The Boys in the Band is grouped with Crowley’s other significant works, A Breeze from the Gulf and For Reasons That Remain Unclear, in the collection Three Plays by Mart Crowley, which features a foreword by Gavin Lambert. This compilation was released by Alyson Publishers in 1996.

Several lesser-known contemporary gay dramas are included in the 1996 anthology Staging Gay Lives: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Theater, edited by John M. Clum and published by Westview Press.

John-Manuel Andriote’s 1999 book, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America, offers insight into how the perspectives of gay men and women have evolved since the time Crowley wrote his play.

Tony Kushner earned the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his 1991 play Millennium Approaches, and another Tony Award in 1994 for Perestroika. Together, these plays form the expansive work Angels in America, which explores the interconnected lives of eight men in the post-AIDS era.

Terrence McNally’s play Love! Valor! Compassion! can be seen as a modern take on The Boys in the Band, featuring a group of gay men who gather at a country house and exchange witty banter. The Tony Award-winning script was published in 1994 by Plume.

Stonewall, by Martin Duberman, uses a narrative approach to recount history, focusing on the lives of six gay men and women before and after the pivotal 1969 riot that transformed gay history. This book was published in 1993 by the Penguin Group.

Some of the finest gay fiction and memoirs from the vibrant period following the Stonewall riots were penned by members of the Violet Quill Club. Works from authors such as Edmund White, Robert Ferro, and Felice Picano have been compiled in The Violet Quill Reader, published by St. Martin’s Press in 1994.