Merced has also collaborated with the Puerto Rican gay scholar Luis Aponte-Parés in documenting the history of gay Puerto Ricans in New York City and Boston.Aponte-Parés, Luis, and Jorge B. Merced. "Páginas Omitidas: The Gay and Lesbian Presence." In The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora, eds. Andrés Torres and José E. Velázquez, 296–315. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. He has spoken extensively about his gay activism in a 2001 interview with Arnaldo López.
