[4] A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Douglas attended Drake University and did his graduate work at the Yale School of Drama.

Among the Broadway and Off-Broadway plays he wrote and/or directed are Rondelay, Circle in the Water, Score, Tubstrip, Max's Millions, and most recently, the New York and Los Angeles productions of The Deep Throat Sex Scandal.

[6] In 2021, Douglas (with co-editor Jeffrey Escoffier) published two massive books: "Directing Sex: Interviews with the Directors of Gay Pornography" (475 pages; interviews with more than 30 directors, including William Huggins, Kristen Bjorn, Chi Chi LaRue, Steven Scarborough, Dirk Yates, John Rutherford, George Duroy, etc.)

In June 2022, Seidelman & Company published "The Collected Gay History Novels of Jerry Douglas," including Son and Heir, Lesser Evils, and Fixing Matthew.

Douglas lived in New York City, where he married his partner of forty years, attorney John Stellar, in November 2011.