34th Lambda Literary Awards

|+Special awards recipients{{cite web |date= |title=Special Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/special-awards/ |access-date=June 12, 2022 |publisher=Lambda Literary Foundation}}

!Category

!Winner

| Aisha Sabatini Sloan

| Vi Khi Nao and Silas House

| Ching-In Chen and Morgan Thomas

| Kalynn Bayron

|+34th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists{{Cite web |last=Segal |first=Corinne |date=2022-06-13 |title=Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards! |url=https://lithub.com/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-2022-lambda-literary-awards/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}

!Category

!Author

!Title

!Result

! rowspan="5" |Bisexual Fiction

| {{Sortname|Alix|Ohlin}}

| We Want What We Want

| Winner

|Blue-Skinned Gods

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Milk Fed

|Monster in the Middle

|We Play Ourselves

! rowspan="5" |Bisexual Nonfiction

|{{Sortname|Aisha Sabatini|Sloan}}

|Borealis

| Winner

|Dark Tourist: Essays

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

|The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease

|The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

! rowspan="5" |Bisexual Poetry

|Aurielle Marie

|Gumbo Ya Ya

| Winner

|Imagine Us, The Swarm

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Master Suffering

|The Best Prey

|The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void

! rowspan="5" |Gay Fiction

|{{Sortname|Brontez|Purnell}}

|100 Boyfriends

| Winner

|Brickmakers

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Gordo

|My Good Son

|Rainbow Milk

! rowspan="5" |Gay Memoir/Biography

|{{Sortname|Brian|Broome}}

|Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir

| Winner

|Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|{{lang|es|Hola Papi|italic=unset}}

|Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism

|Writing with Caca / {{lang|es|Escribir con Caca|italic=unset}}

! rowspan="5" |Gay Poetry

| {{Sortname|John|Keene|John Keene (writer)}}

| Punks: New & Selected Poems

| Winner

|Besiege Me

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Creep Love

|Shoreditch

|Tenderness

! rowspan="5" |Gay Romance

|{{Sortname|Larry|Benjamin}}

|Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts

| Winner

|Best of the Wrong Reasons

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Dublin Bay

|Floridian Nights

|The Other Man

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Fiction

|{{Sortname|Mia|McKenzie}}

|Skye Falling

| Winner

|Matrix

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|The Five Wounds

|How to Wrestle a Girl

|With Teeth

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Memoir/Biography

| {{Sortname|Sophie|Santos}}

| The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had)

| Winner

|The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation

|The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams

|Why Labelle Matters

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Poetry

| {{Sortname|Tamiko|Beyer}}

| Last Days

| Winner

|All the Rage

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak

|The Renunciations: Poems

|Who’s Your Daddy

! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Romance

|{{Sortname|Milena|McKay}}

|The Headmistress

| Winner

|Chemistry Lessons

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Go Around

|In the Long Run

|Red Tide at Heron Bay

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Anthology

|{{Sortname|Briona Simone|Jones}}

|Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

| Winner

|Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis

| rowspan="4" | Finalist

|Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America

|Queer Nightlife

|The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade

|{{Sortname|JR|Ford}} and Vanessa Ford

|Calvin

| Winner

|Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Love, Violet

|Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt

|The Fabulous Zed Watson!

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Drama

|{{Sortname|R. Eric|Thomas}}

|Mrs. Harrison

| Winner

|Love Like Light

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|mama [rose.]

|Pillow Talk

|Thrive, or What You Will {an epic}

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Erotica

|{{Sortname|Samuel R.|Delany}}

|Big Joe

| Winner

|Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology

|Ambrosia: Trans Masc and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology

|The Lodger, That Summer

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Graphic Novel

|{{Sortname|Lee|Lai}}

|Stone Fruit

| Winner

|Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance

|Shadow Life

|Thirsty Mermaids

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Mystery

|{{Sortname|John|Copenhaver|nolink=1}}

|The Savage Kind

| Winner

|Bath Haus

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Finding the Vein

|Lies With Man

|Murder Under Her Skin

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Nonfiction

| {{Sortname|Sarah|Schulman}}

| Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993

| Winner

|Girlhood

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Dear Senthuran

|Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures

|Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

|{{Sortname|Cadwell|Turnbull}}

|No Gods, No Monsters

| Winner

|A Desolation Called Peace

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Breeder

|Phototaxis

|The Tensorate Series

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Studies

|{{Sortname|Anna|Lvovsky}}

|Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall

| Winner

|Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire

|The Shape of Sex

|Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Young Adult

|{{Sortname|A.R|Capetta}}

|The Heartbreak Bakery

| Winner

|Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|The City Beautiful

|The Passing Playbook

|What We Devour

! rowspan="5" |Transgender Fiction

|{{Sortname|Jeanne|Thornton}}

|Summer Fun

| Winner

|Detransition, Baby

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|A Natural History of Transition

|Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

|She Who Became the Sun

! rowspan="5" |Transgender Nonfiction

|{{Sortname|Da’Shaun|Harrison}}

|Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

| Winner

|Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures

|Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

|Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments

! rowspan="5" |Transgender Poetry

|{{Sortname|Mason|J}}

|Crossbones on My Life

| Winner

|Salamat sa Intersectionality

| rowspan="4" |Finalist

|Transverse

|Villainy

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