| "Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir" | "Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir" | 2022 - Honor |
| "Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993" | "Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993" | 2022 - Honor |
| "Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience" | "Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience" | 2022 - Honor |
| "A History of Scars" | "A History of Scars" | 2022 - Honor |
| "Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir" | "Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir" | 2022 - Winner |
| “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” | “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” | 2022 - Honor |
| “Stone Fruit” | “Stone Fruit” | 2022 - Honor |
| “Black Girl, Call Home” | “Black Girl, Call Home” | 2022 - Honor |
| “Light From Uncommon Stars" | “Light From Uncommon Stars” | 2022 - Honor |
| "Sorrowland" | "Sorrowland" | 2022 - Winner |
| Postcolonial Love Poem | Postcolonial Love Poem | 2021 - Honor |
| The Thirty Names of Night | The Thirty Names of Night | 2021 - Winner |
| The Death of Vivek Oji | The Death of Vivek Oji | 2021 - Honor |
| Memorial | Memorial | 2021 - Honor |
| More Than Organs | More Than Organs | 2021 - Honor |
| Paper Bullets | Paper Bullets | 2021 - Honor |
| Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games | Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games | 2021 - Winner |
| My Autobiography of Carson McCullers | My Autobiography of Carson McCullers | 2021 - Honor |
| The Fixed Stars: A Memoir | The Fixed Stars: A Memoir | 2021 - Honor |
| XOXY: A Memoir | XOXY: A Memoir | 2021 - Honor |
| She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters | She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters | 2020 - Honor |
| How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir | How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir | 2020 - Winner |
| I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World | I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World | 2020 - Honor |
| In the Dream House: A Memoir | In the Dream House: A Memoir | 2020 - Honor |
| Gender Queer: A Memoir | Gender Queer: A Memoir | 2020 - Honor |
| Cantoras | Cantoras | 2020 - Winner |
| On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | 2020 - Honor |
| Patsy | Patsy | 2020 - Honor |
| Lot: Stories | Lot: Stories | 2020 - Honor |
| War/Torn | War/Torn | 2020 - Honor |
| White Houses | White Houses | 2019 - Honor |
| The Great Believers | The Great Believers | 2019 - Winner |
| Forward | Forward | 2019 - Honor |
| Luisa: Now and Then | Luisa: Now and Then | 2019 - Honor |
| Speak No Evil | Speak No Evil | 2019 - Honor |
| Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History | Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History | 2019 - Honor |
| Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire | Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire | 2019 - Winner |
| Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child | Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child | 2019 - Honor |
| Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | 2019 - Honor |
| The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America | The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America | 2019 - Honor |
| LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers | LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers | 2018 - Honor |
| Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community | Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community | 2018 - Winner |
| Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | 2018 - Honor |
| The Black Penguin | The Black Penguin | 2018 - Honor |
| When I Grow Up, I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities | When I Grow Up, I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities | 2018 - Honor |
| Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | 2018 - Winner |
| Marriage of a Thousand Lies | Marriage of a Thousand Lies | 2018 - Honor |
| A Place Called No Homeland | A Place Called No Homeland | 2018 - Honor |
| An Unkindness of Ghosts | An Unkindness of Ghosts | 2018 - Honor |
| Desert Boys | Desert Boys | 2017 - Winner |
| Not straight, not white: black gay men from the march on Washington to the AIDS crisis | Not straight, not white: black gay men from the march on Washington to the AIDS crisis | 2017 - Honor |
