| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
|---|
| Bisexual Fiction |
 Barbara Browning, The Gift[1] |
- J. E. Sumerau, Homecoming Queens
- Zoey Leigh Peterson, Next Year, for Sure
- Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
- Georgette Gouveia, The Penalty for Holding
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| Bisexual Non-Fiction |
Roxane Gay, Hunger[1] |
- Julene Tripp Weaver, Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS
- Monica Meneghetti, What the Mouth Wants
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| Gay Fiction |
John Rechy, After the Blue Hour[1] |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography |
Chike Frankie Edozien, Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man[1] |
- Parvez Sharma, A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim’s Hajj of Defiance
- Jonathan Alexander, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology
- José Antonio Rodríguez, House Built on Ashes
- Kenny Fries, In the Province of the Gods
- Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On
- Victor Corona, Night Class: A Downtown Memoir
- Bill Goldstein, The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature
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| Gay Mystery |
Marshall Thornton, Night Drop[1] |
- Marshall Thornton, Boystown 10: Gifts Given
- Kate Sherwood, Long Shadows
- Kim Fielding, Love is Heartless
- C. S. Poe, The Mystery of the Curiosities
- Mark Zubro, Ring of Silence
- Michael Nava, Street People
- Rhys Ford, Tramps and Thieves
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| Gay Poetry |
C. A. Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death[1] |
- Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead
- Charif Shanahan, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing
- Tommy Pico, Nature Poem
- Randall Mann, Proprietary
- Cedar Sigo, Royals
- Frederick Speers, So Far Afield
- Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
|
| Gay Romance |
Laurie Loft, Love and Other Hot Beverages[1] |
- L. A. Witt, At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere
- Bryan T. Clark, Come to The Oaks
- Audra North, Midlife Crisis
- Johnny Diaz, Six Neckties
- Tom Mendicino, Stealing Home
- Adrienne Wilder, Wild
- Christine D'Abo, Working It
|
| Lesbian Fiction |
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties[1] |
|
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body[1] |
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| Lesbian Mystery |
A. E. Radley, Huntress[1] |
- Cari Hunter, A Quiet Death
- Ellen Hart, Fever in the Dark
- M. Redmann, The Girl on the Edge of Summer
- Andrea Bramhall, The Last First Time
- Kate Jessica Raphael, 'Murder Under the Fig Tree
- Anne Holt, Odd Numbers
- Jessica L. Webb, Repercussions
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| Lesbian Poetry |
Rosamond S. King, Rock | Salt | Stone[1] |
|
| Lesbian Romance |
Yolanda Wallace, Tailor-Made[1] |
- Rachel Spangler, Close to Home
- Aurora Rey, Crescent City Confidential
- Ann McMan, Goldenrod
- Ann Roberts, Vagabond Heart
- Yoshiyuki Ly, Venus and Lysander
- Julie Cannon, Wishing on a Dream
- Karis Walsh, You Make Me Tremble
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| LGBTQ Anthology |
Juliana Delgado Lopera, ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants[1] |
- Candace Walsh and Barbara Straus Lodge, Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women
- Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
- Joamette Gil, Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology
- Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin, Queer Africa 2: new stories
- Charlie Craggs, To My Trans Sisters
- Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey, Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love
- Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton, Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
|
| LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult |
Rebecca Podos, Like Water[1] |
- Sarah Dooley, Ashes to Asheville
- Christina Lauren, Autoboyography
- April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis
- Nina Packebush, Girls Like Me
- Kay Haring and Robert Neubecker, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing
- Will Kostakis, The Sidekicks
- Martin Wilson, We Now Return to Regular Life
|
| LGBT Drama |
Audrey Cefaly, The Gulf[1] |
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| LGBTQ Erotica |
Steve Berman, His Seed[1] |
- L. A. Witt, The Master Will Appear
- Siri Caldwell, Mistletoe Mishap
- D. L. King, Unspeakably Erotic
- Sacchi Green, Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms
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| LGBTQ Graphic Novel |
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters[1] |
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| LGBTQ Non-Fiction |
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective[1] |
- Avram Finkelstein, After Silence
- Malik Gaines, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
- Anne Elizabeth Moore, Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
- Hida Viloria, Born Both: An Intersex Life
- Myriam Gurba, Mean
- Clayton Delery, Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice
- John Chaich and Todd Oldham, Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
|
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror |
Annalee Newitz, Autonomous[1] |
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| LGBTQ Studies |
Trevor Hoppe, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness[1] |
- Alfredo Mirandé, Behind the Mask
- Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out
- Emily Hobson, Lavender and Red
- Jaclyn Pryor, Time Slips
- Ashley T. Shelden, Unmaking Love
- David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, The War on Sex
- Julio Capó, Welcome to Fairyland
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| Transgender Fiction |
Bogi Takács, ed., Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction[1] |
- Jeanne Thornton, The Black Emerald
- Jennifer Finney Boylan, Long Black Veil
- Tobi Hill-Meyer, ed., Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
- Amy Heart, Sugi Pyrrophyta and Larissa Glasser, eds., Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything
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| Transgender Non-Fiction |
C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity[1] |
- Rosalind Rosenberg, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
- Brice Smith, Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among Men
- Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty
- Sung Yim, What About the Rest of Your Life
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| Transgender Poetry |
Ching-In Chen, recombinant[1] |
- Kai Cheng Thom, a place called No Homeland
- Juliana Huxtable, Mucus in My Pineal Gland
- Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Of Mongrelitude
- Kayleb Rae Candrilli, What Runs Over
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