Lambda Literary Awards

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2017
LESBIAN FICTION Here comes the sun : a novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn
GAY FICTION The angel of history by Rabih Alameddine
BISEXUAL FICTION Marrow Island by Alexis M. Smith
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Black dove : mamá, mi’jo, and me by Ana Castillo
BISEXUAL POETRY Mouth to mouth by Abigail Child
TRANSGENDER FICTION Small beauty by jia qing wilson-yang
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Life beyond my body : a transgender journey to manhood in China by Lei Ming and Lura Frazey
LESBIAN POETRY Life in a box is a pretty life by Dawn Lundy Martin
GAY POETRY Thief in the interior by Phillip B. Williams
TRANSGENDER POETRY Reacquainted with life by KOKUMO
LESBIAN MYSTERY Pathogen by Jessica L. Webb
GAY MYSTERY Speakers of the dead : a Walt Whitman mystery by J. Aaron Sanders
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The wind is spirit : the life, love and legacy of Audre Lorde by Gloria Joseph
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY When we rise : my life in the movement by Cleve Jones
LESBIAN ROMANCE The scorpion's empress by Yoshiyuki Ly
GAY ROMANCE Into the blue by Pene Henson
LGBT EROTICA Soul to keep by Rebekah Weatherspoon
LGBT ANTHOLOGY The remedy : queer and trans voices on health and health care by Zena Sharman
LGBT CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Girl mans up by M-E. Girard
LGBT DRAMA Barbecue ; Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara
LGBT NONFICTION How to survive a plague : the story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS by David France
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVELS Wuvable Oaf : blood & metal by Ed Luce
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR The devourers by Indra Das
LGBT STUDIES Sex museums : the politics and performance of display by Jennifer Tyburczy


2016
LESBIAN FICTION Under the Udala trees by Chinelo Okparanta
GAY FICTION God in pink by Hasan Namir
BISEXUAL FICTION The life and death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
TRANSGENDER FICTION Tiny pieces of skull; or, a lesson in manners by Roz Kaveney
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION A love like blood by Victor Yates
LESBIAN NONFICTION "No one helped" : Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy by Marcia M. Gallo
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Born on the edge of race and gender : a voice for cultural competency by Willy Wilkinson
LESBIAN POETRY Life in a box is a pretty life by Dawn Lundy Martin
GAY POETRY Crevasse by Nicholas Wong; Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips
TRANSGENDER POETRY succubus in my pocket by kari edwards
LESBIAN MYSTERY Ordinary mayhem by Victoria Brownworth; Tarnished gold by Ann Aptaker
GAY MYSTERY Boystown 7 : bloodlines by Marshall Thornton
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Objects in mirror are closer than they appear by Kate Carroll de Gutes
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY James Merrill : life and art by Langdon Hammer
LESBIAN ROMANCE Making a comeback by Julie Blair
GAY ROMANCE When skies have fallen by Debbie McGowan
LESBIAN EROTICA The muse by Meghan O'Brien
GAY EROTICA Érotiques suprèmes by Miodrag Kojadinovic
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY (Fiction) Beyond : the queer sci-fi & fantasy comic anthology, edited by Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY (Nonfiction) Glitter and grit : queer performance from the Heels on Wheels femme galaxy, edited by Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács, and Sabina Ibarrola
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT George by Alex Gino
LESBIAN DRAMA Bright half life by Tanya Barfield
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVELS The less than epic adventures of TJ & Amal by EK Weaver
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR The gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
LGBT STUDIES A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire by Hiram Pérez

2015
BISEXUAL FICTION Give it to me : a novel by Ana Castillo
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Fire shut up in my bones : a memoir by Charles M. Blow
GAY EROTICA The King by Tiffany Reisz
GAY GENERAL FICTION I loved you more : a novel by Tom Spanbauer
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco; Tennessee Williams : mad pilgrimage of the flesh by John Lahr
GAY MYSTERY Blackmail, my love : a murder mystery by Katie Gilmartin
GAY POETRY [insert] boy by Danez Smith
GAY ROMANCE Salvation : a novel of the Civil War by Jeff Mann
LESBIAN EROTICA Lesbian sex bible by Diana Cage
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION Yabo by Alexis De Veaux
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around : forty years of movement building with Barbara Smith, edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith
LESBIAN MYSTERY The old deep and dark : a Jane Lawless mystery by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Mysterious acts by my people by Valerie Wetlaufer
LESBIAN ROMANCE The farmer's daughter by Robbi McCoy
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Understanding and teaching U. S. lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history by Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Five, six, seven, Nate! by Tim Federle
LGBT DEBUT The walk-in closet by Abdi Nazemian
LESBIAN DRAMA Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVELS Second Avenue caper by Joyce Brabner; art by Mark Zingarelli
LESBIAN NONFICTION Hold tight gently : Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Bitter Waters by Chaz Brenchley
LGBT STUDIES Delectable Negro : human consumption and homoeroticism within U. S. slave culture, edited by Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride
TRANSGENDER FICTION A safe girl to love by Casey Plett
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Man alive : a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man by Thomas Page McBee