| One-man show: the life and art of Bernard Perlin | One-man show: the life and art of Bernard Perlin | 2017 - Honor |
| Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality | Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality | 2017 - Honor |
| Tomboy Survival Guide | Tomboy Survival Guide | 2017 - Honor |
| Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America | Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America | 2017 - Honor |
| Guapa | Guapa | 2017 - Honor |
| Dig | Dig | 2017 - Honor |
| Beautiful gravity: a novel | Beautiful gravity: a novel | 2017 - Honor |
| How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS | How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS | 2017 - Winner |
| Hide: a novel | Hide: a novel | 2017 - Honor |
| The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | 2016 - Honor |
| The Gods of Tango | The Gods of Tango | 2016 - Winner |
| Apocalypse Baby | Apocalypse Baby | 2016 - Honor |
| For Your Own Good | For Your Own Good | 2016 - Honor |
| Jam On The Vine | Jam On The Vine | 2016 - Honor |
| Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial | Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial | 2016 - Winner |
| Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family | Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family | 2016 - Honor |
| Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions | Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions | 2016 - Honor |
| Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination | Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination | 2016 - Honor |
| Lum: a novel | Lum: a novel | 2016 - Honor |
| Frog Music | Frog Music | 2015 - Honor |
| The Two Hotel Francforts | The Two Hotel Francforts | 2015 - Honor |
| Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More | Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More | 2015 - Honor |
| Bitter Eden | Bitter Eden | 2015 - Honor |
| Prelude to Bruise | Prelude to Bruise | 2015 - Winner |
| Gay Berlin | Gay Berlin | 2015 - Honor |
| Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims | Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims | 2015 - Winner |
| My Real Children | My Real Children | 2015 - Honor |
| Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | 2015 - Honor |
| Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club | Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club | 2014 - Honor |
| A Strange and Separate People | A Strange and Separate People | 2014 - Honor |
| A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World | A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World | 2014 - Honor |
| Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son | Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son | 2014 - Winner |
| American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men | American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men | 2014 - Winner |
| The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell | The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell | 2014 - Honor |
| Fairyland: A Memoir of my Father | Fairyland: A Memoir of my Father | 2014 - Honor |
| Art on Fire | Art on Fire | 2014 - Winner |
| When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution | When We Were Outlaws | 2013 - Honor |
| For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home | For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide | 2013 - Winner |
| The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov | Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov | 2013 - Honor |
| Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal | 2013 - Honor |
| The Song of Achilles | The Song of Achilles | 2013 - Honor |
| The Absolutist | The Absolutist | 2013 - Honor |
| The Last Nude | The Last Nude | 2013 - Winner |
| Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America | Eminent Outlaws | 2013 - Honor |
| Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform | Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots | 2013 - Honor |
| Chulito | Chulito | 2013 - Honor |
| Farrey, Brian | with or without you | 2012 - Honor |
| Wilkins, Lili | Pink | 2012 - Honor |
| Merev, Ilike | a + e 4ever | 2012 - Honor |
| Yee, Paul | Money Boy | 2012 - Honor |
| Wright, Bil | Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy | 2012 - Winner |
| Donoghue, Emma | Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature | 2011 - Winner |
| Whittall, Zoe | Holding Still for As Long as Possible | 2011 - Honor |
| Katcher, Brian | Almost Perfect | 2011 - Winner |
