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December 2013

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Articles in the December 2013 Edition
Floyd Visser
The Picture of Dedication
Regular readers will remember Floyd Visser as an entirely deserving Mr. GayCalgary for November 2013. Executive director for Calgary’s Society Housing...
The Nutcracker
An Alberta Ballet holiday tradition
For many fans of ballet, The Nutcracker is the first production that made them fall in love with the world of dance. Considering the scope and prodigiousness...
With Bells On
A Guys in Disguise Holiday Tradition
"Drag is really good at ignoring real life, and real life is really good at not knowing drag is there. So when they’re forced to actually deal with...
Introducing Steven Taetz, Electro-Cowboy
Steven Taetz, Alberta-born gay dance music singer-songwriter, is talking to us from New York, from where he’s embarking on a North American tour of...country...
Marina Sirtis Gets Political
Attending the recent Lethbridge Entertainment Expo was actress Marina Sirtis, famously known for her portrayal of Counselor Deanna Troi on the hit sci-fi...
2014 Gay Games
Albertan LGBT athletes take note: the 2014 edition of the Gay Games, one of the biggest sports and cultural festivals in the world, is coming to the Northern...
XELLE Waves the Red Flag
The name XELLE has multiple meanings.  It represents how the band strives to excel in everything they do: their music, videos, and live shows.  ...
Discussing Community Safety
Holiday Crime Prevention Tips
Hello again everyone.  Well, it’s that time of year again...yes, frigid temperatures and tons of snow!  In all seriousness, it’s the Holiday...
HIV Community Link
December marks the beginning of a new era for the AIDS Calgary Awareness Association. Over the years the organization has grown to cater not just to Calgary...
Negative Messaging Around HIV/AIDS
In a recent Calgary Herald column (Don’t count on medicine alone to cure HIV/AIDS - November 29/2013), columnist Susan Martinuk concluded that while science...
Desperately Seeking Ryan
Ryan Fisher stars in ode to Toronto’s nightlife
The director of the new film, Seek, discovered his star, Ryan Fisher, at a gay bar in Toronto. "I was with some friends when I first spotted Ryan...
Kickstart-ing Gay Film Projects
Three LGBT Projects That Need Your Money
Making a pledge to a Kickstarter film or series is like making a pledge to public television. You’re not an investor and you won’t get a piece of the profits...
Lance Out Loud
Pat Loud, Family and Friends Recall the late Lance Loud in New Book
In the just published book Lance Out Loud, family and friends recall Lance Loud, the young man who made history as the first openly gay man to appear on...
Deep Inside Hollywood
Casting call: Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum. Maybe.
At this point we won’t believe anyone is playing Elton John in Rocketman, the biopic of the rock ’n’ roll legend’s life, until the day the film opens and...
How’s Your Furnace, Baby?
How’s your furnace, baby? Things hot enough for you at home? Getting the occasional chilly reception when your utility bills arrive? Direct Energy, noticing...
The Top Ten Things to do in Israel!
It is not every day that one gets the opportunity to travel to a culture-rich country in a controversial part of the world with a history and significance...
Kelowna, BC
“Ripe with Surprises”
This past October, my partner Steve and I went on a road trip through British Columbia to enjoy the culture and sights in a number of major centres.  This...
RauDZ Regional Table
Owned and operated by the award winning team of Chef Rod Butters and Audrey Surrao, this downtown Kelowna restaurant focuses on using fresh, locally...
The Coast Capri Hotel
Only minutes from downtown by car, and within walking distance of Okanagan Lake, the Coast Capri Hotel is located at the north end of a mall complex in...
Mission Hill Family Estate
Up in the hills of west Kelowna, this winery could almost be classified a theme park for its attention to architectural aesthetics, from the breathtaking...
Quail’s Gate Winery
The gardens around this 125-acre estate vineyard were looking particularly beautiful with the autumn leaves when we visited.  From the second floor...
Smack DAB – Crazy Good Food
This restaurant on the shore of Okanagan Lake, featuring an open concept kitchen and forno oven, is open daily for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and for late...
Urban Distillery
For me, alcohol is like the famous saying about art: I know nothing about it, but I know what I like. That changed after our visit to Urban Distillery...
Okanagan Spirits
While Okanagan Spirits does make their own line of gin, vodka, and whiskey, we were much more interested in their award winning specialty spirits.  We...
