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GayCalgary® Magazine

December 2014

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Articles in the December 2014 Edition
With Bells On
Instilling Heart Warming Christmas Cheer Five Years Strong
It is rare in the theatre world that an actor gets to perform a role he loves a solid 100 times over. But, on December 24th 2014, closing night of famed...
Bill 10
PCs ruthlessly handle an appeal for equal student rights
She was sad, brought to tears, then angry, but one thing Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman is not is resigned. Despite never getting the chance to debate her...
Billy Talent Celebrates 21 Years With Hits
Greatest Hits Package Reflects on Success
Starting with "Try Honesty" from their self-titled 2003 album, Mississauga band Billy Talent has been a staple on the international music scene...
Lethbridge’s Club Didi
More than just a club
Lethbridge has a lot of cool things happening in the gay community and beloved Club Didi is one of those integral parts of the equation. Starting out initially...
An Interview With Leslie Jordan
Comic actor talks Will & Grace, Horror Story and female icons
Leslie Jordan is a dream interview. While best known for his Emmy Award winning role as Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace, he is recently featured as...
’80s Solid Gold
Stage West Musical Revue a glorious trip down memory lane
It appears that Stage West is making an effort to target new attendees. With Avenue Q running this past summer, Monty Python’s Spamalot scheduled for April...
Bill 202
It was Really Just “Equality 101”
While it’s good that the provincial Liberals introduced Bill 202, a bill making the establishing of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) mandatory in all schools...
Discussing Community Safety
Staying secure for the holidays
Hello everyone. Well, here we are again, rapidly approaching the holiday season. Time flies when you are having fun! I hope you have been managing to stay...
Philips Hairclipper Series 7000
Cordless, Powerful and Built to Last
Being the hairy bear that I am, when GayCalgary was sent a hair clipper to review, I was originally not too excited about it. I have owned several different...
Give a HIVCL Holiday Hamper
Help brighten the holiday season for someone living with HIV
At HIV Community Link, we know the holiday season can be a stressful time for many. It can be even more difficult for a lot of our clients, many of whom...
Pride with a Chance of Cho
Margaret Cho headlines Whistler Pride Festival
Gay and lesbian winter enthusiasts will take over Whistler January 24th to 31st and, as part of the week-long festival, comic Margaret Cho will take the...
Deep Inside Hollywood
Zachary Quinto meets The Girl Who Invented Kissing
Zachary Quinto landed himself in some hot water recently over his comments regarding gay men and their alleged "laziness" when it comes to HIV...
Parenting Proud
Defying the Stereotype
Now that my husband and I have put some significant parenting miles in our life’s rearview mirror – nearly two years now – we have started experiencing...
Reinventing Safer Sex
Introducing PrEP
There’s a new way to protect yourself from HIV. PrEP stands for "pre-exposure prophylaxis". It’s a pill-a-day to keep HIV away. The pill, Truvada...
From the Conners to the McCarthys
Laurie Metcalf talks roles on gay-inclusive sitcoms
There’s no question that Roseanne, a show centered on the Conners, was one of the most influential TV shows of all time. Just look: Gay marriage is now...
Birth of a Goddess
Breakout musician Banks talks prison fans, Tracy Chapman’s gender and newfound fame
Jillian Banks is a long way away from being a gay icon, but she’s off to a good start. Like Madonna and Cher, the moody Los Angeles songstress is a one-name...
A Hader You Can Love
SNL alumnus Bill Hader talks tasty men, Stefon and his ‘license to be totally fabulous’
Saturday night is a lot less spicy without Stefon, the fabulous "Weekend Update" club correspondent that turned actor Bill Hader into a comic...
Jessica Nigri
Popular to Contrary Belief
"In the news today, Calgary got so much snow it broke all of their branches!" That is how Jessica Nigri greets all of the journalists who have...
Out of Town
Puerto Vallarta
It’s hard to name a gay resort destination in North America that has more going for it than Puerto Vallarta, a fast-growing city on the Pacific Coast’s...
Aerannis
Indie gamers devs ektomarch are producing a slick retro platformer with a trans protagonist
Anybody who has grown up as part of a minority group – whether it be due to their race, their sexuality, or their gender identity – knows just how tough...
The Missing Footage from Drag Race
Dipping into BenDeLaCreme
The career of BenDeLaCreme has skyrocketed since she appeared on Season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. About to embark on the Battle of the Seasons tour, GayCalgary...
