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Articles in the June 2015 Edition

NSFW - Interview with David Benjamin - The Perks of Maturity

What he was wearing during the interview

To watch the special X-Rated part of the interview you will need a FREE account on the GayCalgary Magazine website and be over the age of 18 to view...

Coming Soon to a Rodeo Stage Near You

The mixed martial arts extravaganza of Tebey, and the literary prowess of Carly’s Angels

Okay, maybe both Carly and Tebey would disagree with such descriptions, seeing as Tebey is a country music singer and Carly’s Angels perform a comedic...

Jully Black

Canada’s R&B star on Pride, her career, and going independent

It was May 15th, 2008. Jully Black, fresh off the success of her single "Seven Day Fool", played a concert at the Grande Theatre. The high-energy...

Lethbridge Pride

Bigger budget means bigger festival

A lot can change in seven years and, for Lethbridge Pride Fest, a lot has. And that’s a good thing. Armed with a bigger budget than ever, and its...

Buckle Up

This summer’s CRIR festivities promise rompin’ good time

The first sanctioned Canadian Rockies International Rodeo (CRIR) was held modestly in 1994, marking this year’s festivities as the 22nd annual rodeo. Travellers...

Irish Pluck Moves Equality Forward

The equal marriage movement – and make no mistake, it is a movement – is slowly spreading out across the Western world, with Ireland being the latest nation...

Community Safety

Avoid becoming a victim of fraud, and know what to do if you are

Hello again everyone. Well, summer is here and that can only mean one thing, right? The ARGRA Rodeo! Buckle up and head down to the rodeo grounds in Strathmore...

Positive Thoughts

Surviving With Pride

The month of June is typically jam-packed with parades, events and festivities that bring many of us in the LGBTQ community together to revel in our uniqueness...

Toronto Murals Inspire Important Discourse

Artists create work to reflect on marriage equality and representation in sport

Colourful painted stick figures topped with mosaic circles are springing up on a Toronto underpass. On their own, they don’t look like much, but when they’re...

Calgary Expo

Exuding love one decade strong, talk with Teddy Wilson of “InnerSpace”

This year, the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo celebrated its tenth anniversary. It has been a long ride and this year, without exception, was peppered...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Rocky Horror remake, Judd Apatow, Animal Crackers, and JT LeRoy

Rocky Horror: The TV Remake. Yep. Like all unnecessary remakes, this one was, perhaps, inevitable. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 40 years old now, was...

Kira Isabella! We still love you

Performing at CRIR 2015

At 20 most people are still settling into their post-secondary education or, perhaps, getting a raise at their first or second job. Some of us, however...

The Emboldened Girls

A candid conversation with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin is watching Jane Fonda weep. As the showbiz icon releases a steady stream of waterworks – she’s "wiping tears away," Tomlin notes...

Summer Style Sheet

Beach-Ready Accessories That Make a Splash

Just because summer is cause to shed the confines of clothing to celebrate the skin you’re in, reality is, we can’t go commando everywhere. For those times...

Britney Spears is coming to Edmonton Pride!!

Well, sort of. Interview with talented performer Derrick Barry

Derrick Barry, America’s Got Talent competitor and Vegas performer, is bringing his rather astoundingly effective Britney Spears’ show to Edmonton. This...

Purely Adore

Adore Delano comes to Edmonton’s Pure Pride

On June 6th Pure Pride hits the Starlite Room with a loaded evening of entertainment that includes Adam Killian, Britney Spears impersonator Derek Berry...

David Benjamin - The Perks of Maturity

Being at Evolution Wonder Lounge for Edmonton Pride, modeling for Cell Block 13 and Falcon Studios

It has been a year since we spoke to the charming and affable David Benjamin, and a lot has happened for him in this last spin around the sun. When we...

Josh Groban Bears All

Troubadour talks bear fans, drag queens, gay rumors and his dream Broadway role

It all began with the bears. "I’m like, ‘Are you a baseball team?’" says Josh Groban, recalling an early-career encounter with a man who informed...

Queer Eye

All Tease All Shade Pirate Burlesque at Evolution, Edmonton photos by Kurtis Allan ISCWR - Leather Feathers and Fur at Evolution, Edmonton photos by...

Keep Reaching for the Stars

A Couple of Guys

Bragging Rights and Wrongs

News Releases

Do You Have Facial Feces? Sporting a lumbersexual beard may not be as hot as you think according to a survey conducted by a TV news crew in New Mexico.... http://www.gaycalgary.com/n1839...

Ms. GayCalgary June 2015

Janie Van Santen

Odds are, if you have been in Calgary for a bit of a time, you have met Ms. GayCalgary, Janie Van Santen. As current rodeo director for the Alberta Rockies...

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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Patchwork

Chicago Gets Bougie This Pride

Pride Wars have long been fought between San Francisco and New York, and why not? Both are high-class cities with fabulous things to see and do. San...

Creep of the Week

Josh Duggar

By now you've probably heard about the scandalous revelation that Josh Duggar, the oldest child of the Duggar clan, has admitted to molesting five underage...

Alabama's Chief Justice Roy Moore has something to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, and it's going to be hard to hear. Now, if you're in the habit of...

Hear Me Out

Best of 2015 (...So Far)

Shamir, Ratchet The latest wave of gender-defying youth just got wavier with Shamir, a 20-year-old cutie-patootie from Vegas who’s tearing down rigid...

I confess. Once upon a time I thought Mike Huckabee seemed like a nice guy. Granted I disagreed with him on just about every issue imaginable. I thought...

Fact: Michigan's Republicans, who are literally in charge of every branch of state government, do not give a shit about kids. In case that wasn't clear...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Tom Ford, 'Fun Home,' Kristen Stewart, 'Out in the Night'

Tom Ford speaks, gets $20 Million At the recent Cannes Film Festival, Tom Ford announced his intention to make his next feature, Nocturnal Animals, and...

Editorial Cartoon

Courage!

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