Celebrity Interviews

Our first interview in GayCalgary® Magazine was with Dawn Wells, Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island, who we interviewed when she was performing at Stage West Calgary. From there, it grew exponentially. In some editions of the magazine, we could easily have anywhere from 8 to 10 interviews. We have interviewed celebrities like Madonna, Lady Gaga, Chris Pratt, Dolly Parton, Meryl Streep, Cher, Kylie Minogue and so much more. Depending on the interview, some are with video too!

Along with our love for Drag, we have interviewed RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Alaska, Courtney Act, Chi Chi LaRue, Sharon Needles, Bianca Del Rio, Bob the Drag Queen, and Drag Performers that are local to around the world.

Our team of writers at GayCalgary also enjoy our love of Sci-fi, Fantasy and Japanimation, which has us interviewing performers from the Star Trek franchise, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and from Marvel Movies/TV Shows. Amazing interviews with George Takei, Elvira, Jonathan Frakes, Aaron Douglas, Tahmoh Penikett, Wil Wheaton, Nichelle Nichols, Casper Van Dien, Walter Koenig, Bill Paxton, Luke Perry, Brett Dalton, James Marsters, and plenty more!

This is a work in progress since there are over 6,000 articles to review, and many articles need to be updated to our current format. As more content are added, it will be broken down even further into sections.

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Celebrity Interviews

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Alan Carr Lands in Canada

UK Comedian on first Canadian Tour, his friendship with Adele, Drag Race UK, and more.

"We have this weird thing in England where everyone is a ‘national treasure.’ Come off it. They are not a national treasure. I know that person personally and they're an asshole," Alan Carr explained about naming his 2023 tour Regional Trinket.

VIDEO INTERVIEW – Iconic Women in Rock - Evanescence's Amy Lee

Talks About the Band’s New Album “The Bitter Truth”

Amy Lee has become an iconic woman in rock over her career. Since bursting on the scene with Evanescence’s first smash hit Bring Me To Life in 2003....

INTERVIEW - Canadian Teenaged Contemporary Soul/Pop Phenomenon Avery Raquel

Breaking on to Billboard’s Dance Club Song Chart with “Pieces”

The teenaged contemporary Soul/Pop phenomenon Avery Raquel continues to climb the dance charts with the StoneBridge remix of "Pieces," the second single release from her My Heart Away album. "I didn’t think I was ready to hear my music presented so differently," admits the young singer from her Toronto home, "but I am very happy with how it turned out and how well it’s doing with DJ’s and club enthusiasts."....

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Bif Naked remains a champion

Canadian Rocker Releases First Album in 15 years

The August 2005 issue of GayCalgary magazine featured our first interview with Bif Naked. 19 years later, and the singer still stand stall. Marriages, a divorce, a pandemic, beating cancer, moving from BC to Ontario, and many other ups and downs in that time, and released her first album in 15 years, Champion in June....

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Alberta’s Country Star Brett Kissel

Being Away From Social Media and His New Album “What is Life?”

It has been quite a year for Alberta’s Country Star Brett Kissel. The Flat Lake, AB born singer has been back home in the province after living in Nashville for the last few years. A tornado damaged their house in Tennessee, so they came home while repairs were happening....

INTERVIEW - Crazy Sexy Time with Dan Stevens

The “Eurovision” actor talks campy gay role, an early-career gay role, and being a Dan Savage fan

As closeted Russian pop prince Alexander Lemtov, actor Dan Stevens shows up in the Netflix comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga bejeweled in rhinestones, with a moppy head of Wham!-era George Michael hair. He gives double-cheek kisses. He gives invites to his "very crazy sexy" parties. Alexander’s extraness, and that he doesn’t see what other far-less-opulent people do, is the joke. He’s beyond out of touch with the ordinary person, like Lars (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit (Rachel McAdams), small-town Icelandic best friends who become accidental Eurovision contestants and enter into a sing-off against Lemtov.

