| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning,The Gift[1] | |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Roxane Gay,Hunger[1] | |
| Gay Fiction | John Rechy,After the Blue Hour[1] | |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Chike Frankie Edozien,Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man[1] | - Parvez Sharma,A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance
- Jonathan Alexander,Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology
- José Antonio Rodríguez,House Built on Ashes
- Kenny Fries,In the Province of the Gods
- Alan Bennett,Keeping On Keeping On
- Victor Corona,Night Class: A Downtown Memoir
- Bill Goldstein,The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature
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| Gay Mystery | Marshall Thornton,Night Drop[1] | |
| Gay Poetry | C. A. Conrad,While Standing in Line for Death[1] | |
| Gay Romance | Laurie Loft,Love and Other Hot Beverages[1] | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Carmen Maria Machado,Her Body and Other Parties[1] | |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich,The Fact of a Body[1] | |
| Lesbian Mystery | A. E. Radley,Huntress[1] | |
| Lesbian Poetry | Rosamond S. King,Rock | Salt | Stone[1] | |
| Lesbian Romance | Yolanda Wallace,Tailor-Made[1] | |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Juliana Delgado Lopera,¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants[1] | |
| LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult | Rebecca Podos,Like Water[1] | |
| LGBT Drama | Audrey Cefaly,The Gulf[1] | |
| LGBTQ Erotica | Steve Berman,His Seed[1] | |
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Emil Ferris,My Favorite Thing Is Monsters[1] | |
| LGBTQ Non-Fiction | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective[1] | - Avram Finkelstein,After Silence
- Malik Gaines,Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
- Anne Elizabeth Moore,Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
- Hida Viloria,Born Both: An Intersex Life
- Myriam Gurba,Mean
- Clayton Delery,Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice
- John Chaich andTodd Oldham,Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
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| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Annalee Newitz,Autonomous[1] | |
| LGBTQ Studies | Trevor Hoppe,Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness[1] | |
| Transgender Fiction | Bogi Takács, ed.,Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction[1] | |
| Transgender Non-Fiction | C. Riley Snorton,Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity[1] | |
| Transgender Poetry | Ching-In Chen,recombinant[1] | |