2014
TRANSGENDER FICTION Wanting in Arabic by Trish Salah
BISEXUAL FICTION My education by Susan Choi
GAY GENERAL FICTION Mundo cruel : stories by Luis Negron; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION Happiness, like water : stories by Chinelo Okparanta
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Descendants of Hagar by Nik Nicholson
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION The end of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
BISEXUAL NONFICTION The B word : bisexuality in contemporary film and television by Maria San Filippo
LESBIAN NONFICTION White girls by Hilton Als
GAY POETRY Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto Gonzalez
LESBIAN POETRY Rise in the fall by Ana Bozicevic
GAY MYSTERY The prisoner of the Riviera : a Francis Bacon mystery by Janice Law
LESBIAN MYSTERY High desert by Katherine V. Forrest
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY A heaven of words : last journals by Glenway Wescott, edited by Jerry Rosco
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Body geographic by Barrie Jean Borich
GAY ROMANCE Into this river I drown by TJ Klune
LESBIAN ROMANCE Clean slate by Andrea Bramhall
GAY EROTICA The Padisah's son and the fox : an erotic novella by Alex Jeffers
LESBIAN EROTICA Wild girls, wild nights : true lesbian sex stories, edited by Sacchi Green
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Queer Africa : new and collected fiction, edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba; Who's yer daddy? : gay writers celebrate their mentors and forerunners, edited by Jim Elledge and David Groff
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT If you could be mine by Sara Farizan; Two boys kissing by David Levithan
LESBIAN DRAMA Tom at the farm by Michel Marc Bouchard
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVEL Calling Dr. Laura : a graphic memoir by Nicole J. Georges
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Death by silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold
LGBT STUDIES Safe space : gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence by Christina B. Hanhardt

2013
TRANSGENDER FICTION The collection : short fiction from the transgender vanguard, edited by Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Transfeminist perspectives in and beyond transgender and gender studies, edited by Anne Enke
BISEXUAL LITERATURE In one person : a novel by John Irving; My awesome place : the autobiography of Cheryl B by Cheryl Burke
GAY GENERAL FICTION Everything begins and ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Fire in the belly : the life and times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr
GAY MYSTERY Lake on the mountain : a Dan Sharp mystery by Jeffrey Round
GAY POETRY He do the gay man in different voices by Stephen S. Mills
GAY ROMANCE Kamikaze boys by Jay Bell
GAY EROTICA The facialist by Mykola Dementiuk
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION The world we found : a novel by Thrity N. Umrigar
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Why be happy when you could be normal? by Jeanette Winterson
LESBIAN MYSTERY Ill will by J. M. Redmann
LESBIAN POETRY Sea and fog by Etel Adnan
LESBIAN ROMANCE Month of Sundays by Yolanda Wallace
LESBIAN EROTICA The harder she comes : butch/femme erotica by D. L. King
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY No straight lines : four decades of queer comics, edited by Justin Hall
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The summer we got free by Mia McKenzie
LESBIAN DRAMA The myopia and other plays by David Greenspan and Marc Robinson
LESBIAN NONFICTION Flagrant conduct : the story of Lawrence v. Texas : how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans by Dale Carpenter
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Green thumb by Tom Cardamone
LGBT STUDIES Performing queer Latinidad : dance, sexuality, politics by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

2012
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Zipper mouth by Laurie Weeks
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION Six metres of pavement : a novel by Farzana Doctor
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY When we were outlaws : a memoir of love & revolution by Jeanne Córdova
LESBIAN MYSTERY Dying to live by Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou
LESBIAN POETRY Love cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
LESBIAN ROMANCE Taken by surprise by Kenna White
LESBIAN EROTICA Story of L by Debra Hyde
GAY DEBUT FICTION Quarantine : stories by Rahul Mehta
GAY GENERAL FICTION The empty family : stories by Colm Tóibín
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The Jack Bank : a memoir of a South African childhood by Glen Retief
GAY MYSTERY Red white black and blue by Richard Stevenson
GAY POETRY A fast life : the collected poems of Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad
GAY ROMANCE Every time I think of you by Jim Provenzano
GAY EROTICA All together by Dirk Vanden
TRANSGENDER FICTION Take me there : trans and genderqueer erotica, edited by Tristan Taormino
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Tango : my childhood, backwards and in high heels by Justin Vivian Bond
BISEXUAL FICTION The correspondence artist by Barbara Browning
BISEXUAL NONFICTION The horizontal poet by Jan Steckel
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Gay Latino studies : a critical reader, edited by Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Putting makeup on the fat boy by Bil Wright
LESBIAN DRAMA A menopausal gentleman : the solo performances of Peggy Shaw by Peggy Shaw
LESBIAN NONFICTION A queer history of the United States by Michael Bronski
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR The German by Lee Thomas
LGBT STUDIES Sister arts : the erotics of lesbian landscapes, by Lisa L. Moore

