| Category | 
Winner | 
Nominated | 
|  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 | 
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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 | 
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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 Casualty 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 Laurance 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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