defunct independent publishing company, published Xavier's semi-autobiographical novel Christ Like in 1999. Despite a limited press run, the novel was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in the Small Press category. It was later reprinted in 2009 by Rebel Satori Press as a revised ten-year-anniversary edition. In 2000, Xavier hosted the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony in New York. In 2001, after 9/11, Xavier helped create Words to Comfort, a poetry benefit held at the New School. His poem "September Song" was included as part of the initial National September 11 Memorial & Museum website and later appeared in his 2002 poetry collection Americano. In the early 2000s, he was quoted as saying “The gay agenda is not necessarily part of the hip-hop movement. The only Simmons that may ever feature me is Richard, not Russell.” This led to his invitation to feature twice on Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. He also hosted In The Life with Laverne Cox. He appeared in the Wolfgang Busch documentary How Do I Look and co-starred in the feature film The Ski Trip. Xavier edited the anthology Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry in 2005, earning him a second Lambda Literary Award nomination in the Anthologies category. A few years later, in 2008, he edited the anthology Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry. El Museo del Barrio staged a choreographed dance presentation based on his spoken word album Legendary in 2010. If Jesus Were Gay was the third full length poetry collection by Emanuel Xavier first published in 2010. The publication of this book was controversial because of a traditional Jesus on the cover and graphic gay sex inside. He published his poetry collection Nefarious in 2013. Xavier was selected as a featured speaker for TEDx Bushwick on March 21, 2015. He also filmed for a documentary from Spain which included poets from around the world (Iceland, Jordan, Palestine). An excerpt of the documentary was released as the short film Americano. He also helped organize the first After Sunset: Poetry Walk at The High Line with The Academy of American Poets. A year later, he published Radiance. For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots, Xavier was part of the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative in 2019. Other participants included Amanda Lepore, Dionne Warwick, Kate Bornstein, Lea DeLaria, Michael Musto, Michael Urie and Nico Tortorella. He works for Penguin Random House