2011
BISEXUAL FICTION The lunatic, the lover, and the poet by Myrlin A. Hermes
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Border sexualities, border families in schools, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
TRANSGENDER FICTION Holding still for as long as possible by Zoe Whittall
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Balancing on the mechitza : transgender in Jewish community, edited by Noach Dzmura
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Gender outlaws : the next generation, edited by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
LESBIAN DRAMA Oedipus at Palm Springs : a Five Lesbian Brothers play by Maureen Angelos
LESBIAN NONFICTION King Kong theory by Virginie Despentes
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Diana Comet and other improbable stories by Sandra McDonald
LGBT STUDIES Another country : queer anti-urbanism by Scott Herring; Assuming a body : transgender and rhetorics of materiality by Gayle Salamon
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Sub Rosa by Amber Dawn
LESBIAN EROTICA Sometimes she lets me : best butch/femme erotica, edited by Tristan Taormina
LESBIAN FICTION Inferno (a poet's novel) by Eileen Myles
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Hammer!: making movies out of sex and life by Barbara Hammer; Wishbone : a memoir in fractures by Julie Marie Wade
LESBIAN MYSTERY Fever of the bone by Val McDermid
LESBIAN POETRY The nights also by Anna Swanson
LESBIAN ROMANCE River walker by Cate Culpepper
GAY DEBUT FICTION Bob the book by David Pratt
GAY EROTICA Teleny and Camille by Jon Macy
GAY FICTION Union Atlantic : a novel by Adam Haslett
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade by Justin Spring
GAY MYSTERY Echoes by David Lennon
GAY POETRY Pleasure by Brian Teare
GAY ROMANCE Normal Miguel by Erik Orrantia

2010
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Portland queer : tales of the Rose City, edited by Ariel Gore
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Sprout by Dale Peck
LESBIAN DRAMA The collected plays of Mart Crowley by Mart Crowley
LESBIAN NONFICTION The Greeks and Greek love by James Davidson
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
LGBT STUDIES The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America by Margot Canaday
BISEXUAL FICTION Holy Communion by Mykola Dementiuk; Love you two by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Leaving India : my family's journey from five villages to five continents by Minal Hajratwala
TRANSGENDER Lynnee Breedlove's one freak show by Lynn Breedlove
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The creamsickle by Rhiannon Argo
GAY DEBUT FICTION Blue boy by Rakesh Satyal
LESBIAN EROTICA Lesbian cowboys, edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia
GAY EROTICA Impossible princess by Kevin Killian
LESBIAN FICTION A field guide to deception by Jill Malone
GAY FICTION Lake Overturn by Vestal McIntyre
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The talented Miss Highsmith : the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Ardent spirits : leaving home, coming back by Reynolds Price
LESBIAN MYSTERY Death of a dying man by J. M. Redmann
GAY MYSTERY What we remember by Michael Thomas Ford
LESBIAN POETRY Zero at the bone by Stacie Cassarino
GAY POETRY Sweet core orchard by Benjamin S. Grossberg
LESBIAN ROMANCE The sublime and spirited voyage of original sin by Colette Moody
GAY ROMANCE Drama queers! by Frank Anthony Polito

2009
LGBT ANTHOLOGIES Our Caribbean : a gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles, edited by Thomas Glave
BISEXUAL Open : love, sex, and life in an open marriage by Jenny Block
TRANSGENDER Intersex (for lack of a better word) by Thea Hillman
LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg
LESBIAN DRAMA The second coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage
LESBIAN NONFICTION Loving the difficult by Jane Rule
LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR Turnskin by Nicole Kimberling
LGBT STUDIES Criminal intimacy : prison and the uneven history of modern American sexuality by Regina Kunzel
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The bruise by Magdalena Zurawski
LESBIAN EROTICA In deep waters 2 : cruising the strip by Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTON The sealed letter by Emma Donoghue; All the pretty girls by Chandra Mayor
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Sex talks to girls : a memoir by Maureen Seaton
LESBIAN MYSTERY Whacked by Josie Gordon
LESBIAN POETRY love belongs to those who do the feeling by Judy Grahn
LESBIAN ROMANCE The kiss that counted by Karin Kallmaker
GAY DEBUT FICTION Finlater by Shawn Stewart Ruff
GAY EROTICA Best gay erotica 2009 by Richard Labonte & James Lear
GAY GENERAL FICTION We disappear by Scott Heim
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Edward Carpenter : a life of liberty and love by Sheila Rowbotham
GAY MYSTERY First you fall by Scott Sherman
GAY POETRY Fire to fire : new and selected poems by Mark Doty; Now you're the enemy : poems by James Allen Hall
GAY ROMANCE Got 'til it's gone by Larry Duplechan

2008
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY First person queer : who we are (so far), edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel
BISEXUAL Split screen by Brent Hartinger
TRANSGENDER Transparent by Cris Beam
LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT Hero by Perry Moore
LESBIAN DRAMA Return to the Caffe Cino by edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa
LESBIAN NONFICTION Gay artists in modern American culture : an imagined conspiracy by Michael S. Sherry
LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR The dust of Wonderland by Lee Thomas
LGBT STUDIES Between women : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Among other things, I've taken up smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION The IHOP papers by Ali Liebegott
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY And now we are going to have a party : liner notes to a writer's early life by Nicola Griffith
LESBIAN MYSTERY Wall of Silence, Gabrielle Goldsby
LESBIAN ROMANCE Out of love by K. G. MacGregor
GAY DEBUT FICTION A push and a shove by Christopher Kelly
GAY GENERAL FICTION Call me by your name by Andre Aciman
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Mississippi sissy by Kevin Sessums
GAY MYSTERY Murder in the Rue Chartres by Greg Herren
GAY ROMANCE Changing tides by Michael Thomas Ford
ARTS & CULTURE The view from here by Matthew Hays
LGBT EROTICA Homosex : 60 years of gay erotica, edited by Simon Sheppard
SPIRITUALITY The after-death room by Michael McColly
LGBT POETRY Blackbird and Wolf by Henri Cole

