Since summer we have been showing Aids Vancouver’s "How do you know what you know" campaign on our Video Ads, Terminal Screen Savers, and even donating Ad space for it in our magazine. This issue we’re proud to feature their thank-you letter. In addition, we received congratulation letters from Joe Ceci and Madeleine King who are Calgary Aldermen re-elected in the recent Municipal Elections.
Crowns for Kids had an amazing kick-off party at Solar Café – the amount of gifts they collected and money they raised was staggering! But it’s not over yet – check our events calendar under ISCCA for a list of events to come. For more information on what Crowns for Kids is all about, grab December 2003 from our back issues – we have a full article about them. Also, it was awesome that they were featured on Global News! It showed an interview with Mz. Rhonda who started Crowns for Kids, as well as some shots of Solar Café and some other gay spots. We had a good chuckle at the friendly banter between Mz. Rhonda and Christine from B&D Emporium – classic!
The Grand Opening of Calgary’s latest gay nightspot, The Twisted Element, was out of this world! "We expected it to be busy, but not THIS busy," the owners told us. So as we have done for other establishments, we put down our cameras and helped bus tables for that night...and the next night too. Things have calmed down a little (not by much, but now they’re ready for it), and while we’re sitting back and relaxing we’ve had people come up to us and say "Shouldn’t you be working?" Ok, enough ribbing guys! But seriously, we recommend you get there sooner rather than later to avoid the line-ups. They do have a strict fire-safety capacity, and once they reach it they have to wait for people leave before they can let more in. Those are the rules, and all bars have to follow them. C’est la Vie.
Last year we had a booth at the Everything to do about Sex Show. This year they renamed it Taboo, and once again we had a booth ...a gay booth in a sea of stuff mostly for straight people. Nonetheless we had a great time! It was fun to watch the straight people react to the Detours God Save the Queens drag shows we were playing. Thankfully we had people to talk to as we ran into lots of gay individuals that we knew, and many that we didn’t. It was rewarding to hear so many of them say that they’d been reading our magazine right from the start, and we had all our back issues present for those who hadn’t. There were also lots that were out of the loop, so we told them about some of the newer gay locations like Solar Café, Indulge, and Twisted Element. So it was definitely worthwhile being there, but it’s going to be a while before we feel up to eating any of those mini-doughnuts again...
Happy Holidays Everyone!
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Contributor Rob Diaz-Marino |
Locale Calgary |
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