2002
Non-fiction - The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth [Biography winner, 14th Lambda Awards]2003
Non-fiction - How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne MeyerowitzLiterature - 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 Francisco by Joshua Gamson [LGBT Biography Finalist in the 2005 Lambda Awards]2007
Non-fiction - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel [Lesbian Memoir/Biography Finalist, Lambda Awards 2006; Ouststanding Comic Book Winner 18th GLAAD Awards]2008
Non-Fiction - Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty [Gay Memoir/Biography Finalist in the 2007 Lambda Awards] 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, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge [LGBT Non-fiction Finalist in the 2008 Lambda Awards]2010
Non-Fiction - Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank [LGBT Non-fiction Finalist in the 2009 Lambda Awards]2011
Non-Fiction - Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, (Knopf)Literature - More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson, (Harper Perennial) [Lesbian Debut Fiction Finalist in the 2009 Lambda Awards]
Children's & Young Adult - Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
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