2007
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Love, Bourbon Street : a celebration of New Orleans, edited by Greg Herren & Paul J. Willis
BISEXUAL The bisexual's guide to the universe : quips, tips, and lists for those who go both ways by Michael Szymanski & Nicole Kristal
TRANSGENDER The transgender studies reader, edited by Susan Stryker & Stephen Whittle
LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT The full spectrum : a new generation of writing about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other identities, edited by David Levithan & Billy Merrell
LESBIAN DRAMA 1001 beds by Tim Miller
LESBIAN NONFICTION Gay L.A. : a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons
LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan
LGBT STUDIES Their own receive them not : African American lesbians and gays in Black churches by Horace Griffin
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The teahouse fire by Ellis Avery
LESBIAN EROTICA Walk like a man by Laurinda D. Brown
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION The night watch by Sarah Waters
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN MYSTERY The art of detection by Laurie R. King
LESBIAN POETRY Lemon hound by Sina Queyras
LESBIAN ROMANCE Fresh tracks by Georgia Beers
GAY DEBUT FICTION Suspension by Robert Westfield
GAY EROTICA A history of barbed wire by Jeff Mann
GAY GENERAL FICTION Suspension by Robert Westfield
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The bill from my father : a memoir by Bernard Cooper
GAY MYSTERY The Lucky Elephant Restaurant by Garry Ryan
GAY POETRY A history of my tattoo by Jim Elledge
GAY ROMANCE When the stars come out by Rob Byrnes
ARTS & CULTURE Gay L.A. : a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons
HUMOR My lucky star by Joe Keenan

2006
ANTHOLOGIES Freedom in this village : 25 years of black, gay men's writing, edited by E. Lynn Harris
BELLES LETTRES The tricky part : one boy's fall from trespass into grace by Martin Moran
BIOGRAPHY February house by Sherrill Tippins
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Swimming in the monsoon sea by Shyam Selvadurai
EROTICA Stolen moments : erotic interludes 2, edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe
GAY MEN'S DEBUT FICTION You are not the one by Vestal McIntyre
GAY MEN'S FICTION The sluts by Dennis Cooper
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY One of these things is not like the other by D. Travers Scott
GAY MEN'S POETRY Crush by Richard Siken
HUMOR Don't get too comfortable by David Rakoff
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The beautifully worthless by Ali Leibegott
LESBIAN FICTION Babyji : a novel by Abha Dawesar
LESBIAN MYSTERY Desert blood : the Juárez murders by Alicia Gaspar De Alba
LESBIAN POETRY Directed by desire : collected poems by June Jordan
LGBT STUDIES When heroes love : the ambiguity of eros in the stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman
NONFICTION Words to our now : imagination and dissent by Thomas Glave
ROMANCE Distant shores, silent thunder by Radclyffe
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Daughters of an emerald dusk by Katherine V. Forrest
SPIRITUALITY Qu(e)erying evangelism : growing a community from the outside in by Cheri DiNovo
TRANSGENDER/GENDERQUEER Choir boy by Charlie Anders

2005
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Fresh men : new voices in gay fiction, edited by Donald Weise
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION I do/I don't : queers on marriage, edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR Name all the animals by Alison Smith
BIOGRAPHY Warrior Poet : a biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT So hard to say by Alex Sanchez
DRAMA I am my own wife by Doug Wright
EROTICA Best gay erotica 2005 edited by Richard Labonte
GAY MEN'S DEBUT FICTION Clay's way by Blair Mastbaum
GAY MEN'S FICTION The master : a novel by Colm Tóibín
GAY MEN'S POETRY Written in water by Luis Cernuda
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Flight of aquavit by Anthony Bidulka
HUMOR Dress your family in corduroy and denim by David Sedaris
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank
LESBIAN FICTION A seahorse year by Stacey D'Erasmo
LESBIAN POETRY Sweet to burn by Beverly Burch
LESBIAN MYSTERY Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest
LGBT STUDIES For the love of women : gender, identity and same-sex relations in a Greek provincial town by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS At ease : Navy men of World War II by Evan Bachner
ROMANCE Almost like being in love by Steve Kluger
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Jesus and the shamanic tradition of same-sex love by Will Roscoe
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR The ordinary by Jim Grimsley
TRANSGENDER/GENDERQUEER The gender frontier by Mariette Pathy Allen

2004
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Pulp friction : uncovering the golden age of gay male pulps, edited by Michael Bronski
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Queer crips : disabled gay men and their stories, edited by Bob Guter and John R. Killacky
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR Naked in the promised land by Lillian Faderman
BIOGRAPHY Beautiful shadow : a life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Boy meets boy by David Levithan
DRAMA Prok by Brian Drader
EROTICA Best lesbian erotica 2004, edited by Tristan Taormino
GAY MEN'S FICTION Lives of the circus animals by Christopher Bram
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Blind eye by John Morgan Wilson
GAY MEN'S POETRY Sky lounge by Mark Bibbins
HUMOR Dykes and sundry other carbon-based life-forms to watch out for by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN FICTION Southland by Nina Revoyr
LESBIAN MYSTERY Damn straight by Elizabeth Sims
LESBIAN POETRY The dirt she ate : selected and new poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt
LGBT STUDIES Time on two crosses : the collected writings of Bayard Rustin, edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Women seeing women : a pictorial history of women's photography from Julia Margaret Cameron to Annie Leibovitz, edited by Lonthar Schirmer
ROMANCE Last summer by Michael Thomas Ford; Maybe next time by Karin Kallmaker
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Necrologue, edited by Helen Sandler
SPIRITUALITY Keeping Faith by Fenton Johnson
TRANSGENDER/GENDERQUEER She's not there : a life in two genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

