Bert Archer

Since then, Archer has been an editor at the alternative arts magazine Now, where he wrote about books, and the now defunct Eye Weekly, where he was production editor and for which he wrote regular op-ed pieces. From 2007-2015, he was a real estate columnist for Toronto Life magazine.

Since 2006, Archer has been writing about travel as a freelancer for several papers, magazines, and sites in Canada and the US, including the Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, the Washington Post, and Zoomer magazine.

Archer has also contributed chapters to several books: "Why Boys Are Better Than Girls" for What I Meant to Say (2006), Creating a Toronto of the Imagination for uTOpia (2006), as well as chapters for its follow-up, GreenTOpia (2007), and a book about water called HtO (2008), excerpted in the National Post.

Archer is the author of The End of Gay (and the Death of Heterosexuality), published in Canada in 1999, in the US in 2002, and the UK in 2004. The book argues that there is no such thing as inherent sexual identity, and that sexual behaviour is a product of many factors, personal will not least among them.

In 1994, he was hired as an editorial assistant by Quill & Quire, Canada's national book trade magazine. Two years later, as review editor, Archer was pressured to resign after writing an essay in the Financial Post which some considered derogatory to certain elements in the Canadian publishing industry, specifically, the small presses. He was subsequently hired as a columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation newspaper, to review books published by small Canadian publishers.

Bert Archer (born April 16, 1968) is a Canadian author, journalist, travel writer, essayist and critic.