VIDEO INTERVIEW – Daniel Newman at Whistler Pride 2018

Talks about The Walking Dead, acting and other upcoming projects

It may have taken some time for Daniel Newman's star to shine, but we're glad it finally has. Looking through Daniel's IMDB, you can see a slew of roles for which he is uncredited during his beginning years. Which is a shame, because he has a lot of talent to go with that face. Tall, dark and ginger. We like it...

INTERVIEW - Darcy and Jer Offscreen

Gay couple bring “No Refunds Tour” to Alberta

It seems incredibly appropriate that our interview with Darcy Michael and Jeremy Baer, the Vancouver area couple whose comedic videos have exploded on TikTok and other social media is from their bed in a hotel room in Minneapolis, where they appeared at another jam packed theatre for their current No Refunds tour. The tour arrives at the Winspear Centre in Edmonton June 27th and Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary June 28th.

INTERVIEW - The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife

Dawn Wells, Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island, talks about the StageWest show

Thanks to the wonders of syndication, generations of gay men have grown up wishing they were Ginger or Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island. Fans of the show can see one of its stars, Dawn Wells, up-close at Stage West Dinner Theatre’s production of "The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.". "I really didn’t know about the gay interest until about ten or fifteen years ago, because the gay issue just wasn’t there,"....

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Fortune Feimster Is Giving the Gays Something to Talk About

The comedian on her pandemic success, going hard on the wine and getting closer to an even bigger break

Fortune Feimster’s mouth has been going and going and going. "I talk a lot right now," says the Southern comedian who hails from North Carolina, coughing and clearing her throat as we – that’s right – talk on Zoom.

INTERVIEW - Gentleman Reg

Queer performer breaks boundaries

Not hard to like and definitely easy to love is the young man with the addictive falsetto voice that everyone always wants to liken to someone, but never truly can. Gentleman Reg’s lilting melodies and witty lyrics are guaranteed to bring smiles and joy...

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Gabbing with grandson

It’s been a whirlwind year for Canadian-American singer-songwriter grandson. He toured with Imagine Dragons, crossed Canada with Avril Lavigne, and just wrapped up a European tour. He’s wrapping up the concerts at the Big 4 Roadhouse on the Stampede Grounds on July 17th. We caught up with the man born Jordan Benjamin on a break from his home in LA to talk about his career, activism, and connection to fans.

INTERVIEW - The Queen of The Island of Misfit Boys

Greg Scarnici Talks About his Book ‘Dungeons and Drag Queens’

In his second collection of humorous essays, Greg Scarnici recounts some of his most shocking and scandalous experiences over twenty-five years of summering on New York’s Fire Island. From tea dances in Fire Island Pines to drag competitions in Cherry Grove, nothing is sugarcoated in his new book, Dungeons and Drag Queens....

INTERVIEW - Haaz Sleiman to the Rescue

Actor talks visibility, his gay Marvel kiss and why he wants to play James Bond

Actor Haaz Sleiman is on a mission to take part in stories that broaden the pool of queer perspectives on the screen. And if you already know his work, you know he’s on a roll.

INTERVIEW - Indigo Girls Let Loose

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers talk pandemic life, Trump-era inequality and how Pride can help heal the country’s divisionss

The day before I got on a call with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, famously known as the Indigo Girls, the longtime folk-rock duo and LGBTQ activists were playing a set for fans during a Facebook Live concert. They had planned on performing in public venues, but their set of scheduled dates were canceled due to the pandemic...

INTERVIEW - Janelle Monáe Doesn’t Know Time Either

The queer icon talks ‘too on the nose’ pandemic, LGBTQ representation and Pride plans

I really hadn’t planned on telling queer powerhouse singer-actress-activist Janelle Monáe that I made food for my boyfriend the night before I got on Zoom with her. That afternoon, Monáe was feeling it all. This global pandemic, the quarantining. She told me she can’t even create right now because she doesn’t have the mental bandwidth. When we linked up, her mind was understandably heavy and momentarily adrift.....