2003
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Black like us : a century of lesbian, gay, and bisexual African American fiction, edited by Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Done Weise
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION The man I might become : gay men write about their fathers, edited by Bruce Shenitz
AUTOBIOGRAPHY Surviving madness : a therapist's own story by Betty Berzon
BIOGRAPHY Ridiculous! : the theatrical life and times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Letters in the attic by Bonnie Shimko
EROTICA Best lesbian erotica 2003 edited by Tristan Taormino
GAY MEN'S FICTION At swim, two boys : a novel by Jamie O'Neill
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY The snow garden by Christopher Rice
GAY MEN'S POETRY Hazmat by J. D. McClatchy
HUMOR Skipping towards Gomorrah : the seven deadly sins and the pursuit of happiness in America by Dan Savage
LESBIAN FICTION Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
LESBIAN MYSTERY Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft; Immaculate midnight by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Mules of love : poems by Ellen Bass
LGBT STUDIES Sex-crime panic : a journey to the paranoid heart of the 1950s by Neil Miller
ROMANCE The winter of our discoteque by Andrew W. M. Beierle
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Queer fear II edited by Michael Rowe
SPIRITUALITY Courage to love : liturgies for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by Geoffrey Duncan
TRANSGENDER Dress codes : of three girlhoods-- my mother's, my father's, and mine by Noelle Howey
VISUAL ARTS A hidden love : art and homosexuality by Dominique Fernandez

2002
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Diva book of short stories, edited by Helen Sandler
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION The greatest taboo : homosexuality in Black communities edited by Constantine-Simms
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR The noonday demon : an atlas of depression by Andrew Solomon
BIOGRAPHY The scarlet professor : Newton Arvin, a literary life shattered by scandal by Barry Werth
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Finding H.F. by Julia Watts
EROTICA See Dick deconstruct : literotica for the satirically bent by Ian Philips
GAY MEN'S FICTION The practical heart : four novellas by Allan Gurganus
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Rag and bone by Michael Nava
GAY MEN'S POETRY Source by Mark Doty
GLBT STUDIES Courting justice : gay men and lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price
HUMOR Fraud : essays by David Rakoff
LESBIAN FICTION Days of awe by Achy Obejas
LESBIAN MYSTERY Merchant of Venus by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Fox : poems 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Dear friends : American photographs of men together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher
ROMANCE Pages for you by Silvia Brownrigg
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Point of dreams by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett
SMALL PRESS ¡Conversaciones! by Mariana Romo-Carmona
SPIRITUALITY Queer commentary and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Ken Stone; Escaping God's closet : the revelations of a queer priest by Bernard Duncan Mayes
TRANSGENDER/BISEXUAL Omnigender : a trans-religious approach by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

2001
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Men on men 2000 : best new gay fiction for the millennium, edited by David Bergman and Karl Woelz
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Out of the ordinary : essays on growing up with gay, lesbian, and transgender parents edited by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Out of the ordinary : essays on growing up with gay, lesbian, and transgender parents edited by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels
DRAMA Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mithcell, music and lyrics by Stephen Trask (piano/vocal selections) (CD)
GAY BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Bosie : a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
GAY FICTION The world of normal boys : a novel by K. M. Soehnlein
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY The limits of justice by John Morgan Wilson
GAY POETRY Pastoral : poems by Carl Phillips
GAY STUDIES The Isherwood century : essays on the life and work of Christopher Isherwood by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
HORROR/SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Kirith Kirin by Jim Grimsley
HUMOR Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Lifesaving : a memoir by Judith Barrington
LESBIAN FICTION Valencia by Michelle Tea
LESBIAN MYSTERY Mommy deadest by Jean Marcy
LESBIAN POETRY Mercy mercy me by Elena Georgiou
LESBIAN STUDIES Lesbian art in America by Harmony Hammond
SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION Gay spirituality by Toby Johnson; It's never about what it's about : what we learned about living while waiting to die by Krandall Kraus and Paul Borja
SMALL PRESS Kamikaze lust by Lauren Sanders; Between dances : a novel by Erasmo Guerra
TRANSGENDER The Danish girl by David Ebershoff
VISUAL ARTS Faeries : visions, voices and pretty dresses by Keri Pickett

