| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
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| Bisexual Literature |
 Cheryl Burke, My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B
John Irving, In One Person |
- Janet W. Hardy, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals
- Richard Mason, History of a Pleasure Seeker
- Scotty-Miguel Sandoe, Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List
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| Gay Erotica |
Mykola Dementiuk, The Facialist |
- Todd Gregory, ed. Raising Hell: Demonic Gay Erotica
- Lukas Hand, Coming To: A Collection of Erotic and Other Epiphanies
- William Holden, Secret Societies
- Jerry L. Wheeler, Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits
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| Gay Fiction |
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography |
Cynthia Carr, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz |
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| Gay Mystery |
Jeffrey Round, Lake on the Mountain |
- Anthony Bidulka, Dos Equis
- Steve Neil Johnson, The Yellow Canary
- Janice Law, Fires of London
- Rod Shelton, Bokassa’s Last Apostle
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| Gay Poetry |
Stephen S. Mills, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices |
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| Gay Romance |
Jay Bell, Kamikaze Boys |
- Brad Boney, The Nothingness of Men
- Barry Brennessel, The Celestial
- William Masswa, Toughskins
- J. H. Trumble, Don’t Let Me Go
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| Lesbian Erotica |
D. L. King, The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica |
- Ily Goyanes, ed., Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica
- Catt Kingsgrave, One Saved to the Sea
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| Lesbian Fiction |
Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found |
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| Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? |
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| Lesbian Mystery |
J. M. Redmann, Ill Will |
- R. E. Bradshaw, Molly: House on Fire
- Ellen Hart, Rest for the Wicked
- C. P. Rowlands, Jacob’s War
- Robin Silverman, Lemon Reef
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| Lesbian Poetry |
Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog |
- Julia Bloch, Letters to Kelly Clarkson
- Marty McConnell, wine for a shotgun
- Eileen Myles, snowflake/different streets
- Kathryn L. Pringle, fault tree
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| Lesbian Romance |
Yolanda Wallace, Month of Sundays |
- Lesley Davis, Dark Wings Descending
- Trin Denise, She Left Me Breathless
- Yvonne Heidt, Sometime Yesterday
- Q. Kelly, Third
- Anne Laughlin, Runaway
- Lynette Mae, Tactical Pursuit
- Chris Paynter, Survived by Her Longtime Companion
- Ali Vali, Love Match
- Kieran York, Appointment with a Smile
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| LGBT Anthology |
Justin Hall, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics |
- Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort, Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage
- Keith Boykin, For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Still Not Enough
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
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| LGBT Children's/Young Adult |
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe |
- S. Bear Bergman and Suzy Malik, The Adventure of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy
- Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
- Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Molly Beth Griffin, Silhouette of a Sparrow
- Elissa Janine Hoole, Kiss the Morning Star
- A.S. King, Ask the Passengers
- E. M. Kokie, Personal Effects
- David Levithan, Every Day
- Malinda Lo, Adaptation
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| LGBT Debut Fiction |
Mia McKenzie, The Summer We Got Free |
- Lania Knight, Three Cubic Feet
- Alex Leslie, People Who Disappear
- E. J. Levy, Love, In Theory
- Lydia Perovic, Incidental Music
- Kristen Ringman, Makara
- Carter Sickels, The Evening Hour
- Lysley Tenorio, Monstress
- Jeanne Thornton, The Dream of Doctor Bantam
- William Sterling Walker, Desire: Tales of New Orleans
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| LGBT Drama |
David Greenspan, The Myopia and Other Plays |
- C. E. Gatchalian, Falling in Time
- Jon Marans, A Strange and Separate People
- A. Rey Pamatmat, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
- A. Rey Pamatmat, Thunder Above, Deeps Below
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| LGBT Non-Fiction |
Dale Carpenter, Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas |
- Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
- Stacy Braukman, Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965
- T Cooper, Real Man Adventures
- Michael G. Long, ed., I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters
- Sarah Schulman, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
- Jeffrey Schwarz, Mark Thompson and Bo Young, Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader Reel One and Reel Two
- Andrew Solomon, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
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| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror |
Tom Cardamone, Green Thumb |
- Sean Eads, The Survivors
- Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann, Night Shadows: Queer Horror
- H. B. Kurtzwilde, Chocolatiers of the High Winds
- Brit Mandelo, Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction
- Kelly Sinclair, In the Now
- Connie Wilkins and Steve Berman, Heiresses of Russ 2012: the Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
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| LGBT Studies |
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics |
- Tracy Baim, Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America
- Bernadette C. Barton, Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays
- Ashley Currier, Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
- Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling
- David M. Halperin, How to Be Gay
- Ernesto Javier Martínez, On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
- Brenna M. Munro, South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom
- Louis-Georges Tin, The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
- Sara Warner, Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
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| Transgender Fiction |
Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod, eds., The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard |
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| Transgender Non-Fiction |
Anne Enke, Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies |
- Ryka Aoki, Seasonal Velocities
- Dylan Edwards, Transposes
- Matt Kailey, Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects
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