking Spirit Bridge
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| Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Maureen Seaton, Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir |
- Susan Griffin, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
- Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
- Joanne Passet, Sex Variant Woman
- Abbe Smith, Case of a Lifetime
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| Lesbian Mystery |
Josie Gordon, Whacked |
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| Lesbian Poetry |
Judy Grahn, love belongs to those who do the feeling |
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| Lesbian Romance |
Karin Kallmaker, The Kiss That Counted |
- Georgia Beers, Finding Home
- Catherine Friend, A Pirate’s Heart
- JLee Meyer, Hotel Liaison
- Radclyffe, The Lonely Hearts Club
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| LGBT Anthology |
Thomas Glave, Our Caribbean |
- Peter Burton, ed., A Casulty of War: Gay Short Fiction
- Sabrina Chapadjiev, ed., Live Through This
- Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, eds., Love, West Hollywood
- Raphael Kadushin, ed., Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing
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| LGBT Children's/Young Adult |
Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket |
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| LGBT Drama |
Carolyn Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc |
- Dan Bernitt, Phi Alpha Gamma
- Martin Duberman, Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays
- Scott Schofield, Two Truths and a Lie
- Vanda, Vile Affections
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| LGBT Non-Fiction |
Jane Rule, Loving the Difficult |
- Nancy Agabian, Me as Her Again
- Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire
- William N. Eskridge, Jr., Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003
- Nancy Polikoff, Beyond (Straight & Gay) Marriage
- Kai Wright, Drifting Toward Love
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| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror |
Nicole Kimberling, Turnskin |
- Astrid Amara, The Archer’s Heart
- Barth Anderson, The Magician and the Fool
- Steve Berman, Wilde Stories 2008
- Craig Gidney, Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories
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| LGBT Studies |
Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality |
- Michelle Ann Abate, Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History
- Amin Ghaziani, The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
- Kevin P. Murphy, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform
- Linda Williams, Screening Sex
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| Transgender Literature |
Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) |
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