| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Bisexual Fiction | Fiona Alison Duncan, Exquisite Mariposa | - Garrett Leigh, Jude
- Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
- Tomaz Moniz, Big Familia
- Carley Moore, The Not Wives
- Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan
- Jess Taylor, Just Pervs
- Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder (Sophie Hughes, tr.)
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| Bisexual Nonfiction | Trisha Low, Socialist Realism | - Victoria Freeman, A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
- Janet W. Hardy, IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant
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| Bisexual Poetry | Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds | - Dorothy Chan, Revenge of the Asian Woman
- mai c. doan, water/tongue
- Moina Pam Dick, Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart
- Camonghne Felix, Build Yourself a Boat
- Faylita Hicks, HoodWitch
- Ariana Reines, A Sand Book
- Cam Scott, Romans/Snowmare
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| Gay Fiction | Bryan Washington, Lot |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography | Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives | - Joseph Caldwell, In the Shadow of the Bridge
- Siddharth Dube, An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex
- Guy Hocquenghem, The Amphitheater of the Dead (Max Fox, tr.)
- Isaac Mizrahi, I.M.
- Alvin Orloff, DISASTERAMA! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997
- James Oseland, Jimmy Neurosis
- Chris Rush, The Light Years
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| Gay Mystery | Michael Nava, Carved in Bone |
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| Gay Poetry | Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot | - Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
- Jericho Brown, The Tradition
- Douglas Crane, The Revisionist & The Astropastorals
- Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The Experiment of the Tropics
- Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Losing Miami
- Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
- Brian Teare, Doomstead Days
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| Gay Romance | James Lovejoy, Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life | - Bryan T. Clark, Escaping Camp Roosevelt
- Chris Delyani, Best Man
- Jay Hogan, Digging Deep
- Garrett Leigh, Kiss Me Again
- Rick R. Reed, Blue Umbrella Sky
- R. A. Thorn, My Baby Chased Away the Blues
- Marshall Thornton, Code Name: Liberty
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| Lesbian Fiction | Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy | - Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
- Beth Brant, A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant (Janice Gould, ed.)
- Carolina de Robertas, Cantoras
- Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight
- Shannon Pufahl, On Swift Horses
- Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven
- Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
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| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir | - Elissa Altman, Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
- Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
- Julia Koets, The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays
- Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
- T. Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
- Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work
- Edie Windsor and Joshua Lyon, A Wild and Precious Life
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| Lesbian Mystery | Ann McMan, Galileo |
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| Lesbian Poetry | t'ai freedom ford, & more black | - Etel Adnan, Time
- Rocío Carlos, (the other house)
- Franny Choi, Soft Science
- Shira Erlichman, Odes to Lithium
- Gala Mukomolova, Without Protection
- Lee Ann Roripaugh, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
- Sharanpal Ruprai, Pressure Cooker Love Bomb
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| Lesbian Romance | Emily Noon, Aurora's Angel | - Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
- Donna K. Ford, Tennessee Whiskey
- Virginia Hale, The Secret Chord
- Jae, The Roommate Arrangement
- M. Ullrich, Pretending in Paradise
- M. Ullrich, Top of Her Game
- Erin Zak, Create a Life to Love
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| LGBTQ Anthology | Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
Noam Sienna, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 | - Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me
- Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme, Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry
- Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2
- The Other Foundation, The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Anthology
- Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia
- Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
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| LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult | Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Hazel's Theory of Evolution
Alexandra Villasante, The Grief Keeper | - Jaye Robin Brown, The Meaning of Birds
- Akwaeke Emezi, Pet
- Nicole Melleby, Hurricane Season
- Saundra Mitchell, All the Things We Do in the Dark
- Rory Power, Wilder Girls
- Robin Stevenson, Pride Colors
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| LGBTQ Drama | Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop | - Liza Birkenmeier, Dr. Ride’s American Beach House
- Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs
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| LGBTQ Erotica | L. A. Warman, Whore Foods | - Rosalind Chase, Lot's Wife
- Thomas Kearnes, Texas Crude
- Vikram Kolmannskog, Lord of the Senses
- Gary Garth McCann, The Shape of the Earth
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| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Kelsey Wroten, Cannonball |
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| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House |
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| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, The Deep |
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| LGBTQ Studies | Emily L. Thuma, All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence | - R. L. Cagle, Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
- Jian Neo Chen, Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
- Elizabeth Freeman, Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
- Robb Hernández, Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
- Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures
- Dana Seitler, Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
- Roberto Strongman, Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou
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| Transgender Fiction | Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) | - M. Z. McDonnell, Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer
- Bones McKay, Honey Walls
- Rachel Pollack, The Beatrix Gates
- Bogi Takács, The Trans Space Octopus Congregation
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| Transgender Nonfiction | Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan |
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| Transgender Poetry | Xandria Phillips, Hull | - Andrea Abi-Karam, Extratransmission
- Samuel Ace, Our Weather Our Sea
- Cameron Awkward-Rich, Dispatch
- Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water
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