 The column debuted in July 1996 and ran in several alternative newsweeklies, LGBTQ publications and websites, including "Vue Weekly" (Edmonton), "Uptown" (Winnipeg), "Pulse Niagara", "View Magazine" (Hamilton), "Echo Weekly" (Kitchener), "Ottawa XPress", "Fab" (Toronto), "Here magazine" (New Brunswick), "Current magazine" (Newfoundland and Labrador), the "Tampa Bay Gazette," 365Gay.com and GayWired.com, for 15 years.Three Dollar Bill was the first—and remains the only—syndicated LGBTQ column in Canadian publishing history.The column first made national news in September 1998 when Winnipeg’s "Uptown" magazine dropped the column after one installment ignited a citywide furor over gay sex.