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