During twenty years in television - in Sydney, Melbourne and Los Angeles - Victor worked on shows in various formats. Previously, as a theatre critic, he agitated for the cause of Australian writing for the stage and was a member of the politically active Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory Theatre in Carlton, Victoria. During the 1970s and early 80s he spent more than a decade of rigorous but blissful life as a monk, teaching meditation on behalf of his guru in a dozen countries throughout East Asia, North America, Australia and the South Pacific.Victor earned his PhD at the University of Queensland with a study of spiritual autobiographies by gay men and a dissertation titled, The Journey of the Queer 'I'. His 2010 book Mr Isherwood Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood and the search for the 'home-self' focused on Isherwood's often neglected religious writing and his 40 relationship with his guru, Swami Prabhavananda, the head of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, in Hollywood California.In 2011, Victor compiled and edited a collection of essays: Speak Now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage for the Melbourne publisher, Clouds of Magellan. Retired High Court Justice Michael Kirby contributed a Foreword to the collection.His most recent book is the autobiographical The Boy in the Yellow Dress. In addition to many articles and contributed chapters for academic journals and essay collections, recent short memoir pieces have appeared in Griffith REVIEW and Wilde magazine.