• The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982)

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic  (1987)

• So Little Time: Essays on Gay Life (1990) by Mike Hippler with Randy Shilts as Illustrator.

• Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military - Vietnam to the Persian Gulf (1993) -- Winner 1993 Lambda Literary Award for GLBT Studies

See also:

• At Ground Zero: Young Reporters Who Were There Tell Their Stories (2002), Edited with Sam Erman

• AIDS, While The World SLeeps: The First Twenty Years of the Global AIDS Plague (2003), Edited by Chris Bul
  Collection includes the most important writing on AIDS by Amber Hollibaugh, Barbara Smith, Cindy Patton, Donna Minkowitz, Gabriel Rotello, Gore Vidal, Jeffrey Escoffier, Jeffrey Schmaltz, Judith Valente, Larry Kramer, Mark Schoofs, Michael Bronski, Michael Callen, Michelangelo Signorile, Paul Monette, Randy Shilts , Susan Sontag, Tony Kushner, and many others.