2002
Non-fiction - The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal 2003
Non-fiction - How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United StatesLiterature - Letters to Montgomery Clift : a Novel
by Noel Alumit [Gay Fiction Finalist in the 2002 Lambda Awards]
2004
Non-fiction - Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
by John D'Emilio [Biography Finalist in the 2003 Lambda Awards]
2005
Non-fiction - Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People
by Joan Roughgarden
2006
Non-fiction - The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco2007
Non-fiction - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic2008
Non-Fiction - Dog Years: A Memoir Literature - The Teahouse Fire
by Ellis Avery [Lesbian Debut Fiction Winner in the 2006 Lambda Awards]
2009
Non-fiction - Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-20032010
Non-Fiction - Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America2011
Non-Fiction - Inseparable: Desire between Women in LiteratureLiterature - More of This World or Maybe Another
Children's & Young Adult - Almost Perfect
2012
Non-Fiction - Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward and A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History) by Michael Bronski
Non-Fiction - Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward and A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History) by Michael Bronski
Children's & Young Adult - Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright