The 6th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1994, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1993.
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Editor's Choice | Coleman Dowell, A Star Bright Lie |
| Publisher Service | Michael Denneny, St. Martin's Press |
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthologies | Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin | Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader | Winner |
| Raymond Luczak | Eyes of Desire | Finalist | |
| Leslea Newman and Annette Hegel | Saturday is Pattyday | Finalist | |
| Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe | Lesbian Culture | Finalist | |
| Bennett L. Singer | Growing Up Gay | Finalist | |
| Arlene Stein | Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers | Finalist | |
| Children's/Young Adult | Hilary Mullins | The Cat Came Back | Winner |
| Rik Isensee | We’re Not Alone | Finalist | |
| Christina Salat | Living in Secret | Finalist | |
| Michael Willhoite | Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit!! | Finalist | |
| Drama | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Winner |
| Claudia Allen | She’s Always Liked the Girls Best | Finalist | |
| William Finn | Falsettos | Finalist | |
| Larry Kramer | The Destiny of Me | Finalist | |
| Julia Willis | We Oughta Be in Pictures | Finalist | |
| Gay Biography/Autobiography | Edmund White | Genet | Winner |
| Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls | Finalist | |
| James Broughton | Coming Unbuttoned | Finalist | |
| Lars Eighner | Travels With Lizbeth | Finalist | |
| Brad Gooch | City Poet | Finalist | |
| Gay Fiction | Joseph Hansen | Living Upstairs | Winner |
| Steven Corbin | Fragments that Remain | Finalist | |
| Bo Huston | The Listener | Finalist | |
| Fenton Johnson | Scissors, Paper, Rock | Finalist | |
| Dale Peck | Martin and John | Finalist | |
| Gay Mystery | Steven Saylor | Catilina's Riddle | Winner |
| George Baxt | Mae West Murder Case | Finalist | |
| John Peyton Cooke | Torsos | Finalist | |
| Joseph Hansen | Bohannon’s Country | Finalist | |
| Grant Michaels | Dead on Your Feet | Finalist | |
| Gay Poetry | Michael Klein | 1990 | Winner |
| James Schuyler | Collected Poems | Finalist | |
| William Bory | Orpheus in his Underwear | Finalist | |
| Carl Cook | Tranquil Lake of Love | Finalist | |
| Mark Doty | My Alexandria | Finalist | |
| Gay Studies | Randy Shilts | Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military | Winner |
| Martin Duberman | Stonewall | Finalist | |
| Bruce Bawer | A Place at the Table | Finalist | |
| Wayne Koestenbaum | The Queen’s Throat | Finalist | |
| Esther Newman | Cherry Grove/Fire Island | Finalist | |
| Humor | Alison Bechdel | Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For | Winner |
| Charles Busch | Whores of Lost Atlantis | Finalist | |
| Diane DiMassa | Hothead Paisan | Finalist | |
| Robert Rodi | Closet Case | Finalist | |
| Michael Willhoite | Members of the Tribe | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Winner |
| Phyllis Burke | Family Values | Finalist | |
| Rose Gladney | How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith | Finalist | |
| Jewelle Gomez | Forty-Three Septembers | Finalist | |
| David Sweetman | Mary Renault | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Jeanette Winterson | Written on the Body | Winner |
| Leslie Feinberg | Stone Butch Blues | Finalist | |
| Jenifer Levin | Sea of Light | Finalist | |
| Paula Martinac | Home Movies | Finalist | |
| Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch | Women on Women 2 | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Mystery | Mary Wings | Divine Victim | Winner |
| Nikki Baker | Long Goodbyes | Finalist | |
| Mabel Maney | Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse | Finalist | |
| Sandra Scoppettone | I’ll Be Leaving You Always | Finalist | |
| Barbara Wilson | Trouble in Transylvania | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Poetry | Audre Lorde | The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance | Winner |
| Cheryl Clarke | Experimental Love Poetry | Finalist | |
| Cherrie Moraga | The Last Generation | Finalist | |
| Kate Rushin | The Black Back-Ups | Finalist | |
| May Sarton | Collected Poems (1930-1993) | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Studies | Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Winner |
| Terry Castle | The Apparitional Lesbian | Finalist | |
| Judy Grahn | Blood, Bread, and Roses | Finalist | |
| Adrienne Rich | What Is Found There | Finalist | |
| Andrea Weiss | Vampires & Violets | Finalist | |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Starhawk | The Fifth Sacred Thing | Winner |
| Poppy Z. Brite | Drawing Blood | Finalist | |
| Sybil Claiborne | In the Garden of Dead Cars | Finalist | |
| Jay B. Laws | The Unfinished | Finalist | |
| Melissa Scott | Burning Bright | Finalist | |
| Small Press | Leslie Feinberg | Stone Butch Blues | Winner |
| Other Countries | Sojourner | Winner | |
| Raymond Luczak | Eyes of Desire | Finalist | |
| Denise Ohio | Blue | Finalist | |
| Ratti Rakesh | Lotus of Another Color | Finalist |