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Where Does the Good Go? Jason Mraz Knows

The musician opens up about coming out as bisexual and talks Pride, protesting and our current uprising

The coronavirus pandemic has forced Pride events around the world to go virtual this year. For Jason Mraz, that means he can, for the first time, take part in the annual summer festivities....

INTERVIEW - Inside Jessie Ware’s Queer Utopia

Disco queen settles the gay debate over her new album and talks queer Twitter love, big wigs and pop music’s disco moment

Jessie Ware sees all the fan-sent rainbow emojis on her Twitter feed, and "definitely a lot of Spanish writing and I don’t know what they’re saying to me but I love it," gushes the British balladeer turned disco queen. For the first time since releasing her debut Devotion in 2012, Ware feels a major shift, one her glorious soul-escape album, What’s Your Pleasure?, has afforded her. She says all this crazy queer love (rightly so; the album is, right now, the closest thing we have to a COVID cure...

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Kathy Griffin Leaves Everything Out There

Comic back on the road with Life on the PTSD List tour

"Bad gay, bad gay!" is one of the first things that Kathy Griffin declares when I say that I’ve never been on a gay cruise. The thought of one is somewhat terrifying to me, but Griffin insists that someone needs to experience it.

INTERVIEW - His Black Queerness, Front and Center

“Love, Simon” star Keiynan Lonsdale talks defiant solo album, social justice uprising and embracing his Black queer identity

Once Keiynan Lonsdale made no apologies for who he is, the music followed suit. The star of the CW’s The Flash and 2018’s gay teen comedy Love, Simon celebrates his Black queer identity on his 14-track anthemic solo debut Rainbow Boy.....

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Lindsay Ell Returns Home

Calgarian plays Nashville North at the Calgary Stampede July 14th, 2022

It's been an eventful few years for Lindsay Ell. She released her incredible album Heart Theory in August of 2020 and hosted Canada’s Got Talent which starts filming season 2 soon. She’s been able to tour again as well, which brings her to Nashville North on the Stampede Grounds July 14th, 2022..

INTERVIEW - Slick Chicks

Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines on the queer creators behind the trio’s comeback album & their kinship with the LGBTQ community

Sitting somewhere with an abstract-art background obscuring her precise location, (Dixie) Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines erupts into an explosive maybe-I-shouldn’t cackle during our Zoom call as she talks about how she’s about to get in trouble for saying too much. This time, it’s regarding a controversial decision made by country trio Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum. After the band changed their name in solidarity with the current Black Lives Matter movement, they sued a Black blues singer named Lady A for the trademark to the title. And yes, Maines has something to say about that...

VIDEO INTERVIEW - 27 Years of Our Lady Peace

Speaking with Raine Maida

For nearly 3 decades, Canadian band Our Lady Peace has been a staple of the music scene not only at home, but around the world. Lead by Raine Maida with guitarist Steve Mazur, bassist Duncan Coutts and drummer Jason Pierce, the band recently released their 10th Studio Album Spiritual Machines II and embarked on the Wonderful Future tour. The band plays Oxford Stomp with Kyle McKearney, Serena Ryder, and The Black Crowes on July 15th..

INTERVIEW - Patti LuPone - A Comeback in Quarantine

Stage icon talks 'Hollywood', her basement videos and why ‘Ladies Who Lunch’ will never be the same

In Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood, the wife becomes the boss, the "black screenwriter" is simply a screenwriter, and the gay leading man is just himself. Naturally, it stars Broadway icon Patti LuPone, who, in conversations like the one we had recently, thrives on brazen authenticity.....

VIDEO INTERVIEW - ‘Queer Eye’ Stars on How to Talk to ‘All Lives Matter’ People

Jonathan, Antoni and Karamo weigh in on the Black Lives Matter movement

In this current moment of civil unrest and racial tension, Queer Eye stars Karamo Brown (culture), Jonathan Van Ness (grooming) and Antoni Porowski (food and wine) are speaking out and up about the Black Lives Matter movement and the importance of self-care in sustaining the fight for justice. Their Emmy Award-winning Netflix show, a reboot of the original that also features Bobby Berk (interior design) and Tan France (fashion), has been a model for moving through the world the best you can and by showing up as your best self. So the fifth season, currently on Netflix, couldn’t have come at a better time....

