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GayCalgary® Magazine

June 2013

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Articles in the June 2013 Edition
Hidden Treasures
Publisher’s Column
On occasion there are events going on in Alberta’s LGBT community that manage to completely elude us.  Surprising, I know, when we are informed about...
Edmonton Pride 2013
The LGBT community in Alberta’s capital city are taking a bold stand to ensure the message of Pride rings loud and clear. Edmonton’s LGBT community has...
VIDEO INTERVIEW - Walter Koenig
Mr. Chekov Beams into Calgary
Walter Koenig, the original "Pavel Chekov" from Star Trek, was in town for the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo in April. One of the unfortunate...
VIDEO - Stephen Sadowski
Super-artist drawing Superheroes
Besides a lot of the big name talent attending the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, we also keep a watch for other LGBT talent or talent that actively...
Made in Calgary: The 1970s
A Decade of Timeless Art Revisited at the Glenbow Museum
In the second of five ten-year eras of Calgarian art to be celebrated at the Glenbow, Made in Calgary: the 1970s offers an intimate array of eclectic pieces...
Discussing Community Safety
Personal Safety
Hello again everyone. This is the last article before my first big community event of the year, the ARGRA rodeo out at Strathmore that runs from June 28th...
CRIR 2013
20 Years of Rodeo Fun & Memories
June 28th to 30th marks the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Rockies International Rodeo and Music Festival. In April, I spoke with ARGRA Communications...
Heart in Motion
A conversation with Christian music legend Amy Grant
A call from Amy Grant started as these promo chats usually do. Hellos were exchanged, small talk was made and questions about her first studio album of...
Peace River Pride 2013
Peace River, Alberta will host their third annual all ages Peace River Regional Pride weekend June 14th to 16th. The 2013 edition has both the community...
Deep Inside Hollywood
Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are guys who need dolls
A Guys and Dolls movie with Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Is it Awesome Ideas Week or something? Because in a world of cringe-inducing...
Cocktail Chatter
The Gin Rickey
"Whatcha makin’, hot stuff?" I was at the kitchen island mixing an experimental drink; I felt the hand slip around my stomach and jumped slightly before...
Blood: It’s In You To Give…Maybe
Canadian Blood Services (CBS), in conjunction with Héma-Québec, after years of disallowing any man who had sex with men since 1977 to donate blood, has...
Team Edmonton Honoured
Last month came the announcement that Team Edmonton has been awarded an Honourable Mention of the Lieutenant Governor’s Leadership for Active Communities...
Letters
Dear GayCalgary, I for one 100% agree with "Hockey Night In Canada" (HNIC) on CBC Sports commentator Donald S. Cherry on the issue of not allowing...
Maverick Jim
The Gay Caballero
Jim Saville’s life is a bit like Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. There’s the dramatic, pounding keyboard opening as the 17 year old man leaves Nowhere...
Out of Town
4 Unconventional Gay Seaside Getaways
Beach vacations come in many forms, especially in the context of gay and lesbian travel. Years ago, GLBT travelers seeking summer fun at the shore tended...
Lethbridge Gay Pride
Everyone loves a colourful parade and for the first time in its five year history, Lethbridge Pride Fest will be hosting one in celebration of its half-decade...
Natalie Maines Gets Real
Dixie Chicks singer talks lesbian hair, Rachel Maddow crush and ‘fake’ country music
To quote a Dixie Chicks song, fearless frontwoman Natalie Maines has "been a longtime gone." Seven years after one of the most successful country...
Rewriting Jessie Ware
Singer on career switch, big gay following and her wildest moment
With all the due praise for Jessie Ware’s honeyed debut, Devotion, including a Mercury Prize nomination, no one’s complaining that the Londoner dropped...
Olly Murs Invasion
British crooner on exhibitionism, gay rumors and cracking America
Olly Murs isn’t your average straight dude. The U.K. X Factor alum, who recently released his proper stateside debut Right Place Right Time, has stripped...
Seth Knight
“Twink of the Year” comes to PURE Pride Edmonton
Festival season is kicking off once more, and Edmonton’s Pride week is right near the top of the docket. Organized by PURE Pride Entertainment, PURE Pride...
A Bombshell with a Beautiful Heart
Jujubee lights up Edmonton’s PURE Pride night
On Saturday, June 8th any fan of drag not in Edmonton’s Starlite Room will surely be burning with envy. Pure Pride 2013 was lucky to land blossoming star...
Queer Eye
Edmonton Queer Promphotos by B&J and Karen Hofmann ISCWR - Leather Feathers and Furphotos by B&J and Rob Browatzke Annual LGBT Campout in...
A Couple of Guys
Mr. GayCalgary June 2013 - Darrel Reid
Despite admitting he never left the campground during his first visit to the ARGRA Rodeo in 1999, Darrel Reid has come a long way.  He has been on...
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
Getting Your First Home Loan
If this is your first time buying a home, the process to get your first home loan can seem complicated. Applying for your first home loan can be tricky...
How to Find Your Man
It is a universally acknowledged truth that a bottom boy with a bubble butt must be in need of a hung top. That particular problem of the gay world was...
Editorial Cartoon
Redefining Marriage
Creep of the Week
Noson Leiter
The Christian-dominated religious right in America is not exactly known for being BFFs with Jews. I mean, there’s that whole "Your people killed Jesus"...
Deep Inside Hollywood
Casting call: the gay and the anti-Gay
We reported earlier about the in-development HBO "gay friends" sitcom/dramedy from filmmaker Andrew Haigh (Weekend) and Michael Lannon (assistant director...
Hear Me Out
Patty Griffin, James Blake
Patty Griffin, American Kid Ever since her rootsy 1996 debut Living with Ghosts, Patty Griffin has found inspiration in the deep, dark corners of...
Screen Queen
Guilt Trip, Django Unchained, The Impossible, Silver Linings Playbook, This Is 40, A Monster in Paris, Bachelorette, Funny Girl
The Guilt Trip Playing down the divadom, Barbra Streisand masticates a mammoth steak and wears mom jeans for her first leading-actress role since...
The OutField
A tale of two coming-out stories
When Jason Collins came out last month, Helen Carroll was furious. The longtime sports project director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights had...
Editorial Cartoon
Immigration
Thinking Out Loud: Cuba, I’m proud of you!
It’s happening here, it’s happening there, it’s happening regardless of politics.
In the information packet for my recent trip to Cuba, I immediately noticed this small caveat: "While Cuba is becoming more and more open-minded with regard...
Hear Me Out
Vampire Weekend, The Great Gatsby
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend puts down the horchata and ponders death without religion and this misguided generation...
Editorial Cartoon
Manscaping Commercial
Creep of the Week
E. W. Jackson
Oh, Virginia, you crazy. And if you need proof you need look no further than, E. W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Jackson...
Editorial Cartoon
Gov. Perry and BSA
Creep of the Week
Bryan Fischer
Did you hear the news? It’s now okay to be a gay Boy Scout. But you still can’t be a gay Man Scout. Because as we all know, the second a gay male turns...
On Interviewing Amy Grant
Why the Christian music icon’s first gay press interview almost didn’t happen
Back in the mid-’90s, I watched from my seat at The Palace of Auburn Hills, just outside Detroit, as kids circled Amy Grant onstage with overzealous glee...
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