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 |
| Anthologies | , Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin | Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader | Winner |
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| Eyes of Desire | Finalist | ||
| and Annette Hegel | Saturday is Pattyday | Finalist | |
| and Susan Wolfe | Lesbian Culture | Finalist | |
| Growing Up Gay | Finalist | ||
| Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers | Finalist | ||
| Children's/Young Adult | Winner | ||
| We’re Not Alone | Finalist | ||
| Living in Secret | Finalist | ||
| Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit! | Finalist | ||
| Drama | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Winner | |
| She’s Always Liked the Girls Best | Finalist | ||
| Falsettos | Finalist | ||
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| We Oughta Be in Pictures | Finalist | ||
| Gay Biography/Autobiography | Genet | Winner | |
| Before Night Falls | Finalist | ||
| Coming Unbuttoned | Finalist | ||
| Travels With Lizbeth | Finalist | ||
| City Poet | Finalist | ||
| Gay Fiction | Living Upstairs | Winner | |
| Fragments that Remain | Finalist | ||
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| Scissors, Paper, Rock | Finalist | ||
| Martin and John | Finalist | ||
| Gay Mystery | Catilina's Riddle | Winner | |
| Mae West Murder Case | Finalist | ||
| Torsos | Finalist | ||
| Bohannon’s Country | Finalist | ||
| Dead on Your Feet | Finalist | ||
| Gay Poetry | 1990 | Winner | |
| Collected Poems | Finalist | ||
| Orpheus in his Underwear | Finalist | ||
| Tranquil Lake of Love | Finalist | ||
| My Alexandria | Finalist | ||
| Gay Studies | Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military | Winner | |
| Stonewall | Finalist | ||
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| Cherry Grove/Fire Island | Finalist | ||
| Humor | Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For | Winner | |
| Whores of Lost Atlantis | Finalist | ||
| Hothead Paisan | Finalist | ||
| Closet Case | Finalist | ||
| Members of the Tribe | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | Marguerite Yourcenar | Winner | |
| Family Values | Finalist | ||
| How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith | Finalist | ||
| Forty-Three Septembers | Finalist | ||
| Mary Renault | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Fiction | Written on the Body | Winner | |
| Stone Butch Blues | Finalist | ||
| Sea of Light | Finalist | ||
| Home Movies | Finalist | ||
| and Naomi Holoch | Women on Women 2 | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Mystery | Divine Victim | Winner | |
| Long Goodbyes | Finalist | ||
| Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse | Finalist | ||
| I’ll Be Leaving You Always | Finalist | ||
| Trouble in Transylvania | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Poetry | Winner | ||
| Experimental Love Poetry | Finalist | ||
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| Collected Poems (1930-1993) | Finalist | ||
| Lesbian Studies | and Madeline Davis | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Winner |
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| Blood, Bread, and Roses | Finalist | ||
| What Is Found There | Finalist | ||
| Vampires & Violets | Finalist | ||
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Starhawk | Winner | |
| Drawing Blood | Finalist | ||
| In the Garden of Dead Cars | Finalist | ||
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| Burning Bright | Finalist | ||
| Small Press | Stone Butch Blues | Winner | |
| Other Countries | Sojourner | Winner | |
| Eyes of Desire | Finalist | ||
| Blue | Finalist | ||
| Lotus of Another Color | Finalist |