The 15th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2003 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2002.
| Category | Winner |
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| Bridge Builder Award | Betty DeGeneres |
| Editor's Choice Award | John D'Emilio, The World Turned |
| Pioneer Award | Barbara Grier, Judy Shepard |
| Small Press Award | Kings Crossing Publishing |
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Anthologies/Fiction | Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Don Weise, eds., Black Like Us |
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| Anthologies/Non-Fiction | Bruce Shenitz, The Man I Might Become |
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| Autobiography/Memoir | Betty Berzon, Surviving Madness |
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| Biography | David Kaufman, Ridiculous! |
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| Children's/Young Adult | Bonnie Shimko, Letters in the Attic |
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| Erotica | Tristan Taormino, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 |
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| Gay Fiction | Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys |
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| Gay Mystery | Christopher Rice, The Snow Garden |
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| Gay Poetry | J. D. McClatchy, Hazmat |
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| Humor | Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah |
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| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Waters, Fingersmith |
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| Lesbian Mystery | Elizabeth Woodcraft, Good Bad Woman |
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| Lesbian Poetry | Ellen Bass, Mules of Love |
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| LGBT Studies | Neil Miller, Sex-Crime Panic |
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| Romance | Andrew W. M. Beierle, The Winter of Our Discothèque |
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| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Michael Rowe, ed., Queer Fear II |
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| Spirituality | Geoffrey Duncan, Courage to Love |
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| Transgender | Noelle Howey, Dress Codes |
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| Visual arts | Dominique Fernandez, A Hidden Love |
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