| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Anthologies/Fiction | Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Don Weise, eds., Black Like Us | - Peter Burton, Bend Sinister – The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories
- Michael Rowe, Queer Fear II
- Jay Quinn, Rebel Yell 2
- Chris Kenry, William J. Mann, Andy Schell and Ben Tyler, Summer Share
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| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Bruce Shenitz, The Man I Might Become | - Lawrence Schimel, Found Tribe
- Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk, From ACT UP to the WTO
- Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell, GenderQueer
- Analouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home
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| Autobiography/Memoir | Betty Berzon, Surviving Madness | - Paul Lisicky, Famous Builder
- Terry Wolverton, Insurgent Muse
- Michelle Tea, The Chelsea Whistle
- Kevin Bentley, Wild Animals I Have Known
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| Biography | David Kaufman, Ridiculous! | - Thomas Wirth, Gay Revel of the Harlem Renaissance
- Jerry Rosco, Glenway Wescott Personally
- Carmen L. Oliveira, Rare and Commonplace Flowers
- Suzanne Rodriguez, Wild Heart
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| Children's/Young Adult | Bonnie Shimko, Letters in the Attic | |
| Erotica | Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 | |
| Gay Fiction | Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys | |
| Gay Mystery | Christopher Rice, The Snow Garden | |
| Gay Poetry | J. D. McClatchy, Hazmat | - Krandall Kraus, The Christmas Poems
- Rafael Campo, Landscape with Human Figure
- Reginald Harris, Ten Tongues
- David Groff, Theory of Devolution
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| Humor | Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah | - Donald F. Reuter, Gaydar
- Mo Brownsey, Is It a Date or Just Coffee?
- Dennis Hensley, Screening Party
- Alisa Surkis and Monica Nolan, The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
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| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Waters, Fingersmith | |
| Lesbian Mystery | Elizabeth Woodcraft, Good Bad Woman | - Claire McNab, Accidental Murder
- Lauren Maddison, Death by Prophecy
- Ellen Hart, Immaculate Midnight
- Heather Dune Macadam, The Weeping Buddha
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| Lesbian Poetry | Ellen Bass, Mules of Love | - C. C. Carter, Body Language
- Eloise Klein Healy, Passing
- Melanie Braverman, Red
- Jenny Factor, Unraveling
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| LGBT Studies | Neil Miller, Sex-Crime Panic | - Craig Rimmerman, From Identity to Politics
- Colm Toibin, Love in a Dark Time
- Ruth Vanita, Queering India
- David Nimmons, Soul Beneath the Skin
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| Romance | Andrew W. M. Beierle, The Winter of Our Discothèque | - Jon Jeffrey, Boyfriend Material
- Orland Outland, Different People
- Nancy Garden, Nora and Liz
- Leslea Newman, She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
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| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Michael Rowe, ed., Queer Fear II | |
| Spirituality | Geoffrey Duncan, Courage to Love | - Lawrence Schimel, Found Tribe
- Andrew Calimach, Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths
- David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, Queer Jews
- Robert E. Goss, Queering Christ
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| Transgender | Noelle Howey, Dress Codes | |
| Visual arts | Dominique Fernandez, A Hidden Love | - Tom Bianchi, On the Couch – Volume One
- Thomas Waugh, Out/Lines
- Richard Meyer, Outlaw Representation
- Justin Spring, Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude
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