[1][2] Originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, he has been based in Montreal, Quebec since moving to that city to attend McGill University in 1972.
In Montreal, he was a cofounder of the city's first LGBT bookstore, Librairie L'Androgyne, in 1973.
[1] He has also worked as an arts journalist and film critic for a variety of media outlets,[3] including the CBC, the BBC, National Public Radio, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Paris Review, Christopher Street and the National Post.
[1] His 2018 book, Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove and the Art of Resistance, was published by University of Regina Press.
The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.