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June 2014

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Articles in the June 2014 Edition

A Humanist Chaplain on Connecting Believers & Atheists

Chris Stedman is an American writer, interfaith activist, and author of the memoir Faitheist. He serves as the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University...

Like wine, the festival gets better with age

Despite turning 34 this year there are still many firsts for the Edmonton Pride Festival, which is larger and more recognized than ever. A lot has changed...

Stars of the Stage and Screen

Third Street Theatre to raise funds Oscar Party style

For its inaugural fundraising gala night, Calgary’s Third Street Theatre is literally pulling out the red carpets and promising attendees a night of opulence...

ConnecTeen at the Expo

ConnecTeen is a program offered by the Distress Centre Calgary, functioning as a confidential peer support service for youth in Calgary and area. The Calgary...

Summer of Queer Fun

Womonspace Campout and Carol Cattell Golf Tournament this July

Womonspace has been a prominent feature of the LGBT community in Edmonton since its inception in 1981. What began as a support group has expanded into...

Alberta’s Progressive Surrogacy Laws

Lawyer Ellen Embury praises the system and its end results

All around the world, LGBT couples are beset with struggles when it comes to welcoming children into their families. Adoption and surrogacy processes range...

Parenting Proud

Asking for Help

Since becoming new fathers last summer our lives have been turned upside down in too many ways to count here. Mostly it has been a really fun ride. All...

Pioneering in American Football

It finally happened: we now have an openly gay athlete playing for one of the major team sports (those being hockey, football, and basketball). We have...

Discussing Community Safety

Tips on Keeping your Home and Person Safe this Summer

Hello again everyone – and it’s a welcome return to the warmer weather. Hopefully we have seen the last of the snow and we can look forward to lots of...

It’s Rodeo Time!

Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association is set to wrangle an impressive show

From its humble beginnings in 1991, the Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association (ARGRA) has grown to host one of the defining events of southern Alberta...

Getting Blunt with Whoopi Goldberg

Entertainer shrugs off gay rumors, talks being ‘claimed’ by the LGBT community

Never one to give a flying you-know-what, Whoopi Goldberg has made a career out of not caring. Ask her about her sexuality – to some, a lingering enigma...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Queen Latifah will bend it like Bessie

So she’s never returned to the glorious swagger of her stone-butch, bank-robbin’ Set It Off days. And she’s being very old-school Jodie about talking/not-talking...

Lethbridge Pride Fest Turns Six

Growing celebration moves to July

As the Lethbridge Pride Fest grows up, it’s also growing in numbers, from just a table party to what it has become today. For the first time ever the...

Hans M. Hirschi’s stories are a mirror on today’s LGBT community, the first generation able to legally marry and have children. Each tale in his...

Dan Parent & Archie Comics

Reflecting on Kevin Keller

At this year’s Calgary Expo I had a chance to catch up with American comic book writer and artist Dan Parent. You may remember him as the man who gave...

Swimming in Poems

Author Dale Kwong Intertwines Self-Exploration with Nature’s Curse

As the end of the Creative Non-Fiction Collective Society (CNFCS)’s annual conference crept closer to its end the evening got more interesting. The event...

Fiddler on The Roof

Steeped in Tradition

The final two shows of the 2013/2014 Stage West season is a contrast of modern and traditional. The season will wrap up with Avenue Q opening June 26th...

Weekend in Philadelphia

Spring is a wonderful time to visit vibrant Philadelphia (visitphilly.com/c/gay), home to some of the most important and fascinating art museums and historic...

The Wheel Pro’s

Cruise Slick this Summer

Like spring wardrobe rotation, as summer heats up and we stash back into distant drawers the heavy garb of winter, the tires on your car are also begging...

Throwin’ Shade

10 Super-Hot Sunglasses for Stylin’ and Profilin’ This Summer

After a brutal winter that left most of us begging for mercy, it’s finally time to enjoy some fun in the sun. To help you step out in take-that-snow-and-shove-it...

Liz Vassey Pops her Con Cherry in Calgary

Actress on new favourite vocation, keeping lean, and chasing Kristin Bauer

She’s candid, approachable and humble. One might nary guess her lengthy career in Hollywood by the amicable voice that flows from the mouth of ex-soap...

Bluesman, Actor, Legend

When Jim Byrnes shook my hand, I couldn’t help but think of the extraordinary amount of time, practice, and talent that has been channeled through it over...

