In 1990, Gordon was recognized in the inaugural round of the National Endowment for the Arts "New Forms" initiative, which funded artists whose work defied clear classification.
In 1991, Gordon began a multi-project relationship with Soho Repertory Theatre in New York City that included five productions and workshops.
In 1992, he began collaborating with his father, choreographer and director David Gordon, on The Family Business, which was presented at Lincoln Center's Serious Fun!
"[7] Gordon continued to write theater that straddled the traditions of playwrighting and performance art, blending fact, and fiction.
The play exploref the life of Dr. John E. Fryer, a gay psychiatrist who appeared in disguise at the 1972 annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association as part of a campaign to remove homosexuality from the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
[10][11][12][13] The play was remounted in May 2018 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center by the Equality Forum to coincide with the APA's annual meeting,[14] and again at Fryer's alma mater, Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky in May 2019.
The New York Times review of it reported that, "The people Mr. Gordon portrays weren't successful or all that skilled, but they were around while he was learning what an artist is and does, and how a gay man lives and dies.
"[16] A year later, the piece was presented as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut, and has since been performed in a number of other venues.
[17][18][19][20][21] In May 2022, Gordon's play These Don't Easily Scatter was presented in Philadelphia at the William Way LGBT Community Center as past of Remembrance, an alternative memorial to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1970s in that city.