PUBLICATIONS

The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture. New York: Haworth, 1997.

The Bear Book II: Further Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture. New York: Haworth, 2001; New York: Routledge, 2016.

“Bear Spirit.” White Crane: A Journal of Gay Men’s Spirituality. Vol. 75 (2007) 6-12.

Bear Tracks (bear history column, Bear World Magazine)
“Taking Inventory”

“Clinton, NY.” Hometowns: Gay Men Write about Where They Belong. Ed. John Preston. New New York: Dutton, 1991. 137-151.

The Chiasmic Bind: Writing Gay Subjectivity from Stonewall to AIDS (Literature and Community). UC Berkeley: Ph.D. dissertation, 1992.

Children of Lazarus: TheForgotten Generation of Long-Term AIDS Survivors. Bearskin Lodge Press, 2025.

“Friendship in Old Age,” Gay and Lesbian Review, November-December 2021.

“From Outsider to Insider: Queer Politics in German Film, 1970-94.” European Journal of Cultural Studies. Vol. 1 (1998) 97-121.

“Gay Genocide as Literary Trope.” AIDS: The Literary Response. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Twayne, 1992. 50-68.

“Gay Men’s Friendships.” Good Men Project, September 8, 2023.

“Harry Hay: Queer Icon.” RFD, Winter 2023 (196).

“Learning to Embrace the Holidays as a Single Queer Man.” Good Men Project, November 18, 2023.

“Love and Regret in Gay Bars.” Gay and Lesbian Review, July 19, 2023

“The Genre Cycle of German Gay Coming-Out Films.” Queering the Canon: Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture. Ed. Christopher Lorey and John L. Plews. Camden House, 1998.

“The Politics of Loneliness.” Good Men Project August 11, 2023.

“Queer Masculinities.” Theme issue of Men and Masculinities. Vol. 7, no. 3 (2005).

“Queer Relationships and Not LIke Straight Relationships.” Good Men Project, August 20, 2023.

Resilience: A Polemical Memoir of AIDS, Bears, and F*cking. New York: Bearskin Lodge Press, 2023.

“The Rise, Fall, and Transformation of My Gay Community.” RFD Winter 2021 (188).

“Tangled Memories of a Wounded Storyteller: Notes on Bear History and Cultural Memory.” torquere: Journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association / Revue de Ia Société canadienne des études lesbiennes et gaies. Vol. 6 (2004) 66-90.