| Spring, Justin | Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade | 2011 - Honor |
| Beigel, Stuart | The Right To Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools | 2011 - Honor |
| Smith, Patti | Just Kids | 2011 - Honor |
| Moffatt, Wendy | A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster | 2011 - Honor |
| Johnson, Barb | More of This World or Maybe Another | 2011 - Winner |
| Sledge, Michael | The More I Owe You | 2011 - Honor |
| Mendicino, Tom | Probation | 2011 - Honor |
| Walliams, David | The Boy in the Dress | 2011 - Honor |
| Blake, Quentin | The Boy in the Dress | 2011 - Honor |
| Hurwin, Davida Willis | Freaks and Revelations | 2011 - Honor |
| Klise, James | Love Drugged | 2011 - Honor |
| Green, John | will grayson, will grayson | 2011 - Honor |
| Levithan, David | will grayson, will grayson | 2011 - Honor |
| Newman, Leslea | Daddy, Papa and Me | 2010 - Honor |
| Peck, Dale | Sprout | 2010 - Honor |
| Alsenas, Linas | Gay America: Struggle for Equality | 2010 - Honor |
| Cole, Johnetta Betsch | I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Works of Audre Lorde | 2010 - Honor |
| Thompson, Carol | Daddy, Papa and Me | 2010 - Honor |
| Ewert, Marcus | 10,000 Dresses | 2010 - Honor |
| Burd, Nick | The Vast Fields of Ordinary | 2010 - Winner |
| Francis, David | Stray Dog Winter: A Novel | 2010 - Winner |
| Mommy, Mama, and Me | Mommy, Mama, and Me | 2010 - Honor |
| Byrd, Rudolph P. | I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Works of Audre Lorde | 2010 - Honor |
| Bellatin, Mario | Beauty Salon | 2010 - Honor |
| Hannaham, James | God Says No | 2010 - Honor |
| Frank, Nathaniel | Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America | 2010 - Winner |
| Weisberg, Stuart | Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman | 2010 - Honor |
| Nkabinde, Nkunzi Zandile | Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma | 2010 - Honor |
| Davidson, James | Greeks and Greek Love | 2010 - Honor |
| Guy-Sheftall, Beverly | I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Works of Audre Lorde | 2010 - Honor |
| Hollander, Kurt | Beauty Salon | 2010 - Honor |
| Morris, Bob | Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad | 2009 - Honor |
| Eskridge, Jr., William N. | Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 | 2009 - Winner |
| Passet, Joanne Ellen | Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster | 2009 - Honor |
| Johnson, E. Patrick | Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South | 2009 - Honor |
| Derfner, Joel | Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever | 2009 - Honor |
| Fallenberg, Evan | Light Fell | 2009 - Winner |
| Olshan, Joseph | The Conversion | 2009 - Honor |
| Sulzer, Alain Claude | A Perfect Waiter: A Novel | 2009 - Honor |
| Donoghue, Emma | The Sealed Letter | 2009 - Honor |
| Pascal, Stephen | The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman | 2008 - Honor |
| Doty, Mark | Dog Years: A Memoir | 2008 - Winner |
| Sessums, Kevin | Mississippi Sissy | 2008 - Honor |
| Malcom, Janet | Two lives: Gertrude and Alice | 2008 - Honor |
| Beam, Cris | Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers | 2008 - Honor |
| Delany, Samuel R. | Dark Reflections | 2008 - Honor |
| Liebegott, Ali | The IHOP Papers | 2008 - Honor |
| Leavitt, David | The Indian Clerk: A Novel | 2008 - Honor |
| Coyote, Ivan E. | Bow Grip | 2008 - Honor |
| Avery, Ellis | The Teahouse fire | 2008 - Winner |
| Hyatt, Martin | A Scarecrow's Bible | 2007 - Honor |
| Jennings, Kevin | Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir | 2007 - Honor |
| Benemann, William | Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships | 2007 - Honor |
| Yoshino, Kenji | Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights | 2007 - Honor |
| Bechdel, Alison | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | 2007 - Winner |
| Eisenbach, David | Gay Power: An American Revolution | 2007 - Honor |
| Tea, Michelle | Rose of No Man's Land: A Novel | 2007 - Honor |
| Waters, Sarah | The Night Watch | 2007 - Honor |
| Burch, Christian | The Manny Files | 2007 - Honor |
| Holleran, Andrew | Grief | 2007 - Winner |
| Kramer, Larry | The tragedy of today's gays | 2006 - Honor |
| D'Allesandro, Sam | The wild creatures: collected stories of Sam D'Allesandro | 2006 - Honor |
| McKenna, Neil | The secret life of Oscar Wilde | 2006 - Honor |
| Katan, Tania | My one-night stand with cancer | 2006 - Honor |
