| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Anthologies/Fiction | Edmund White and Donald Weise, eds., Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction | - Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004
- Peter Burton, Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories
- Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea, Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
- Lori 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 Narrative
- Angela Brown, Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
- Raphael Kadushin, Wonderlands
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| Autobiography/Memoir | Alison Smith, Name All the Animals |
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| Biography | Alexis De Veaux, Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde | - Douglas Crase, Both: A Portrait in Two Parts
- John F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus and David P. Keys, Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology
- Deborah Jowitt, Jerome Robbins
- Evelyn C. White, Alice Walker: A Life
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| Children's/Young Adult | Alex Sánchez, So Hard to Say |
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| Drama | Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife | - Donald Reuter, Fabulous!
- David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic
- Sharon Bridgeforth, love conjure/blues
- Claude J. Summers, The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater
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| Erotica | Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2005 |
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| Gay Debut Fiction | Blair Mastbaum, Clay's Way |
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| Gay Fiction | Colm Tóibín, The Master |
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| Gay Mystery | Anthony Bidulka, Flight of Aquavit |
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| Gay Poetry | Luis Cernuda, Written in Water |
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| Humor | David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
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| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Judith Frank, Crybaby Butch | - Mary Vermillion, Death by Discount
- Kristie Helms, Dish It Up, Baby!
- Laurinda D. Brown, Fire & Brimstone
- Bridget Bufford, Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey
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| Lesbian Fiction | Stacey D'Erasmo, A Seahorse Year |
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| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest, Hancock Park |
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| Lesbian Poetry | Beverly Burch, Sweet to Burn |
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| LGBT Studies | Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town |
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| Photography/Visual Arts | Evan Bachner and Harry Abrams, At Ease: Navy Men of World War II |
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| Romance | Steve Kluger, Almost Like Being in Love | - Karin Kallmaker, All the Wrong Places
- Chris Kenry, Confessions of a Casanova
- Gerri Hill, Gulf Breeze
- Marianne 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 Traditions
- Marvin M. Ellison, Same-Sex Marriage: A Christian Ethical Analysis
- Donald L. Boisvert, Sanctity and Male Desire
- Steven Greenberg, Wrestling with God & Men
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| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jim Grimsley, The Ordinary | - Michael Jensen, Firelands
- Greg Herren, Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual
- Jean Stewart, The Wizard of Isis
- Nicola Griffith, With Her Body
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| Transgender | Mariette Pathy Allen, The Gender Frontier |
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