| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
|---|
| Bisexual Fiction |
 Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island |
- Leopoldine Core, When Watched
- Martin Hyatt, Beautiful Gravity
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| Bisexual Non-Fiction |
Ana Castillo, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me |
- Elizabeth Hall, I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris
- Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Sara Lubowitz, Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women
- Ann Tweedy, The Body’s Alphabet
|
| Bisexual Poetry |
Abigail Child, Mouth to Mouth |
No advance shortlist was released in this category; the book was listed as a Bisexual Fiction nominee in the original nomination announcement, but singled out as a Bisexual Poetry winner at the ceremony. |
| Gay Fiction |
Rabih Alameddine, The Angel of History |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography |
Cleve Jones, When We Rise |
- Brian Blanchfield, Proxies
- Augusten Burroughs, Lust & Wonder
- Garrard Conley, Boy Erased
- Joseph Osmundson, Capsid: A Love Song
- Michael Schreiber, One Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin
- Will Schwalbe, Books For Living
- Frederic Spotts, Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann
|
| Gay Mystery |
J. Aaron Sanders, Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery |
- L. A. Fields, Homo Superiors
- Janice Law, Nights in Berlin
- Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy
- Michael Nava, Lay Your Sleeping Head
|
| Gay Poetry |
Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior |
- Derrick Austin, Trouble the Water
- Bryan Borland, DIG
- Sjohnna McCray, Rapture
- Rajiv Mohabir, The Taxidermist’s Cut
- Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- Aaron Smith, Primer
- C. Dale Young, The Halo
|
| Gay Romance |
Pene Henson, Into the Blue |
- Richard Compson Sater, Rank
- Jamie Deacon, Caught Inside
- Alexis Hall, Pansies
- Lisa Henry, Adulting 101
- Garrett Leigh, Rented Heart
- Jeff Mann, Country
- Marshall Thornton, Femme
|
| Lesbian Fiction |
Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun |
- Kathy Anderson, Bull & Other Stories
- Lynda A. Archer, Tears in the Grass
- Lucy Jane Bledsoe, A Thin Bright Line
- M. B. Caschetta, Pretend I’m Your Friend
- Lynn C. Miller, The Day After Death
- Cathleen Schine, They May Not Mean To, But They Do
- Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
|
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Gloria Joseph, The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde |
- Ma-Nee Chacaby, A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
- Christina Crosby, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain
- Tig Notaro, I‘m Just a Person
- Joanne Passet, Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier
|
| Lesbian Mystery |
Jessica L. Webb, Pathogen |
- Lynn Ames, Final Cut
- Andrea Bramhall, Collide-O-Scope
- Jessie Chandler, Blood Money Murder
- T. L. Hart, Walk-in
- Cheryl A. Head, Bury Me When I’m Dead
- Jennifer L. Jordan, Under Contract
- Lee Winter, Requiem for Immortals
|
| Lesbian Poetry |
Francine J. Harris, play dead
Pat Parker (ed. Julie R. Enszer), Complete Works of Pat Parker |
- Stephanie Adams-Santos, Swarm Queen’s Crown
- Etel Adnan, Night
- Donika Kelly, Bestiary
- Stacy Szymaszek, Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night’s Press Journal of Ugly Sites
- Vi Khi Nao, The Old Philosopher
- Arisa White, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
|
| Lesbian Romance |
Yoshiyuki Ly, The Scorpion’s Empress |
- Kiki Archer, Lost in the Starlight
- Lila Bruce, Little Lies
- Karma Kingsley, Finding Lizzie
- Marianne K. Martin, The Liberators of Willow Run
- Rachel Spangler, Perfect Pairing
- Susan Wittig Albert, Loving Eleanor
- Barbara Ann Wright, Coils
|
| LGBTQ Anthology |
Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care |
- Lucian Childs and Martha Amore, Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry
- David J. Getsy, Queer
- E. Patrick Johnson, No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
- Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery, ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics
|
| LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult |
M-E Girard, Girl Mans Up |
- Jeff Garvin, Symptoms of Being Human
- C. B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick
- Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
- Juliann Rich, Teen Gravity
- Brie Spangler, Beast
- Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts
- John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior
|
| LGBT Drama |
Robert O'Hara, Barbecue/Bootycandy |
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| LGBTQ Erotica |
Rebekah Weatherspoon, Soul to Keep |
- Alexa Black, Steel and Promise
- Scott Alexander Hess, Skyscraper
- Meghan O'Brien, Camp Rewind
- Marie Sexton and L. A. Witt, Roped In
|
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel |
Ed Luce, Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal |
- P. Kristen Enos and Heidi Ho, Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures Of An Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist And Her Friends
- Eric Liberge and Arnaud Delalande (tr. David Homel), The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker
|
| LGBTQ Non-Fiction |
David France, How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS |
- Donald Albrecht, Stephen Vider and Skira Rizzoli, Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
- Ariel Goldberg, The Estrangement Principle
- David Greven, Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
- Kristen Hogan, The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
- Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair
- Jurek Wajdowicz, Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City
|
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror |
Indra Das, The Devourers |
- Michael Thomas Ford, Lily
- Andrea Hairston, Will Do Magic for Small Change
- Dayna Ingram, All Good Children
- David Lennon, Irish Black
- Sassafras Lowrey, A Little Queermas Carol
- Ras Mashramani, Rasheedah Phillips, Alex Smith and M. Eighteen Téllez, Style of Attack Report
- A. C. Wise, Kissing Booth Girl
|
| LGBTQ Studies |
Jennifer Tyburczy, Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display |
- Qwo-Li Driskill, Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory
- Omar G. Encarnación, Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution
- Jonathan Goldberg, Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
- Andrew J. Jolivette, Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
- Kevin Mumford, Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
- Timothy Stewart-Winter, Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
- Gregory Woods, Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
|
| Transgender Fiction |
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, Small Beauty |
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| Transgender Non-Fiction |
Lei Ming, Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China |
- Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom, You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition
- Morgan Mann Willis, Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity
- Samuel Peterson, Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir
- Julia Serano, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism
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| Transgender Poetry |
Kokumo, Reacquainted with Life |
- Cameron Awkward-Rich, Sympathetic Little Monster
- Jos Charles, Safe Space
- Jai Arun Ravine, The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide
- Vivek Shraya, even this page is white
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