| Gamson, Joshua | The Fabulous Sylvester: The legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco | 2006 - Winner |
| Houlbrook, Matt | Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 | 2006 - Honor |
| Killian, Kevin | The wild creatures: collected stories of Sam D'Allesandro | 2006 - Honor |
| McCann, Richard | Mother of sorrows | 2006 - Honor |
| McCrea, Barry | The first verse: a novel | 2006 - Honor |
| McDermott, Keith | Acqua calda | 2006 - Honor |
| Dawesar, Abha | Babyji: a novel | 2006 - Winner |
| De Veaux, Alexis | Warrior Poet: a Biography of Audre Lorde | 2005 - Honor |
| Sedaris, David | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | 2005 - Honor |
| Crase, Douglas | Both: a Portrait in Two Parts | 2005 - Honor |
| Moore, Patrick | Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality | 2005 - Honor |
| Roughgarden, Joan | Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People | 2005 - Winner |
| Peters, Julie Anne | Luna: a Novel | 2005 - Honor |
| D'Erasmo, Stacey | A Seahorse Year | 2005 - Honor |
| Hollinghurst, Alan | The Line of Beauty | 2005 - Honor |
| Wright, Doug | I Am My Own Wife: a Play | 2005 - Honor |
| Tóibín, Colm | The Master: Novel | 2005 - Winner |
| Revoyr, Nina | Southland | 2004 - Honor |
| Kaufman, David | Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam | 2004 - Honor |
| Banner, Lois W. | Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead,Ruth Benedict, and their Circle | 2004 - Honor |
| Wilson, Andrew | Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | 2004 - Honor |
| D'Emilio, John | Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin | 2004 - Winner |
| Bullough, Vern L. | Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context | 2004 - Honor |
| Bram, Christopher | Lives of the Circus Animals: a Novel | 2004 - Honor |
| Peters, Julie Ann | Keeping you a Secret | 2004 - Honor |
| Welsh, Louise | Cutting Room | 2004 - Honor |
| Truong, Monique | The Book of Salt | 2004 - Winner |
| Roscoe, Jerry | Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography | 2003 - Honor |
| Besner, Niel K. | Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares | 2003 - Honor |
| Miller, Neil | Sex Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950's | 2003 - Honor |
| Howey, Noelle | Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-- My Mothers, My Father's and Mine | 2003 - Honor |
| Meyerowitz, Joanne | How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States | 2003 - Winner |
| Waters, Sarah | Fingersmith | 2003 - Honor |
| O'Neil, Jamie | At Swim, Two Boys | 2003 - Honor |
| Frame, Ronald | Lantern Bearers | 2003 - Honor |
| Eugenidies, Jeffrey | Middlesex | 2003 - Honor |
| Alumit, Noel | Letters to Montgomery Clift: A Novel | 2003 - Winner |
| Oliveria, Carmen L. | Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares | 2003 - Honor |
| Jones, John Sam | Welsh Boys Too | 2002 - Honor |
| White, Edmund | Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS | 2002 - Honor |
| The Laramie Project | 2002 - Winner |
| Kaufman, Moisés | The Laramie Project | 2002 - Winner |
| Brownrigg, Sylvia | Pages for You | 2002 - Honor |
| Cooper, Bernard | Guess Again: Short Stories | 2002 - Honor |
| Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS | 2002 - Honor |
| LeRoy, J.T. | The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | 2002 - Honor |
| Blum, Louise A. | You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America | 2002 - Honor |
| Price, Deb | Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court | 2002 - Honor |
| Murdoch, Joyce | Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court | 2002 - Honor |
| Read, Kirk | How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story | 2002 - Honor |
| Werth, Barry | The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal | 2002 - Winner |
| Stein, Arlene | The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights | 2002 - Honor |
| Maupin, Armistead | The Night Listener: A Novel | 2001 - Honor |
| Winick, Judd | Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned | 2001 - Honor |
| Murray, William | Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray | 2001 - Honor |
| Loffreda, Beth | Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-gay Murder | 2001 - Honor |
| Day, Frances Ann | Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults | 2001 - Honor |
| Lassell, Michael | The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology | 2001 - Honor |
| Georgiou, Elena | The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology | 2001 - Honor |
