Lambda Literary Awards (1988-2010)

2011 information from Lambda Literary blog accessed 3/17/11

23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists

BISEXUAL — Fiction
Fall Asleep Forgetting, by Georgeann Packard
If You Follow Me, by Malena Watrous Harper Perennial
Krakow Melt, by Daniel Allen Cox Arsenal Pulp Press
The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet by Myrlin A. Hermes
Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers by Ann Herendeen

BISEXUAL — Nonfiction
Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Rowman & Littlefield
Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women, edited by Candace Walsh and Laura Andre
Just Kids, by Patti Smith Ecco
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, by Paula Byrne
Sal Mineo, by Michael Gregg Michaud

TRANSGENDER — Fiction
Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny, by Justin Hall with Diego Gomez, Fred Noland & Jon Macy
Holding Still for As Long As Possible, by Zoe Whittall House of Anansi Press
Jumpstart the World, by Catherine Ryan Hyde Random House Children’s Books


TRANSGENDER — Nonfiction
Assume Nothing, by Rebecca Swan Soft Skull Press
Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, edited by Noach Dzmura
The Color of Sunlight, by Michelle Alexander CreateSpace
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman Seal Press
Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, by Kristen Schilt

LGBT ANTHOLOGY
Best Lesbian Romance 2010, edited by Radclyffe Cleis Press
Gay Shame, edited by David M. Halperin & Valerie Traub University of Chicago Press [Review]
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman
Kicked Out, edited by Sassafras Lowrey
War Diaries, edited by Tisa Bryant & Ernest Hardy AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and the Global Forum on MSM & HIV

LGBT CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
Christian, the Hugging Lion, by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell, illustrated by Amy June Bates
God Loves Hair, by Vivek Shraya llustrated by Juliana Neufeld Vivek Shraya [Review]
Jumpstart the World, by Catherine Ryan Hyde Random House Books for Children
Love Drugged, by James Klise Flux
Wildthorn, by Jane Eagland Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

LGBT DRAMA
The Brother/Sister Plays, by Tarell Alvin McCraney Theatre Communications Group
Lydia, by Octavio Solis Samuel French
Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play, by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, & Lisa Kron
Slipping, by Daniel Talbott Dramatists Play Service
With Bated Breath, by Bryden MacDonald Talonbooks

LGBT NONFICTION
Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, edited by Noach Dzmura
Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse, by Jallen Rix EdD. Findhorn Press
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature, by Emma Donoghue Alfred A. Knopf [Interview]
King Kong Theory, by Virginie Despentes The Feminist Press
The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, by Stuart Biegel

LGBT SF/FANTASY/HORROR
Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, by Sandra McDonald Lethe Press [Review]
Disturbed by Her Song, by Tanith Lee Lethe Press [Interview]
Flowers of Edo, by Nene Adams Black Car Publishing
Wilde Stories 2010: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, edited by Steve Berman Lethe Press
Wolfsbane Winter, by Jane Fletcher Bold Strokes Books

LGBT STUDIES
Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism, by Scott Herring New York University Press
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality, by Gayle Salamon
Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary, by Fran Martin
Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, by Deborah Cohler
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies, Rafael de la Dehesa

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
Alcestis, by Katharine Beutner Soho Press [Review]
Fall Asleep Forgetting, by Georgeann Packard The Permanent Press
The More I Owe You, by Michael Sledge Counterpoint Press [Review]
One More Stop, by Lois Walden Arcadia Books
Sub Rosa, by Amber Dawn Arsenal Pulp Press

LESBIAN EROTICA
Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, edited by Kathleen Warnock & selected by Lea DeLaria Cleis Press
Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica, edited by Tristan Taormina Cleis Press [Review]
This Is How We Do It: A Raw Mix of Lesbian Erotica, by D Alexandria RedThorn Art


LESBIAN FICTION
Big Bang Symphony, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe University of Wisconsin Press
Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle, by Zelda Lockhart LaVenson Press
Holding Still for as Long as Possible, by Zoe Whittall House of Anansi
Homeschooling, by Carol Guess PS Publishing
Inferno (a poet’s novel), by Eileen Myles OR Books [Review]

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Blood Strangers: A Memoir, by Katherine A. Briccetti Heyday Books
Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, by Barbara Hammer The Feminist Press [Review]
Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer, by Chely Wright Pantheon Books
She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood by Amie Klempnauer
Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, by Julie Marie Wade Colgate University Press

LESBIAN MYSTERY
The Cruel Ever After, by Ellen Hart Minotaur
Fever of the Bone, by Val McDermid HarperCollins [Review]
Missing Lynx, by Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou Bold Strokes Books [Review]
Parallel Lies, by Stella Duffy Bywater Books [Review]
Water Mark, by J.M. Redmann Bold Strokes Books [Review]

LESBIAN POETRY
The Inquisition Yours, by Jen Currin Coach House Books
Money for Sunsets, by Elizabeth J. Colen Steel Toe Books [Review]
The Nights Also, by Anna Swanson Tightrope Books
The Sensual World Re-Emerges, by Eleanor Lerman Sarabande Books
White Shirt, by Laurie MacFayden Frontenac House

LESBIAN ROMANCE
Above Temptation, by Karin Kallmaker Bella Books [Review]
Awakening to Sunlight, by Lindsey Stone Bold Strokes Books
Beacon of Love, by Ann Roberts Bella Books [Review]
River Walker, by Cate Culpepper, Bold Strokes Books [Review]
Starting from Scratch, by Georgia Beers Brisk Press [Review]

GAY DEBUT FICTION
Bob the Book, by David Pratt Chelsea Station Editions [Review]
The Palisades, by Tom Schabarum Cascadia Publishing
Passes Through, by Rob Stephenson University of Alabama Press/FC
Probation, by Tom Mendicino Kensington Publishing
XOXO Hayden, by Chris Corkum P.D. Publishing

GAY EROTICA
Best of the Best Gay Erotica 3, edited by Richard Labonté Cleis Press
Teleny and Camille, by Jon Macy Northwest Press [Review]
Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top, edited by Jerry Wheeler Lethe Press
A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men, by William Holden Lethe Press
Vancouver Nights, by Hank Edwards Lethe Press

GAY FICTION
By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham Farrar, Straus & Giroux [Review]
Children of the Sun, by Max Schaefer Soft Skull
Consolation, by Jonathan Strong Pressed Wafer
The Silver Hearted, by David McConnell Alyson Books [Review]
Union Atlantic, by Adam Haslett Doubleday [Review]

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Beyond Normal: The Birth of Gay Pride, by Gale Chester Whittington BookLocker.com
Grant Wood: A Life, by R. Tripp Evans Alfred A. Knopf [Review]
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade, by Justin Spring
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, by Selina Hastings Random House
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother, by Bryan Batt Harmony Books [Review]

GAY MYSTERY
Cockeyed, by Richard Stevenson MLR Press [Review]
Echoes, by David Lennon Blue Spike Publishing [Review]
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers, by I.E. Woodward iUniverse [Review]
Smoked, by Garry Ryan NeWest Press [Review]
Vieux Carre Voodoo, by Greg Herren Bold Strokes Books [Review]

GAY POETRY
darkacre, by Greg Hewett Coffee House Press [Review]
Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, by James Schuyler Farrar, Straus & Giroux [Review]
Pleasure, by Brian Teare Ahsahta Press [Review]
The Salt Ecstasies: Poems, by James L. White Graywolf Press [Review]
“then, we were still living”, by Michael Klein GenPop Books [Review]

GAY ROMANCE
Normal Miguel, by Erik Orrantia Cheyenne Publishing [Review]
The Road Home, by Michael Thomas Ford Kensington Publishing [Review]
Three Wrong Turns in the Desert, by Neil Plakcy Loose Id [Review]

From Lambda Literary blog accessed 3/17/10

The 112 finalists in the 23 categories of the 2009 annual Lambda Literary Awards have been announced. Winners will be honored at the 22nd annual awards, to be held May 27 in New York City at the end of BEA.

Lambda Literary Awards Finalists 2009

LGBT Anthologies

* Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris, edited by David Bergman (University of Wisconsin Press)
* Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights, edited by Gilbert Herdt (NYU Press)
* My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, edited by Michael Montlack (University of Wisconsin Press)
* Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, edited by Ariel Gore (Lit Star Press)
* Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation, edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca (City Lights)

LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
* Ash, by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
* How Beautiful the Ordinary, edited by Michael Cart (HarperCollins)
* In Mike We Trust, by P.E. Ryan (HarperCollins)
* Sprout, by Dale Peck (Bloomsbury USA)
* The Vast Fields of Ordinary, by Nick Burd (Penguin Books)

LGBT Drama
* The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, by Kate Moira Ryan & Linda S. Chapman (Dramatists Play Service)
* The Collected Plays Of Mart Crowley, by Mart Crowley (Alyson Books)
* Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor, by Bonnie L. Morris (Indiana University Press)

LGBT Nonfiction
* The Golden Age of Gay Fiction, edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn (MLR Press)
* The Greeks and Greek Love, by James Davidson (Random House)
* I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole & Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Oxford University Press)
* Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, by Sarah Schulman (The New Press)
* Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America, by Nathaniel Frank (St. Martin’s Press)

LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror
* Centuries Ago and Very Fast, by Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct Press)
* Fist of the Spider Woman, by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* In the Closet, Under the Bed, by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)
* Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam/Spectra Books)
* Pumpkin Teeth, by Tom Cardamone (Lethe Press)

LGBT Studies
* Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities, by Julie Abraham (University of Minnesota Press)
* Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS, by Deborah B. Gould (University of Chicago Press)
* The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, by Kathryn Bond Stockton (Duke University Press)
* The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade, by Armando Maggi (University of Chicago Press)
* The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, by Margot Canaday (Princeton University Press)

Bisexual Fiction
* Arusha, by J.E. Knowles (Spinsters Ink)
* Holy Communion, by Mykola Dementiuk (Synergy Press)
* The Janeid, by Bobbie Geary (The Graeae Press)
* Love You Two, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Random House Australia)
* Torn, by Amber Lehman (Closet Case Press)

Bisexual Nonfiction
* Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, by Edna O’Brien (W. W. Norton)
* Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (Alfred A. Knopf)
* Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents, by Minal Hajratwala (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Map, by Audrey Beth Stein (Lulu.com)
* Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer, by Emanuel Levy (St. Martin’s Press)

Transgender
* Bharat Jiva, by Kari Edwards (Litmus Press)
* Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show, by Lynn Breedlove (Manic D Press)
* The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, by S Bear Bergman (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* Transmigration, by Joy Ladin (Sheep Meadow Press)
* Troglodyte Rose, by Adam Lowe (Cadaverine Publications)

Lesbian Debut Fiction
* The Creamsickle, by Rhiannon Argo (Spinsters Ink)
* The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund (University of Georgia Press)
* Land Beyond Maps, by Maida Tilchen (Savvy Press)
* More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson (Harper Perennial)
* Verge, by Z Egloff (Bywater Books)

Gay Debut Fiction
* Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal (Kensington Books)
* God Says No, by James Hannaham (McSweeneys)
* Pop Salvation, by Lance Reynald (HarperCollins)
* Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories, by G. Winston James (Top Pen Press)
* Sugarless, by James Magruder (University of Wisconsin Press)

Lesbian Erotica
* Flesh and Bone, by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes Books)
* Lesbian Cowboys, edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Cleis Press)
* Punishment with Kisses, by Diane Anderson-Minshall (Bold Strokes Books)
* Where the Girls Are, by D.L. King (Cleis Press)
* Women of the Bite, Edited by Cecilia Tan (Alyson Books)

Gay Erotica
* Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica, edited by Todd Gregory (Bold Strokes Books)
* Impossible Princess, by Kevin Killian (City Lights)
* I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire, edited by Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* The Low Road, by James Lear (Cleis Press)
* Eight Inches, by Sean Wolfe (Kensington Books)

Lesbian Fiction
* Dismantled, by Jennifer McMahon (HarperCollins)
* A Field Guide to Deception, by Jill Malone (Bywater Books)
* Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory, by Emma Pérez (University of Texas Press)
* Risk, by Elana Dykewomon (Bywater Books)
* This One’s Going to Last Forever, by Nairne Holtz (Insomniac Press)

Gay Fiction
* Lake Overturn, by Vestal McIntyre (HarperCollins)
* The River In Winter, by Matt Dean (Queens English Productions)
* Said and Done, by James Morrison (Black Lawrence Press)
* Salvation Army, by Abdellah Taia (Semiotext(e))
* Silverlake, by Peter Gadol (Tyrus Books)

Lesbian Memoir/Biography
* Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, by Mary Cappello (Alyson Books)
* Mean Little deaf Queer, by Terry Galloway (Beacon Press)
* My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, by Alix Dobkin (Alyson Books)
* Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag, by Ariel Schrag (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Fireside)
* The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, by Joan Schenkar (St. Martin’s Press)

Gay Memoir/Biography
* Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back, by Reynolds Price (Scribner Books)
* City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960’s and 70’s, by Edmund White (Bloomsbury USA)
* Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division, by Jon Ginoli (Cleis Press)
* Once You Go Back, by Douglas A. Martin (Seven Stories Press)
* The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief, by David Plante (Beacon Press)

Lesbian Mystery
* Command of Silence, by Paulette Callen (Spinsters Ink)
* Death of a Dying Man, by J.M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
* From Hell to Breakfast, by Joan Opyr (Blue Feather Books)
* The Mirror and the Mask, by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s/Minotaur)
* Toasted, by Josie Gordon (Bella Books)

Gay Mystery
* All Lost Things, by Josh Aterovis (P.D. Publishing)
* The Killer of Orchids, by Ralph Ashworth (State Street Press)
* Murder in the Garden District, by Greg Herren (Alyson Books)
* Straight Lies, by Rob Byrnes (Kensington Books)
* What We Remember, by Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington Books)

Lesbian Poetry
* Bird Eating Bird, by Kristin Naca (HarperCollins)
* Gospel: Poems, by Samiya Bashir (Red Bone Press)
* Names, by Marilyn Hacker (W.W. Norton)
* Stars of the Night Commute, by Ana Bozicevic (Tarpaulin Sky Press)
* Zero at the Bone, by Stacie Cassarino (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

Gay Poetry
* Breakfast with Thom Gunn, by Randall Mann (University of Chicago Press)
* The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, by Brent Goodman (Black Lawrence Press)
* The First Risk, by Charles Jensen (Lethe Press)
* Sweet Core Orchard, by Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press)
* What the Right Hand Knows, by Tom Healy (Four Way Books)

Lesbian Romance
* It Should Be a Crime, by Carsen Taite (Bold Strokes Books)
* No Rules of Engagement, by Tracey Richardson (Bella Books)
* The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin, by Colette Moody (Bold Strokes Books)
* Stepping Stone, by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
* Worth Every Step, by KG MacGregor (Bella Books)

Gay Romance
* Drama Queers!, by Frank Anthony Polito (Kensington Books)
* A Keen Edge, by H. Leigh Aubrey (iUniverse)
* The Rest of Our Lives, by Dan Stone (Lethe Press)
* Time After Time, by J.P. Bowie (MLR Press)
* Transgressions, by Erastes (Running Press)

2008 Finalists (winners listed first)

LGBT ANTHOLOGIES
* Our Caribbean edited by Thomas Glave (Duke University Press)
* A Casulty of War: Gay Short Fiction by Peter Burton (Arcadia Books)
* Live Through This edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev (Seven Stories Press)
* Love, West Hollywood edited by Chris Freeman and James J. Berg (Alyson)
* Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing edited by Raphael Kadushin

BISEXUAL
* Open by Jenny Block (Seal Press)
* Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire by Lisa M. Diamond
* The Bishop’s Daughter by Honor Moore (W.W. Norton)
* Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey by Ron Jackson Suresha
* Rimbaud by Edmund White (Atlas & Company)

