In 1990, he was part of a gay writers group in the Vancouver area, which included Stan Persky, George Stanley and Scott Watson, that launched the literary magazine Sodomite Invasion Review.

[9] He followed up with Vanishing Halo: Saving the Boreal Forest in 1999,[10] a book commissioned by the David Suzuki Foundation to raise awareness about the world's coniferous crown and the industrial practices that have threatened it.

After a few years in Thailand, where he worked as a sub-editor for the English language daily newspaper The Nation,[11] he returned to Canada and in 2005 published The Rice Queen Diaries,[12] a personal memoir that explores the political and cultural minefields of ethnicity and desire between white Western and Far East Asian men.

In 2013 he published The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity,[13] a critical account of its subject's decades-long campaign to crush a liberal reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council.

Double Karma is the story of a young American photographer who travels to his father’s native land of Burma in 1988, becomes involved with a student leader in the pro-democracy uprising, then gets stuck inside the country after being mistaken for a dead soldier.