- : David Levithan , ''Boy Meets Boy'' (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- : Alison Bechdel , ''Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For'' ( Alyson Publications )
- : Brian Drader , '' Prok '' (Scirocco Drama)
- : Tristan Taormino , ed., ''Best Lesbian Erotica 2004'' (Cleis Press)
- : Helen Sandler , ed., ''Necrologue'' (Diva Books)
- : Fenton Johnson , ''Keeping Faith'' (Houghton Mifflin)
- : Lonthar Schirmer , ed., ''Women Seeing Women'' (W.W. Norton)
- : Michael Thomas Ford , ''Last Summer'' (Kensington Publishing) and Karin Kallmaker , Maybe Next Time (Bella Books)
- : Michael Bronski , ed., ''Pulp Friction'' (St. Martin's Press)
- : Bob Guter and John Killacky , eds., ''Queer Crips'' (Harrington Park Press)
- : John Morgan Wilson , ''Blind Eye'' (St. Martin's Press)
- : Elizabeth Sims , ''Damn Straight'' (Alyson Publications)
- : Andrew Wilson , ''Beautiful Shadow'' (Bloomsbury)
- : Lillian Faderman , ''Naked in the Promised Land'' (Houghton Mifflin)
- : Minnie Bruce Pratt , ''The Dirt She Ate'' (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- : Henri Cole , ''Middle Earth'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Mark Bibbins , ''Sky Lounge'' (Graywolf Press)
- : Jennifer Finney Boylan , ''She's Not There'' (Broadway Books)
- : Devon Carbado and Donald Weise , eds., ''Time on Two Crosses'' (Cleis Press)
- : Christopher Bram , ''Lives of the Circus Animals'' (William Morrow)
- : Nina Revoyr , ''Southland'' (Akashic Books)
- Gay Men's Fiction: Colm Tóibín , ''The Master'' (Scribner)
- Lesbian Fiction: Stacey D'Erasmo , ''A Seahorse Year'' (Houghton Mifflin)
- Debut Gay Men's Fiction: Blair Mastbaum , ''Clay's Way'' (Alyson Books)
- Debut Lesbian Fiction: Judith Frank , ''Crybaby Butch'' (Firebrand)
- Gay Men's Poetry: Luis Cernuda , ''Written in Water'' (City Lights Publishers)
- Lesbian Poetry: Beverly Burch , ''Sweet to Burn'' (Gival Press)
- Gay Men's Mystery: Anthony Bidulka , ''Flight of Aquavit'' ( Insomniac Press )
- Lesbian mystery: Katherine V. Forrest , ''Hancock Park'' (Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Group USA)
- Fiction Anthology: Edmund White and Donald Weise , eds., ''Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction'' (Carroll & Graff)
- Nonfiction Anthology: Greg Wharton and Ian Philips , eds., ''I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage'' (Suspect Thoughts Press)
- Memoir: Alison Smith , ''Name All the Animals'' (Scribner)
- Biography: )
- Children's / Young Adult: Alex Sanchez , ''So Hard to Say'' (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
- Erotica: Richard Labonte , ''Best Gay Erotica 2005'' (Cleis Press)
- Humor: David Sedaris , ''Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim'' (Little, Brown)
- Romance: Steven Kluger , ''Almost Like Being in Love'' (HarperCollins)
- Science fiction, fantasy, or horror: Jim Grimsley , ''The Ordinary'' (Tor Books)
- Spirituality: Will Roscoe , ''Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love'' (Suspect Thoughts Press)
- Drama / Theater: Doug Wright , '' I Am My Own Wife '' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Visual Arts/Photography: Evan Bachner and Harry Abrams , ''At Ease: Navy Men of World War II''
- LGBT Studies: Elisabeth Kirtsoglou , ''For the Love of Women: Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town'' (Routledge)
- Transgender: Mariette Pathy Allen , ''The Gender Frontier'' (Kehrer Verlag)
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