The 10th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1998 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1997.
| Category | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| Editor's Choice | Patricia Nell Warren, Billy's Boy | |
| Pioneer Award | Ron Hanby, Bookazine | |
| Publisher Service | Douglas Mitchell, University of Chicago Press |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | and Terry Wolverton (eds.) | His(2) | Winner |
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| (ed.) | Best American Gay Fiction 2 | Finalist | |
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| (ed.) | Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit | Finalist | |
| (ed.) | Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 | Finalist | |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction) | , AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (eds.) | Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance | Winner |
| Gay Men at the Millennium | Finalist | ||
| My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries | Finalist | ||
| and Lawrence Schimel (eds.) | PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality | Finalist | |
| Lesbians Raising Sons | Finalist | ||
| Children's and Young Adult | Winner | ||
| Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What's a Lesbian? | Finalist | ||
| Blue Coyote | Finalist | ||
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| Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods | Finalist | ||
| Drama | Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde | Winner | |
| Monsters in the Closet | Finalist | ||
| Rent | Finalist | ||
| Three Plays by Mae West | Finalist | ||
| Porcelain and A Language of Their Own | Finalist | ||
| Gay Memoir or Biography | Winner | ||
| Track Conditions | Finalist | ||
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| Walt Whitman: a Gay Life | Finalist | ||
| Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow | Finalist | ||
| Gay Fiction | Winner | ||
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| Gossip | Finalist | ||
| Plays Well With Others | Finalist | ||
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| Gay Mystery | Winner | ||
| Gossip | Finalist | ||
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| Revision of Justice | Finalist | ||
| Hostage | Finalist | ||
| Gay Poetry | Beautiful Signor | Winner | |
| Desire | Finalist | ||
| , edited by Jim Cory) | Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 | Finalist | |
| Desire: Poems 1986-1996 | Finalist | ||
| Bite Hard | Finalist | ||
| Gay Studies | (ed.) | Gay Metropolis | Winner |
| Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures | Finalist | ||
| Sexual Ecology | Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men | Finalist | |
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| Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self | Finalist | ||
| Humor | Openly Bob | Winner | |
| Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For | Finalist | ||
| Flaming Iguanas | Finalist | ||
| Naked | Finalist | ||
| Barbie Unbound | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Biography and Autobiography | Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood | Winner | |
| My Life as a Boy | Finalist | ||
| Virginia Woolf | Finalist | ||
| May Sarton: a Biography | Finalist | ||
| and Jane Meredith Adams | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Fiction | Beyond the Pale | Winner | |
| Prozac Highway | Finalist | ||
| Terminal Velocity | Finalist | ||
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| A/K/A | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Mystery | Father Forgive Me | Winner | |
| Apparition Alley | Finalist | ||
| Evil Dead Center | Finalist | ||
| Old Black Magic | Finalist | ||
| No Daughter of the South | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Poetry | Cold River | Winner | |
| School of Fish | Winner | ||
| Diesel Fuel | Finalist | ||
| Poems Between Women | Finalist | ||
| Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Studies | Does Your Mama Know? | Winner | |
| Queerly Classed | Finalist | ||
| and Holly Iglesias | Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers | Finalist | |
| Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter | Finalist | ||
| Sex and Sensibility | Finalist | ||
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | and Stephen Pagel | Bending the Landscape | Winner |
| (ed.) | Monsters in the Closet | Finalist | |
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| Grave Passions | Finalist | ||
| (ed.) | Finalist | ||
| Small Press | Does Your Mama Know? | Winner | |
| Toward the New Degeneracy | Finalist | ||
| Bite Hard | Finalist | ||
| Beyond the Pale | Finalist | ||
| Barbie Unbound | Finalist | ||
| Spirituality | Like Bread on the Seder Plate | Winner | |
| Stealing Jesus | Finalist | ||
| Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit | Finalist | ||
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| Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists | Finalist | ||
| Transgender | and Lawrence Schimel (eds.) | PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality | Winner |
| and Jane Meredith Adams | Winner | ||
| Sex Changes | Finalist | ||
| Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos | Finalist | ||
| Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender | Finalist | ||
| Visual Arts | Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers | Winner | |
| Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 | Winner | ||
| I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves | Finalist | ||
| and David Fields | Men Together | Finalist | |
| John Waters: Director's Cut | Finalist |