[1] His books include Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

He is also the author of George Dureau: The Photographs, and Photography After Frank, a book of essays published by Aperture in 2009.

In 2002, he and Press commissioned the architect, Michael Bell, to build a house for them in New York State's Hudson Valley.

[citation needed] He coauthored and was a subject of a book about his same-sex relationship, Lovers: The Story of Two Men (Avon, 1979).

In 1981, he was a founding member of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, formed in Larry Kramer's living room when the earliest cases of HIV/AIDS (still then yet to be named) were reported.