TRANSGENDER
* Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) by Thea Hillman (Manic D Press)
* 10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert & Rex Ray (Seven Stories Press)
* Two Truths and a Lie by Scott Schofield (Homofactus Press)
* Boy with Flowers by Ely Shipley (Barrow Street Press)
* Transgender History by Susan Stryker (Seal Press)

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT
* Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg (Dutton)
* Hit the Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel by Christian Burch
* How They Met and Other Stories by David Levithan (Knopf Children’s Books)
* Mousetraps by Pat Schmatz (Carolrhoda Books)
* What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson (Random House Children’s Books)
* Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon and Schuster)

LGBT DRAMA
* The Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage (Outskirts Press)
* Phi Alpha Gamma by Dan Bernitt (Sawyer House)
* Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays by Martin Duberman (The New Press)
* Two Truths and a Lie by Scott Schofield (Homofactus Press)
* Vile Affections by Vanda (Original Works Publishing)

LGBT NONFICTION
* Loving The Difficult by Jane Rule (Hedgerow Press)
* Me as Her Again by Nancy Agabian (Aunt Lute Books)
* If I Could Write This in Fire by Michelle Cliff (Univ of Minnesota Press)
* Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge Jr (Penguin Group)
* Beyond (Straight & Gay) Marriage by Nancy Polikoff (Beacon Press)
* Drifting Toward Love by Kai Wright (Beacon Press)

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
* Turnskin by Nicole Kimberling (Blind Eye Books)
* The Archer’s Heart by Astrid Amara (Blind Eye Books)
* The Magician and the Fool by Barth Anderson (Bantam Del Rey)
* Wilde Stories 2008 by Steve Berman (Lethe Press)
* Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories by Craig Gidney (Lethe Press)

LGBT STUDIES
* Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina Kunzel
* Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History by Michelle Ann Abate
* The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington by Amin Ghaziani
* Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform by Kevin P. Murphy
* Screening Sex by Linda Williams (Duke University Press)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
* The Bruise by Magdalena Zurawski
* Red Audrey & the Roping by Jill Malone (Bywater Books)
* Passing for Black by Linda Villarosa (Kensington)
* Closer to Fine by Meri Weiss (Kensington)
* Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind by Chavisa Woods (Fly by Night Press)

LESBIAN EROTICA
* In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip by Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker
* Lipstick on Her Collar by Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia
* Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures by Lynne Jamneck (Lethe Press)

LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION
* Tie: The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Tie: All the Pretty Girls by Chandra Mayor (Conundrum Press)
* The Slow Fix by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* Map of Ireland by Stephanie Grant (Scribner)
* Breaking Spirit Bridge by Ruth Perkinson (Spinsters Ink)

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
* Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir by Maureen Seaton (University of Wisconsin Press)
* Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy by Susan Griffin (Shambhala Publications)
* Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) by Thea Hillman (Manic D Press)
* Sex Variant Woman by Joanne Passet (Da Capo)
* Case of a Lifetime by Abbe Smith (Palgrave Macmillan)

LESBIAN MYSTERY
* Whacked by Josie Gordon (Bella Books)
* Blind Faith by Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall (Bold Strokes Books)
* Sweet Poison by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Press)
* Losers Weepers by Jessica Thomas (Bella Books)
* Calling the Dead by Ali Vali (Bold Strokes Books)

LESBIAN POETRY
* love belongs to those who do the feeling by Judy Grahn (Red Hen Press )
* Interpretive Work by Elizabeth Bradfield (Arktoi/Red Hen Press)
* Kissing Dead Girls by Daphne Gottlieb (Soft Skull Press)
* Same Life by Maureen N. McLane, Farrar (Straus and Giroux)
* Two Minutes of Light by Nancy K. Pearson (Perugia Press)

LESBIAN ROMANCE
* The Kiss That Counted by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
* Finding Home by Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes Books)
* A Pirate’s Heart by Catherine Friend (Bold Strokes Books)
* Hotel Liaison by JLee Meyer (Bold Strokes Books)
* The Lonely Hearts Club by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes Books)

GAY DEBUT FICTION
* Finlater by Shawn Ruff (Quote Editions)
* Shuck by Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg (Soho Press)
* The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second by Drew Ferguson (Kensington)
* The Steve Machine by Mike Hoolboom (Coach House Books)

GAY EROTICA
* Best Gay Erotica 2009 by Richard Labonte & James Lear (Cleis Press)
* The Secret Tunnel by James Lear (Cleis Press)
* Hard Working Men by William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith, & J.P. Bowie (MLR Press)

GAY GENERAL FICTION
* We Disappear by Scott Heim (Harper Perennial)
* Stray Dog Winter by David Francis (Macadam/Cage Publishing)
* The Torturer’s Wife by Thomas Glave (City Light Publishers)
* The Conversion by Joseph Olshan (St. Martin’s Press)
* The Boomerang Kid by Jay Quinn (Alyson)

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
* Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham (Verso Books)
* Bringing Him Home by Aaron Cooper (Late August Press)
* Swish by Joel Derfner (Broadway Books)
* Assisted Loving by Bob Morris (Harper)
* King of Shadows by Aaron Shurin (City Lights Publishers)

GAY MYSTERY
* First You Fall by Scott Sherman (Alyson Books)
* The Fisher Boy by Stephen Anable (Poisoned Pen Press)
* Sundowner Ubuntu by Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac Press)
* Mahu Fire by Neil Plakcy (Alyson Books)
* Spider Season by John Morgan Wilson (St. Martin’s Press)

GAY POETRY
* Tie: Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (Harper)
* Tie: Now You’re the Enemy by James Allen Hall (Univ. of Arkansas Press)
* Want by Rick Barot (Sarabande Press)
* Please by Jericho Brown (New Issues)
* My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer by Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian (Wesleyan University Press)

GAY ROMANCE
* Got ’til it’s Gone by Larry Duplechan (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* Mexican Heat by Laura Baumbach & Josh Lanyon (MLR Press)
* The Protector by N.L. Gassert (Seventh Window Publications)

2007 Finalists (Winners listed first)
LGBT Anthology
* First Person Queer, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel
* Juicy Mother 2, Jennifer Camper (Manic D Press)
* Vital Signs, Richard Canning (Carroll & Graf)
* Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense, Sean Meriwether & Greg Wharton
* Baby Remember My Name, Michelle Tea (Carroll & Graf)

BISEXUAL
* Split Screen, Brent Hartinger (Harper Collins Children’s Books)
* Look Both Ways, Jennifer Baumgardner (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
* Becoming Visible, Beth Firestein, Ed., (Columbia University Press)
* The Tourists, Jeff Hobbs (Simon & Schuster)
* Stray, Sheri Joseph (MacAdam/Cage)

TRANSGENDER
* Transparent, Cris Beam (Harcourt)
* Male Bodies, Women’s Souls, LeeRay M. Costa, PhD, (Haworth)
* The Marrow’s Telling, Eli Clare (Homofactus Press)
* What Becomes You, Aaron Raz Link & Hilda Raz (University of Nebraska Press)
* Nobody Passes, Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Seal Press)

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT
* Hero, Perry Moore (Hyperion)
* Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron
* Saints of Augustine, P.E. Ryan (HarperTeen)
* Freak Show, James St. James (Dutton Children’s/Penguin)
* Parrotfish, Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)

LGBT DRAMA
* Return to the Caffe Cino, edited by Steve Susoyev and
George Birimisa (Moving Finger Press)
* Dose: Plays & Monologues, Dan Bernitt (Sawyer House)
* Niagara Falls, Victor Bumbalo (Broadway Play Publishing)

LGBT NONFICTION
* Gay Artists in Modern American Culture, Michael S. Sherry
* Between Women, Sharon Marcus (Princeton University Press)
* Pink Harvest, Toni Mirosevich (Mid-List Press)
* Other Men’s Sons, Michael Rowe (Cormorant Books)
* Imagining Transgender, David Valentine (Duke University Press)

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
* The Dust of Wonderland, Lee Thomas (Alyson Books)
* Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale (Blind Eye Books)
* A Companion to Wolves, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (Tor Books)
* Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor Books)
* Ha’penny, Jo Walton (Tor Books)

LGBT STUDIES
* Between Women, Sharon Marcus (Princeton University Press)
* Writing Desire, Bertram Cohler (University of Wisconsin Press)
* The First Man-Made Man, Pagan Kennedy (Bloomsbury)
* Caribbean Pleasure Industry, Mark Padilla (University of Chicago Press)
* Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, & the Black American Intellectual, Robert Reid-Pharr

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
* Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking, Aoibheann Sweeney
* Lockjaw, Holly Farris (Gival Press)
* Dahlia Season, Myriam Gurba (Manic D Press)
* Breathing Underwater, Lu Vickers (Alyson Books)
* O Street, Corrina Wycoff (OV Books)

LESBIAN EROTICA
See LGBT Erotica

LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION
* The IHOP Papers, Ali Liebegott (Carroll & Graf)
* Biting the Apple, Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Carroll & Graf)
* Greetings from Jamaica, Mari San Giovanni (Bywater Books)
* The Child, Sarah Schulman (Carroll & Graf)
* The Kind of Girl I Am, Julia Watts (Spinsters Ink)
* The Mandrake Broom, Jess Wells (Firebrand Books)

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
* And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, Nicola Griffith (Payseur & Schmidt)
* Comfort Food for Breakups, Marusya Bocurkiuw (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* An Army of Ex-Lovers, Amy Hoffman (University of Massachusetts Press)
* Two Lives: Gertrude & Alice, Janet Malcolm (Yale University Press)
* Waiting for the Call, Jacqueline Taylor (University of Michigan Press)

LESBIAN MYSTERY
* Wall of Silence, Gabrielle Goldsby (Bold Strokes Books)
* Mortal Groove, Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Press)
* In the Name of the Father, Gerri Hill (Bella Books)
* Selective Memory, Jennifer L. Jordan (Spinsters Ink)
* Laura’s War, Ursula Steck (Bella Books)

LESBIAN POETRY
See LGBT Poetry

LESBIAN ROMANCE
* Out of Love, K. G. MacGregor (Bella Books)
* Sheridan’s Fate, Gun Brooke (Bold Strokes Books)
* The Road Home, Frankie J. Jones (Bella Books)
* For Now, for Always, Marianne K. Martin (Bywater Books)
* When Dreams Tremble, Radclyffe (Bold Strokes Books)

GAY DEBUT FICTION
* A Push and a Shove, Christopher Kelly (Alyson Books)
* Tales from the Town of Widows, James Canon (Harpercollins)
* That Was Then, Michael Quadland (Red Hen Press)
* SoMa, Kemble Scott (Kensington)
* Freak Show, James St. James (Dutton Children’s/Penguin)

GAY EROTICA
See LGBT Erotica

GAY GENERAL FICTION
* Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman (Farrar Straus Giroux)
* First Person Plural, Andrew W.M. Beierle (Kensington)
* Dark Reflections, Samuel R. Delany (Carroll & Graf)
* Fellow Travelers, Thomas Mallon (Pantheon)
* The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, Manuel Munoz (Algonquin)

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
* Mississippi Sissy, Kevin Sessums (St. Martin’s Press)
* Forgiving Troy, Thom Bierdz (Hudson House)
* Dog Years, Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
* The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, Martin Duberman (Knopf)
* The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, Kenny Fries
* What Becomes You, Aaron Raz Link & Hilda Raz (University of Nebraska Press)

GAY MYSTERY
* Murder in the Rue Chartres, Greg Herren (Alyson Books)
* Double Abduction, Chris Beakey (J. Boylston/ ibooks, Inc.)
* Stain of the Berry, Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac Press)
* Pierce, Roberto Ferrari (Haworth)
* Mahu Surfer, Neil Plakcy (Alyson Books)
* Drag Queen in the Court of Death, Caro Soles (Haworth)

GAY POETRY
See LGBT Poetry

GAY ROMANCE
* Changing Tides, Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington)
* A Secret Edge, Robin Reardon (Kensington)
* Right Side of the Wrong Bed, Frederick Smith (Kensington)
* Broadway Nights, Seth Rudetsky (Alyson Books)
* A Few Hints and Clews, Robert Taylor (Haworth)

ARTS & CULTURE
* The View From Here, Matthew Hays (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* Media Queered, Kevin Barnhurst (Peter Lang Publishing)
* Art That Dares, Kittredge Cherry (AndroGyne Press)
* Feeling Backward, Heather Love (Harvard University Press)
* Other Men’s Sons, Michael Rowe (Cormorant Books)

LGBT EROTICA
* Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica, Simon Sheppard (Running Press)
* The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica, Victoria Brownworth & Judith M. Redding
* Red Light, J. D. Glass (Bold Strokes Books)
* Ardennian Boy, William Maltese & Wayne Gunn (MLR Press)
* The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Lawrence Schimel (Carrol & Graf)
* Every Dark Desire, Fiona Zedde (Kensington)

SPIRITUALITY
* The After-Death Room by Michael McColly (Soft Skull Press)
* Sex & the Sacred by Daniel Helminiak (Harrington Park Press)
* Spirited edited by Lisa Moore & G. Winston James (Redbone Press)
* The Singing of Swans by Mary Saracino (Pearlsong Press )
* Mobius Trip by Giti Thadani (Spinifex Press)

LGBT POETRY
* Blackbird and Wolf, Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
* A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering, Dawn Lundy Martin
* Otherwise Obedient, Carol Potter (Red Hen Press)
* Fata Morgana, Reginald Shepherd (University of Pittsburgh)
* The Second Person, C. Dale Young (Four Way Books)
* Human Resources, Rachel Zolf (Coach House Books)

2006 Finalists (Winners listed first)

LGBT Anthology
* Love, Bourbon Street, edited by Greg Herren & Paul J. Willis (Alyson)
* Confessions of the Other Mother, edited by Harlyn Aizley (Beacon)
* From Boys to Men, edited by Ted Gideonse & Rob Williams (Carroll & Graf)
* Charmed Lives, edited by Toby Johnson & Steve Berman (White Crane Books)
* No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian, edited by Catherine Lake & Nairne Holtz (Insomniac)

BISEXUAL
* The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe, Michael Szymanski & Nicole Kristal (Alyson)
* Eros by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio (Harrington Park Press)
* Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men by Ronald C. Fox (Harrington Park Press)
* Three Sides to Every Story by Clarence Nero (Harlem Moon/Broadway)
* Bi Guys, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha (Harrington Park Press)
* Bi Men, edited by Ron Jackson Suresha & Pete Chvany (Harrington Park Press)

TRANSGENDER
* The Transgender Studies Reader edited by Susan Stryker & Stephen Whittle (Routledge)
* Transgender Rights edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter
* Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg (Carroll & Graf)
* Supervillainz by Alicia E. Goranson (Suspect Thoughts)
* The Testosterone Files by Max Wolf Valerio (Seal Press)

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT
* The Full Spectrum, edited by David Levithan & Billy Merrell (Random House Childrens Books)
* Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown)
* The Manny Files by Christian Burch (Simon & Schuster)
* Tale of Two Summers by Brian Sloan (Simon & Schuster)
* Erik and Isabelle’s Junior Year at Foresthill High by Kim Wallace (Foglight Press)

LGBT DRAMA
* 1001 Beds by Tim Miller (University of Wisconsin)
* Questa by Victor Bumbalo (Broadway Publishing Inc.)
* Confessions of a Mormon Boy by Steven Fales (Alyson)

LGBT NONFICTION
* GAY L.A. by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons (Basic Books)
* Different Daughters by Marcia Gallo (Carroll & Graf)
* Hello, Cruel World by Kate Bornstein (Seven Stories)
* Behind the Mask of the Mattachine by James T. Sears (Harrington Park Press)
* Unspeakable Love by Brian Whitaker (University of California)

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
* Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)
* Carnival by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
* Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg (Alyson)
* A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R.W. Day (Iris Print)
* Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (Bantam Spectra)

