| Category | Author/Editor | Title | Result | 
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Byrne R. Fone (ed.) | Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature | Winner | 
| Michele Karlsberg and Aren X. Tulchinsky | To Be Continued | Finalist | 
| Lawrence Schimel | Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica | Finalist | 
| Joel Tan | Men on Men 7 | Finalist | 
| Joel Tan | Queer PAPI Porn | Finalist | 
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | Nisa Donnelly (ed.) | Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life | Winner | 
| David L. Eng | Q & A: Queer in Asian America | Winner | 
| Lucy Jane Bledsoe | Lesbian Travels | Finalist | 
| Clifford Chase | Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade | Finalist | 
| Kevin Jennings | Telling Tales Out of School | Finalist | 
| Children's and Young Adult | Kevin Jennings | Telling Tales Out of School | Winner | 
| Francesca Lia Block | I Was a Teenage Fairy | Finalist | 
| Clifford Chase | Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade | Finalist | 
| Michael Thomas Ford | Outspoken | Finalist | 
| Joseph Kennedy | Lucy Goes to the Country | Finalist | 
| Drama | Holly Hughes | O Solo Homo | Winner | 
| Eve Ensler | The Vagina Monologues | Finalist | 
| Jim Grimsley and David Roman | Mr. Universe and Other Plays | Finalist | 
| D. A. Miller | Place For Us | Finalist | 
| Sarah Schulman | Stagestruck | Finalist | 
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | William J. Mann | Wisecracker | Winner | 
| Graham Caveney | Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs | Finalist | 
| Gavin Geoffrey Dillard | In the Flesh | Finalist | 
| Norman Page | Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years | Finalist | 
| Andrew Tobias | The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up | Finalist | 
| Gay Fiction | Mark Merlis | An Arrow's Flight | Winner | 
| Rabih Alameddine | Koolaids: The Art of War | Finalist | 
| Michael Cunningham | The Hours | Finalist | 
| Jameson Currier | Where the Rainbow Ends | Finalist | 
| Keith Ridgway | The Long Falling | Finalist | 
| Gay Mystery | R. D. Zimmerman | Outburst | Winner | 
| Randy Boyd | Uprising | Finalist | 
| Fred Hunter | Federal Fag | Finalist | 
| Grant Michaels | Dead as a Doornail | Finalist | 
| Richard Stevenson | Strachey’s Folly | Finalist | 
| Gay Poetry | J. D. McClatchy | Ten Commandments | Winner | 
| Mark Doty | Sweet Machine | Finalist | 
| Edward Field | A Frieze for a Temple of Love | Finalist | 
| Michael Lassell | A Flame for the Touch That Matters | Finalist | 
| Timothy Liu | Say Goodnight | Finalist | 
| Gay Studies | John Loughery | The Other Side of Silence | Winner | 
| Michael Bronski | The Pleasure Principle | Finalist | 
| Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman | Becoming Visible | Finalist | 
| Will Roscoe | Changing Ones | Finalist | 
| Andrew Sullivan | Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival | Finalist | 
| Humor | Michael Thomas Ford | Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life | Winner | 
| Alison Bechdel | Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For | Finalist | 
| Alison Bechdel | The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out | Finalist | 
| Kate Clinton | Don’t Get Me Started | Finalist | 
| Dan Savage | Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist | Finalist | 
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Alison Bechdel | The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out | Winner | 
| Sally Cline | Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John | Finalist | 
| Joan Nestle | A Fragile Union | Finalist | 
| Rodger Streitmatter | Empty Without You | Finalist | 
| Kate Summerscale | The Queen of Whale Cay | Finalist | 
| Lesbian Fiction | Dorothy Allison | Cavedweller | Winner | 
| Sharon Bridgforth | the bull-jean stories | Finalist | 
| Rebecca Brown | The Dogs | Finalist | 
| Erika Lopez | They Call Me Mad Dog | Finalist | 
| Sarah Schulman | Shimmer | Finalist | 
| Lesbian Mystery | Sarah Dreher | Shaman's Moon | Winner | 
| Nicola Griffith | The Blue Place | Winner | 
| Ellen Hart | Wicked Games | Finalist | 
| Randye Lordon | Mother May I | Finalist | 
| Claire McNab | Past Due | Finalist | 
| Lesbian Poetry | Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette | Winner | 
| Beatrix Gates | In the Open | Finalist | 
| Letta Neely | Juba | Finalist | 
| Leslea Newman | The Little Butch Book | Finalist | 
| Pamela Sneed | Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery | Finalist | 
| Lesbian Studies | Joan Nestle | A Fragile Union | Winner | 
| Zsa Zsa Gershick | Gay Old Girls | Finalist | 
| Judith Halberstam | Female Masculinity | Finalist | 
| Sarah Schulman | Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America | Finalist | 
| Barbara Smith | The Truth That Never Hurts | Finalist | 
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (eds.) | Bending the Landscape II: Science Fiction | Winner | 
| Clive Barker | Galilee | Finalist | 
| Elizabeth Brownrigg | Falling to Earth | Finalist | 
| Ulysses G. Dietz | Desmond | Finalist | 
| Lawrence Schimel | Things Invisible to See | Finalist | 
| Small Press | Sharon Bridgforth | the bull-jean stories | Winner | 
| Alison Bechdel | The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out | Finalist | 
| Randy Boyd | Uprising | Finalist | 
| Bruce LaBruce | The Reluctant Pornographer | Finalist | 
| Barbara Summerhawk | Queer Japan | Finalist | 
| Spirituality | Donna Minkowitz | Ferocious Romance | Winner | 
| Perry Brass | How to Survive Your Own Gay Life | Finalist | 
| Peter J. Gomes | Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living | Finalist | 
| John J. McNeill | Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair | Finalist | 
| Richard Rambuss | Closet Devotions | Finalist | 
| Transgender / Bisexual | Michael R. Gorman | The Empress Is a Man | Winner | 
| Leslie Feinberg | Trans Liberation | Finalist | 
| Judith Halberstam | Female Masculinity | Finalist | 
| Diane Wood Middlebrook | Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton | Finalist | 
| Will Roscoe and Stephen Murray | Boy-Wives and Female Husbands | Finalist | 
| Visual Arts | David Leddick | The Male Nude | Winner | 
| Barbara Seyda and Diana Herrera | Women in Love | Winner | 
| Deborah Bright | The Passionate Camera | Finalist | 
| Russell Bush | Affectionate Men | Finalist | 
| Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman | Becoming Visible | Finalist |