Broadway Legend coming to Edmonton

Landing the understudy role of Glinda in the Broadway hit Wicked right out of college, fame seemed to always be in the cards for actress Megan Hilty. Not...

Cheers to Summer

10 Must-Have Drink Recipes to Sip in the Sun

1. Cherry POM While Southern Comfort-loving frat boys are slinging back Soco and Limes like their paddles depend on it – because heterosexuality is only...

Free Lily Allen

‘Sheezus’ talks ‘fag hag’ epiphany, doing Beyoncé drag and haters

Rebellious and fearless, Lily Allen has slayed some egos in her time. But with Allen’s recently released third album, Sheezus, the tabloid target is experiencing...

Sarah McLachlan Shines On

Musician on making out with women, the public’s curiosity about her sexuality and the time she inspired a transgender kid

If you’re still wondering whether the soundtrack to all your heartache, Sarah McLachlan, swings both ways because she plays the guitar and she’s earthy...

Gee Golly, It’s Dolly Parton

Legend talks boobs, drag and Christianity

When Dolly Parton calls you, greeting you by name with her unmistakable Tennessee twang, it’s a good idea to immediately establish that the lady on the...

Jonny McGovern is Sooooo Gay

In The Gayest Video Special of All Time

"Fans were always asking to know what happens on the set of a Jonny McGovern video," says Skot Video, the Emmy nominated director of Jonny’s...

NSFW INTERVIEW - Levi Karter

Porn star on getting his six pack, breaking into the industry, and being more brazen live

Pride season is roaring toward us once again, and one of its signature Alberta events is Edmonton’s PURE Pride dance. Anybody lucky enough to attend will...

In the Know Fundraiser, Calgary http://gaycalgary.com/pa728 ISCWR at Queer Prom, Edmonton photos by J & B ISCWR College Show at Evolution, Edmonton photos...

A Couple of Guys

BADRICK’S LOCK STOCK AND BARREL BAR - All-in-One Soap is Infused With Natural Oils http://www.gaycalgary.com/n1343 Director Malcolm Ingram Tackles...

Mr. GayCalgary June 2014 - Shane Madden

Shane Madden has competed in ARGRA’s Canadian Rockies International Rodeo for about 12 years, and has participated in other rodeos throughout the United...

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...

Online Articles this Month

Editorial Cartoon

Creep of the Week

Robert R. Reilly

When the author of the book "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything" writes in his introduction, "It...

Lykke Li, Lily Allen, Natalie Merchant, Disclosure

Lykke Li, I Never Learn Because it’s Lykke Li, heartache is the obvious impetus for I Never Learn, a ceaseless outpouring of dire, pillow-soaked woe...

Editorial Cartoon

Creep Of The Week

Okay, let’s get one thing straight here. If you are an everyday American citizen (a commoner, let’s say), you have very little legal power in the United...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Physician, heal thy closeted self

A new doctor show is coming to television. Yes, yes, we know, there’s always a new doctor show coming to television. But The Night Shift, premiering May...

Creep of the Week

Dr. Robi Ludwig

Another day, another terrible thing happening in this world and another person trying to pin it on the gays. Piece of shit garbage person Elliot Rodger...

Editorial Cartoon

Putin and Snowden

Creep of the Week

Charles Van Zant

It used to be if you wanted to make a right-wing conservative freak out all you had to do was show them a photo of two dudes kissing. Granted, that still...

Mariah Carey, Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse

With the glorious powerhouse "Vanishing," off her star-making 1990 debut, Mariah Carey couldn’t have known she’d be foreshadowing another release...

Editorial Cartoon

Michael Bublé's Calgary Date Night Fun and Sexy

“A concert is like a date. I get to know you, you get to know me, and if things go well at the end of the night we will be having dirty sex in the back...

Cher & Cyndi Lauper Bring Timeless Spectacle to Saddledome

Just shy of a decade ago Cher said goodbye to Calgary (her second go round on her Living Proof Farewell tour.) Now 68 the ageless icon returned to Calgary...

Queen & Adam Lambert Champion Showmen

June 26th was a tough night to be a classic rock fan. While Heart was rocking out at the Jubilee Auditorium with a show that included a set of Led Zepplin...

Musical for the Cheeriest of Adults

It was not a musical for the bitter at heart, or for those who can barely sit through a Disney film. This past month, Cappuccino Musical Theatre presented...

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