The 16th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2004 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2003.
Special awards
edit| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Pioneer Award | Samuel R. Delany, Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Nominees and winners
edit| Category | Winner | Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologies/Fiction | Michael Bronski, ed., Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps |
|
| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Bob Guter and John Killacky, eds., Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories |
|
| Autobiography/Memoir | Lillian Faderman, Naked in the Promised Land |
|
| Biography | Andrew Wilson, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith |
|
| Children's/Young Adult | David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy |
|
| Drama | Brian Drader, Prok |
|
| Erotica | Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 |
|
| Gay Fiction | Christopher Bram, Lives of the Circus Animals |
|
| Gay Mystery | John Morgan Wilson, Blind Eye |
|
| Gay Poetry | Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge |
|
| Humor | Alison Bechdel, Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For |
|
| Lesbian Fiction | Nina Revoyr, Southland |
|
| Lesbian Mystery | Elizabeth Sims, Damn Straight |
|
| Lesbian Poetry | Minnie Bruce Pratt, The Dirt She Ate |
|
| LGBT Studies | Devon Carbado and Donald Weise, eds.. Time on Two Crosses |
|
| Photography/Visual Arts | Lonthar Schirmer, ed., Women Seeing Women |
|
| Romance | Karin Kallmaker, Maybe Next Time Michael Thomas Ford, Last Summer |
|
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Helen Sandler, ed., Necrologue |
|
| Spirituality | Fenton Johnson, Keeping Faith |
|
| Transgender | Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There |
|