Bailey’s book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, a performance ethnography of Ballroom culture (University of Michigan Press, 2013), was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. Some of the journals in which Bailey’s work has been published include, Signs, Feminist Studies; Souls; Gender, Place, and Culture; The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services; and AIDS and Patient Care. His most recent essay, “Black Gay (Raw) Sex,” appears in the collection, No Tea, No Shade: New Writings on Black Queer Studies, edited by E. Patrick Johnson (Duke University Press, 2016). Bailey is also a performance artist. He recently presented his solo-performance, “Black Gay Sex, Love, and Life in the Age of AIDS,” at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.