Three Dollar Bill

My blogs

Gender	Male
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Journalist / writer / editor
Location	Montreal, Canada
Introduction	Dubbed “Mr. Montreal” by CBC Arts, Richard “Bugs” Burnett is an arts and culture journalist and columnist. He is also a pop culture pundit on radio and television. His pioneering column Three Dollar Bill is the only syndicated LGBTQ column in Canadian publishing history, and is now archived in Toronto’s The ArQuives (formerly the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives), the largest independent LGBTQ archives in the world. Bugs has interviewed everybody from Cher to Justin Trudeau, and got the last-ever sit-down interview with the late James Brown. Bugs received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chambre de commerce LGBT du Québec’s 15th annual Prix Phénicia Gala in 2019. Bugs knows his hometown like a drag queen knows a cosmetics counter. Tourisme Montréal says, “As Michael Musto is to New York City, Richard Burnett is to Montreal.”