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Bert Archer (born April 16, 1968) is a Canadian author, journalist, travel writer, essayist and critic. Archer was born in Montreal and lived in Calgary and Vancouver before attending St. Michael's University School in Victoria, British Columbia, the University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was editor of his college's arts journal, ''The Grammateion'' in his second undergraduate year, and as editor-in-chief of ''The Mike'', the college newspaper, a year later. The year after that, he was president of the Ontario region of the Canadian University Press, North America's oldest national student organization. While still in school he worked as an assistant to editor David Colbert at Harper & Collins Canada. 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.〔"Book editor resigns over controversy", ''Globe and Mail'', Nov. 15, 1996.〕 He was subsequently hired as a columnist for the ''Toronto Star'', Canada's largest circulation newspaper, to review books published by small Canadian publishers. Since then, Archer has been an editor at the alternative arts magazine NOW and the now defunct Eye Weekly. An article written by Archer in Eye Weekly suggests that groping or touching another person without their consent should be legal.〔http://contests.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_04.29.04/op/oped.php〕 That same year Archer wrote another article for Eye Weekly titled Keeping Animals in Their Place.〔http://contests.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_02.12.04/op/oped.php〕 He is the author of ''The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality)'', published in Canada in 1999, in the US〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Books: Bert Archer )〕 in 2002 and the UK〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Vision Paperbacks )〕 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. 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),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GreenTOpia )〕 and a book about water called ''HtO'' (2008),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HtO )〕 excerpted in the ''National Post''.〔http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=942567〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bert Archer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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