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Jasper Pride for the 7th year, knocks it out of the park

It always impresses me what Jasper Pride is able to pull off every year; this year was no different. I arrived on Thursday afternoon using a shuttle service...

VIDEO - Walking with the Stars

Tips and Tricks from the Unique Inner World of Cosplay

Cosplay is as varied and intense as the simple action of putting on your makeup; there are a lot of ways to do it, depending on what kind of look, event...

Derek Bedry

Mr Gay World? Yeah he is!

Derek Bedry is a self-described ‘nerdy guy who never thought he would be in a pageant and is suddenly Mr. Gay Canada’. "My initial reaction was...

Positive Thoughts - Young at Heart

Why we need to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among young people

I was 22 years old when I was diagnosed with HIV in 1992. I have now been living with the virus longer than I did without it. I’m grateful for being alive...

Stepper Homes

Celebrating 60 Years of Innovative Business

This April marked the 60th anniversary of Stepper Homes serving homeowners in Calgary. In honour of this milestone they launched a special anniversary...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Paul Rudd, Guy Pearce, James Franco, 'I Love Dick'

Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan move into Ideal Home A long time ago, in the very bad old days, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison portrayed a dismally unhappy...

Brandon Routh

Out of One Suit, Into Another

It has been ten years since Brandon Routh starred as Clark Kent, and the actor has been tearing it up in film and television ever since. Born in Norwalk...

Gwen Stefani Speaks Her (Gay) ‘Truth’

Pop star talks sharing a queer posse with boyfriend Blake Shelton, The Danish Girl and her gay support system

Don’t speak? Gwen Stefani can’t help it as she opens up about her latest release – the "record that saved my life." Featuring a multitude of...

In Good Company

Alan Cumming on sappy songs, bisexuality and his proudest moments

As a child, Alan Cumming cried as his older brother sang "Danny Boy" to him from across the bedroom they shared. "He would do it to make...

Boy Problems

Steve Grand talks new music, touchy-feely fans and moving beyond ‘All-American Boy’

Steve Grand can barely stand himself – that is, the superficial, Internet-packaged version of the singer/songwriter/dreamboat presented to the public since...

NSFW VIDEO INTERVIEW - Billy Santoro, Fast Porn Nation

One Million Served?

Billy Santoro is known for his cream pies (he is a baker.) But seriously, also according to Santoro, whose pilgrimage up North was a first, Canada is an...

NSFW – Solosexual: Portrait of a Masturbator

Exploring Bateworld.com and the book about being Solosexual

Just when you thought that the LGBTQ community couldn’t be any more diverse, a book comes out called Solosexual: Portrait of a Masturbator. Yes, we know...

Queer Eye

ISCWR - Dukes & Diamonds at Woodys, Edmonton photos by B&J ISCWR - Iconika at Evolution, Edmonton photos by B&J Jasper Pride 2016 http://gaycalgary.com/pa1128 Apollo...

A Couple of Guys

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A Couple of Guys

Hair's Lookin' at You

BOOK - A Groundbreaking Work in Our Understanding of Solosexuality For many, masturbation is nothing more than "the next best thing." We have...

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Creep of the Week

Laurie Higgins

It's almost that time of year again: April 15 is the annual Day of Silence where students across the country choose to spend the day without speaking in...

Editorial Cartoon

Deal, No Deal

Amazing Performances Highlight JUNO Awards Broadcast

Artists shine on the biggest stage in Calgary

A jam packed Saddledome of 12,634 music fans joined CTV viewers across Canada on April 3rd to see some of Canada’s finest perform and be part of the 45th...

Backlash. That's what we're seeing here in the flurry of anti-LGBT (and heavy on the T) legislation that's been proposed and passed across the nation (or...

The OutField

Sports Leaders Stand Up to Mississippi

It was the conservative right’s political version of a buzzer-beater. While real issues swirled around North Carolina – economic, educational, environmental...

Did you hear the one about how North Carolina is a great place for women and girls? Because North Carolina just passed HB2, the most discriminatory anti-LGBT...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Cara Delevingne, 'I Am Jazz,' Queen Latifah, Wentworth Miller

Cara Delevingne’s visit to a thousand planets Cara Delevingne doesn’t have a lot of free time these days. Still very busy as a model for all sorts of...

Rising Star - Jess T. Dugan

How the photographer is transforming minds with portraits of transgender trailblazers

There’s a photograph of Jess T. Dugan from 2005 with bandages over where her breasts used to be. She’s standing nude beside her mother and the two are...

Recently a friend of a friend posted an Advocate article to Facebook about a woman being kicked out of the women's restroom at Fishbone's restaurant...

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