| Category
 | 
Author/Editor
 | 
Title
 | 
Result
 | 
| Anthologies (Fiction)
 | 
Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton (eds.)
 | 
His(2)
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Brian Bouldrey (ed.)
 | 
Best American Gay Fiction 2
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Peter Burton (ed.)
 | 
The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Christian McEwen (ed.)
 | 
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Tristan Taormino (ed.)
 | 
Best Lesbian Erotica 1997
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Anthologies (Nonfiction)
 | 
Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (eds.)
 | 
Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Michael Lowenthal
 | 
Gay Men at the Millennium
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Rictor Norton
 | 
My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (eds.)
 | 
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Jess Wells
 | 
Lesbians Raising Sons
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Children's and Young Adult
 | 
Jacqueline Woodson
 | 
The House You Pass On the Way
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Jeanne Arnold
 | 
Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What's a Lesbian?
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Liza Ketchum
 | 
Blue Coyote
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Adam Mastoon
 | 
The Shared Heart
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Paul Monette
 | 
Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Drama
 | 
Moises Kaufman
 | 
Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Harry M. Benshoff
 | 
Monsters in the Closet
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Jonathan Larson
 | 
Rent
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Lillian Schlissel
 | 
Three Plays by Mae West
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Chay Yew
 | 
Porcelain and A Language of Their Own
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Gay Memoir or Biography
 | 
Rafael Campo
 | 
The Poetry of Healing
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Michael Klein
 | 
Track Conditions
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Felice Picano
 | 
A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Gary Schmidgall
 | 
Walt Whitman: a Gay Life
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Mark Thompson
 | 
Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Gay Fiction
 | 
Aryeh Lev Stollman
 | 
The Far Euphrates
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Neil Bartlett
 | 
The House on Brooke Street
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Christopher Bram
 | 
Gossip
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Allan Gurganus
 | 
Plays Well With Others
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Edmund White
 | 
The Farewell Symphony
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Gay Mystery
 | 
David Hunt
 | 
The Magician's Tale
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Christopher Bram
 | 
Gossip
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Michael Nava
 | 
The Burning Plain
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| John Morgan Wilson
 | 
Revision of Justice
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| R. D. Zimmerman
 | 
Hostage
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Gay Poetry
 | 
Cyrus Cassells
 | 
Beautiful Signor
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Frank Bidart
 | 
Desire
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| James Broughton, edited by Jim Cory)
 | 
Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Tom Carey
 | 
Desire: Poems 1986-1996
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Justin Chin
 | 
Bite Hard
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Gay Studies
 | 
Charles Kaiser (ed.)
 | 
Gay Metropolis
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Martin Duberman
 | 
Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Gabriel Rotello
 | 
Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Michelangelo Signorile
 | 
Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Mark Thompson
 | 
Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Humor
 | 
Bob Smith
 | 
Openly Bob
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Alison Bechdel
 | 
Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Erika Lopez
 | 
Flaming Iguanas
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| David Sedaris
 | 
Naked
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Sarah Strohmeyer
 | 
Barbie Unbound
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography
 | 
Barbara Wilson
 | 
Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Kim Chernin
 | 
My Life as a Boy
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Hermione Lee
 | 
Virginia Woolf
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Margaret Peters
 | 
May Sarton: a Biography
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams
 | 
The Last Time I Wore a Dress
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Lesbian Fiction
 | 
Elana Dykewomon
 | 
Beyond the Pale
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Persimmon Blackbridge
 | 
Prozac Highway
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Blanche McCrary Boyd
 | 
Terminal Velocity
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Frankie Hucklenbroich
 | 
A Crystal Diary
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Ruthann Robson
 | 
A/K/A
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Lesbian Mystery
 | 
Randye Lordon
 | 
Father Forgive Me
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Katherine V. Forrest
 | 
Apparition Alley
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Carole LaFavor
 | 
Evil Dead Center
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Jaye Maiman
 | 
Old Black Magic
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Cynthia Webb
 | 
No Daughter of the South
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Lesbian Poetry
 | 
Joan Larkin
 | 
Cold River
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Eileen Myles
 | 
School of Fish
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Pat Califia
 | 
Diesel Fuel
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Emma Donoghue
 | 
Poems Between Women
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
 | 
Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Lesbian Studies
 | 
Lisa C. Moore
 | 
Does Your Mama Know?
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Susan K. Raffo
 | 
Queerly Classed
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias
 | 
Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Diana Souhami
 | 
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Arlene Stein
 | 
Sex and Sensibility
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror
 | 
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
 | 
Bending the Landscape
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Harry M. Benshoff (ed.)
 | 
Monsters in the Closet
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Perry Brass
 | 
The Harvest
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| William J. Mann Mann
 | 
Grave Passions
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Lawrence Schimel (ed.)
 | 
The Drag Queen of Elfland
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Small Press
 | 
Lisa C. Moore
 | 
Does Your Mama Know?
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Bruce Benderson
 | 
Toward the New Degeneracy
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Justin Chin
 | 
Bite Hard
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Elana Dykewomon
 | 
Beyond the Pale
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Sarah Strohmeyer
 | 
Barbie Unbound
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Spirituality
 | 
Rebecca Alpert
 | 
Like Bread on the Seder Plate
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Bruce Bawer
 | 
Stealing Jesus
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Randy P. Conner
 | 
Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Andrew Harvey
 | 
The Essential Gay Mystics
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Winston Leyland
 | 
Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Transgender
 | 
Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (eds.)
 | 
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams
 | 
The Last Time I Wore a Dress
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Pat Califia
 | 
Sex Changes
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Annick Prieur
 | 
Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Riki Anne Wilchins
 | 
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Visual Arts
 | 
Robert Giard
 | 
Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers
 | 
Winner
 | 
| David Leddick
 | 
Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955
 | 
Winner
 | 
| Joani Blank
 | 
I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| Anderson Jones and David Fields
 | 
Men Together
 | 
Finalist
 | 
| John Waters
 | 
John Waters: Director's Cut
 | 
Finalist
 |