1st Rainbow Awards

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{{Award category|#eedd82|Fiction of the Year}}

• Entering the Maze: Queer Fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick by Niladri R. Chatterjee{{Cite book |last=Mallick |first=Krishnagopal |title=Entering the maze: queer fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick |date=2023 |publisher=Niyogi Books |isbn=978-93-91125-90-5 |location=New Delhi |translator-last=Chatterjee |translator-first=Niladri R.}} (Niyogi Books)
• Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel{{Cite book |last=Patel |first=Neel |title=Tell me how to be |publisher=Flatiron Books |year=2021 |isbn=9781250184979 |publication-place=New York, United States |oclc=1257313197}} (Flatiron Books)
• The Woman Who Climbed Trees by Smriti Ravindra{{Cite book |last=Ravindra |first=Smriti |title=The woman who climbed trees |date=2023 |publisher=HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |isbn=978-0-06-324048-3 |edition=1st |location=New York}} (HarperVia)

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{{Award category|#eedd82|Non-fiction of the Year}}

• Footprints of a Queer History: Life-stories from Gujarat by Maya Sharma{{Cite book |last=Sharma |first=Maya |title=Footprints of a queer history: life-stories from Gujarat |publisher=Yoda Press |year=2022 |isbn=9789382579359 |location=New Delhi, India |oclc=1347785526}} (Yoda Press)
• I Am Onir and I am Gay by Onir with Irene Dhar Malik{{Cite book |last1=Onir |title=I am Onir, & I am gay |last2=Malik |first2=Irene Dhar |date=2022 |publisher=Penguin/Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House |isbn=978-0-670-09473-8 |location=Gurugram, Haryana, India |oclc=1334560573}} (Penguin Random House)
• Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India by K Vaishali{{Cite book |last=K. |first=Vaishali |title=Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2023 |isbn=9789392099502 |oclc=1371141365}} (Simon & Schuster)

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{{Award category|#eedd82|Feature of the Year}}

• Brahmin Men Who Love to Eat A** by Akhil Kang{{Cite web |last=Kang |first=Akhil |date=5 January 2023 |title=Brahmin Men who love to Eat A** |url=https://decolonizingsexualities.org/researchjournal/bwo4mub74ozwlkuwt3xuwv52bu6piy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231225193840/https://decolonizingsexualities.org/researchjournal/bwo4mub74ozwlkuwt3xuwv52bu6piy |archive-date=25 December 2023 |access-date= |website=Decolonizing Sexualities Network |language=en-GB}} (Decolonizing Sexualities Network)
• The Horrors of Queer Conversion Therapy in India by Nolina Minj{{Cite web |last=Minj |first=Nolina |date=2022-09-07 |title=The horrors of queer conversion therapy in India |url=https://scroll.in/article/1032115/the-horrors-of-queer-conversion-therapy-in-india |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907035216/https://scroll.in/article/1032115/the-horrors-of-queer-conversion-therapy-in-india |archive-date=2022-09-07 |access-date= |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}} (Scroll)
• Seen-Unseen by Riddhi Dastidar{{Cite web |last=Dastidar |first=Riddhi |date=18 April 2023 |title=Seen-Unseen |url=https://www.queerbeat.org/stories/seen-unseen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418033628/https://www.queerbeat.org/stories/seen-unseen |archive-date=18 April 2023 |access-date= |website=Queer Beat}} (Queer Beat)

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{{Award category|#eedd82|Op-Ed of the Year}}

• Queering Translation: Locating Queerness in Indian Languages by Chittajit Mitra{{Cite web |last=Mitra |first=Chittajit |date=2022-09-29 |title=Essay: Queering translation: Locating queerness in Indian languages |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/essay-queering-translation-locating-queerness-in-indian-languages-101664454792509.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209061623/https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/essay-queering-translation-locating-queerness-in-indian-languages-101664454792509.html |archive-date=2022-12-09 |access-date= |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}} (Hindustan Times)
• Why Saurabh Kirpal Needs to Be Appointed as Judge? by Kinshuk Gupta{{Cite web |last=Gupta |first=Kinshuk |date=2023-01-27 |title=Why Saurabh Kirpal needs to be appointed as judge |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/centre-objections-saurabh-kirpal-india-queer-judges-8407428/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320154228/https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/centre-objections-saurabh-kirpal-india-queer-judges-8407428/ |archive-date=2023-03-20 |access-date= |website=The Indian Express |language=en}} (The Indian Express)
• Though Homosexuality Has Been Decriminalised, Two Incidents in Pune Show How Bias Still Prevails by R Raj Rao{{Cite web |last=Rao |first=R. Raj |date=2022-07-28 |title=Though homosexuality has been decriminalised, two incidents in Pune show how bias still prevails |url=https://scroll.in/article/1029205/homosexuality-has-been-decriminalised-but-two-incidents-in-pune-show-how-bias-still-prevails |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728033121/https://scroll.in/article/1029205/homosexuality-has-been-decriminalised-but-two-incidents-in-pune-show-how-bias-still-prevails |archive-date=2022-07-28 |access-date= |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}} (Scroll)