Reading List:
Black Males byRobert Mapplethorpe. Amsterdam: Galerie Jurka, 1980.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde. New York: Crossing Press, 1984. Reprint, New York: Crossing Press, 2007.
New Orleans: 50 Photographs by George Dureau. London: GMP, 1985.
The Black Book by Robert Mapplethorpe. New York: St. Martin's Press, c1986. Reprint, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh, 2010.
Black Male / White Male by Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Alex Hirst. London: GMP, 1988.
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment by Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, and Kay Larson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, 1989.
BLK: the national black lesbian and gay news magazine, #5 published by Alan Bell, ed., Los Angeles: The Blk Co., 1989.
Newslink: [#16?] Gay Male S/M Activists. Winter 1989-90. New York: Gay Male S/M Activists, 1989.
"Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibit" [cover story], edited by Tracy Baim in OUTlines: the voice of the gay and lesbian community; [originally Chicago Outlines], vol. 2, #10, (March. 1989)
Mapplethorpe: Exposition Du 9 Novembre 1991 Au 15 Mars 1992, FAE Musée D’art Contemporain by Robert Mapplethorpe. Pully/Lausanne: FAE Musée D’art Contemporain, 1991.
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Reprint, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2017.
"Does Your Mama Know About Me?" In Ceremonies: Prose & Poetry by Essex Hemphill, 37-42. New York: Plume, 1992. Reprint, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2000.
Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts by Richard Bolton. New York: New Press: Distributed by W. W. Norton, 1992.
Fetishism as Cultural Discourse by Emily Apter and William Pietz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.
"Reading Racial Fetishism: The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe." In Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies by Kobena Mercer, 171-219. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change by Sharon Zukin. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Books on Demand, 2000.
OUTLAW REPRESENTATION: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art by Richard Meyer. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. Reprint, S.l.: ECHO POINT BOOKS & MEDIA, 2019.
Glenn Ligon: America by Scott Rothkopf, Glenn Ligon, Hilton Als, and Thelma Golden. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011.
Shotgun Seamstress Zine Collection: A Zine by and for Black Punks by Osa Atoe, 100-106 [on Alvin Baltrop]. Tacoma, WA: Mend My Dress Press, 2012.
Image Matters; Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey by Dominic Johnson.Fishponds: Intellect Ltd., 2013.
Alvin Baltrop: The Piers by Alvin J. Baltrop. Edited by James Reid and Tom Watt. Madrid, Spain: TF Editores, 2015.
Disss-co: (a Fragment) by Douglas Crimp and Jocelyn Miller. Long Island City, NY: MoMA PS1, 2015.
Before Pictures by Douglas Crimp. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
George Dureau: The Photographs by George Dureau. Aperture, 2016.
Flora: The Complete Flowers by Robert Mapplethorpe. London; New York, NY: Phaidon Press Ltd., 2016.
D’Angelo Lovell Williams by D’Angelo Lovell Williams. New York: (self-published), 2018.
Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s (The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas) by Ian W. Bourland and Rotimi Fani-Kayode. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019.
Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies by Stuart Hall. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence by Darius Bost, 61-62. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.