LGBT STUDIES
* Their Own Receive Them Not by Horace Griffin (Pilgrim Press)
* Every Inch A Man: Phallic Possession, etc. by Carellin Brooks (UBC Press)
* Gay Power: An American Revolution by David Eisenbach (Carroll & Graf)
* Crip Theory by Robert McRuer (NYU Press)
* Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame by Kathryn Stockton (Duke University Press)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
* The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery (Riverhead)
* Black Marks by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte (Akashic)
* Erzulie’s Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara (Redbone Press)
* Slipstream by Leslie Larson (Crown)
* Origami Striptease by Peggy Munson (Suspect Thoughts)

LESBIAN EROTICA
* Walk Like a Man by Laurinda D. Brown (Q-Boro Books)
* Glamour Girls edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Harrington Park Press)
* 18th and Castro by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
* Master Han’s Daughter by Midori (Circlet Press)
* Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 edited by Tristan Taormino & Emma Donoghue (Cleis Press)

LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION
* The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books)
* Punk Like Me by JD Glass (Bold Strokes)
* Slipstream by Leslie Larson (Crown)
* Outrageous by Sheila Ortiz Taylor (Spinsters Ink)
* Rose of No Man’s Land by Michelle Tea (Macadam Cage)

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

* Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

* Intimate Politics by Bettina Aptheker (Seal Press)
* Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
* Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend (Marlowe & Co.)
* Incognito Street by Barbara Sjoholm (Seal Press)

LESBIAN MYSTERY

* The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King (Bantam)

* Sleep of Reason by Rose Beecham, Rose (Bold Strokes)
* Night Vision by Ellen Hart (St. Martins)
* Idaho Code by Joan Opyr (Bywater Books)
* The Weekend Visitor by Jessica Thomas (Bella Books)

LESBIAN POETRY
* Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books)
* Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
* Days of Good Looks by Cheryl Clarke (Carroll & Graf)
* The Truant Lover by Juliet Patterson (Nightboat Books)
* Touch to Affliction by Nathalie Stephens (Coach House Books)

LESBIAN ROMANCE
* Fresh Tracks by Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes)
* Wild Abandon by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
* Finders Keepers by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
* Chance by Grace Lennox (Bold Strokes)
* Turn Back Time by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

GAY DEBUT FICTION
* Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)
* A Scarecrow’s Bible by Martin Hyatt (Suspect Thoughts)
* The Zookeeper by Alex MacLennan (Alyson)
* Send Me by Patrick Ryan (Dial Press)
* 5 Minutes & 42 Seconds by Timothy Williams (Amistad)

GAY EROTICA
* A History of Barbed Wire by Jeff Mann (Suspect Thoughts)
* Best Gay Erotica 2007 edited by Richard Labonte & Timothy J. Lambert (Cleis Press)
* Hot On His Trail by Zavo (Alyson)

GAY GENERAL FICTION
* Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)
* Every Visible Thing by Lisa Carey (William Morrow)
* Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)
* Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley (Simon & Schuster)
* Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer (Houghton Mifflin)

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
* The Bill From My Father by Bernard Cooper (Simon & Schuster)
* Untold Stories by Alan Bennett (FSG)
* Tweaked by Patrick Moore (Kensington)
* History of Swimming by Kim Powers (Carroll & Graf)
* My Father’s Keeper by Jonathan Silin (Beacon)

GAY MYSTERY
* The Lucky Elephant Restaurant by Garry Ryan (NeWest Press)
* Mardi Gras Mambo by Greg Herren (Kensington)
* The Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon (I-Universe)
* The Back Passage by James Lear (Cleis Press)
* Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues by Randall Peffer (Bleak House Books)

GAY POETRY
* A History of My Tattoo by Jim Elledge (Stonewall)
* Gutted by Justin Chin (Manic D Press)
* The Album That Changed My Life by Jeffrey Conway (Cold Calm Press)
* Other Fugitives & Other Strangers by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Tupelo Press)
* When the Eye Forms by Dwaine Rieves (Tupelo Press)

GAY ROMANCE
* When the Stars Come Out by Rob Byrnes (Kensington)
* Someone Like You by Timothy James Beck (Kensington)
* Two Boys in Love by Lawrence Schimel (Seventh Window)
* Surf ‘N Turf by Scott & Scott (Romentics)
* Going Down in La-La Land by Andy Zeffer (Harrington Park Press)

ARTS and CULTURE
* GAY L.A. by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons (Basic Books)
* Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
* Cinemachismo by Sergio de la Mora (University of Texas Press)
* Sex Objects by Jennifer Doyle (University of Minnesota Press)
* Blood Beats: Vol 1 by Ernest Hardy (Redbone Press)

HUMOR

* My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan

* Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (Harper Paperbacks)
* Roy and Al by Ralf Konig (Arsenal Pulp Press)

SPIRITUALITY
* The After-Death Room by Michael McColly (Soft Skull Press)
* Sex & the Sacred by Daniel Helminiak (Harrington Park Press)
* Spirited edited by Lisa Moore & G. Winston James (Redbone Press)
* The Singing of Swans by Mary Saracino (Pearlsong Press )
* Mobius Trip by Giti Thadani (Spinifex Press)

2005 Finalists (Winners listed first)

Anthologies
* Freedom in this Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing edited by E. Lynn Harris (Carroll & Graf)
* Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, & Sluts edited by Anna Camilleri (Arsenal Pulp)
* Lesbian Pulp Fiction edited by Katherine Forrest (Cleis)
* Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men edited by Wendell Ricketts (Suspect Thoughts)
* Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry edited by Emanuel Xavier (Suspect Thoughts)

Belles Lettres
* The Tricky Part by Martin Moran (Beacon)
* Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford (Counterpoint)
* Tab Hunter Confidential by Tab Hunter, with Eddie Muller (Algonquin)
* My One Night Stand with Cancer by Tania Katan (Alyson)
* When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg, illustrated by Tom Bachtell (Regan)

Biography
* February House by Sherrill Tippins (Houghton Mifflin)
* The Fabulous Sylvester by Joshua Gamson (Henry Holt)
* Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin by John Geiger (The Disinformation Company)
* Beyond Recall by Mary Meigs and Lise Weil (Talonbooks)
* Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, & Art by Diana Souhami (St. Martin’s)

Children’s/Young Adult
* Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai (Tundra)
* Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Children’s Book)
* Totally Joe by James Howe (Simon & Schuster)
* And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson (Simon & Schuster)
* Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)

Erotica
* Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)
* Best Gay Erotica 2006 edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonte (Cleis)
* Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 edited by Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
* Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Suspect Thoughts)
* Close Contact by Sean Wolfe (Kensington)

Gay Men’s Debut Fiction
* You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre (Carroll & Graf)
* Setting the Lawn on Fire by Mack Friedman (Wisconsin)
* Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann (Pantheon)
* The First Verse by Barry McCrea (Carroll & Graf)
* Bilal’s Bread by Sulyman X (Alyson)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (Carroll & Graf)
* German Officer’s Boy by Harlan Greene (Wisconsin)
* Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger (Random House)
* What We Do is Secret by Kief Hillsbery (Villard)
* Acqua Calda by Keith McDermott (Carroll & Graf)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* One of These Things is Not Like the Other by D. Travers Scott (Suspect Thoughts)
* The Actor’s Guide to Greed by Rick Copp (Kensington)
* The Paper Mirror by Dorien Grey (GLB)
* White Tiger by Michael Allen Dymmoch (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
* Cajun Snuff by W. Randy Haynes (Publish America)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Crush by Richard Siken (Yale)
* School of the Arts by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
* For Dust Thou Art by Timothy Lui (Southern Illinois)
* Sugar by Martin Pousson (Suspect Thoughts)
* Blue on Blue Ground by Aaron Smith (Pittsburgh)

Humor
* Don’t Get too Comfortable by David Rakoff (Doubleday)
* Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Alyson)
* Juicy Mother by Jennifer Camper (Soft Skull)
* What the L ? by Kate Clinton (Carroll & Graf)
* Revenge of the Paste Eaters by Cheryl Peck (5 Spot, Warner)

Lesbian Debut Fiction
* The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Leibegott (Suspect Thoughts)
* Crashing America by Katia Noyes (Alyson)
* Manstealing for Fat Girls by Michelle Embree (Soft Skull)
* In Too Deep by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
* Bliss by Fiona Zedde (Kensington)

Lesbian Fiction
* Babyji by Abha Dawesar (Anchor)
* Wild Dogs by Helen Humphrys (W. W. Norton)
* With or Without You by Lauren Sanders (Akashic)
* Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen Tulchinsky (Raincoast)
* Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (Harcourt)

Lesbian Mystery
* Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar De Alba (Arte Publico)
* Women of Mystery edited by Katherine Forrest (Haworth)
* The Iron Girl by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
* Darkness Descending by Penny Mickelbury (Kings Crossing)
* Justice Served by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

Lesbian Poetry
* Directed by Desire: Collected Poems by June Jordan (Copper Canyon)
* Where the Apple Falls by Samiya Bashir (RedBone)
* Life Mask by Jackie Kay (Bloodaxe)
* New and Selected Poems, Volume II by Mary Oliver (Beacon)
* Eye of Water by Amber Flora Thomas (Pittsburgh)

LGBT Studies
* When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman (Columbia)
* Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause by Jennifer Kelly (Spinifex)
* Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch by Dwight A. McBride (NYU)
* Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (Harrington Park)
* Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita (Palgrave Macmillan)

Nonfiction
* Words to Our Now by Thomas Glave (Minnesota)
* Gore Vidal’s America by Dennis Altman (Polity)
* Beyond the Down Low by Keith Boykin (Carroll & Graf)
* Raising Boys without Men by Peggy Drexler (Rodale)
* Women Together/Women Apart by Tirza True Latimer (Rutgers)

Romance
* Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)
* Artist’s Dream by Gerri Hill (Bella)
* Just Like That by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
* The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson (Seventh Window)
* Walt Loves the Bearcat by Randy Boyd (West Beach)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
* Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine V. Forrest (Alyson)
* Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Seven Stories)
* Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe (Tor)
* Temple Landfall by Jane Fletcher (Bold Strokes)
* No Sister of Mine by Jeanne G’Fellers (Bella)

Spirituality
* Qu(e)erying Evangelism by Cheri DiNovo (Pilgrim)
* The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades by Munya Andrews (Spinifex)
* The Path of the Green Man by Michael Thomas Ford (Citadel)
* I Am This One Walking Beside Me by Daniel Gebhardt (Pilgrim)
* Fumbling Toward Divinity by Craig Hickman (Annabessacook Farm)

Transgender/GenderQueer
* Choir Boy by Charlie Anders (Soft Skull)
* In a Queer Time and Place by Judith Halberstam (NYU)
* Deliver Me from Nowhere by Tennessee Jones (Soft Skull)
* Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey (Beacon)
* The Riddle of Gender by Deborah Rudacille (Pantheon)

2004 Finalists (Winners listed first)

ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION
* Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction edited by Donald Weise (Carroll & Graf)
* Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004 edited by Angela Brown (Alyson)
* Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person edited by Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea
* Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories edited by Peter Burton
* The Milk of Human Kindness edited by Lori L. Lake (Regal Crest)

ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION
* I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips
* Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative edited by Mary Burger, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy, and Gail Scott
* Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer edited by Angela Brown (Alyson)
* That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore
* Wonderlands edited by Raphael Kadushin (University of Wisconsin)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
* Name All the Animals by Alison Smith (Scribner)
* Blue Days, Black Nights by Ron Nyswaner (Advocate)
* Long Life by Mary Oliver (Da Capo)
* Rent Girl by Michelle Tea (Last Gasp)
* The Tomcat Chronicles by Jack Nichols (Harrington Park)

BIOGRAPHY
* Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux (W.W. Norton)
* Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White (W.W. Norton)
* Both: A Portrait in Two Parts by Douglas Crase (Pantheon)
* Jerome Robbins by Deborah Jowitt (Simon & Schuster)
* Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology by John F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus, and David P. Keys

CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
* So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
* Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
* Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (Delacorte)
* Rosemary and Juliet by Judy MacLean (Alice Street Editions)
* The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

DRAMA
* I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright (Faber and Faber)
* Fabulous! by Donald Reuter (Broadway)
* How to Make Dances in an Epidemic by David Gere (University of Wisconsin)
* love conjure/blues by Sharon Bridgeforth (RedBone)
* The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater edited by Claude J. Summers

EROTICA
* Best Gay Erotica 2005 edited by Richard Labonte (Cleis)
* All the Wrong Places by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
* Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
* Once Upon a Dyke by Karin Kallmaker, Therese Syzmanski, Julia Watts, and Barbara Johnson
* Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex by Rachel Kramer Bussel and Stacy M. Bias

GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION
* Clay’s Way by Blair Mastbaum (Alyson)
* A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl (CDS)
* Half-Life by Aaron Krach (Alyson)
* How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater by Mar Acito
* World Famous Love Acts by Brian Leung (Sarabande)

GAY MEN’S FICTION
* The Master by Colm Toibin (Scribner)
* Collage by Ted Wojtasik (Livingston)
* The Disinherited by Han Ong (FS&G)
* The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack (Soft Skull)
* The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury)

GAY MEN’S POETRY
* Written in Water by Luis Cernuda (City Lights)
* Cocktails by D.A. Powell (Graywolf)
* nothin’ ugly fly by Marvin K. White (RedBone)
* The Rest of Love by Carl Phillips (FS&G)
* Voluntary Servitude by Mark Wunderlich (Graywolf)

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY
* Flight of Aquavit by Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac)
* Jackson Square Jazz by Greg Herren (Kensington)
* Moth and Flame by John Morgan Wilson (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
* Someone You Know by Gary Zebrun (Alyson)
* The Role Players by Dorien Grey (GLB)

HUMOR

* Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)

* Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs by Cheryl Peck (Warner)
* Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast by Greg Fox (Kenisington)
* Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s)
* Alexander the Fabulous by Michael Alvear and Vicky A. Shecter (Advocate)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
* Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank (Firebrand)
* Death by Discount by Mary Vermillion (Alyson)
* Dish It Up, Baby! by Kristie Helms (Firebrand)
* Fire and Brimstone by Laurinda D. Brown (Strebor)
* Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey by Bridget Bufford (Alice Street)

LESBIAN FICTION
* A Seahorse Year by Stacey D’Erasmo (Houghton Mifflin)
* Abundant Light by Valerie Miner (Michigan State University)
* Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt)
* Skels by Maggie Dubris (Soft Skull)
* Venus of Chalk by Susan Stinson (Firebrand)

LESBIAN POETRY
* Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch (Gival)
* Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King (BlazeVox)
* Femme’s Dictionary by Carol Guess (Calyx)
* The School Among the Ruins by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)
* Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon)

LESBIAN MYSTERY
* Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley Prime Crime)
* An Intimate Ghost by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
* Commitment to Die by Jennifer Jordan (Bean Pole)
* Death by Discount by Mary Vermillion (Alyson)
* The Wombat Strategy by Claire McNab (Alyson)

LGBT STUDIES
* For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
* All-Night Party by Andrea Barnet (Algonquin)
* A Passion to Preserve by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin)
* Families Like Mine by Abigail Garner (HarperCollins)
* Why Marriage Matters by Evan Wolfson (Simon & Schuster)

PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS
* At Ease: Navy Men of World War II by Evan Bachner (Harry Abrams)
* Lust Unearthed by Thomas Waugh (Arsenal Pulp)
* The Queer Movie Poster Book by Jenni Olson (Chronicle)
* Rent Girl by Michelle Tea, illustrated by Laurenn McCubbin (Last Gasp)
* The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts edited by Claude J. Summers (Cleis)

ROMANCE
* Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger (HarperCollins)
* All the Wrong Places by Karin Kallmaker (Bella)
* Confessions of a Casanova by Chris Kenry (Kensington)
* Gulf Breeze by Gerri Hill (Bella)
* Under the Witness Tree by Marianne Martin (Bywater)

RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY
* Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love by Will Roscoe
* Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions by Randy Conner and David Hatfield Sparks
* Same-Sex Marriage: A Christian Ethical Analysis by Marvin M. Ellison (Pilgrim)
* Sanctity and Male Desire by Donald L. Boisvert (Pilgrim)
* Wrestling with God & Men by Rabbi Steven Greenberg (University of Wisconsin)

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR
* The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley (Tor)
* Firelands by Michael Jensen (Alyson)
* Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual edited by Greg Herren (Southern Tier)
* The Wizard of Isis by Jean Stewart (Bella)
* With Her Body by Nicola Griffith (Aqueduct)

TRANSGENDER/GENDERQUEER
* The Gender Frontier by Mariette Pathy Allen (Kehrer Verlag)
* Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green (Vanderbilt University)
* From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond (Manic D)
* Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
* My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossdresser by Helen Boyd (Thunder’s Mouth)

INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD
* Suspect Thoughts Press
* Bella Books

2003 Finalists (winners listed first)
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2002 Finalists (winners listed first)

Anthologies/Fiction
* Black Like Us edited by Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Done Weise (Cleis)
* Bend Sinister – The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories edited by Peter Burton
* Queer Fear II edited by Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp)
* Rebel Yell 2 edited by Jay Quinn (Southern Tier/Harrington Park)
* Summer Share by Chris Kenry, William J. Mann, Andy Schell and Ben Tyler

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* The Man I Might Become edited by Bruce Shenitz (Marlowe & Company)
* Found Tribe edited by Lawrence Schimel (Sherman Asher)
* From ACT UP to the WTO edited by Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk (Verso)
* GenderQueer edited by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (Alyson)
* This Bridge We Call Home edited by Analouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldua

Autobigraphy
* Surviving Madness by Betty Berzon (University of Wisconsin)
* Famous Builder by Paul Lisicky (Graywolf)
* Insurgent Muse by Terry Wolverton (City Lights)
* The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea (Seal)
* Wild Animals I Have Known by Kevin Bentley (Green Candy)

Biography
* Ridiculous! by David Kaufman (Applause Theatre & Cinema)
* Gay Revel of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Thomas Wirth (Duke University)
* Glenway Wescott Personally by Jerry Rosco (University of Wisconsin)
* Rare and Commonplace Flowers by Carmen L. Oliveira (Rutgers University)
* Wild Heart by Suzanne Rodriguez (Ecco)

Bridge Builder Award
* Betty DeGeneres, author of Love, Ellen and Just a Mom

Children’s/Young Adult
* Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko (Academy Chicago Press)
* Felicia’s Favorite Story by Leslea Newman (Two Lives Publishing)
* King and King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland (Tricycle)
* Lovers’ Legends: The Gay Greek Myths by Andrew Calimach (Haiduk)
* The Sissy Duckling by Harvey Fierstein (Simon & Schuster)

Editor’s Choice
* The World Turned by John D’Emilio (Duke University)

Erotica
* Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
* Bedroom Eyes edited by Leslea Newman (Alyson)
* Best Gay Erotica 2003 edited by Richard Labonte (Cleis)
* Cocksure by Bob Vickery (Alyson)
* The Sperm Engine by Stephen Greco (Green Candy)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Scribner)
* Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal (Graywolf)
* Boulevard by Jim Grimsley (Alogonquin)
* Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit (MacAdam/Cage)
* The Martian Child by David Gerrold (Forge)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice (Miramax)
* Hot Spot by Michael Craft (St. Martin’s)
* Murder in the Rue Dauphine by Greg Herren (Alyson)
* The Hired Man by Dorien Grey (GLB)
* The Lodger by Drew Gummerson (GMP)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Hazmat by J.D. McClatchy (Alfred A. Knopf)
* The Christmas Poems by Krandall Kraus (AttaGirl)
* Landscape with Human Figure by Rafael Campo (Duke University)
* Ten Tongues by Reginald Harris (Three Conditions)
* Theory of Devolution by David Groff (University of Illinois)

Humor
* Skipping Toward Gomorrah by Dan Savage (Dutton)
* Gaydar by Donald F. Reuter (Crown)
* Is It a Date or Just Coffee? by Mo Brownsey (Alyson)
* Screening Party by Dennis Hensley (Alyson)
* The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories by Alisa Surkis and Monica Nolan

Lesbian Fiction
* Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
* Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
* Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove (St. Martin’s)
* Stay by Nicola Griffith (Doubleday)
* This Place Called Absence by Lydia Kwa (Kensington)

Lesbian Mystery
* Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft (Kensington)
* Accidental Murder by Claire McNab (Bella)
* Death by Prophecy by Lauren Maddison (Alyson)
* Immaculate Midnight by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)
* The Weeping Buddha by Heather Dune Macadam (Akashic)

Lesbian Poetry
* Mules of Love by Ellen Bass (BOA Editions)
* Body Language by C.C. Carter (Kings Crossing)
* Passing by Eloise Klein Healy (Red Hen)
* Red by Melanie Braverman (Perugia)
* Unraveling at the Name by Jenny Factor (Copper Canyon)

LGBT Studies
* Sex-Crime Panic by Neil Miller (Alyson)
* From Identity to Politics by Craig Rimmerman (Temple University)
* Love in a Dark Time by Colm Toibin (Scribner)
* Queering India edited by Ruth Vanita (Routledge)
* Soul Beneath the Skin by David Nimmons (St. Martin’s)

Pioneer Award
* Barbara Grier, Naiad Press
* Judy Shepard, The Matthew Shepard Foundation

Romance
* The Winter of Our Discoteque by Andrew W.M. Beierle (Kensington)
* Boyfriend Material by Jon Jeffrey (Kensington)
* Different People by Orland Outland (Alyson)
* Nora and Liz by Nancy Garden (Bella)
* She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not by Leslea Newman (Alyson)

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
* Queer Fear II edited by Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp)
* Daughters of an Amber Noon by Katherine V. Forrest (Alyson)
* Seeds of Fire by Karin Kallmaker writing as Laura Adams (Bella)
* The Devil Inside by Randy Boyd (West Beach)
* Wired Hard 3 edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet)

Small Press
* Kings Crossing Publishing, Robin G. White, Sha Mendon

Spirituality
* Courage to Love by Geoffrey Duncan (Pilgrim)
* Found Tribe edited by Lawrence Schimel (Sherman Asher)
* Lovers’ Legends: The Gay Greek Myths by Andrew Calimach (Haiduk)
* Queer Jews edited by David Scneer and Caryn Aviv (Routledge)
* Queering Christ by Robert E. Goss (Pilgrim)

Transgender
* Dress Codes by Noelle Howey (Picador)
* Brazen Femme edited by Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri (Arsenal Pulp)
* GenderQueer edited by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell (Alyson)
* Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (FS&G)
* Some of the Parts by T Cooper (Akashic)

Visual Arts
* A Hidden Love by Dominique Fernandez (Prestel)
* On the Couch – Volume One by Tom Bianchi (Bruno Gmunder Verlag)
* Out/Lines by Thomas Waugh (Arsenal Pulp)
* Outlaw Representation by Richard Meyer (Oxford University)
* Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude by Justin Spring (Universe)

2001 Finalists (Winners listed first)

Anthologies/Fiction
* Diva Book of Short Stories edited by Helen Sandler (Millivres)
* Reading the Landscape: Horror edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
* Love Shook My Heart 2 edited by Jess Wells (Alyson)
* Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors edited by Jay Quinn
* Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America edited by Quang Bao, Hanya Yanagihara, and Timothy Lui

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities edited by Constantine-Simms
* His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers edited by Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias
* In a Queer Country edited by Terry Goldie
* Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation edited by Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson
* Out in the Castro edited by Winston Leyland (Leyland)

Autobiography/Memoir
* Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon (Scribner)
* Gaslight by Carol Guess (Odd Girls)
* How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read (Hill Street)
* Monster: Adventures in American Machismo by Brian Bouldrey (Council Oaks)
* Outbound by William Storandt (University of Wisconsin)

Biography
* The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin by Barry Werth (Doubleday)
* Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie
* The Masks of Mary Renault by Caroline Zilboorg (University of Missouri)
* The Sappho Companion edited by Margaret Reynolds (St. Martin’s)
* Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Mitford

Children’s/Young Adult
* Finding H.F. by Julia Watts (Alyson)
* Empress of the World by Sara Ryan (Viking)
* Love Rules by Marilyn Reynolds (Morning Glory)
* Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)
* Spot by Todd Tuttle (Window)

Erotica
* See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent by Ian Philips
* Dirty Words by M. Christian (Alyson)
* His Tongue by Lawrence Schimel (North Atlantic)
* Hot & Bothered 3 by Karen X. Tulchinsky (Arsenal Pulp)
* Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica by Lori Selke (Black)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus (Knopf)
* The Heart is Deceitful in all Things by JT LeRoy (Bloomsbury)
* In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer (Grove)
* The Marble Quilt by David Leavitt (Houghton Mifflin)
* The Rose City by David Ebershoff (Viking)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* Rag and Bone by Michael Nava (G.P. Putnam)
* Boy Toy by Michael Craft (St. Martin’s)
* The Butcher’s Son by Dorien Grey (GLB)
* Making a Killing by Warren Dunford (Alyson)
* Sex and Murder.Com by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Source by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
* Before Time Could Change Them by Constantine Cavafy (Harcourt Brace)
* Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin (Manic D)
* Hard Evidence by Timothy Liu (Talisman House)
* Love Speaks Its Name by J.D. McClatchy (Knopf)

GLBT Studies
* Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price (Basic)
* All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America by Suzanna Danuta Walters
* Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 by William J. Mann
* The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s edited by Ricardo J. Brown and William Reichard
* Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties by Gay Wachman

Humor
* Fraud by David Rakoff (Doubleday)
* Drama Queen by Patrick Price (St. Martin’s)
* Hoochie Mama by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)
* The Inflatable Butch by Ellen Orleans (Alyson)
* My Little Book of Neuroses by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)

Lesbian Fiction
* Days of Awe by Achy Obejas (Ballantine)
* Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)
* Light, Coming Back by Ann Wadsworth (Alyson)
* Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg (FS&G)
* Yin Fire by Alexandra Grilikhes (Alice Street Editions/Haworth)

Lesbian Mystery
* Merchant of Venus by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)
* Back to Salem by Alex Marcoux (Alice Street Editions/Haworth)
* Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy by Mabel Maney (Harper Entertainment)
* Moving Targets by Pat Welch (Bella)
* Witchfire by Lauren Maddison (Alyson)

Lesbian Poetry
* Fox by Adrienne Rich (Norton)
* Here by Letta Neely (Wildheart)
* Mr. Bluebird by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Painted Leaf)
* Skies by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
* Why Things Burn by Daphne Gottleib (Soft Skull)

Photography/Visual Arts
* Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher
* Intimacies by Tee A. Corinne (Last Gasp)
* Male Nude Now by David Leddick (Universe)
* Queer Pulp by Susan Stryker (Chronicle)
* Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon by Robert Mainardi (Council Oak)

Romance
* Pages for You by Silvia Brownrigg (FS&G)
* Any Kind of Luck by William Jack Sibley (Kensington)
* Mirrors by Marianne K. Martin (Bella)
* Substitute for Love by Karin Kallmaker (Naiad)
* Vadriel Vail by Vincent Virga (Alyson)

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
* Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett (Tor)
* Bending the Landscape: Horror edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
* Bound in Blood by David Thomas Lord (Kensington)
* Gumshoe Gorilla by Keith Hartman (Meisha Merlin)
* Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelbein (Alyson)

Small Press
* Conversaciones! by Mariana Romo-Carmona (Cleis)
* Calendar Boy by Andy Quan (New Star)
* Creating Man by Michael G. Cornelius (Vineyard)
* Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human by Robert N. Minor
* The Wild Man by Patricia Nell Warren (Wildcat)

Spirituality
* Tie: Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible edited by Ken Stone (Pilgrim)
* Tie: Escaping God’s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest by Bernard Duncan Mayes
* Coming Out Young and Faithful edited by Leanne McCall Tigert and Timothy Brown
* Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian by Vanessa Sheridan
* Gifted by Otherness by L. William Countryman and M.R. Ritley (Morehouse)

Transgender/Bisexual
* Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott (Pilgrim)
* Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 edited by Bill Brnt and Carol Queen
* Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian by Vanessa Sheridan
* Dragged!! To His Senses by Jonathan Branton (Yellow House)
* Synthetic Bi Products by Sparrow L. Patterson (Akashic)

2000 Finalists (Winners listed first)

Anthologies/Fiction
* Men on Men 2000 edited by David Bergman and Karl Woelz (Plume)
* Queer Fear edited by Michael Rowe (Arsenal)
* Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction at the Millenium edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
* Same Sex Love in India edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai (St. Martin’s)
* Kosher Meat edited by Lawrence Schimel (Sherman Asher)

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* Out of the Ordinary edited by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels (St. Martin’s)
* Coming Out of Cancer edited by Victoria Brownworth (Seal)
* Home Fronts edited by Jess Wells (Alyson)
* Mama’s Boy edited by Dean Kostos (Painted Leaf)
* Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie (Alyson)

Children’s/Young Adult
* Out of the Ordinary edited by Noelle Hawley and Ellen Samuels (St. Martin’s)
* Holly’s Secret by Nancy Garden (FS&G)
* Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie (Alyson)
* The XY Survival Guide by Benjie Nycum (XY)
* Eight Seconds by Jean Ferris (Harcourt)

Drama
* Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mithcell, music and lyrics by Stephen Trask
* The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told by Paul Rudnick (Overlook)
* Five Lesbian Brothers by Five Lesbian Brothers (Consortium)
* The Beginning of August by Tom Donaghy (Grove)
* I, Carmelita Tropicana by Alina Troyano (Beacon)

Gay Biography/Autobiography
* Bosie by Douglas Murray (Talk Miramax)
* Marcel Proust by Jean-Yves Tadie (Viking)
* Brave Journeys by David Mixner (Bantam)
* The Mentor by Jay Quinn (Haworth)
* Lies by Ned Rorem (Counterpoint)

Gay Fiction
* The World of Normal Boys by K.M. Soehnlein (Kensington)
* The Notorious Dr. August by Christopher Bram (William Morrow)
* The Married Man by Edmund White (Knopf)
* Guess Again by Bernard Cooper (Simon & Schuster)
* Between Dances by Erasmo Guerra (Painted Leaf)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* The Limits of Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
* A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice (Talk Miramax)
* Name Games by Michael Craft (St. Martin’s)
* Love’s Last Chance by Krandall Kraus (Alyson)
* Nothing Gold Can Stay by Casey Nelson (Alyson)

Gay Poetry
* Pastoral by Carl Phillips (Graywolf)
* Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn (FS&G)
* The World in Us by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou (St. Martin’s)
* Word of Mouth by Timothy Liu (Talisman)
* Plasticville by David Trinidad (Turtle Point)

Gay Studies
* The Isherwood Century by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
* Left Out – The Politics of Exclusion by Martin Duberman (Basic)
* Creating Change by d’Emilio, Turner and Vaid (St. Martin’s)
* Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Paramilitary by Samuel R. Delaney
* Male Lust by Kerwin Kay et al (Haworth)

Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Kirith Kirin by Jim Grimsley (Meisha Merlin)
* Queer Fear edited by Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp)
* Merrick by Anne Rice (Knopf)
* Angel Lust by Perry Brass (Belhue)
* Jumping off the Planet by David Gerrold (Tor)

Humor

* Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Little Brown)

* It’s Not Mean if It’s True by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)
* Bruce! by Bruce Vilanch (J P Tarcher)
* Post-Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
* The Femme’s Guide to the Universe by Shar Rednour (Alyson)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* Lifesaving by Judith Barrington (Eight Mountain)
* Truly Wilde by Joan Schenkar (Basic)
* My Dangerous Desires by Amber Hollibaugh (Duke University)
* Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood by June Jordan (Basic)
* The Room Lit by Roses by Carole Maso (Counterpoint)