2000
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION The Vintage book of international lesbian fiction, edited by Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle, and Nancy Holden
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Completely queer : the gay and lesbian encyclopedia, edited by Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson; This is what lesbian looks like : dyke activists take on the 21st century edited by Kris Kleindienst
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Hard love by Ellen Wittlinger
DRAMA What I meant was by Craig Lucas
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY The velveteen father : an unexpected journey to parenthood by Jesse Green
GAY MEN'S FICTION Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Justice at risk by John Morgan Wilson
GAY MEN'S POETRY The anchorage by Mark Wunderlich; Trappings by Richard Howard
GAY MEN'S STUDIES Pictures and passions : a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by James Saslow
HUMOR That's Mr. Faggot to you by Michael Thomas Ford
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY The trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami
LESBIAN FICTION Tipping the velvet by Sarah Waters
LESBIAN MYSTERY Hunting the witch by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Rave : poems, 1975-1999 by Olga Broumas
LESBIAN STUDIES To believe in women : what lesbians have done for America--a history by Lillian Faderman
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Pictures and passions : a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by James Saslow
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Gay spirit warrior by John Stowe
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Minions of the moon by Richard Bowe
SMALL PRESS Massage by Henry Flesh
TRANSGENDER Trumpet : a novel by Jackie Kay

1999
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION The Columbia anthology of gay literature : readings from Western antiquity to the present day, edited by Byrne R.S. Fone
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION 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
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Telling tales out of school : gays, lesbians, and bisexuals revisit their school days by Kevin Jennings
DRAMA O solo homo, edited by Holly Hughes
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD The Boy by Naeem Murr
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Wisecracker : the life and times of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay star by William J. Mann
GAY MEN'S FICTION An arrow's flight by Mark Merlis
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Outburst by R. D. Zimmerman
GAY MEN'S POETRY 10 commandments : poems by J.D. McClatchy
GAY MEN'S STUDIES The other side of silence : men's lives and gay identities : a twentieth century history by John Loughery
HUMOR Alec Baldwin doesn't love me & other trials of my queer life by Michael Thomas Ford
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY The indelible Alison Bechdel : confessions, comix, and miscellaneous dykes to watch out for  by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN FICTION Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
LESBIAN MYSTERY The blue place by Nicola Griffith
LESBIAN POETRY Marianne Faithfull's cigarette by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
LESBIAN STUDIES A fragile union : new & selected writings by Joan Nestle
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS The male nude by David Leddick; Women in love : portraits of lesbian mothers and their families by Barbara Seyda with Diana Herrera
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Ferocious romance : what my encounters with the right taught me about sex, God, and fury by Donna Minkowitz
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Bending the landscape II : original gay and lesbian writing : science fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
SMALL PRESS the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth
TRANSGENDER The empress is a man : stories from the life of José Sarria by Michael Robert Gorman

1998
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION His 2 : brilliant new fiction by gay writers, edited by Robert Drake with Terry Wolverton
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Queers in space : communities, public places, sites of resistance, edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT The house you pass on the way by Jacqueline Woodson
DRAMA Gross indecency : the three trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Billy's boy by Patricia Nell Warren
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY The poetry of healing : a doctor's education in empathy, identity, and desire by Rafael Campo
GAY MEN'S FICTION The far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY The magician's tale by David Hunt
GAY MEN'S POETRY Beautiful signor by Cyrus Cassells
GAY MEN'S STUDIES The gay metropolis, 1940-1996, edited by Charles Kaiser
HUMOR Openly Bob by Bob Smith
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Blue windows : a Christian Science childhood by Barbara Wilson
LESBIAN FICTION Beyond the pale : a novel by Elana Dykewomon
LESBIAN MYSTERY Father forgive me by Randye Lordon
LESBIAN POETRY Cold River by Joan Larkin; School of fish by Eileen Myles
LESBIAN STUDIES Does your mama know? : an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories, edited by Lisa C. Moore
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Naked men : pioneering male nudes 1935-1955 by David Leddick; Particular voices : portraits of gay and lesbian writers by Robert Giard
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Bending the landscape : original gay and lesbian writing : science fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
SMALL PRESS Does your mama know? : an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories, edited by Lisa C. Moore
SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION Like bread on the seder plate by Rebecca Alpert
TRANSGENDER PoMoSexuals : challenging assumptions about gender and sexuality, edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel; The last time I wore a dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams

1997
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Women on women 3 : an anthology of American lesbian short fiction, edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Taking liberties : gay men's essays on politics, culture, and sex, edited by Michael Bronski
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Good moon rising by Nancy Garden
DRAMA Split britches edited by Sue-Ellen Case
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Tennessee Williams' letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 edited by Donald Windham
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Geography of the heart : a memoir by Fenton Johnson
GAY MEN'S FICTION Funny boy : a novel by Shyam Selvadurai
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Death of friends by Michael Nava
GAY MEN'S POETRY What the body told by Rafael Campo
GAY MEN'S STUDIES Boys like us : gay writers tell their coming out stories, edited by Patrick Merla
HUMOR The homo handbook : getting in touch with your inner homo by Judy Carter
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Life in a day by Doris Grumbach
LESBIAN FICTION Memory mambo : a novel by Achy Obejas
LESBIAN MYSTERY Robber's wine by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY All-American girl by Robin Becker; Furious cooking : poems by Maureen Seaton
LESBIAN STUDIES Love between women : early Christian responses to female homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Nothing but the girl : the blatant lesbian image : a portfolio and exploration of lesbian erotic photography by Susie Bright & Jill Posener
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Sacrament by Clive Barker
SMALL PRESS Body alchemy : transsexual portraits by Loren Cameron
SPIRITUALITY The good book : reading the Bible with mind and heart by Peter Gomes
TRANSGENDER Body alchemy : transsexual portraits by Loren Cameron

