Honor Books:
Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg
Again: Short Stories by Bernard Cooper
Welsh Boys Too by John Sam Jones
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoy

Honor Books:
You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America by Louise A. Blum
Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Courtby Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price
How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story by Kirk Read
The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights by Arlene Stein
Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS, edited by Edmund White with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS.

Literature
Affinity by Sarah Waters

Honor Books:
Breakfast with Scot: A Novel by Michael Downing
The Danish Girl: A Novel by David Ebershoff
World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou
The Night Listener: A Novel by Armistead Maupin

Nonfiction
Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N.. Eskridge

Honor Books:
Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults by Frances Ann Day
Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder by Beth Loffreda
Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray by William Murray
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick

Literature
Po Man's Child: A Novel by Marci Blackman

Finalists:
Comfort & Joy: A Novel by Jim Grimsley
Mr. Dalloway: A Novella by Robin Lippincott
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
Last Rights: Poems by Marvin K. White

Nonfiction
My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Jean Barrie Borich

Finalists:
Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by Jhon-Manuel Andriote
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversityby Bruce Bagemihl
Firebird: A Memoir by Mark Doty
Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton

Literature
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Finalists:
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
Switch by Carol Guess.
An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems by Pamela Sneed

Nonfiction
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman

Finalists:
Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sportby Pat Griffin
The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, a Twentieth Century History by John Loughery
A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings by Joan Nestle
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedomby Barbara Simith

Literature
Working Parts: A Novel by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Finalists:
Prozac Highway: A Novel by Persimmon Blackbridge
Beyond the Pale: A Novel by Elana Dykewomon
In Awe by Scott Heim
The Escape Artist: A Novel by Judith Katz

Nonfiction
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon

Finalists:
Hospital Time by Amy Hoffman
Queerly Classed, edited by Susan Raffo
Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968 by James T. Sears
Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation by Arlene Stein

Literature
Hood by Emma Donoghue

Finalists:
The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale
Bailey's Beads by Terry Wolverton

Nonfiction
Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson

Finalists:
Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media by Edward Alwood
Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth -- and Their Allies by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir by Mark Doty
Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russiaby David Tuller

Literature
Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley

Finalists:
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price

Nonfiction
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberationby Urvashi Vaid

Finalists:
Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90sby Linnea Due
The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
S/HE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, edited by Claude J. Summers

Literature
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer

Finalists:
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Rafael Campo
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present edited by Lillian Faderman
The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel by Ellen Galford
Winter Numbers: Poems by Marilyn Hacker

Nonfiction
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature by Dorothy Allison
and
Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein

Finalists:
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video by Raymond Murray
Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston

Literature
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Finalists:
She's Always Liked the Girls Best by Claudia Allen
Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson
The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga
Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology edited by Bennett L. Singer

Nonfiction
Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke

Finalists:
Stonewall by Martin B. Duberman
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology edited by Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe
The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families by April Martin
Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law by William B. Rubenstein

Literature
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill

Finalists:
Almost History by Christopher Bram
The Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley.
Vital Ties by Karen Kringle
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Nonfiction
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus

Finalists:
Positively Gay: New Approaches to Lesbian and Gay Life by Betty Berzon
The Earth House by Jeanne DuPrau
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830 by Rictor Norton
A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write about Their Families edited by John Preston

Literature
Halfway Home by Paul Monette

Finalists:
The Two Mujeres by Sara Levi Calderon
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill
Hawkwings by Karen Lee Osborne
A Stone Gone Mad by Jaquelyn Holt Park
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets edited by Assoto Saint
Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology edited by Makeda Silvera
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer

Nonfiction
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman

Finalists:
Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men by Gary David Comstock
Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey by Martin Duberman
The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe
Are You Two ...Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt

Literature
Crime Against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Finalists:
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
Music I Never Dreamed of by John Gilgun.
A Place I've Never Been by David Leavitt
Out of Time by Paula Martinac
Landscape: Memory by Matthew Stadler

Nonfiction
Encyclopedia of Homosexuality edited by Wayne Dynes

Finalists:
Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two by Allan Berube
Gay and Lesbian Library Service edited by Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt
Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China by Bret Hinch
My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present by Mary Ann Humphrey
Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends by Janice E. Rench
The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movementby Stuart Timmons
The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman

Literature
Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg

Finalists:
In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram
A Place at the Table by Edith Konecky
Equal Affections by David Leavitt
In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers edited by Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn

Nonfiction
In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller

Finalists:
When Someone You Know is Gay by Susan and Daniel Cohen
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr.
Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985by the Lesbian History Group
Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS edited by John Preston

The Swimming-Pool Library by Andrew Hollinghurst

After Delores by Sarah Schulman

A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts

The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Cultureby Walter Williams

Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio

No award given

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography by J.R. Roberts

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Centuryby John Boswell

Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature, Winston Leyland, ed.

Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexualityby Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward

Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book, Ginny Vida, ed.

Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard Brown

No award given

Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature, Jonathan Katz, ed.

Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Surveyby Jeannette Foster

No award given

The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality by Peter Fisher

Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller