in 2011, with rikki beadle-blair he established the radical queer-of-colour-focused imprint team angelica publishing. its first book was beadle-blair's "what i learned today". in 2013 they published the well-received and groundbreaking short-story collection "fairytales for lost children" by gay somali author diriye osman. on 8 october 2014 "fairytales for lost children" won the polari first book prize. in 2015 they published roz kaveney's novel, "tiny pieces of skull", which went on to win the 2016 best trans fiction lambda literary award. in november 2017 they published the first ever gay african memoir, "lives of great men" by chike frankie edozien. it was favourably reviewed in the london "financial times" and won the best gay memoir/non fiction lambda literary award in 2018. it went on to be republished by jacana books in south africa, in july 2018. in february 2018 they published "sista!", an anthology of writings by same gender loving women of african/caribbean descent with a uk connection, edited by gordon, beadle-blair and uk black pride co-founder phyll opoku-gyimah, it included writers such as yrsa daley-ward and was shortlisted for a 2019 lambda literary award.