| Category | Winner | Nominated | 
| Anthologies/Fiction | Edmund White and Donald Weise, eds., Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction | Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004Peter Burton, Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New StoriesClint Catalyst and Michelle Tea, Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First PersonLori L. Lake, The Milk of Human Kindness: Lesbian Authors Write About Mothers & Daughters
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| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Greg Wharton and Ian Philips, eds., I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage | Mary Burger, Robert Glück, Camille Roy and Gail Scott, Biting the Error: Writers Explore NarrativeAngela Brown, Mentsh: On Being Jewish and QueerMattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting AssimilationRaphael Kadushin, Wonderlands
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| Autobiography/Memoir | Alison Smith, Name All the Animals |  | 
| Biography | Alexis De Veaux, Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde | Douglas Crase, Both: A Portrait in Two PartsJohn F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus and David P. Keys, Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and SociologyDeborah Jowitt, Jerome RobbinsEvelyn C. White, Alice Walker: A Life
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| Children's/Young Adult | Alex Sánchez, So Hard to Say |  | 
| Drama | Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife | Donald Reuter, Fabulous!David Gere, How to Make Dances in an EpidemicSharon Bridgeforth, love conjure/bluesClaude J. Summers, The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater
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| Erotica | Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2005 |  | 
| Gay Debut Fiction | Blair Mastbaum, Clay's Way |  | 
| Gay Fiction | Colm Tóibín, The Master |  | 
| Gay Mystery | Anthony Bidulka, Flight of Aquavit |  | 
| Gay Poetry | Luis Cernuda, Written in Water |  | 
| Humor | David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |  | 
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Judith Frank, Crybaby Butch | Mary Vermillion, Death by DiscountKristie Helms, Dish It Up, Baby!Laurinda D. Brown, Fire & BrimstoneBridget Bufford, Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey
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| Lesbian Fiction | Stacey D'Erasmo, A Seahorse Year |  | 
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest, Hancock Park |  | 
| Lesbian Poetry | Beverly Burch, Sweet to Burn |  | 
| LGBT Studies | Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town |  | 
| Photography/Visual Arts | Evan Bachner and Harry Abrams, At Ease: Navy Men of World War II |  | 
| Romance | Steve Kluger, Almost Like Being in Love | Karin Kallmaker, All the Wrong PlacesChris Kenry, Confessions of a CasanovaGerri Hill, Gulf BreezeMarianne Martin, Under the Witness Tree
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| Religion/Spirituality | Will Roscoe, Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love | Randy Conner and David Hatfield Sparks, Queering Creole Spiritual TraditionsMarvin M. Ellison, Same-Sex Marriage: A Christian Ethical AnalysisDonald L. Boisvert, Sanctity and Male DesireSteven Greenberg, Wrestling with God & Men
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| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jim Grimsley, The Ordinary | Michael Jensen, FirelandsGreg Herren, Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and UnusualJean Stewart, The Wizard of IsisNicola Griffith, With Her Body
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| Transgender | Mariette Pathy Allen, The Gender Frontier |  |