| Ebershoff, David | The Danish Girl: A Novel | 2001 - Honor |
| Downing, Michael | Breakfast with Scot: A Novel | 2001 - Honor |
| Eskridge, William N. | Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet | 2001 - Winner |
| Affinity | Affinity | 2001 - Winner |
| Andriote, John-Manuel | Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America | 2000 - Finalist |
| Stainton, Leslie | Lorca: A Dream of Life | 2000 - Finalist |
| Doty, Mark | Firebird: A Memoir | 2000 - Finalist |
| Bagemihl, Bruce | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity | 2000 - Finalist |
| Borich, Barry Jean | My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage | 2000 - Winner |
| Last Rights: Poems | Last Rights: Poems | 2000 - Finalist |
| Lisicky, Paul | Lawnboy | 2000 - Finalist |
| Lippincott, Robin | Mr. Dalloway: A Novella | 2000 - Finalist |
| Grimsley, Jim | Comfort & Joy: A Novel | 2000 - Finalist |
| Po Man's Child: A Novel | Po Man's Child: A Novel | 2000 - Winner |
| Cunningham, Michael | The Hours | 1999 - Winner |
| Schulman, Sarah | Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America | 1999 - Winner |
| Griffith, Nicola | Science Fiction | 1999 - Finalist |
| Pagel, Stephen | Science Fiction | 1999 - Finalist |
| Guess, Carol | Switch | 1999 - Finalist |
| Smith, Barbara | The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom | 1999 - Finalist |
| Sneed, Pamela | Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems | 1999 - Finalist |
| Griffin, Pat | Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport | 1999 - Finalist |
| Loughery, John | The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, a Twentieth Century History | 1999 - Finalist |
| Nestle, Joan | A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings | 1999 - Finalist |
| Merlis, Mark | An Arrow's Flight | 1999 - Finalist |
| Raffo, Susan | Queerly Classed | 1998 - Finalist |
| Mastoon, Adam | The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People | 1998 - Winner |
| Stein, Arlene | Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation | 1998 - Finalist |
| Sears, James T. | Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968 | 1998 - Finalist |
| Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | Working Parts: A Novel | 1998 - Winner |
| Hoffman, Amy | Hospital Time | 1998 - Finalist |
| Blackbridge, Persimmon | Prozac Highway: A Novel | 1998 - Finalist |
| Dykewomon, Elana | Beyond the Pale: A Novel | 1998 - Finalist |
| Heim, Scot | In Awe | 1998 - Finalist |
| Katz, Judith | The Escape Artist: A Novel | 1998 - Finalist |
| Tuller, David | Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia | 1997 - Finalist |
| Doty, Mark | Heaven's Coast: A Memoir | 1997 - Finalist |
| Bass, Ellen | Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth -- and Their Allies | 1997 - Finalist |
| Kaufman, Kate | Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth -- and Their Allies | 1997 - Finalist |
| Alwood, Edward | Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media | 1997 - Finalist |
| Wolverton, Terry | Bailey's Beads | 1997 - Finalist |
| Van Arsdale, Sarah | Toward Amnesia | 1997 - Finalist |
| Selvadurai, Shyam | Funny Boy | 1997 - Finalist |
| Johnson, Fenton | Geography of the Heart: A Memoir | 1997 - Winner |
| Donoghue, Emma | Hood | 1997 - Winner |
| Holleran, Andrew | The Beauty of Men | 1997 - Finalist |
| Price, Reynolds | The Promise of Rest | 1996 - Finalist |
| Summers, Claude J. | The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage | 1996 - Finalist |
| Pratt, Minni Bruce | S/HE | 1996 - Finalist |
| Katz, Johnathan Ned | The Invention of Heterosexuality | 1996 - Finalist |
| Due, Linnea | Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay & Lesbian in the '90s | 1996 - Finalist |
| Cruse, Howard | Stuck Rubber Baby | 1996 - Finalist |
| Allison, Dorothy | Two or Three Things I Know for Sure | 1996 - Finalist |
| Vaid, Urvashi | Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation | 1996 - Winner |
| Dream Boy | Dream Boy | 1996 - Winner |
| Baby Be-Bop | Baby Be-Bop | 1996 - Finalist |
| Galford, Ellen | The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel | 1995 - Finalist |
| Murray, Raymond | Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video | 1995 - Finalist |
| Nestle, Joan | Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together | 1995 - Finalist |
| Chauncey, George | Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 | 1995 - Finalist |