1996
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Tasting life twice : literary lesbian fiction by new American writers, edited by E.J. Levy
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION The gay and lesbian literary heritage : a reader's companion to the writers and their works, from antiquity to the present, edited by Claude J. Summers (2d ed. (2014) here)
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT From the notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
DRAMA Slavs! (Thinking about the longstanding problems of virtue and happiness) by Tony Kushner; Go fish by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Forbidden passages : writings banned in Canada, introduced by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Tom : the unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich
GAY MEN'S FICTION Flesh and blood by Michael Cunningham
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Closet by R. D. Zimmerman
GAY MEN'S POETRY Atlantis : poems by Mark Doty
GAY MEN'S STUDIES De los otros : intimacy and homosexuality among Mexican men by Joseph Carrier
HUMOR The butches of Madison County by Ellen Orleans
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aimée & Jaguar by Erica Fischer
LESBIAN FICTION Autobiography of a family photo : a novel by Jacqueline Woodson
LESBIAN MYSTERY Intersection of law and desire by J. M. Redmann
LESBIAN POETRY Dark fields of the Republic : poems, 1991-1995 by Adrienne Rich
LESBIAN STUDIES Dyke life : from growing up to growing old, a celebration of the lesbian experience, edited by Karla Jay
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Paris was a woman : portraits from the Left Bank by Andrea Weiss
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Shadow man by Melissa Scott
SMALL PRESS The new fuck you, edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz
SPIRITUALITY Wrestling with the angel : faith and religion in the lives of gay men, edited by Brian Bouldrey

1995
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Chloe plus Olivia : an anthology of lesbian literature from the seventeenth century to the present, edited by Lillian Faderman
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Sister & brother : lesbians & gay men write about their lives together, edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Am I blue? : coming out from the silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer
DRAMA Angels in America : Perestroika by Tony Kushner
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Memoir of a race traitor by Mab Segrest
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY My own country : a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS by Abraham Verghese
GAY MEN'S FICTION The folding star by Alan Hollinghurst
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story by John Berendt
GAY MEN'S POETRY Collected poems by Thom Gunn
GAY MEN'S STUDIES Gay New York : gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
HUMOR The dyke and the dybbuk : a novel by Ellen Galford
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Gertrude Stein : in words and pictures : a photobiography, edited by Renate Stendhal
LESBIAN FICTION The gifts of the body by Rebecca Brown
LESBIAN MYSTERY A small sacrifice : a Jane Lawless mystery by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Winter numbers : poems by Marilyn Hacker
LESBIAN STUDIES Skin : talking about sex, class & literature by Dorothy Allison
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Family : a portrait of gay and lesbian America by Nancy Andrews
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Trouble and her friends by Melissa Scott
SMALL PRESS Her tongue on my theory : images, essays, and fantasies by Kiss & Tell

1994
ANTHOLOGIES The lesbian and gay studies reader, edited by by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT The cat came back by Hilary Mullins
DRAMA Angels in America : Millenium approaches by Tony Kushner
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD A star-bright lie by Coleman Dowell
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Genet : a biography by Edmund White
GAY MEN'S FICTION Living upstairs by Joseph Hansen
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Catilina's riddle by Steven Saylor
GAY MEN'S POETRY Collected poems by James Schuyler; 1990 by Michael Klein
GAY MEN'S STUDIES Conduct unbecoming : lesbians and gays in the U.S. military : Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy Shilts
HUMOR Spawn of dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Marguerite Yourcenar : inventing a life by Josyanne Savigneau
LESBIAN FICTION Written on the body by Jeannette Winterson
LESBIAN MYSTERY Divine victim by Mary Wings
LESBIAN POETRY The marvelous arithmetics of distance : poems 1987-1992 by Audre Lorde
LESBIAN STUDIES Boots of leather, slippers of gold : the history of a lesbian community by Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The fifth sacred thing by Starhawk
SMALL PRESS Stone butch blues : a novel by Leslie Feinberg; Sojourner : black gay voices in the age of AIDS by Other Countries

1993
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT When heroes die by Penny Raife Durant
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Gay ideas : outing and other controversies by Richard Mohr
GAY MEN'S ANTHOLOGIES A Member of the family : gay men write about their families edited by John Preston
GAY MEN'S FICTION Let the dead bury their dead and other stories by Randall Kenan
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY The hidden law by Michael Nava
GAY MEN'S NONFICTION Becoming a man : half a life story by Paul Monette
GAY MEN'S POETRY Counting myself lucky : selected poems, 1963-1992 by Edward Field
GAY MEN'S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
HUMOR Dykes to watch out for : the sequel : added attraction! "Serial monogamy", a documentary by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGIES The Persistent desire : a femme-butch reader edited by Joan Nestle
LESBIAN FICTION Running fiercely toward a high thin sound : a novel by Judith Katz
LESBIAN MYSTERY The two-bit tango : a mystery by Elizabeth Pincus; Crazy for loving by Jaye Maiman
LESBIAN NONFICTION Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Cook
LESBIAN POETRY Undersong : chosen poems, old and new by Audre Lorde
LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
SMALL PRESS  Memories that smell like gasoline  by David Wojnarowicz