Lesbian Fiction
* Valencia by Michelle Tea (Seal)
* Affinity by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
* Tea by Stacey D’Erasmo (Algonquin)
* The Powerbook by Jeannette Wintersen (Knopf)
* Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood (Riverhead)

Lesbian Mystery
* Mommy Deadest by Jean Marcy (New Victoria)
* The Case of the Orphanned Bassoonists by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
* Booked for Murder by Val McDermid (Spinsters Ink)
* When Evil Changes Face by Therese Szymanski (Bella)
* Death Understood by Claire McNab (Naiad)

Lesbian Poetry
* Mercy Mercy Me by Elena Georgiou (Painted Leaf)
* The Horse Fair by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
* A Map to the Next World by Joy Harjo (W.W. Norton)
* And on the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone by Nancy Boutilier (Black Sparrow)
* Signs of Love by Leslea Newman (Windstorm Creative)

Lesbian Studies
* Lesbian Art in America by Harmony Hammond (Rizzoli)
* Margaret Mead Made Me Gay by Esther Newton (Duke University)
* The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Diana McLellan (St. Martin’s)
* Girl Reed by Bonnie J. Morris (Coffeehouse)
* My Dangerous Desires by Amber Hollibaugh (Duke)

Spirituality/Religion
* Tie: Gay Spirituality by Toby Johnson (Alyson)
* Tie: It’s Never About What It’s About by Krandall Kraus and Paul Borja (Alyson)
* The Silence of Sodom by Mark Jordan (University of Chicago)
* Interviews/Entrevistas by Gloria E. Anzaldua (Routledge)
* ReCreations edited by Catherine Lake (Queer)

Small Press
* Tie: Kamikaze Lust by Lauren Sanders (Akashic)
* Tie: Between Dances by Erasmo Guerra (Painted Leaf)
* Outline of My Lover by Douglas A. Martin (Soft Skull)
* Bridge Across the Ocean by Randy Boyd (West Beach)
* Undertow by Amy Shcutzer (CALYX)

Transgender
* The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff (Viking)
* As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto (HarperCollins)
* Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian (Harmony)
* Out of the Ordinary edited by Noelle Hawley and Ellen Samuels (St. Martin’s)
* Are You a Boy or a Girl? by Karleen Pendleton Jimenez (Green Dragon)

Visual Arts
* Faeries by Keri Pickett (Aperture)
* Lesbian Art in America by Harmony Hammond (Rizzoli)
* Stars in My Eyes by Don Bachardy (University of Wisconsin)
* Black and White Men by James Spada (Pond Street)
* As I See It by Greg Gorman (powerHouse)

1999 Finalists (Winners listed first)
Anthologies/Fiction
* Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction edited by Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle, and Nancy Holden (Vintage)
* Besame Mucho: New Gay Latino Fiction edited by Jaime Manrique and Jesse Dorris
* Hers 3 edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
* His 3 edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
* Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories edited by Emma Donoghue

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia edited by Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson (Henry Holt)
* This Is What Lesbian Looks Like edited by Kris Kleindienst (Firebrand)
* A Woman Like That edited by Joan Larkin
* Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics edited by Larry Gross and James D. Woods
* Fighting Words edited by Charles Michael Smith

Children’s/Young Adult
* Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)
* Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
* Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
* The Blue Lawn by William Taylor
* The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden

Drama
* What I Meant Was by Craig Lucas (TCG)
* Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally
* Lovesick edited by Laurence Senelick
* Of All the Nerve by Deb Margolin
* Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism by Steven Watson

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* The Velveteen Father by Jesse Green (Villard)
* An Underground Life by Gad Beck
* Firebird: A Memoir by Mark Doty
* Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan
* Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion by Martin Duberman

Gay Men’s Fiction
* Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler (Grove)
* Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley
* In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran
* The Book of Lies by Felice Picano
* The Coming Storm by Paul Russell

Gay Men’s Mystery
* Justice at Risk by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
* Drop Dead by Mark Zubro
* Innuendo by R.D. Zimmerman
* The Death of a Constant Lover by Lev Raphael
* The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman

Gay Men’s Poetry
* The Anchorage by Mark Wunderlich (UMASS)
* Trappings by Richard Howard (Turtle Point)
* Diva by Rafael Campo
* Last Rights by Marvin K. White
* Lyric by G. Winston James

Gay Men’s Studies
* Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James Saslow
* Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard
* The Crisis of Desire by Robin Hardy and David Groff
* The Mismeasure of Desire by Edward Stein
* Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel Delany

Humor
* That’s Mr. Faggot To You by Michael Thomas Ford (Alyson)
* Ethan Exposed by Eric Orner
* Way to Go Smith! by Bob Smith
* Wilma Loves Betty and Other Hilarious Gay & Lesbian Parodies edited by Scott Brassart and Julie K. Trevelyan
* Subgurlz by Jennifer Camper

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami (Doubleday)
* Baby Precious Always Shines by Kay Turner
* Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 1933-1938 by Blanche Weisen Cook
* My Lesbian Husband by Barrie Jean Borich
* Tales of the Lavender Menace by Karla Jay

Lesbian Fiction
* Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
* Bruised Fruit by Anna Livia
* Faults by Terri de la Pena
* Salt Water and Other Stories by Barbara Wilson
* Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark

Lesbian Mystery
* Hunting the Witch by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)
* Lost Daughters by J.M. Redmann
* Murder Undercover by Claire McNab
* She Came in Drag by Mary Wings
* Sleeping Bones by Katherine Forrest

Lesbian Poetry
* Rave by Olga Broumas (Copper Canyon Press)
* Interior With Sudden Joy by Brenda Shaughnessy
* Midnight Salvage by Adrienne Rich
* Monkeypuzzle by Rita Wong
* Walking Back Up Depot Street by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Lesbian Studies
* To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman
* A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America by Leila J. Rupp
* Eden Built by Eves by Bonnie Morris
* Strange Sisters by Jaye Zimet
* Whole Lesbian Sex Book by Felice Newman

Photography/Visual Arts
* Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James Saslow
* The Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev by David Leddick
* John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes by John Esten and Donna Hassler
* Strange Sisters by Jaye Zimet
* The Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith Halberstam

Religion/Spirituality
* Gay Spirit Warrior by John Stowe (Findhorn)
* Respecting the Soul by Keith Boykin (Avon)
* Coming Out Spiritually by Christian De La Huerta and Matthew Fox
* Prayer Warriors by Stuart Howell Miller
* Queer Dharma 2 by Winston Leyeland

Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Minions of the Moon by Richard Bowe (Tor)
* Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women edited by Victoria Brownworth and Judith Redding
* The Annunciate by Severna Park
* The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman
* Through a Brazen Mirror by Delia Sherman

Small Press
* Massage by Henry Flesh (Akashic)
* Christ-Like by Emanuel Xavier
* Hey Paesan! by Capone, Leto & Mecca
* Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott
* The Queer Press Guide edited by Paul Harris

Transgender
* Trumpet by Jackie Kay (Pantheon)
* Crossing by Deirdre McCloskey
* From Toads to Queens by Jacobo Schifter
* The Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith Halberstam
* Transmen and FTMs by Jason Cromwell


1998 Finalists (Winners listed first)
Anthologies/Fiction
* Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature edited by Byrne R.S. Fone
* Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica edited by Lawrence Schimel (Carroll & Graf)
* Men on Men 7 edited by Joel Tan (Penguin/Plume)
* Queer PAPI Porn by Joel Tan (Cleis)
* To Be Continued edited by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky (Firebrand)

Anthologies/Non-Fiction
* Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life edited by Nisa Donnelly
* Q & A: Queer in Asian America edited by David L. Eng (Temple University)
* Lesbian Travels edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Whereabouts)
* Queer 13 edited by Clifford Chase (Weisbach)
* Telling Tales Out of School edited by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)

Children
* Telling Tales Out of School by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)
* I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins)
* Lucy Goes to the Country by Joseph Kennedy, illustrated by John Canemaker
* Outspoken by Michael Thomas Ford (Morrow Junior)
* Queer 13 by Clifford Chase (Weisbach)

Drama
* O Solo Homo edited by Holly Hughes (Grove)
* Mr. Universe and Other Plays by Jim Grimsley and David Roman (Algonquin)
* Place For Us by D.A. Miller (Harvard University)
* Stagestruck by Sarah Schulman (Duke)
* The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (Villard)

Editor’s Choice Award
* The Boy by Naeem Murr (Houghton Mifflin)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* Wisecracker by William J. Mann (Viking)
* Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Norman Page (St. Martin’s)
* The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias (Random House)
* Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs by Graham Caveney (Little Brown)
* In The Flesh by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard (Barricade)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* An Arrow’s Flight by Mark Merlis (St. Martin’s)
* The Hours by Michael Cunningham (FS&G)
* Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine (St. Martin’s/Picador)
* The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway (Houghton Mifflin)
* Where the Rainbow Ends by Jameson Currier (Overlook)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* Outburst by R.D. Zimmerman (Delacourt)
* Dead as a Doornail by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
* Federal Fag by Fred Hunter (St. Martin’s)
* Strachey’s Folly by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
* Uprising by Randy Boyd (Westbeach)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy (Knopf)
* A Flame for the Touch That Matters by Michael Lassell (Painted Leaf)
* A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field (Black Sparrow)
* Say Goodnight by Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon)
* Sweet Machine by Mark Doty (Harper Flamingo)

Gay Men’s Studies
* The Other Side of Silence by John Loughery (Henry Holt)
* Becoming Visible by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman (NYPL/Penguin Studio)
* Changing Ones by Will Roscoe (St. Martin’s)
* Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival by Andrew Sullivan
* The Pleasure Principle by Michael Bronski (St. Martin’s)

Humor
* Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford
* Don’t Get Me Started by Kate Clinton (Ballantine)
* The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
* Savage Love by Dan Savage (Dutton)
* Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel
* A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)
* Empty Without You by Rodger Streitmatter (The Free Press)
* The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale (Viking)
* Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John by Sally Cline (Overlook)

Lesbian Fiction
* Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison (Dutton)
* bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth (RedBone)
* Shimmer by Sarah Schulman (Avon)
* The Dogs by Rebecca Brown (City Lights)
* They Call Me Mad Dog by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)

Lesbian Mystery
* The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith (Avon)
* Shaman’s Moon by Sarah Dreher (New Victoria)
* Mother May I by Randye Lordon (Avon)
* Past Due by Claire McNab (Naiad)
* Wicked Games by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Poetry
* Marianne Faithfull’s Cigarette by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Cleis)
* Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery by Pamela Sneed (Owl)
* In the Open by Beatrix Gates (Painted Leaf)
* Juba by Letta Neely (Wildheart)
* The Little Butch Book by Leslea Newman (New Victoria)

Lesbian Studies
* A Fragile Union by Joan Nestle (Cleis)
* Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke)
* Gay Old Girls by Zsa Zsa Gershick (Alyson)
* Stagestruck by Sarah Schulman (Duke)
* The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith (Rutgers)

Photography/Visual Arts
* The Male Nude by David Leddick (Taschen)
* Women in Love by Barbara Seyda with Diana Herrera (Bullfinch/Little Brown)
* Affectionate Men by Russell Bush (St. Martin’s)
* Becoming Visible by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman (NYPL/Penguin Studio)
* The Passionate Camera by Deborah Bright (Routledge)

Pioneer Award
* Katherine V. Forrest

Publisher Service Award
* Joan M. Drury, Spinsters Ink

Religion/Spirituality
* Ferocious Romance by Donna Minkowitz (Free Press)
* Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair by John McNeill (Westminister John Knox)
* Closet Devotions by Richard Rambuss (Duke)
* How to Survive Your Own Gay Life by Perry Brass (Belhue)
* Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living by Peter J. Gomes (Morrow)

Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Bending the Landscape II edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook)
* Galilee by Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
* Desmond by Ulysses G. Dietz (Alyson)
* Falling to Earth by Elizabeth Brownrigg (Firebrand)
* Things Invisible to See edited by Lawrence Schimel (Ultra Violet)

Small Press
* the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth (RedBone)
* The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel
* Queer Japan edited by Barbara Summerhawk (New Victoria)
* The Reluctant Pornographer by Bruce LaBruce (Gutter)
* Uprising by Randy Boyd (Westbeach)

Transgender
* The Empress Is a Man by Michael R. Gorman (Harrington Park)
* Boy-Wives and Female Husbands edited by Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray
* Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam (Duke)
* Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook
* Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg (Beacon)

1997 Finalists (Winners listed first)
Anthologies/Fiction
* His(2) edited by Robert Drake with Terry Wolverton (Faber & Faber)
* Best American Gay Fiction 2 edited by Brian Bouldrey (Little, Brown)
* Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 edited by Tristan Taormino (Cleis)
* Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life edited by Christian McEwen
* The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories edited by Peter Burton (Carroll & Graf)

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter
* PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel
* My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries edited by Rictor Norton
* Lesbians Raising Sons edited by Jess Wells (Alyson)
* Gay Men at the Millennium edited by Michel Lowenthal (Tarcher/Putnam)

Children’s/Young Adult
* The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson (Delacorte)
* The Shared Heart by Adam Mastoon (William Morrow)
* Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What’s a Lesbian? by Jeanne Arnold
* Blue Coyote by Liza Ketchum (Simon & Schuster)
* Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods by Paul Monette (Scribner)

Drama
* Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman (Vintage)
* Monsters in the Closet edited by Harry M. Benshoff (Manchester University)
* Three Plays by Mae West by Lillian Schlissel (Routledge)
* Porcelain & A Language of Their Own edited by Chay Yew (Grove)
* Rent by Jonathan Larson (Rob Weisbach)

Editor’s Choice
* Billy’s Boy by Patricia Nell Warren (Wildcat)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography

* The Poetry of Healing by Rafael Campo (W.W. Norton)
* A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay by Felice Picano (Faber & Faber)
* Track Conditions by Michael Klein (Persea)
* Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
* Walt Whitman: a Gay Life by Gary Schmidgall (Dutton)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman (Putnam)
* Gossip by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
* Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus (Knopf)
* The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White (Knopf)
* The House on Brooke Street by Neil Bartlett (Dutton)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* The Magician’s Tale by David Hunt (Putnam)
* Gossip by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
* Hostage by R.D. Zimmerman (Delacorte)
* Revision of Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
* The Burning Plain by Michael Nava (Putnam)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Beautiful Signor by Cyrus Cassells (Copper Canyon)
* Bite Hard by Justin Chin (Manic D)
* Desire by Frank Bidart (FS&G)
* Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton edited by Jim Cory
* Desire: Poems 1986-1996 by Tom Carey (Painted Leaf)

Gay Men’s Studies
* Gay Metropolis edited by Charles Kaiser (Houghton Mifflin)
* Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures edited by Martin Duberman
* Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self edited by Mark Thompson
* Life Outside – The Signorile Report on Gay Men by Michelangelo Signorile
* Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Man by Gabriel Rotello (Dutton)

Humor
* Openly Bob by Bob Smith (Rob Weisbach)
* Barbie Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer (New Victoria)
* Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)

* Naked by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)

* Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez (Simon & Schuster)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood by Barbara Wilson (Picador)
* My Life as a Boy by Kim Chernin (Algonquin)
* May Sarton: a Biography by Margaret Peters (Knopf)
* The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams
* Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee (Knopf)

Lesbian Fiction
* Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon (Press Gang)
* A/K/A by Ruthann Robson (St. Martin’s)
* A Crystal Diary by Frankie Hucklenbroich (Firebrand)
* Prozac Highway by Persimmon Blackbridge (Press Gang)
* Terminal Velocity by Blanche McCrary Boyd

Lesbian Mystery
* Father Forgive Me by Randye Lordon (Avon)
* Apparition Alley by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley)
* No Daughter of the South by Cynthia Webb (New Victoria)
* Evil Dead Center by Carole laFavor (Firebrand)
* Old Black Magic by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)

