| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist |
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| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet | - Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges
- Susie Bright, Big Sex Little Death
- Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
- Ven Rey, Surviving Steven
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| Gay Debut Fiction | Rahul Mehta, Quarantine |
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| Gay Erotica | Dirk Vanden, All Together | - Richard Labonté, ed., Best Gay Erotica 2012
- Richard Labonté, ed., History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall
- Steven Haas, ed., George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes
- Natty Soltesz, Backwoods
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| Gay Fiction | Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography | Glen Retief, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood | - William E. Jones, Halsted Plays Himself
- Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
- Charles Silverstein, For the Ferryman: A Personal History
- Ryan Van Meter, If You Knew Then What I Know Now
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| Gay Mystery | Richard Stevenson, Red White Black and Blue |
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| Gay Poetry | Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos |
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| Gay Romance | Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You | - Jay Bell, Something Like Summer
- Mel Bossa, Split
- Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
- Eden Winters, Settling the Score
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| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth | - Sally Bellerose, The Girls Club
- Lara Fergus, My Sister Chaos
- Sarah Toshiko Hasu, Megume and the Trees
- Christine Stark, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
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| Lesbian Erotica | Debra Hyde, Story of L | - Lesley Gowan, The Collectors
- Sacchi Green, A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales
- Sacchi Green, Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations
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| Lesbian Fiction | Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement |
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| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution |
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| Lesbian Mystery | Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Dying to Live | - A. J. Quinn, Hostage Moon
- Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark
- Martha Miller, Retirement Plan
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| Lesbian Poetry | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake |
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| Lesbian Romance | Kenna White, Taken by Surprise | - Rebecca S. Buck, Ghosts of Winter
- Julie Cannon, Rescue Me
- Gerri Hill, Storms
- Robbi McCoy, For Me and My Gal
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| LGBT Anthology | Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader |
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| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy |
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| LGBT Drama | Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw | - Anton Dudley, Letters to the End of the World
- Madeleine George, The Zero Hour
- Jon Marans, The Temperamentals
- Jonathan Tolins, Secrets of the Trade
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| LGBT Non-Fiction | Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States | - Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
- Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book
- Jay Michaelson, God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality
- Scott Pasfield, Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield
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| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Lee Thomas, The German | - J. M. Frey, Triptych
- Geoff Ryman, Paradise Tales: and Other Stories
- JoSelle Vanderhooft, Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories
- L. A. Witt, Static
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| LGBT Studies | Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes | - Jafari S. Allen, ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
- Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
- Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
- Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
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| Transgender Fiction | Tristan Taormino, ed., Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica | - Cris Beam, I Am J
- Dana De Young, The Butterfly and the Flame
- Rafe Posey, The Book of Broken Hymns
- L. A. Witt, Static
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| Transgender Non-Fiction | Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels | - Peter Boag, Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past
- Megan Rohrer and Zander Keig, eds., Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect
- Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
- Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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