INTERVIEW - The Unlikely History of a Gay Porn Landmark

Filmmaker Rachel Mason on the Netflix doc she made about her parents who ran a gay porn empire

Gay porn is not what straight, religious-conservative married couple Barry and Karen Mason thought they’d become known for. But for over 35 years, they owned a bookstore that sold videos like "Confessions of a Two Dick Slut" and "Meat Me at the Fair" in West Hollywood. And now thanks to their daughter, filmmaker and artist Rachel Mason, her parents’ story is a Netflix documentary....

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Scott Helman Comes Home

Canadian Singer-Songwriter on the road again.

It’s been a busy few years for Canada’s Scott Helman. He moved to LA, got engaged, released 4 singles, and is embarking on his first headline tour since 2019. We caught up with Helman at his mom’s house between rehearsals for the "Back Together" tour that kicks off in Calgary November 29th and Edmonton November 30th.

INTERVIEW - Tori Amos Meets the Muses in Quarantine

Musician talks new book “Resistance”, bad days and wearing your big boy boots

In her second book, Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage, flaming piano queen Tori Amos shares her personal stories against a world-in-crisis backdrop and discusses how they’ve shaped songs from her three-decade career. She ruminates on personal and collective grief and traces her social and political activism as an outspoken LGBTQ activist, feminist and democrat back to Washington D.C....

INTERVIEW - Taking A Bite with Rozette

Calgary Artist Rebrands and Rebuilds

For 20 years Calgary’s Jenn Beaupre has had a musical career that has taken her on a unique path. A contestant on Canadian Idol Season 3, vocal coach, and touring artist, she recently released the single Bite. If P!nk and Robin had a love child, the brassy, explosive alter ego Rozette captures the attention of anyone who listens to the track.....

INTERVIEW - The Many Layers of Tedy

Canadian Queer Singer on his YouTube past, writing relatable music, and Scandalous new album

On November 25th, Montreal’s Tedy released the album Scandalous. Featuring 9 songs the Queer Haitian-born singer describes the album as a diary....

Celebrity Interviews - Drag Performers

VIDEO INTERVIEW – BibleGirl at the Palace Nightclub in Calgary

Talks about drag, 420, and traveling to Canada

Back in 2017, GayCalgary interviewed the very talented Biblegirl at a Werked: The L.A. Takeover, held at the Palace Nightclub in Calgary. The casual conversation happened at the end of the night, right after the closing drag numbers. Check out her online store for merchandise for hundreds of performers and drag queens...

INTERVIEW - ‘Pride is the People’

Bob the Drag Queen on creating connection during Pride in era of COVID-19.

Maintaining a packed schedule can be tricky for drag queens at the best of times, but for Bob the Drag Queen, even a global pandemic can’t keep her down. Despite heading into a Pride season filled with nearly across-the-board event cancellations and postponements due to the novel coronavirus, the season eight winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race is regularly making appearances across the virtual stage everywhere..

INTERVIEW - All Hail Queen Priyanka!

Canada’s First Drag Superstar Driving into Calgary This Weekend

Talking to the first winner of Canada’s Drag Race, Priyanka, is exactly like you would expect. Her energy and enthusiasm leaps through the phone. Delayed almost an hour for our interview because of rehearsals for the Canada’s Drag Race At The Drive In tour that kicks off this weekend at TELUS SPARK, she immediately showed her Canadian-ness with apologies...

INTERVIEW: Violet vs. Gottmik

Knockout Tour Hits Alberta

It’s a showdown of the Queens this week as Gottmik and Violet Chachki bring their Knockout Tour to Edmonton October 22, Calgary October 23 and Vancouver October 28th. GayCalgary.com caught up with the two recently in advance of the shows....

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