A 'festival within a festival', staged at the Sussex Aids Centre, also included work by Philip Core, Peter Burton and Neil Bartlett.

In June 1992, Michael Arditti, wrote in Plays International that: "...in England too the theatrical response [to AIDS] has been maturing ... and has come of age with John Roman Baker's "Crying Celibate Tears Trilogy" ...

The keynotes of Mr Baker's writing are already in evidence; a barbed wit, an utter lack of sentimentality and a refusal to shy away from unpalatable truths ... the one horror which is happily absent being political correctness.

Since then, his work has continued to be popular in Italy and has been seen in Florence, Modena, Forlí, L'Aquila, Reggio Emilia, Rome[15] and Milan.

[16][17] His most popular work The Ice Pick has been staged on multiple occasions in the UK and Italy as well as in the US at the Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles in 1993.

Following its Amsterdam premiere, his play Prisoners of Sex was translated into Italian by Antonio Serrano as Prigionieri del Sesso and has been performed in Milan and Rome.

Later, in 1974 a volume of his poetry Poèmes à Tristan was published in French by Gérard Oberlé, translated by Françoise du Chaxel, and with an introduction by Jeanne Fayard.

[35] Unwelcome notoriety was achieved when in 1976 he appeared with Tony Whitehead (later to become the first chairperson of the Terence Higgins Trust[36]) in a Southern Television program[37] about Gay Rights.

The book, written immediately before the Covid-19 lockdowns began in France and the United Kingdom, presents two characters, Alex and Paul, seeking to defy the coming crisis.