
“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.
“Gay Genocide as Literary Trope.” AIDS: The Literary Response. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Twayne, 1992. 50-68.
Editor. The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture. New York: Haworth, 1997; New York: Routledge, 2013.
“From Outsider to Insider: Queer Politics in German Film, 1970-94.” European Journal of Cultural Studies. Vol. 1 (1998) 97-121.
“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.
“San Francisco.” Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories since 1600. Ed. David Higgs. New York: Routledge, 1999. 164-189.
Editor. The Bear Book II: Further Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture. New York: Haworth, 2001; New York: Routledge, 2016.
Guest editor. “Queer Masculinities.” Theme issue of Men and Masculinities. Vol. 7, no. 3 (2005).
“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.
“Bear Spirit.” White Crane: A Journal of Gay Men’s Spirituality. Vol. 75 (2007) 6-12.
ESSAYS (2021–)
“Susan Sontag and Me: Living Through Two Epidemics,” Bay Area Reporter, (2021)
“Friendship in Old Age,” Gay and Lesbian Review, November-December 2021.