Lesbian Poetry
* Tie: Cold River by Joan Larkin (Painted Leaf)
* Tie: School of Fish by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
* Diesel Fuel edited by Pat Califia (Masquerade)
* Poems Between Women edited by Emma Donoghue (Columbia University)
* Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (Cleis)

Lesbian Studies
* Does Your Mama Know? edited by Lisa C. Moore (Redbone)
* Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers edited by Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias
* Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami (St. Martin’s)
* Queerly Classed edited by Susan K. Raffo (South End)
* Sex and Sensibility by Arlene Stein (University of California)

Photography/Visual Arts
* Tie: Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 by David Leddick (Universe)
* Tie: Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard
* John Waters: Director’s Cut by John Waters (Scalo)
* I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves edited by Joani Blank (Down There)
* Men Together by Anderson Jones, photographs by David Fields (Running)

Pioneer Award
* Ron Hanby, Bookazine

Publishers Service Award
* Douglas Mitchell, University of Chicago Press

Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Bending the Landscape edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (White Wolf)
* Grave Passions edited by William Mann (Masquerade)
* The Harvest by Perry Brass (Belhue)
* Monsters in the Closet edited by Harry M. Benshoff (Machester University)
* The Drag Queen of Elfland edited by Lawrence Schimel (Circlet)

Small Press
* Does Your Mama Know? edited by Lisa C. Moore (Redbone)
* Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon (Press Gang)
* Barbie Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer (New Victoria)
* Bite Hard by Justin Chinn (Manic D)
* Toward the New Degeneracy by Bruce Benderson (Edgewise)

Spirituality/Religion
* Like Bread on the Seder Plate by Rebecca Alpert (Columbia University)
* Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit edited by Randy P. Conner
* The Essential Gay Mystics by Andrew Harvey (HarperCollins)
* Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists edited by Winston Leyland (Gay Sunshine)
* Stealing Jesus by Bruce Bawer (Crown)

Transgender
* Tie: PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel
* Tie: The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams
* Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender by Riki Anne Wilchins
* Sex Changes by Pat Califia (Cleis)
* Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos by Annick Prieur

1996 Finalists (Winners listed first)
Anthologies/Fiction
* Women on Women 3 edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume)
* Go the Way Your Blood Beats edited by Shawn Stewart Ruff (Owl)
* Men on Men 6 edited by David Bergman (Plume)
* Night Bites edited by Victoria Brownworth (Seal)
* Shade edited by Bruce Morrow & Charles H. Rowell (Avon)

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* Taking Liberties edited by Michael Bronski (Masquerade)
* Beyond Queer edited by Bruce Bawer (Free)
* Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon)
* Generation Q edited by Robin Bernstein & Seth Clark Silberman (Alyson)
* Off the Rag edited by Lee Lynch & Akia Woods (New Victoria)

Children’s/Young Adult
* Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (FSG)
* Daddy’s Wedding by Michael Willhoite (Alyson Publications)
* Free Your Mind by Ellen Bass & Kate Kaufman (HarperPerennial)
* My Dad Has HIV by Alexander, Rudin & Sejkora (Fairview Press)
* The World Out There by Michael Thomas Ford (The New Press)

Drama
* Split Britches edited by Sue-Ellen Case (Routledge)
* Acting=Life by Michael Kearns (Heinemann)
* Amazon All-Stars edited by Rosemary Keefe Curb (Applause)
* Clit Notes by Holly Hughes (Grove)
* Three Plays by Crowley by Mart Crowley (Alyson)

Editors’ Choice
* Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 edited by Donald Windham

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson (Scribner)
* Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
* Lush Life by David Hadju (FSG)
* Spells of a Voodoo Doll by Assotto Saint (Masquerade)
* Truth Serum by Bernard Cooper (Houghton Mifflin)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadural (William Morrow)
* Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran (William Morrow)
* Iowa by Patrick Moore (Hard Candy)
* Law of Enclosures by Dale Peck (FSG)
* Pagan’s Father by Michael Arditti (SoHo)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* Death of Friends by Michael Nava (Putnam)
* Murder on the Appian Way by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
* Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday)
* Time to Check Out by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
* Tribe by R.D. Zimmerman (Dell)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* What the Body Told by Rafael Campo (Duke)
* Anesthesia by Kenny Fries (Advocado)
* Angel, Interrupted by Reginald Sheperd (University of Pittsburgh)
* Eros in Boystown edited by Michael Lassell (Crown)
* My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca by Jaime Marique (Painted Leaf)

Gay Men’s Studies
* Boys Like Us edited by Patrick Merla (Avon)
* Cracks in the Iron Closet by David Tuller (Faber & Faber)
* Farm Boys edited by Will Fellows (University of Wisconsin)
* One More River to Cross by Keith Boykin (Anchor)
* Radically Gay edited by Harry Hay and Will Roscoe (Beacon)

Humor
* Homo Handbook by Judy Carter (Fireside)
* History of Lesbian Hair by Mary Dugger (Doubleday)
* Kurt Cobain & Mozart are Both Dead by Tim Barela (Palliard)
* Lesbianism Made Easy by Helen Eisenbach (Crown)
* So You Want to be a Lesbian? by Liz Tracey & Sydney Pokorny (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach (Beacon)
* Accidental Activist by Candace Gingrich (Scribner)
* Eva Le Gallienne by Helen Sheehy (Knopf)
* Coming Home to America by Torie Osborn (St. Martin’s)
* The White Blackbird by Honor Moore (Viking)

Lesbian Fiction
* Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas (Cleis)
* If You Had a Family by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
* Seven Moves by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
* Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale (Riverhead)
* What Keeps Me Here by Rebecca Brown (HarperCollins)

Lesbian Mystery
* Robber’s Wine by Ellen Hart (Seal)
* Baby, It’s Cold by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
* Final Take by Jackie Manthorne (Gynergy)
* Inner Circle by Claire McNab (Naiad)
* Liberty Square by Katherine V. Forrest (Berkley)

Lesbian Poetry
* All-American Girl by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
* Furious Cooking by Maureen Seaton (University of Iowa)
* Arc of Love edited by Clare Coss (Scribner)
* Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. by Linda Smukler (Hard)
* Shift by Jeredith Merrin (University of Chicago)

Lesbian Studies
* Love Between Women by Bernadette J. Brooten (University of Chicago)
* Girls Next Door by Lindsay Van Gelder & Pamela Brandt (Simon & Schuster)
* Sappho and the Virgin Mary by Ruth Vanita (Columbia University)
* Surface Tension edited by Meg Daly (Touchstone)
* Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth (Firebrand)

Photography/Visual Arts
* Nothing But the Girl by Susie Bright & Jill Posener (Cassell)
* Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)
* Derek Jarman’s Garden by Derek Jarman (Overlook)
* Gay by the Bay by Susan Stryker & Jim Van Buskirk (Chronicle)
* Sunnybrook by Persimmon Blackbridge (Press Gang)

Pioneer Award
* Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books

Publisher’s Service Award
* Norman Laurila, A Different Light Bookstores

Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Sacrament by Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
* Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (St. Martin’s)
* Sons of Darkness edited by Michael Rowe & Thomas S. Roche (Cleis)
* Swords of the Rainbow edited by Eric Garber & Jewelle Gomez (Alyson)
* Women Who Run With Werewolves edited by Pam Keesey (Cleis)

Small Press
* Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)
* Lesbian Polyfidelity by Celeste West (Booklegger)
* Mythomania by Bernard Welt (Art.issues)
* Shit of God by Diamanda Galas (Serpent’s Tale/High Risk)
* Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth (Firebrand)

Spirituality
* The Good Book by Peter Gomes (William Morrow)
* Congregations in Conflict by Keith Hartman (Rutgers University)
* Journeys & Arrivals by Lev Raphael (Faber & Faber)
* The Preacher’s Son by Marc Adams (Window Books)
* We Were Baptized Too by Marilyn Alexander & James Preston

Transgender
* Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron (Cleis)
* Gender Shock by Phyllis Burke (Anchor)
* Honey, Honey Miss Thang by Leon E. Pettiway (Temple University)
* Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso (Beacon)
* Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg (Beacon)

1995 Finalists (Winners listed first)
Anthologies/Fiction
* Tasting Life Twice edited by E.J. Levy (Avon)
* Afrekete edited by Catherine McKinley & L. Joyce Delaney (Anchor)
* New Fuck You edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (Semiotext(e))
* Forbidden Passages by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller (Cleis)
* His by Robert Drake (Faber and Faber)

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage edited by Claude J. Summers (Henry Holt)
* Dyke Life edited by Karla Jay (BasicBooks)
* Tomboys edited by Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber (Alyson)
* A Loving Testimony edited by Leslea Newman (Crossing)
* Out in All Directions edited by Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus (Warner)

Children’s/Young Adult
* From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Blue Sky Press)
* Baby Bebop by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins)
* My Two Uncles by Judith Vinga (Albert Whitman & Co.)
* Passages of Pride by Kurt Chandler (Times Books)
* Toby’s Lie by Daniel Vilmure (Simon & Schuster)

Drama
* Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) by Tony Kushner
* Go Fish by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche (Penguin)
* Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
* Love! Valor! Compassion! by Terrence McNally (Plume)
* T-Cells and Sympathy by Michael Kerns (Heinneman)

Editors’ Choice
* Forbidden Passages, Intro by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller (Cleis)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich (Crown)
* Last Night on Earth by Bill T. Jones with Peggy Gillespie (Pantheon)
* Palimpsest by Gore Vidal (Random House)
* Our Paris by Edmund White (Knopf)
* Prayers for Bobby by Leroy Aarons (HarperCollins)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham (FSG)
* Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley (Algonquin)
* Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram (Dutton)
* Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim (HarperCollins)
* Like People in History by Felice Picano (Viking)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* Closet by R.D. Zimmerman (Dell)
* Venus Throw by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
* Shock to the System by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
* Another Dead Teenager by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)
* Queer Kind of Umbrella by George Baxt (Simon & Schuster)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Atlantis by Mark Doty (HarperPerrenial)
* Cortege by Carl Philips (Graywolf)
* Badboy Book of Erotic Verse by David Laurents (Badboy)
* Scattering of Salts by James Merrill (Knopf)
* Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon)

Gay Men’s Studies
* De Los Otros by Joseph Carrier (Columbia University)
* Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz (Dutton)
* I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual by Pierre Seel (BasicBooks)
* Virtually Normal by Andrew Sullivan (Random House)
* Saint=Foucault by Daniel Halperin (Oxford University)

Humor
* The Butches of Madison County by Ellen Orleans (Laugh Lines)
* Revenge of HotHead Paisan by Diane Dimassa (Cleis)
* Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
* Growing Up Gay by Funny Gay Males (Hyperion)
* Ghost in the Closet by Mabel Maney (Cleis)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer (HarperCollins)
* Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison (Dutton)
* Eight Bullets by Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley (Firebrand)
* And Say Hi to Joyce by Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch (Doubleday)
* Babe by Susan E. Cayliff (University of Illinois)

Lesbian Fiction
* Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson (Dutton)
* Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant (Houghton Mifflin)
* Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman (Dutton)
* Amnesty by Louise Blum (Alyson)
* Sweat by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Seal)

Lesbian Mystery
* Intersection of Law and Desire by J.M. Redmann (Norton)
* Hangdog Hustle by Elizabeth Pincus (Spinsters)
* Faint Praise by Ellen Hart (Seal)
* Someone to Watch by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
* Night Songs by Penny Mickleberry (Naiad)

Lesbian Poetry
* Dark Fields of the Republic by Adrienne Rich (Norton)
* Maxfield Parrish by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
* Oral Tradition by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
* Fire Power by Chrystos (Press Gang)
* Key to Everything edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Studies
* Dyke Life edited by Karla Jay (BasicBooks)
* Virtual Equality by Urvashi Vaid (Anchor)
* S/he by Minne Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)
* Tomboys edited by Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber (Alyson)
* Parker and Hulme by Julie Glamuzina & Alison J. Laurie (Firebrand)

Photography/Visual Arts
* Paris was a Woman by Andrea Weiss (HarperCollins)
* Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse (Paradox)
* Butch/Femme edited by M.G. Soares (Crown)
* Fully Exposed by Emmanuel Cooper (Routledge)
* Making Love Visible by Geoff Manasse and Jean Swallow (Crossing)

Pioneer Award
* L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, President and CEO of Lambda Rising, Inc.

Publisher’s Service Award
* Nancy Bereano, Firebrand Press
* Restricted Entry by Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley (Press Gang)

Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Shadow Man by Melissa Scott (TOR)
* Slow River by Nicola Griffith (DelRay)
* Dryland’s End by Felice Picano (Richard Kasak)
* Dark Angels by Pam Keesey (Cleis)
* Atlantis: Three Tales by Samuel Delaney (Wesleyan)

Small Press Book Award
* The New Fuck You edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz (Semiotext(e))
* S/He by Minne Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)
* Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells by Staszek (Permeable)
* The Medicine Burns by Adam Klein (Serpent’s Tale)
* Milking Black Bull edited by Vega Press (Vega Press)

Spirituality
* Wrestling with the Angel edited by Brian Bouldrey (Riverhead)
* Queer Spirits edited by Will Roscoe (Beacon)
* Gay Fairy Tales by Peter Cashorali (HarperCollins)
* Our Tribe by Nancy Wilson (HarperSanFrancisco)
* Freedom, Glorious Freedom by John McNeill (Beacon)

1994 Finalists (Winners listed first)
Anthologies/Fiction
* Chloe Plus Olivia edited by Lillian Faderman (Viking)
* Men on Men 5 edited by David Bergman (Plume)
* High Risk 2 edited by Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder (Plume)
* The Very Inside edited by Sharon Lim-Hing (Sister Vision)
* Lavender Mansions edited by Irene Zahava (Westview)

Anthologies/Nonfiction
* Sister and Brother edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston (HarperSanFrancisco)
* One Teacher in Ten edited by Kevin Jennings (Alyson)
* Out of the Class Closet edited by Julia Penelope (Crossing)
* Long Road to Freedom edited by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
* Queer Reader edited by Patrick Higgins (New)

Children’s/Young Adult
* Am I Blue? edited by Marion Dane Bauer (HarperChildren’s)
* 2 Teenagers In 20 edited by Ann Heron (Alyson)
* Dive by Stacey Donovan (Dutton Children’s)
* Oscar Wilde by Scott Nunokawa (Chelsea House)
* Tiger Flowers by Patricia Quinlan (Dial Books)

Drama
* Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner (TCG)
* Jeffrey by Paul Rudnick (Plume)
* The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me by David Drake (Anchor)
* Heroes and Saints & Other Plays by Cherrie Moraga (West End)
* Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage (HerBooks)

Editor’s Choice
* Traitor to the Race by Mab Segrest (South End)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* My Own Country by Abraham Verghese (Simon & Schuster)
* Last Watch of the Night by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
* My Life as a Pornographer by John Preston (Richard Kasak)
* Knowing When to Stop by Ned Rorem (Simon & Schuster)
* Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite by Lawrence Mass (Cassell)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (Pantheon)
* Cultural Revolution by Norman Wong (Persea)
* American Studies by Mark Merlis (Houghton Mifflin)
* Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Doug Sadownick (St. Martin’s)
* Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan (Simon & Schuster)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (Random House)
* Mad Man by Samuel Delaney (Richard Kasak)
* The Alienist by Caleb Carr (Random House)
* Mask for a Diva by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
* Queer Kind of Love by George Baxt (Otto Penzler)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Collected Poems by Thom Gunn (FSG)
* The Other Man Was Me by Raphael Campo (Arte Publico)
* Ghost Letters by Richard McCann (Alice James)
* Wishing for Wings by Assotto Saint (Galiens Press)
* West of Yesterday, East of Summer by Paul Monette (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men’s Studies
* Gay New York by George Chauncy (BasicBooks)
* Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell (Villard)
* Gay Soul edited by Mark Thompson (HarperSanFrancisco)
* Last Watch of the Night by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
* Queer and Loathing by David Feinberg (Viking)