| Preston, John | Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together | 1995 - Finalist |
| Faderman, Lillian | Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present | 1995 - Finalist |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence | 1995 - Winner |
| Campo, Rafael | The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World | 1995 - Finalist |
| Hacker, Marilyn | Winter Numbers: Poems | 1995 - Finalist |
| Allison, Dorothy | Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature | 1995 - Co-Winner |
| Bernstein, Samuel | Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans | 1995 - Co-Winner |
| Sherman, Phillip | Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans | 1995 - Co-Winner |
| Feinberg, Leslie | Stone Butch Blues | 1994 - Winner |
| Burke, Phyllis | Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son | 1994 - Winner |
| Allen, Claudia | She's Always Liked the Girls Best | 1994 - Finalist |
| Moraga, Cherrie | The Last Generation | 1994 - Finalist |
| Singer, Bennett L. | Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology | 1994 - Finalist |
| Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law | Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law | 1994 - Finalist |
| Duberman, Martin B. | Stonewall | 1994 - Finalist |
| Martin, April | The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families | 1994 - Finalist |
| Wolfe, Susan J. | Lesbian Culture: An Anthology | 1994 - Finalist |
| Penelope, Julia | Lesbian Culture: An Anthology | 1994 - Finalist |
| Johnson, Fenton | Scissors, Paper, Rock | 1994 - Finalist |
| Norton, Rictor | Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England, 1700-1830 | 1993 - Finalist |
| Berzon, Betty | Positively Gay: New Approaches to Lesbian and Gay Life | 1993 - Finalist |
| DuPrau, Jeanne | The Earth House | 1993 - Finalist |
| Winterson, Jeanette | Written on the Body | 1993 - Finalist |
| Kringle, Karen | Vital Ties | 1993 - Finalist |
| McCauley, Stephen | The Easy Way Out | 1993 - Finalist |
| Bram, Christopher | Almost History | 1993 - Finalist |
| Marcus, Eric | Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 | 1993 - Winner |
| Hemphill, Essex | Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry | 1993 - Winner |
| Monette, Paul | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story | 1993 - Finalist |
| Preston, John | A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write about Their Families | 1993 - Finalist |
| Halfway Home | Halfway Home | 1992 - Winner |
| Faderman, Lillian | Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America | 1992 - Winner |
| Calderon, Sara Levi | The Two Mujeres | 1992 - Finalist |
| Duberman, Martin | Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey | 1992 - Finalist |
| Park, Jacquelyn Holt | A Stone Gone Mad | 1992 - Finalist |
| Rich, Adrienne | An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 | 1992 - Finalist |
| Saint, Assoto | The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets | 1992 - Finalist |
| Silvera, Makeda | Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology | 1992 - Finalist |
| Spanbauer, Tom | The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon | 1992 - Finalist |
| Butler, Sandra | Cancer in Two Voices | 1992 - Finalist |
| Rosenblum, Barbara | Cancer in Two Voices | 1992 - Finalist |
| Cornstock, Gary David | Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men | 1992 - Finalist |
| Roscoe, Will | The Zuni Man-Woman | 1992 - Finalist |
| Brandt, Pamela Robin | Are You Two ...Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe | 1992 - Finalist |
| Van Gelder, Lindsy | Are You Two ...Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Travel Guide to Europe | 1992 - Finalist |
| Osborne, Karen Lee | Hawkwings | 1992 - Finalist |
| Hemphill, Essex | Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men | 1992 - Finalist |
| Crime against Nature | Crime against Nature | 1991 - Winner |
| Hinch, Bret | Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China | 1991 - Finalist |
| Gilgun, John | Music I Never Dreamed of | 1991 - Finalist |
| Leavitt, David | A Place I've Never Been | 1991 - Finalist |
| Martinac, Paula | Out of Time | 1991 - Finalist |
| Stadler, Matthew | Landscape: Memory | 1991 - Finalist |
| Gough, Cal | Gay and Lesbian Library Service | 1991 - Finalist |
| Greenblatt, Ellen | Gay and Lesbian Library Service | 1991 - Finalist |
| Berube, Allan | Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two | 1991 - Finalist |
