| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning, The Gift[1] | |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Roxane Gay, Hunger[1] | - Julene Tripp Weaver, Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS
- Monica Meneghetti, What the Mouth Wants
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| Gay Fiction | John Rechy, After the Blue Hour[1] | - Ahmad Danny Ramadan, The Clothesline Swing
- Édouard Louis, The End of Eddy
- Nnanna Ikpo, Fimí Sílè Forever
- John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies
- Andrew Sean Greer, Less
- Matthew Lansburgh, Outside Is the Ocean
- Joan Dempsey, This Is How It Begins
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| Gay Memoir/Biography | Chike Frankie Edozien, Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man[1] | - Parvez Sharma, A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance
- Jonathan Alexander, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology
- José Antonio Rodríguez, House Built on Ashes
- Kenny Fries, In the Province of the Gods
- Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On
- Victor Corona, Night Class: A Downtown Memoir
- Bill Goldstein, The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature
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| Gay Mystery | Marshall Thornton, Night Drop[1] | |
| Gay Poetry | C. A. Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death[1] | |
| Gay Romance | Laurie Loft, Love and Other Hot Beverages[1] | - L. A. Witt, At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere
- Bryan T. Clark, Come to The Oaks
- Audra North, Midlife Crisis
- Johnny Diaz, Six Neckties
- Tom Mendicino, Stealing Home
- Adrienne Wilder, Wild
- Christine D'Abo, Working It
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| Lesbian Fiction | Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties[1] | |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body[1] | |
| Lesbian Mystery | A. E. Radley, Huntress[1] | |
| Lesbian Poetry | Rosamond S. King, Rock | Salt | Stone[1] | |
| Lesbian Romance | Yolanda Wallace, Tailor-Made[1] | - Rachel Spangler, Close to Home
- Aurora Rey, Crescent City Confidential
- Ann McMan, Goldenrod
- Ann Roberts, Vagabond Heart
- Yoshiyuki Ly, Venus and Lysander
- Julie Cannon, Wishing on a Dream
- Karis Walsh, You Make Me Tremble
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| LGBTQ Anthology | Juliana Delgado Lopera, ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants[1] | - Candace Walsh and Barbara Straus Lodge, Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women
- Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
- Joamette Gil, Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology
- Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin, Queer Africa 2: new stories
- Charlie Craggs, To My Trans Sisters
- Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey, Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love
- Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton, Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
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| LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult | Rebecca Podos, Like Water[1] | - Sarah Dooley, Ashes to Asheville
- Christina Lauren, Autoboyography
- April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis
- Nina Packebush, Girls Like Me
- Kay Haring and Robert Neubecker, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing
- Will Kostakis, The Sidekicks
- Martin Wilson, We Now Return to Regular Life
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| LGBT Drama | Audrey Cefaly, The Gulf[1] | |
| LGBTQ Erotica | Steve Berman, His Seed[1] | - L. A. Witt, The Master Will Appear
- Siri Caldwell, Mistletoe Mishap
- D. L. King, Unspeakably Erotic
- Sacchi Green, Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms
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| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters[1] | |
| LGBTQ Non-Fiction | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective[1] | - Avram Finkelstein, After Silence
- Malik Gaines, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
- Anne Elizabeth Moore, Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
- Hida Viloria, Born Both: An Intersex Life
- Myriam Gurba, Mean
- Clayton Delery, Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice
- John Chaich and Todd Oldham, Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
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| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Annalee Newitz, Autonomous[1] | |
| LGBTQ Studies | Trevor Hoppe, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness[1] | - Alfredo Mirandé, Behind the Mask
- Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out
- Emily Hobson, Lavender and Red
- Jaclyn Pryor, Time Slips
- Ashley T. Shelden, Unmaking Love
- David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, The War on Sex
- Julio Capó, Welcome to Fairyland
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| Transgender Fiction | Bogi Takács, ed., Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction[1] | - Jeanne Thornton, The Black Emerald
- Jennifer Finney Boylan, Long Black Veil
- Tobi Hill-Meyer, ed., Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
- Amy Heart, Sugi Pyrrophyta and Larissa Glasser, eds., Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything
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| Transgender Non-Fiction | C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity[1] | |
| Transgender Poetry | Ching-In Chen, recombinant[1] | - Kai Cheng Thom, a place called No Homeland
- Juliana Huxtable, Mucus in My Pineal Gland
- Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Of Mongrelitude
- Kayleb Rae Candrilli, What Runs Over
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