The 16th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2004 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2003.

Special awards

Category Winner
Pioneer Award Samuel R. Delany, Blanche Wiesen Cook

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction Michael Bronski, ed., Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
  • Jon Jeffrey, Chris Kenry, William J. Mann and Ben Tyler, All I Want for Christmas
  • Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003
  • Karl Woelz, M2M
  • Lydia Hall, Telling Moments
Anthologies/Non-Fiction Bob Guter and John Killacky, eds., Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories
  • Kevin Bentley, Boyfriends from Hell
  • Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer, Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
  • Greg Wharton, The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name
  • Toni Amato and Mary Davies, Pinned Down by Pronouns
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
  • Greg Herren, Bourbon Street Blues
  • Mark Richard Zubro, Dead Egotistical Morons
  • Elliott Mackle, It Takes Two
  • David Stukas, Wearing Black to the White Party
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
  • Baxter Clare, Cry Havoc
  • Lauren Maddison, Epitaph for an Angel
  • Ida Swearingen, Owl of the Desert
  • Bett Reece Johnson, The Woman Who Found Grace
Lesbian Poetry Minnie Bruce Pratt, The Dirt She Ate
LGBT Studies Devon Carbado and Donald Weise, eds.. Time on Two Crosses
  • Wayne Besen, Anything But Straight
  • Michael Mancilla and Lisa Troshinsky, Love in the Time of HIV
  • James McCourt, Queer Street
  • Mack Friedman, Strapped for Cash
Photography/Visual Arts Lonthar Schirmer, ed., Women Seeing Women
  • John Peterson and Martin Bedogne, A Face in the Crowd: Expressions of Gay Life in America
  • Laurie Toby Edison, Familiar Men
  • Roslyn Banish, Focus on Living
  • Lawrence Schimel and Sebas, Vacation in Ibiza
Romance Karin Kallmaker, Maybe Next Time
Michael Thomas Ford, Last Summer
  • Angela Brown, Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003
  • Dave Benbow, Daytime Drama
  • Michelle Sawyer, They Say She Tastes Like Honey
Science fiction, fantasy or horror Helen Sandler, ed., Necrologue
Spirituality Fenton Johnson, Keeping Faith
Transgender Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There
  • Donna Troka, Kathleen Lebesco and Jean Noble, The Drag King Anthology
  • Justin Tanis, Trans-gendered
  • Virginia Ramey Mollenkott and Vanessa Sheridan, Transgender Journeys

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