| Category | Winner | Nominated |
|---|
| Anthologies/Fiction | Edmund White andDonald Weise, eds.,Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction | |
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Greg Wharton andIan Philips, eds.,I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage | |
| Autobiography/Memoir | Alison Smith,Name All the Animals | |
| Biography | Alexis De Veaux,Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde | |
| Children's/Young Adult | Alex Sánchez,So Hard to Say | |
| Drama | Doug Wright,I Am My Own Wife | |
| Erotica | Richard Labonté,Best Gay Erotica 2005 | |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Blair Mastbaum,Clay's Way | |
| Gay Fiction | Colm Tóibín,The Master | |
| Gay Mystery | Anthony Bidulka,Flight of Aquavit | |
| Gay Poetry | Luis Cernuda,Written in Water | |
| Humor | David Sedaris,Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Judith Frank,Crybaby Butch | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Stacey D'Erasmo,A Seahorse Year | |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest,Hancock Park | |
| Lesbian Poetry | Beverly Burch,Sweet to Burn | |
| LGBT Studies | Elisabeth Kirtsoglou,For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town | |
| Photography/Visual Arts | Evan Bachner andHarry Abrams,At Ease: Navy Men of World War II | |
| Romance | Steve Kluger,Almost Like Being in Love | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Will Roscoe,Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love | |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Jim Grimsley,The Ordinary | |
| Transgender | Mariette Pathy Allen,The Gender Frontier | |