Bonfire Restaurant
The Cove Lakeside Resort is hailed as Kelowna’s premium waterfront resort, and Bonfire Restaurant is given equal esteem.  Chef Grant de Montreuil...
Funny Girl
Sarah Silverman talks HBO special, Miley and gay jokes
There?s nothing too taboo for Sarah Silverman. Not AIDS, not poop.And in her 20-year career ? which began in 1993 with a spot on Saturday Night Live, and...
Disco Dabbler
Frontman Brendon Urie on hot dudes, bisexuality and being naked ‘all the time’
After years of speculation, Brendon Urie is coming out as ... "a straight dabbler"? Panic! at the Disco's glam frontman, who celebrates bisexuality...
Scary Stories
Mel B talks the gay ‘eye,’ a Spice Girls reunion and falling in love with a woman
Mel B will tell you what she wants, what she really, really wants: to get back to being Scary Spice again. Not that the pop star, known as the Spice Girls’...
Aaron Douglas comes to Lethbridge
In the last decade, Aaron Douglas has been in feature films, TV movies, web movies, several different television series (both as mainstays and not), visited...
My 8 Minutes with Britney Spears
Pop star on (not) being a gay icon, feeling like an outsider and that ‘adorable and hilarious’ comment
It’s Britney, bitch. No, really, it is. She’s on the phone. And Britney Spears – the meek, reserved, media-shy entertainer – doesn’t get on the phone...
Queer Eye
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A Couple of Guys
News Releases
COLUMN: Tis The Season http://www.gaycalgary.com/n1044 PHOTOS: 8 Child Stars Who Turned Out To Be Hunks http://www.gaycalgary.com/n1045 MUSIC REVIEW:...
Mr. GayCalgary December 2013 - Dion Boink
Dion Boink is a well-recognized face with the Imperial and Sovereign Court of the Chinook Arch (ISCCA) and in the Calgary LGBT Community in general for...
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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
Creep of the Week
The Moscow City Government
As you probably already know, Russia is not exactly a paradise for LGBT people. Even talking about being gay is a crime there because it might corrupt...
Hear Me Out
Celine Dion, Katy Perry, Donna Summer, Panic! at the Disco
Celine Dion, Loved Me Back to Life To have the glass-shattering lung power that Celine Dion has built an empire of love songs on in the...
Editorial Cartoon
Alec Baldwin
Creep of the Week
Laurie Higgins
Hooray for Illinois, the latest state to allow gays and lesbians to get legally married. As People for the American Way points out, that brings the grand...
Deep Inside Hollywood
That new Tim Gunn show may eclipse Project Runway
That new Tim Gunn show may eclipse Project Runway It starts in January and it’s called Under The Gunn (no jokes, please, they’re unseemly)...
Screen Queen
The Gift Guide
COMEDY QUEENS The Heat As a disorderly Boston police detective with a mouth dirtier than the bottom of a garbage truck, Melissa McCarthy plays a seemingly...
The OutField
Sochi Olympics: Kick butt and take names
In 1936 it was the Nazis. In 1980, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 1984 brought retaliation for 1980. This year, it’s treatment of gay people. Another...
Thinking Out Loud: The End of the Slippery Slope
Why same-sex marriage won’t lead the way to goat weddings and polygamy
I’ve heard some variation of this kind of argument more times than I can count: "If we let gays marry, next we’ll have to let people marry goats!...
Creep of the Week
Thomas John Paprocki
What a wonderful day for an exorcism! On Nov. 20 in Springfield, Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn will sign the bill to legalize marriage for...
Hear Me Out
Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, Mason Jennings, Avril Lavigne
Lady Gaga, ARTPOP So much for that high-concept, post-modern ingenuity that ARTPOP promised even before Lady Gaga hawked it as the album...
Editorial Cartoon
WartMart Gay Christmas!
Editorial Cartoon
Hawaii Lesbian State Rep Against Marriage Equality
Hear Me Out ... for the Holidays
Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Erasure, Matthew Morrison
Kelly Clarkson, Wrapped in Red In 1963, background-singer-turned-soloist Darlene Love got with big-time producer Phil Spector to...
The OutField
Broadway Impacts the NY Marathon
There are eight million stories in the Naked City. There were also 50,000 runners in this month’s Naked City – er, New York City – Marathon. Each of...
Editorial Cartoon
Cheapskates for Christ
Creep of the Week
Robert Ritchie
It was only a matter of time before someone made the connection between the fact that Illinois now recognizes marriage equality and the fact that Illinois...
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