| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
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| Bisexual Fiction |
 Susan Choi, My Education[2] |
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| Bisexual Non-Fiction |
Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television[2] |
- Clive Davis, The Soundtrack of My Life
- Shiri Eisner, Biː Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
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| Gay Erotica |
Alex Jeffers, The Padisah’s Son and the Fox[2] |
- Winston Gieseke, ed., Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories
- Richard Labonté, ed., Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories
- Michael Luongo, ed., Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories
- Aleksandr Voinov and L. A. Witt, Capture & Surrender
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| Gay Fiction |
Luis Negrón (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), Mundo Cruel[2] |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography |
Glenway Wescott (ed. Jerry Rosco), A Heaven of Words: Last Journals[2] |
- Alysia Abbott, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
- Blake Bailey, Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
- Jim Elledge, Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist
- Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims
- Perry N. Halkitis, The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
- Hillary Holladay, American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement
- David Margolick, Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
- Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography
- Tim Teeman, In Bed With Gore Vidal
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| Gay Mystery |
Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera[2] |
- Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari
- Jonathan Gregory, In Real Life
- Greg Herren, Baton Rouge Bingo
- David Lennon, Fierce
- John Michaelsen, Pretty Boy Dead
- Garry Ryan, Foxed
- Joyce Thompson, How to Greet Strangers
- Marshall Thornton, Boystown 5: Murder Book
- Mark Zubro, Pawn of Satan
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| Gay Poetry |
Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden[2] |
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| Gay Romance |
TJ Klune, Into This River I Drown[2] |
- Larry Benjamin, Unbroken
- L. C. Chase, Pickup Men
- L. A. Fields, My Dear Watson
- Alexis Hall, Glitterland
- Edmond Manning, King Mai
- Madison Parker, Play Me, I’m Yours
- J. H. Trumble, Where You Are
- Lynley Wayne, Rocky’s Road
- L. A. Witt, Covet Thy Neighbor
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| Lesbian Erotica |
Sacchi Green, ed., Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories[2] |
- Kathleen Warnock, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2014
- Rebekah Weatherspoon, At Her Feet
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| Lesbian Fiction |
Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water[2] |
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| Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic[2] |
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| Lesbian Mystery |
Katherine V. Forrest, High Desert[2] |
- Laura Antoniou, The Killer Wore Leather
- R.E. Bradshaw, The Rainey Season
- Ian Hamilton, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
- Ellen Hart, Taken by the Wind
- Anne Holt, Death of the Demon
- Val McDermid, Cross and Burn
- Jenna Rae, Turning on the Tide
- Ann Roberts, Point of Betrayal
- Jean Sheldon, She Overheard Murder
- Diane Wood, Web of Obsessions
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| Lesbian Poetry |
Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall[2] |
- Ai, The Collected Poems of Ai
- Tamiko Beyer, We Come Elemental
- Sophie Cabot Black, The Exchange
- R. Erica Doyle, Proxy
- Eloise Klein Healy, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings
- Kamilah Aisha Moon, She Has a Name
- Suzanne Parker, Viral
- Veronica Reyes, Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives
- Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Chord Box
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| Lesbian Romance |
Andrea Bramhall, Clean Slate[2] |
- Lynn Ames, All That Lies Within
- Mason Dixon, Date with Destiny
- Gerri Hill, At Seventeen
- Karin Kallmaker, Love by the Numbers
- D. Jackson Leigh, Hold Me Forever
- Ann McMan and Salem West, Hoosier Daddy
- D. Jordan Redhawk, Broken Trails
- Tracey Richardson, Last Salute
- Nell Stark, The Princess Affair
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| LGBT Anthology |
Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction
Jim Elledge and David Groff, Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners[2] |
- Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris, An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings
- Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibran Guido, Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollentions of Consciousness and Coming Out
- Brittany Fonte and Regie Cabico, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry
- Evan J. Peterson and Vincent Kovar, Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5
- Vivek Shraya, What I LOVE about being QUEER
- Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu and Mireille Miller-Young, The Feminist Porn Book
- T. C. Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
- Megan Volpert, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching
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| LGBT Children's/Young Adult |
Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing[2] |
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| LGBT Debut Fiction |
Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar[2] |
- Guy Mark Foster, The Rest of Us
- Jane Hoppen, In Between
- Laura Krughoff, My Brother’s Name
- Amy Grace Loyd, The Affairs of Others
- Derek Palacio, How to Shake the Other Man
- Ronald Palmer, Prick Queasy
- Charles L. Ross, Inside
- Andrea Routley, Jane and the Whales
- Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy
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| LGBT Drama |
Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm[2] |
- Adelina Anthony, Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains
- Djola Branner, sash & trim and other plays
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| LGBT Graphic Novel |
Nicole Georges, Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir[2] |
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| LGBT Non-Fiction |
Hilton Als, White Girls[2] |
- Dennis Altman, The End of the Homosexual?
- Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini and Michael Amico, You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People
- Jeff Chu, Does Jesus Really Love Me?
- Thomas Glave, Among the Bloodpeople
- Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
- Matt Richardson, The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
- Daniel Winunwe Rivers, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II
- Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi and Edmund White, Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983
- Phil Tiemeyer, Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants
- Jaime Woo, Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect
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| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror |
Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Death by Silver[2] |
- Richard Bowes, Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
- Nathan Burgoine, Light
- Isabella Carter, Dragon Slayer
- Marie Castle, Hell’s Belle
- Roberta Degnore, Invisible Soft Return
- Alex Jeffers, Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy
- Mary Anne Mohanraj, The Stars Change
- Lee Thomas, Like Light for Flies
- Deborah Wheeler, Collaborators
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| LGBT Studies |
Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence[2] |
- Marlon M. Bailey, Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
- Peter M. Coviello, Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely
- Lisa Henderson, Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
- Victoria Hesford, Feeling Women’s Liberation
- Colin R. Johnson, Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
- Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, Shanghai Lalas
- Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
- Susana Pena, Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
- Isaac West, Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law
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| Transgender Fiction |
Trish Salah, Wanting in Arabic[2] |
- Imogen Binnie, Nevada
- Devon Llywelyn Jones, Tiresias
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| Transgender Non-Fiction |
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The End of San Francisco[2] |
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