Richard Burnett is a writer, editor, journalist and columnist. His column and blog, "Three Dollar Bill", deals with gay life and culture across Canada and around the world.Burnett was also Editor-at-Large of Montreal's alternative newsweekly Hour for 15 years until the newspaper published its last issue on April 7, 2011. Burnett has also been a regular writer and columnist for both Xtra! and Fugues magazine since 1998. Burnett is also Senior Editor-at-Large and columnist for The Charlebois Post - Canada (or "CharPo") which reports on Canada's opera, dance and theatre scenes; and writes his POP TART blog and weekly Seven Days, Seven Nights column for the Montreal daily newspaper The Gazette (Montreal). Burnett is also a pop culture pundit on Montreal's CJAD 800 AM Radio.Burnett was one of the original organizers of Montreal’s internationally-renowned Divers/Cité festival, was the founding president of the Montreal chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, is a regular lecturer and panelist at universities and conferences, co-starred in the first season of the Life Network’s reality-TV series Out in the City, and has been interviewed and profiled in publications across Canada, Europe and the U.S., including Xtra!, Ryerson Review of Journalism, Washington Blade, Canada's publishing-industry Masthead magazine, Australia's DNA (magazine) and the international Dutch magazine WINQ. Burnett was named one of Alberta-based Outlooks magazine's Canadian Heroes of the Year in their June 2009 issue, was dubbed "Canada’s bad boy syndicated gay columnist" by porn director Flash Conway and is also listed by Quebec's French-language gay publication Fugues as one of that province's 100 most influential gay Quebecers. "As Michael Musto is to New York City, Richard Burnett is to Montréal," The Montréal Buzz stated in April 2010.