Non-fiction - In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller [Gay Men's Nonfiction winner, Lambda Literary Awards, 1989]
Literature - Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg [Gay Men's Debut Fiction nominee, Gay Men's Fiction winner Lambda Literary Awards, 1989]
1991
Non-fiction - Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (William Armstrong Percy) by Wayne Dynes, ed. [Editor's Choice, Lambda Literary Awards, 1990]Literature - Crime against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt [Lesbian Poetry nominee, Lambda Literary Awards, 1990]
1992
Non-fiction - Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman [Lesbian Non-fiction nominee & Editor's Choice, Lambda Literary Awards, 1991]1993
Non-fiction - Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus [Gay Men's Non-fiction nominee, Lambda Literary Awards, 1992]Literature - Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill [Gay Men's Poetry nominee, Lambda Literary Awards, 1992]
1994
Non-fiction - Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke [Lesbian Biography/Autobiography nominee, Lambda Literary Awards, 1993]Literature - Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg [Lesbian Fiction winner, Small Press Award winner, Lambda Literary Awards, 1993]
1995
Non-fiction - Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature by Dorothy Allison [Lesbian Studies winner & Small press nominee, Lambda Literary Awards, 1994]Non-fiction - Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Philip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein
Literature - Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer [Children & YA winner, Lambda Literary Awards, 1994]
1996
Non-fiction - Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid1997
Non-fiction - Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton JohnsonLiterature - Hood by Emma Donoghue
1998
Non-fiction - The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon1999
Non-fiction - Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman [Lesbian Studies nominee, Drama nominee Lambda Literary Awards, 1998]Literature - The Hours by Michael Cunningham [Gay Men's Fiction nominee Lambda Literary Awards, 1998]