| Humphrey, Mary Ann | My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present | 1991 - Finalist |
| Dynes, Wayne | Encyclopedia of Homosexuality | 1991 - Winner |
| Rench, Janice E. | Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay Teens and Their Friends | 1991 - Finalist |
| Timmons, Stuart | The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement | 1991 - Finalist |
| Zimmerman, Bonnie | The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 | 1991 - Finalist |
| A Home at the End of the World | A Home at the End of the World | 1991 - Finalist |
| Eighty-Sixed | Eighty-Sixed | 1990 - Winner |
| In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change | In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change | 1990 - Winner |
| In Memory of Angel Clare | In Memory of Angel Clare | 1990 - Finalist |
| Konecky, Edith | A Place at the Table | 1990 - Finalist |
| Leavitt, David | Equal Affections | 1990 - Finalist |
| Vicinus, Martha | Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past | 1990 - Finalist |
| Duberman, Martin Bauml | Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past | 1990 - Finalist |
| Chauncey, Jr, George | Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past | 1990 - Finalist |
| When Someone You Know is Gay | When Someone You Know is Gay | 1990 - Finalist |
| Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 | 1990 - Finalist |
| Preston, John | Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS | 1990 - Finalist |
| In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers | In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers | 1990 - Finalist |
| Schulman, Sarah | After Delores | 1989 - Co-Winner |
| Hollinghurst, Andrew | The Swimming-Pool Library | 1989 - Co-Winner |
| Nestle, Joan | A Restricted Country | 1988 - Co-Winner |
| Shilts, Randy | And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic | 1988 - Co-Winner |
| Williams, Walter | The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture | 1987 - Winner |
| Patton, Cindy | Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS | 1986 - Winner |
| Patton, Cindy | Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS | 1986 - Winner |
| 1986 Gay Book Award winners | 1986 - Winner |
| Grahn, Judy | Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds | 1985 - Winner |
| D'Emilio, John | Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 | 1984 - Winner |
| Robers, J. R. | Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography | 1982 - Co-Winner |
| Russo, Vito | The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies | 1982 - Co-Winner |
| Faderman, Lillian | Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present | 1982 - Co-Winner |
| Boswell, John | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century | 1981 - Winner |
| Leyland, Winston | Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature | 1980 - Winner |
| Hayward, Nancy | Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality | 1979 - Winner |
| Fairchild, Betty | Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality | 1979 - Winner |
| Vida, Ginny | Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book | 1978 - Winner |
| Brown, Howard | Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today | 1977 - Winner |
| Katz, Jonathan | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Meadowbank, Lord | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Cumming Gordon, Lady Helen | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Woods, Mary Ann | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Manconochie, Allan | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Pirie, Jane | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Anderson, Patrick | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Eros: an anthology of friendship | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Sutherland, Alistair | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Eros: an anthology of friendship | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Katz, Jonathan | Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature: Documents of the homosexual rights movement in Germany, 1836-1927. | 1975 - Co-Winner |
| Foster, Jeannette | Sex Variant Women in Literature: a Historical and Quantitative Survey | 1974 - Winner |
| Lyon, Phyllis | Lesbian/Woman | 1972 - Co-Winner |
| Fisher, Peter | The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality | 1972 - Co-Winner |
| Martin, Del | Lesbian/Woman | 1972 - Co-Winner |
| Miller, Isabel | A Place for Us | 1971 - Winner |