Sharon Needles Returns
Season 4 winner injects her style into Battle of the Seasons tour
It is funny how a small moment can become part of pop culture. When the party supply chain Party City started opening stores in Alberta many RuPaul’s Drag...
‘Divine’ Intervention
Bette Midler talks early LGBT support, ‘diva’ degradation, twerking and equal wig rights
Before the whole world knew her as "The Divine Miss M," Bette Milder was ours. In the early ’70s, bawdy, belt-y Bette was performing for the...
Queer Eye
BEEF BEAR BASH! at Evolution, Edmonton http://gaycalgary.com/pa891 2nd Annual Sapien Family Xmas Party at Ten Nightclub, Calgary http://gaycalgary.com/pa889 Doin...
A Couple of Guys
News Releases
NSFW - Do Gay Men Brag About Their “Sexual Strength” More than Straight Men? http://www.gaycalgary.com/n1642 Federal Court Ruling Opens Marriage to More...
Mr. GayCalgary December 2014
Reid Hollander
Reid Hollander is known to some as Lethbridge’s ‘gay godfather’, earning the nickname by "trying to provide everything for everybody." Whether...
FIND OUT!
LGBT Community Directory
GayCalgary Magazine is the go-to source for information about Alberta LGBT businesses and community groups—the most extensive and accurate resource of...
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Online Articles this Month
Hear Me Out
Best of 2014
10. Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues Breaking from the aggressive rock roar of Against Me!’s sixth LP is "Two Coffins," a whisper among...
Creep of the Week
Pat Robertson
Sound the alarms, everybody! Crazy old televangelist Pat Robertson has gone and exposed the deep dark secret of lesbian and gay people and there’s no putting...
The OutField
‘Big News’ on the LGBT sports front
Back in the day – "the day" being, say, 2012 – an athlete coming out as gay or lesbian was Big News. In 2014, you had to do something really...
A Couple of Guys
Higher Education
Jason Walker’s ‘Heart’ Beats
Jason Walker hit the national spotlight with a winning performance on American TV’s It’s Show Time at the Apollo. Soon afterward, Junior Vasquez signed...
Deep Inside Hollywood
Margaret Cho is All About Sex
Sure, TLC gave us the anti-gay scourge that is the Duggars. But here’s some good news: We’re getting a new Margaret Cho series. It’s called All About Sex...
Screen Queen
The Gift Guide
FOR THE NOSTALGIA Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Series For queers of every kind, Pee-wee's Playhouse was a place to hang without feeling weird about...
Editorial Cartoon
Reparative Therapy
A Couple of Guys
Throuple Trouble
Deep Inside Hollywood
The Year in Gay
Once upon a time, in the bad old days of closets and media resistance to gay stories of any sort (much less attempts to cover the entire LGBT spectrum...
The Frivolist
7 TV Drinking Games to Keep You Warm and Toasty All Winter Long
All that snow on the ground got you down? Perk up and pour yourself some hooch as you settle in for a winter’s worth of critically acclaimed TV and these...
Editorial Cartoon
Religious Freedom Restoration Act
A Couple of Guys
Brooding About a Brood
Creep of the Week
Stacy Swimp
LGBT people aren't covered under Michigan's anti-discrimination law. Meaning you could, for example, be fired for being gay and your employer would be...
Hear Me Out
Mary J. Blige, Carrie Underwood, Calvin Harris, Haerts
Mary J. Blige, The London Sessions Nobody was sensing Mary J. Blige needed a change more than Mary J. Blige. To reinvent her sound, which she says was...
Editorial Cartoon
Coming Attractions
The Frivolist - Going Halfsies
5 New Year’s Resolutions to Make (and 5 Not to Make) in 2015
Making New Year’s resolutions is a tradition in which many of us partake but very few follow through. The reason for that annual abandonment of our would-be...
The Frivolist - Be Mine on a Dime
10 Ways to Show Your Love Without Spending a Fortune
In this age of fleeting swipe-right relationships, consider yourself lucky if you’ve got someone to call your own this Valentine’s Day. To show him or...
Creep of the Week
Randy Thomasson
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and these are desperate times for anti-gay "marriage defenders" like Randy Thomasson of Save California...
A Couple of Guys
Humpy Day
Editorial Cartoon
And Steppe On It
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