1992
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT The duke who outlawed jelly beans : and other stories by Johnny Valentine ; illustrated by Lynette Schmidt
EDITOR’S CHOICE Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America by Lillian Faderman
GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGY Brother to brother : new writings by Black gay men, edited by Essex Hemphill
GAY MEN'S FICTION What the dead remember by Harlan Greene
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY A country of old men : the last Dave Brandstetter mystery by Joseph Hansen
GAY MEN’S NONFICTION The Zuni man-woman by Will Roscoe
GAY MEN'S POETRY The Road before us : 100 gay Black poets, edited by Assoto Saint
GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The dark beyond the stars by Frank M. Robinson
HUMOR Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Chicana lesbians : the girls our mothers warned us about, edited by Carla Trujillo
LESBIAN FICTION The revolution of little girls by Blanche Boyd; The Gilda stories : a novel by Jewelle Gomez
LESBIAN MYSTERY Murder by tradition by Katherine V. Forrest
LESBIAN NONFICTION Cancer in two voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum (2nd ed. (1996) here)
LESBIAN POETRY An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The Gilda stories : a novel by Jewelle Gomez
SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Gay roots : twenty years of Gay sunshine : an anthology of gay history, sex, politics, and culture, edited by Winston Leyland

1991
AIDS The way we live now : American plays & the AIDS crisis, edited by Elizabeth Osbourn
EDITOR’S CHOICE The encyclopedia of homosexuality, edited by Wayne Dynes
GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGY Men on men 3 : best new gay fiction, edited by George Stambolian
GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION Dancing on Tisha b'Av by Lev Raphael
GAY MEN'S FICTION The body and its dangers by Allen Barnett
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Howtown by Michael Nava
GAY MEN’S NONFICTION Coming out under fire : the history of gay men and women in World War Two by Alan Berube
GAY MEN'S POETRY Decade dance by Michael Lassell
GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Magic's price by Mercedes Lackey; Secret matter by Toby Johnson
GAY MEN’S SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Daddy's roommate by Michael Willhoite
HUMOR New, improved! Dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN ANOTHOLOGY Women on women : an anthology of American lesbian short fiction, edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Her : a novel by Cherry Muhanji
LESBIAN FICTION Out of time by Paula Martinac
LESBIAN MYSTERY Gaudi afternoon by Barbara Wilson; Ninth life by Lauren Wright Douglas
LESBIAN NONFICTION The safe sea of women : lesbian fiction, 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman
LESBIAN POETRY Going back to the river : poems by Marilyn Hacker
LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Gossamer axe by Gael Baudino
LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Different mothers : sons and daughters of lesbians talk about their lives, edited by Louise Rafkin

1990
AIDS Reports from the holocaust : the making of an AIDS activist by Larry Kramer
EDITOR’S CHOICE Lifting belly Gertrude Stein, edited by Rebecca Mark
GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGIES Hidden from history : reclaiming the gay and lesbian past, edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al.
GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION The irreversible decline of Eddie Socket : a novel by John Weir
GAY MEN'S FICTION Eighty-sixed by David B. Feinberg
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Simple suburban murder by Mark Richard Zubro
GAY MEN’S NONFICTION In search of gay America : women and men in a time of change by Neil Miller
GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Somewhere in the night by Jeffrey N. McMahan
HUMOR Gay comics, edited by Robert Triptow
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Hidden from history : reclaiming the gay and lesbian past, edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al.; Intricate passions : a collection of erotic short fiction, edited by Tee Corinne; Out the other side : contemporary lesbian writing, edited by C. McEwen & S. O’Sullivan
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The names of the moons of Mars by Patricia R. Schwartz
LESBIAN FICTION The bar stories : a novel after all by Nisa Donnelly
LESBIAN MYSTERY The Beverly Malibu by Katherine V. Forrest
LESBIAN NONFICTION Really reading Gertrude Stein : a selected anthology with essays, edited by Judy Grahn
LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY What did Miss Darrington see? : an anthology of feminist supernatural fiction, edited by Jessica A. Salmonson
POETRY Poets for life : seventy-six poets respond to AIDS, edited by Michael Klein
SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD My life as a mole and five other stories by Larry Mitchell ; illustrated by Bill Rice
YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD Losing Uncle Tim by MaryKate Jordan

1989
AIDS Borrowed time : an AIDS memoir by Paul Monette
EDITOR’S CHOICE Why can't Sharon Kowalski come home? by Karen Thompson And Julie Andrzejewski
GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION The swimming-pool library by Alan Hollinghurst
GAY MEN'S FICTION The beautiful room is empty by Edmund White
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION Goldenboy : a Henry Rios mystery by Michael Nava
GAY MEN’S NONFICTION Borrowed time : an AIDS memoir by Paul Monette
GAY MEN’S SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Goldenboy : a Henry Rios mystery by Michael Nava; The delight of hearts : or what you will not find in any book, edited by Ahmad al-Tifashi and Winston Leyland
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Bird-eyes by Madelyn Arnold
LESBIAN FICTION Trash : stories by Dorothy Allison
LESBIAN MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION Skiptrace by Antoinette Azolakov
LESBIAN NONFICTION Lesbian ethics : toward new value by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Trash : stories by Dorothy Allison
POETRY Gay & lesbian poetry in our time : an anthology, edited by Carl Morse & Joan Larkin