Humor
* The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford (Seal)

* Barrel Fever by David Sedaris (Little Brown)

* Unofficial Gay MANual by Kevin Dilallo and Jack Krumholtz
* Glamourpuss by Christian McLaughlin (Dutton)
* Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend by Mabel Maney (Cleis)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures edited by Renate Stendhal (Algonquin)
* Serving in Silence by Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher (Viking)
* One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop (FSG)
* The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
* Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest (South End)

Lesbian Fiction
* Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown (HarperCollins)
* House Rules by Heather Lewis (Doubleday/Nan Talese)
* Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (Black Sparrow)
* The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford (Seal)
* Sir Fry by Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins)

Lesbian Mystery
* Small Sacrifice by Ellen Hart (Seal)
* Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend by Mabel Maney (Cleis)
* Sister’s Keeper by Randye Lordon (St. Martin’s)
* Body Guard by Claire McNab (Naiad)
* My Sweet Untraceable You by Sandra Scoppetone (Little Brown)

Lesbian Poetry
* Winter Numbers by Marilyn Hacker (Norton)
* American Dreams by Sapphire (Serpent’s Tail)
* Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan (Serpent’s Tail)
* Normal Sex by Linda Smukler (Firebrand)
* White Pine by Mary Oliver (Random House)

Lesbian Studies
* Skin by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand)
* My American History by Sarah Schulman (Routledge)
* Chloe Plus Olivia edited by Lillian Faderman (Viking)
* Sportsdykes edited by Susan Fox Rogers (St. Martin’s)
* Her Tongue on My Theory by Kiss & Tell (Press Gang)

Photography/Visual Arts
* Family by Nancy Andrews (HarperSanFrancisco)
* Out in America by Out Magazine (Viking Studio)
* Masked Culture by Jack Kugelmass (Columbia University)
* Long Road to Freedom edited by Mark Thompson (St. Martin’s)
* Art of the Male Nude by Jim French (State of Man)

Publisher’s Service Award
* Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Press

Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott (TOR)
* The Furies by Suzy McKee Charnas (TOR)
* Metal Angel by Nancy Springer (ROC Fantasy)
* Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey (Daw)
* Warrriors of Isis by Jean Stewart (Rising Tide)

Small Press
* Her Tongue on My Theory by Kiss & Tell (Press Gang)
* B-Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy (Alyson)
* Skin by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand)
* We Came All The Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? by Achy Obejas
* American Dreams by Sapphire (Serpent’s Tail)

1993 Finalists (Winners listed first)
Anthologies
* Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin
* Growing Up Gay edited by Bennett L. Singer (New)
* Lesbian Culture by Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe (Crossing)
* Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers by Arlene Stein (Plume)
* Eyes of Desire by Raymond Luczak (Alyson)

Children’s/Young Adult Literature
* The Cat Came Back by Hilary Mullins (Naiad)
* Saturday is Pattyday by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Annette Hegel
* We’re Not Alone by Rik Isensee (Lavender Press)
* Living In Secret by Christina Salat (Bantam)
* Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit!! written and illustrated by Michael Willhoite

Drama
* Angels in America: Millenium Approaches by Tony Kushner (TCG)
* The Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer (Plume)
* Falsettos by William Finn (Plume)
* We Oughta Be In Pictures by Julia Willis (Alamo Square)
* She’s Always Liked the Girls Best by Claudia Allen (Third Side)

Editor’s Choice
* A Star Bright Lie by Coleman Dowell (Dalkey Archive)

Gay Men’s Biography/Autobiography
* Genet by Edmund White (Knopf)
* City Poet by Brad Gooch (Knopf)
* Travels With Lizbeth by Lars Eighner (St. Martin’s)
* Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas (Viking)
* Coming Unbuttoned by James Broughton (City Lights)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen (Dutton)
* Fragments that Remain by Steven Corbin (Alyson)
* Martin and John by Dale Peck (HarperPerennial)
* The Listener by Bo Huston (St. Martin’s)
* Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson (Pocket)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* Catilina’s Riddle by Steven Saylor (St. Martin’s)
* Mae West Murder Case by George Baxt (St. Martin’s)
* Bohannon’s Country by Joseph Hansen (Viking)
* Torsos by John Cooke (Warner)
* Dead On Your Feet by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Tie: Collected Poems by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
* Tie: 1990 by Michael Klein (Provincetown Arts)
* My Alexandria by Mark Doty (University of Illinois)
* Orpheus in his Underwear by William Bory (Cythoera)
* Tranquil Lake of Love by Carl Cook (Vega)

Gay Men’s Studies
* Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (St. Martin’s)
* Stonewall by Martin Duberman (Dutton)
* A Place at the Table by Bruce Bawer (Poseidon)
* Cherry Grove/Fire Island by Esther Newman (Beacon)
* The Queen’s Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum (Vintage)

Humor
* Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
* Hothead Paisan by Diane DiMassa (Cleis)
* Whores of Lost Atlantis by Charles Busch (Hyperion)
* Closet Case by Robert Rodi (Dutton)
* Members of the Tribe by Michael Willhoite (Alyson)

Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
* Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyanne Savigneau (University of Chicago)
* Forty-Three Septembers by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
* How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith edited by Rose Gladney
* Mary Renault by David Sweetman (Harcourt Brace)
* Family Values by Phyllis Burke (Random House)

Lesbian Fiction
* Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson (Knopf)
* Sea of Light by Jenifer Levin (Dutton)
* Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (Firebrand)
* Women On Women 2 edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume)
* Home Movies by Paula Martinac (Seal)

Lesbian Mystery
* Divine Victim by Mary Wings (Dutton)
* Trouble In Transylvania by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
* Long Goodbyes by Nikki Baker (Naiad)
* Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse by Mabel Maney (Cleis)
* I’ll Be Leaving You Always by Sandra Scoppetone (Little, Brown)

Lesbian Poetry
* The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance by Audre Lorde (Norton)
* The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga (South End)
* The Black Back-Ups by Kate Rushin (Firebrand)
* Experimental Love Poetry by Cheryl Clarke (Firebrand)
* Collected Poems (1930-1993) by May Sarton (Norton)

Lesbian Studies
* Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis
* Blood, Bread, and Roses by Judy Grahn (Beacon)
* The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry Castle (Columbia University)
* Vampires & Violets by Andrea Weiss (Penguin)
* What is Found There by Adrienne Rich (Norton)

Publisher’s Service Award
* Michael Denneny, St. Martin’s Press

Science Fiction/Fantasy
* The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (Bantam)
* Drawing Blood by Poppy Brite (Delacorte)
* In the Garden of Dead Cars by Sybil Claiborne (Cleis)
* Burning Bright by Melissa Scott (TOR)
* The Unfinished by Jay Laws (Alyson)

Small Press Book Award
* Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (Firebrand)
* Sojourner by Other Countries (Other Countries)
* Lotus of Another Color by Ratti Rakesh (Alyson)
* Eyes of Desire by Raymond Luczak (Alyson)
* Blue by Denise Ohio (MacPherson & Co.)

1992 Finalists (Winners listed first)
Children’s/Young Adult Literature
* When Heroes Die by Penny Raife Durant (Atheneum)
* The Daddy Machine by Johnny Valentine, illustrated by Lynette Schmidt
* A Boy’s Best Friend by Joan Alden, illustrated by Catherine Hopkins
* Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene (Bantam)
* Day They Put a Tax on Rainbows by Johnny Valentine, illustrated by Lynette Schmidt
Editor’s Choice
* Gay Ideas by Richard Mohr (Beacon)

Gay Men’s Anthologies
* A Member of the Family edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)
* Men on Men 4 edited by George Stambolian (Plume)
* Discontents edited by Dennis Cooper (Amethyst)
* Flesh and the Word edited by John Preston (E.P. Dutton)
* Here to Dare edited by Assotto Saint (Galiens)

Gay Men’s Fiction
* Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Randall Kenan (Harcourt Brace)
* Winter Eyes by Lev Raphael (St. Martin’s)
* Almost History by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine)
* Latin Moon in Manhattan by Jaime Manrique (St. Martin’s)
* Dream Life by Bo Huston (St. Martin’s)

Gay Men’s Mystery
* The Hidden Law by Michael Nava (HarperCollins)
* Final Atonement by Steve Johnson (Onyx)
* Third Man Out by Richard Stevenson (St. Martin’s)
* Love You to Death by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
* One for the Master, Two for the Fool by Larry Townsend (Alyson)

Gay Men’s Nonfiction
* Becoming a Man by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace)
* Homoerotic Photograph by Allen Ellenzweig (Columbia University)
* Making History by Eric Marcus (HarperCollins)
* Making Trouble by John D’Emilio (Routledge)
* Heartlands by Darrell Yates Rist (E.P. Dutton)

Gay Men’s Poetry
* Counting Myself Lucky by Edward Field (Black Sparrow)
* The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn (Farrar Straus)
* Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill (Plume)
* Strong Place by Tim Dlugos (Amethyst)
* Long Division by Rudy Kikel (Writers Block)

Gay Men’s Science Fiction/Fantasy
* China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (TOR)
* Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite (Abyss/Delacorte)
* The Living One by Lewis Gannett (Random House)
* Cry Gender by Thomas T. Thomas (Baen)
* Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice (Knopf)

Humor
* Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
* The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green by Eric Orner (St. Martin’s)
* The Night Audrey’s Vibrator Spoke by Andrea Natalie (Cleis)
* BB and the Diva by Rupert Kinnard (Alyson)
* That’s Ms. Bulldyke to You, Charlie by Jane Caminos (Madwoman)

Lesbian Anthologies
* The Persistent Desire edited by Joan Nestle (Alyson)
* Write from the Heart edited by Anita L. Pace (Baby Steps)
* Erotic Naiad edited by Katherine V. Forrest and Barbara Grier (Naiad)
* Wolf Girls at Vassar edited by Anne MacKay (Ten Percent)
* Poetry of Sex by Tee Corinne (Banned)

Lesbian Fiction
* Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz (Firebrand)
* Empathy by Sarah Schulman (E.P. Dutton)
* Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw (Houghton Mifflin)
* Terrible Girls by Rebecca Brown (City Lights)
* On Ships at Sea by Madelyn Arnold (St. Martin’s)

Lesbian Mystery
* Two-Bit Tango by Elizabeth Pincus (Spinsters)
* Crazy for Loving by Jaye Maiman (Naiad)
* Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redman (New Victoria)
* Lavender House Murder by Nikki Baker (Naiad)
* Stage Fright by Ellen Hart (Seal)

Lesbian Nonfiction
* Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Cook (Viking)
* Persistent Desire edited by Joan Nestle (Alyson)
* The Earth House by Jeanne DuPrau (New Chapter)
* Practicing Eternity by Carol Givens and L. Diane Fortier (Paradigm)
* Shattered Applause by Robert A. Schanke (Southern Illinois University)

Lesbian Poetry
* Undersong by Audre Lorde (Norton)
* Black Slip by Terry Wolverton (Clothespin Fever)
* Cultivating Excess by Lori Anderson (Eighth Mountain)
* According to Her Contours by Nancy Boutilier (Black Sparrow)
* Lady Sun, Lady Moon by Diane Stein (Crossing)

Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy
* Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (Del Rey)
* Return to Isis by Jean Stewart (Rising Tide)
* Speaking Dreams by Severna Park (Firebrand)
* Dreamships by Melissa Scott (TOR)
* Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz (Firebrand)

Publisher’s Service Award
* Craig Rodwell Founder, Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop

Small Press Book Award
* Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz (Artspace)
* A Perilous Advantage by Natalie Barney (New Victoria)
* Here to Dare edited by Assotto Saint (Galiens)
* To Kill a Cardinal by Michael Rumaker (Arthur Mann Kaye)
* Hot Chicken Wings by Jyl Lynn Felman (Aunt Lute)

1991 Finalists (Winners listed first)
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
* The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans: and Other Stories by Johnny Valentine, illustrated by Lynette Schmidt
* Gloria Goes to Gay Pride by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Russell Crocker
* How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay? by Ann Heron and Meredith Maran, illustrated by Kris Kovick
* Lark in the Morning by Nancy Garden (Farrar Straus Giroux)
* Sudden Strangers by Aaron and Walter Fricke (St. Martin’s Press)

EDITOR’S CHOICE
* Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America by Lillian Faderman

GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGY
* Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill
* Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction edited by Edmund White (Faber & Faber)
* Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong edited by John Preston
* Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers Edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton
* Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice edited by Mark Thompson

GAY MEN’S FICTION
* What the Dead Remember by Harlan Greene (E.P. Dutton)
* Frisk by Dennis Cooper (Grove Weidenfeld)
* Halfway Home by Paul Monette (Crown)
* Language We Use Up Here by Philip Gambone (E.P. Dutton)
* Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon (E.P. Dutton)

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY
* A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen (Viking)
* Best Performance by a Patsy by Stan Cutler (E.P. Dutton)
* The Face on the Cutting Room Floor by Stan Cutler (E.P. Dutton)
* Master’s Counterpoints by Larry Townsend (Alyson)
* Sorry Now? by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)

GAY MEN’S NONFICTION
* The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe (University of New Mexico)
* Close To the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz (Vintage)
* Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey by Martin Duberman (E.P. Dutton)
* Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard by Roger Austen, edited by John W. Crowley
* Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England by Bruce R. Smith

GAY MEN’S POETRY
* The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets edited by Assoto Saint (Galiens)
* Bethlehem in Broad Daylight by Mark Doty (David R. Godine)
* The Burnt Pages by John Ash (Random House)
* Hand over Heart by David Trinidad (Amethyst)
* Sex-Charge by Perry Brass (Belhue)

GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
* The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson (TOR)
* Embracing the Dark edited by Eric Garber (Alyson)
* Mirage by Perry Brass (Belhue)
* Steam by Jay B. Laws (Alyson)
* Vampires Anonymous by Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson)

HUMOR

* Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (Viking)

* Coming Out!: More Fun ‘n’ Games by Elizabeth Dean, Linda Wells, and Andrea Curren
* Strange Angel by Ben Davis (Corona Publishing Co.)
* What I Love about Lesbian Politics Is Arguing with People I Agree With by Kris Kovick
* Women’s Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor edited by Rosalind Warren

LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY
* Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About edited by Carla Trujillo
* Bi Any Other Name edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu (Alyson)
* Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay & Lesbian Writers edited by Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake
* An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality edited by Judith Barrington
* Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition edited by Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne Smith

LESBIAN FICTION
* Tie: The Revolution of Little Girls by Blanche Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf)
* Tie: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
* Benediction by Diane Salvatore (Naiad)
* Just Say Yes by Judith McDaniel (Firebrand)
* Minimax by Anna Livia (Eighth Mountain)

LESBIAN MYSTERY
* Murder by Tradition by Katherine V. Forrest (Naiad)
* Cop Out by Claire McNab (Naiad)
* Everything You Have is Mine by Sandra Scoppetone (Little Brown)
* Final Session by Mary Morell (Spinsters Book Co.)
* The Providence File by Amanda Kyle Williams (Naiad)

LESBIAN NONFICTION
* Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
* Gertrude and Alice by Diane Souhami (Pandora)
* An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality edited by Judith Barrington
* Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman
* Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 by Minnie Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)

LESBIAN POETRY
* An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)
* Artemis in Echo Park by Eloise Klein Healy (Firebrand)
* Fear of Subways by Maureen Seaton (Eighth Mountain)
* The Forbidden Poems by Becky Birtha (Seal)
* Not Me by Eileen Myles (Semiotext(e))

LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
* The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Firebrand)
* Mega by B.L. Holmes (Mother Courage)
* Shadows of Aggar by Chris Anne Wolfe (New Victoria)
* Stranded by Camarin Grae (Naiad)
* Zeta Base by Judith Alguire (Naiad)

SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
* Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine edited by Winston Leyland
* The Advocate Advisor by Pat Califia (Alyson)
* How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Videos edited by Bad Object-Choices (Bay)
* Putting Out ’91 edited by Edisol W. Dotson (Putting Out)
* Rusty: How Me and Her Went to Colorado and Everything, Except Not Really by Garbo

1990 Finalists (Winners listed first)
AIDS
* The Way We Live Now edited by Elizabeth Osbourn (Theater Communications Group)
* AIDS Demo Graphics by Douglas Crimp (Bay)
* Inventing AIDS by Cindy Patton (Routledge)
* Surviving AIDS by Michael Callen (HarperCollins)
* Women, AIDS & Activism by ACT UP/New York Women (South End)

EDITOR’S CHOICE
* The Encyclopedia Of Homosexuality edited by Wayne Dynes (Garland)

GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGY
* Men On Men 3 edited by George Stambolian (Plume)
* Gay Men of Alcoholics Anonymous by Robert Kus (WinterStar)
* Keys To Caring edited by Robert Kus (Alyson)
* Men & Intimacy edited by Franklin Abbott (Crossing)
* Triple Fiction by Cassady, Smith & Stone (Los Hombres)

GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION
* Dancing On Tisha B’av by Lev Raphael (St. Martin’s)
* The Body and Its Dangers by Allen Barnett (St. Martin’s)
* Horse and Other Stories by Bo Huston (Amethyst)
* Landscape: Memory by Matthew Stadler (Scribners)
* This Every Night by Patrick Moore (Amethyst)

GAY MEN’S FICTION
* The Body and Its Dangers by Allen Barnett (St. Martin’s)
* Afterlife by Paul Monette (Crown)
* Home At the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (FSG)
* Music I Never Dreamed Of by John Gilgun (Amethyst)
* A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt (Viking)

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY
* Howtown by Michael Nava (HarperCollins)
* Black Marble Pool by Stan Leventhal (Amethyst)
* Body To Dye For by Grant Michaels (St. Martin’s)
* Boy Who Was Buried This Morning by Joseph Hansen (Viking)
* Why Isn’t Becky Twitchell Dead? by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s)

GAY MEN’S NONFICTION
* Coming Out Under Fire by Alan Berube (Free)
* Behind The Mask by Dave Pallone (Viking)
* My Country, My Right To Serve by Mary Ann Humphrey (HarperCollins)
* So Little Time by Mike Hippler (Celestial Arts)
* Trouble With Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons (Alyson)

GAY MEN’S POETRY
* Decade Dance by Michael Lassell (Alyson)
* Body In Flames by Francisco Alarcon (Chronicle)
* Buried Body by Mark Ameen (Amethyst)
* Healing Notebooks by Kenny Fries (Open)
* Special Deliveries by James Broughton (Broken Moon)

GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
* Tie: Magic’s Price by Mercedes Lackey (DAW)
* Tie: Secret Matter by Toby Johnson (Lavender)
* Alternate Casts by Marsh Cassady (Banned)
* Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine (TOR)
* The Gift by Scott Edelman (Space and Time)

GAY MEN’S SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
* Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite (Alyson)
* Gays In Uniform by Kate Dyer (Alyson)
* Hard Plays/Stiff Parts by Robert Chesley (Alamo Square)
* Some Dance To Remember by Jack Fritscher (Knights)
* Trouble With Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons (Alyson)

HUMOR
* New, Improved Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand)
* Meatmen Vol. 8 edited by Terry Woodrow (Tough Dove)
* More Lesbian Etiquette by Gail Sausser (Crossing)
* Stonewall Riots by Andrea Natalie (Andrea Natalie)
* Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World by Susie Bright (Cleis)

LESBIAN ANOTHOLOGY
* Women On Women edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch (Plume)
* Lesbian Bedtime Stores 2 edited by Terry Woodrow (Tough Dove)
* Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures edited by Jeffner Allen (SUNY)
* Lesbian Texts and Contexts edited by Karla Jay & Joanne Glasgow (NYU)
* Speaking Four Ourselves edited by Irene Zahava (Crossing)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
* Her by Cherry Muhanji (Aunt Lute Foundation)
* Simple Songs by Vickie Sears (Firebrand)
* Take Me to the Underground by Renee Hansen (Crossing)
* Virago by Karen Marie Christa Minns (Naiad)
* Voyages Out 2 by Julie Blackwomon & Nona Caspers (Seal)

LESBIAN FICTION
* Out of Time by Paula Martinac (Seal)
* Don Juan In the Village by Jane DeLynn (Pantheon)
* Incidents Involving Mirth by Anna Livia (Eighth Mountain)
* My Jewish Face by Melanie Kay/Kantrowitz (Aunt Lute)
* People In Trouble by Sarah Schulman (Dutton)

LESBIAN MYSTERY
* Tie: Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson (Seal)
* Tie: Ninth Life by Lauren Wright Douglas (Naiad)
* A Captive In Time by Sarah Dreher (New Victoria)
* Death Down Under by Claire McNab (Naiad)
* Slick by Camarin Grae (Naiad)

LESBIAN NONFICTION
* The Safe Sea of Women by Bonnie Zimmerman (Beacon)
* Ceremonies of the Heart by Becky Butler (Seal)
* Exile in the Promised Land by Marcia Freedman (Firebrand)
* Loony-Bin Trip by Kate Millett (Simon & Schuster)
* The Safe Sea of Women by Bonnie Zimmerman (Beacon)
* Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World by Susie Bright (Cleis)

LESBIAN POETRY
* Going Back to the River by Marilyn Hacker (Random House)
* Chant of the Women of Magdalena by SDiane Bogus (Woman in the Moon)
* Crime Against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt (Firebrand)
* A Few Words in the Mother Tongue by Irena Klepfisz (Eighth Mountain)
* Patience of Metal by Yvonne Zipter (Hutchinson House)

LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
* Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino (ROC)
* Doc and Fluff by Pat Califia (Alyson)
* Mighty Good Road by Melissa Scott (Baen)
* Priorities by Lynda Lyons (Naiad)
* Virago by Karen Marie Christa Minns (Naiad)

LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
* Different Mothers edited by Louise Rafkin (Cleis)
* Making Face/Making Soul by Gloria Anzaldua (Aunt Lute)
* Black Women’s Health Book by Evelyn C. White (Seal)
* Dykes-Loving-Dykes by BevJo, Linda Strega & Ruston (Battleaxe)
* Staying Power by Susan Johnson (Naiad)

PUBLISHER’S SERVICE AWARD
* Phil Willkie & Greg Baysans, The James White Review

1989 Finalists (Winners listed first)
AIDS
* Reports from the Holocaust by Larry Kramer (St. Martin’s Press)
* AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag (Ferrar Straus & Giroux)
* Epitaphs for the Living edited by Billy Howard (SMU Press)
* In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine)
* Personal Dispatches edited by John Preston (St. Martin’s Press)

EDITOR’S CHOICE
* Lifting Belly Gertrude Stein edited by Rebecca Mark (Naiad Press)

GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGIES
* Hidden from History edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al. (New American Library)
* Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam by Charles Ludlam (Harper & Row)
* Finale: Stories of Mystery edited by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
* Personal Dispatches edited by John Preston (St. Martin’s Press)
* Twice Blessed edited by Christie Balka & Andy Rose (Beacon)

GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION
* The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket by John Weir (Harper & Row)
* A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan (Grove Press)
* About Courage by Mickey C. Fleming (Holloway House)
* Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg (Viking/Penguin)
* The Buccaneer by M.S. Hunter (Alyson Publications)

GAY MEN’S FICTION
* Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg (Viking/Penguin)
* Closer by Dennis Cooper (Grove)
* In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine)
* Shy by Kevin Killian (Crossing Press)
* Sure of You by Armistead Maupin (Harper & Row)

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY
* Simple Suburban Murder by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s Press)
* Caravaggio Shawl by Samuel M. Steward (Alyson Publications)
* Faultlines: Stories of Suspense by Stan Leventhal (Banned Books)
* Finale edited by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
* Somewhere in the Night by Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson Publications)

GAY MEN’S NONFICTION
* In Search of Gay America by Neil Miller (Atlantic Monthly)
* Accepting Ourselves by Sheppard B. Kominars (Harper & Row)
* Being Homosexual by Richard A. Isay (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
* James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by W.J. Weatherby (Donald I. Fine)
* Memoirs of A Bastard Angel by Harold Norse (William Morrow)

GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
* Somewhere in the Night by Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson Publications)
* Walking Water/After All This by Thom Nickels (Banned Books)
* Key West 2720 AD by William K. Eakins (Knights Press)
* Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey (DAW)
* Gentle Warriors by Geoff Mains (Knights Press)

HUMOR
* Gay Comics edited by Robert Triptow (New American Library)
* Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups by Elizabeth Dean et. Al (New Victoria Publications)
* Kvetch by T.R. Witomski (Celestial Arts)
* Lesbian Love Advisor by Celeste West (Cleis Press)
* Run That Sucker at Six!!! by N. Leigh Dunlap (St. Martin’s Press)

LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY
* Hidden From History edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al. (New American Library)
* Intricate Passions edited by Tee Corinne (Banned Books)
* Out the Other Side edited by C. McEwen & S. O’Sullivan (Crossing Press)
* Lesbian Bedtime Stories edited by Terry Woodrow (Tough Dove)
* Lesbian Love Stories edited by Irene Zahava (Crossing Press)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
* The Names of the Moons of Mars by Patricia R. Schwartz (New Victoria Publications)
* Bar Stories: A Novel After All by Nisa Donnelly (St. Martin’s Press)
* Eye of a Hurricane by Ruthann Robson (Firebrand Books)
* Rose Penski by Roz Perry (Naiad Press)
* Voyages Out by Paula Martinac & Carla Tomaso (Seal Press)

LESBIAN FICTION
* The Bar Stories: A Novel After All by Nisa Donnelly (St. Martin’s Press)
* After the Fire by Jane Rule (Naiad Press)
* Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton (W.W. Norton)
* Trespassing and Other Stories by Valerie Miner (Crossing Press)
* The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood (Firebrand Books)

LESBIAN MYSTERY
* The Beverly Malibu by Katherine V. Forrest (Naiad Press)
* Dog Collar Murders by Barbara Wilson (Seal Press)
* Fatal Reunion by Clair McNab (Naiad Press)
* Hallowed Murder by Ellen Hart (Seal Press)
* The Contactees Die Young by Antoinette Azolakov (Banned Books)

LESBIAN NONFICTION
* Really Reading Gertrude Stein edited by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press)
* Twice Blessed edited by Christie Balka & Andy Rose (Beacon)
* Lesbian Love Advisor by Celeste West (Cleis Press)
* There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You edited by Loralee MacPike (Naiad Press)
* Desert Years by Cynthia Rich (spinsters/Aunt Lute)

LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
* What Did Miss Darrington See? edited by Jessica A. Salmonson (Feminist Press)
* Clicking Stones by Nancy Tyler Glenn (Naiad Press)
* In The Blood by Lauren Wright Douglas (Naiad Press)
* Memories and Visions edited by Susanna J. Sturgis (Crossing Press)
* Sue Slate: Private Eye by Lee Lynch (Naiad)

POETRY
* Poets for Life edited by Michael Klein (Crown Publishers)
* Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry by Cheryl Clarke (Firebrand Books)
* Naming the Waves edited by Christian McEwen (Crossing Press)
* Reader by Robert Gluck (Lapis Press)
* Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988 by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton)

SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
* My Life as a Mole by Larry Mitchell, illustrated by Bill Rice (Calamus Books)
* Matlovich: The Good Soldier by Mike Hippler (Alyson Publications)
* Letting in the Night by Joan Lindau (Firebrand Books)
* Men of Color by Vega Studios (Vega Books)
* River of Promise by Judy Dahl (LuraMedia)

YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD
* Losing Uncle Tim by MaryKate Jordan (Whitman, Albert & Co.)

* Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman, Illustrated by Diane Souza

* Jack by A.M. Homes (Macmillan)
* Unlived Affections by George Shannon
* When Someone You Know Is Gay by Susan and Daniel Cohen (Evans)

1988 Finalists (Winners listed first)
AIDS
* Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
* The Quilt by Cindy Ruskin, Matt Herron and Deborah Zemke (Pocket Books)
* AIDS: The Women edited by Ines Rieder and Patricia Ruppelt (Cleis Press)
* Ground Zero by Andrew Holleran (William Morrow)
* Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS by Emmanuel Dreuilhe (Hill & Wang)

EDITOR’S CHOICE
* Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson And Julie Andrzejewski (Spinsters/Aunt Lute)

GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION
* The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (Random House)
* River Road by C.F. Borgman (New American Library)
* Mountain Climbing In Sheridan Square by Stan Levanthal (Banned Books)

* Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan (Viking)

* Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of O. Wilde by Russell A. Brown (St. Martin’s Press)

GAY MEN’S FICTION
* The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White (Alfred A. Knopf)
* The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (Random House)
* Valley of the Shadow by Christopher Davis (St. Martin’s Press)
* Second Son by Robert Ferro (Crown Publishing)
* The Temple by Stephen Spender (Grove Press)

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION
* Goldenboy by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
* Death Takes the Stage by Donald Ward (St. Martin’s Press)
* Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop (Willliam Morrow)
* Obedience by Joseph Hansen (Mysterious Press)
* Who’s Next by George Baxt (International Polygonics)

GAY MEN’S NONFICTION
* Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
* Permanent Partners by Betty Berzon, Ph.D. (E.P. Dutton)
* The Male Couple’s Guide to Living Together by Eric Marcus (Harper & Row)
* Looking At Gay and Lesbian Life by Warren Blumenfeld and Diane Raymond
* Living the Spirit edited by Will Roscoe (St. Martin’s Press)

GAY MEN’S SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
* Tie: Goldenboy by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
* Tie: The Delight of Hearts by Ahmad al-Tifashi (Gay Sunshine Press)
* Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction edited by Charles Jurrist (Alyson Publications)
* Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World by Thomas Cowan (Mulvey Books)
* Unnatural Quotations by Leigh W. Rutledge (Alyson Publications)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
* Bird-Eyes by Madelyn Arnold (Seal Press)
* Sunday’s Child by Joyce Bright (Naiad Press)
* Mundane’s World by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press)
* The Finer Grain by Denise Ohio (Naiad Press)
* A Mistress Moderately Fair by Katherine Sturtevant (Alyson Publications)

LESBIAN FICTION
* Trash by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand Books)
* After Delores by Sarah Schulman (E.P. Dutton)
* The Secret in the Bird by Camarin Grae (Naiad Press)
* The Prosperine Papers by Jan Clausen (Crossing Press)
* Bingo by Rita Mae Brown (Bantam)

LESBIAN MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION
* Skiptrace by Antoinette Azolakov (Banned Books)
* Lessons In Murder by Claire McNab (Naiad Press)
* Mundane’s World by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press)
* Heavy Gilt by Dolores Klaich (Naiad Press)
* The Crystal Curtain by Sandy Bayer (Alyson Publications)

LESBIAN NONFICTION
* Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
* The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien by Karla Jay
* Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson & Julie Andzrejewski (Spinsters/Aunt Lute)
* A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde (Firebrand Books)
* Permanent Partners by Betty Berzon, Ph.D. (E.P. Dutton)

LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD
* Trash by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand Books)
* Before Stonewall by A. Weiss and G. Schiller (Naiad Press)
* More Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand Books)
* Macho Sluts by Pat Califia (Alyson Publications)
* Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson & Julie Andrzejewski

POETRY
* Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time edited by Carl Morse & Joan Larkin
* Sappho: Poems and Fragments translated by Josephine Balmer (Meadowland Books)
* Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog by Paul Monette (St. Martin’s Press)
* The Silence Now by May Sarton (W.W. Norton)
* The Inner Room by James Merrill (Alfred A. Knopf)

PUBLISHER’S SERVICE AWARD
* Sasha Alyson, Alyson Publications