between 1993 and 2001 gordon published three ground-breaking novels of black gay british life, "black butterflies", "skin deep", and "warriors & outlaws", (the first two with gay men's press, the third with millivres/prowler). in 1995 he directed his play "wheels of steel", about a closeted young thug paralysed in a joyriding accident and his flamboyant male nurse, at the gate theatre, london. it starred rikki beadle-blair and karl collins, who went on to play each other's estranged husbands in beadle-blair's channel 4 series "metrosexuality". he wrote a 1999 sitcom pilot "the melting pot" about a macho black british man (felix dexter) coming to terms with his long-lost jamaican brother's homosexuality. although it never made it beyond channel 4's sitcom festival to television, "the independent" praised it for offering innovative characters and situations. it also starred terry alderton.