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Articles in the January 2011 Edition

Strength in Numbers

Publisher’s Column

1,814,793 Downloads As of January 2011, apparently GayCalgary & Edmonton Magazine is now the only freely available LGBT publication operated out...

Bash’d Boys Return To Rodeo

In 2008, Bash’d: A Gay Rap Opera was one of the highlights of the High Performance Rodeo. The run quickly sold out, an indication of what was to come for...

Dirty Dancing

Natalie Portman and Black Swan cast talk ballet thriller and that girl-on-girl sex scene

Natalie Portman flaps her arms and moves as gracefully as a bird in the twisted psychosexual thriller Black Swan, but the comparisons don’t stop there...

Nevermore

Catalyst Theatre brings Edgar Allan Poe to Life at High Performance Rodeo

In 2008, Catalyst Theatre first workshopped Nevermore, a dark musical tale of the life of Edgar Allan Poe. It has since travelled across Canada, as well...

Come As You Are

Telus Launches CAYA: the LGBTQ-Forward Communications and Electronic Retail Store

"The future is friendly" we often see as the mantra marketed by Telus, one of Canada’s chief telecommunications providers. It would certainly seem that...

FIND OUT!

LGBT Community Directory

A New Dawn Within The American Military

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Finally Repealed

After considerable debate, and fierce opposition from social conservatives on both sides of the House over the years, the United States Congress finally...

Snowballs Ski Weekend Times Two

Ring In the New Year with Winter Cheer

Snowballs is helping you celebrate the winter months by offering two fun-filled weekends to enjoy, offering both winter activities and social networking. The...

Jasper Pride

Celebrating in a Winter Wonderland

One great thing about the summer is the fact that you could travel to any country in the world and find somewhere to celebrate Pride on any given weekend...

GALA/LA

Serving Lethbridge’s GLBTA Community for 20 Years

Lethbridge’s GLBTA community is celebrating a milestone this year. GALA/LA or The Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Lethbridge and Area will be celebrating its...

Q Scopes

“Take up the tough issues, Leo!”

Mars is very happy in Capricorn where the planet of energy and action is focused productively. Aspecting Uranus and Jupiter in Pisces, and Neptune in Aquarius...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Best Gay Entertainment Stories of 2010

Modern Family goes there Modern Family began its second season the object of fan protest. Why, asked viewers, on a sitcom featuring a gay couple, is...

Cocktail Chatter

Kahlua, Cream and Fiasco: The White Russian

My cold lasted another week, so forget about literary reticence. Let the gross descriptions fly: Snot spewed out of my nose like raw scrambled eggs, only...

Queeries

We want to help other kids fight bullying

"We want to help other kids fight bullying" Q: It’s been so upsetting to the queer kids at my middle school to hear about all the teen suicides lately...

Inspirational Iocchelli Rallies Community

It was Mother Teresa who said "Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love". This simple, yet empowering, quote has stayed...

Fundraising Photos

St. Petersburg’s Renaissance

Out of Town

Although Florida’s fourth-largest city has seen a minimal increase in population over the past 30 years, this sunny metropolis on a peninsula between Tampa...

San Antonio, Texas

Out of Town

Although it draws more visitors than any other city in Texas, San Antonio has always been a little less pronounced as a gay destination than Austin, Dallas...

The OutField

The athletic buddy system and also looking back at 2010

This fall’s epidemic of gay youth suicides shocked and saddened millions of Americans. Dan Savage’s "It Gets Better" video project provided hope to young...

Choice

We spend a lot of time fighting the "choice" meme. Which is understandable, given the fact that who we’re attracted to and who we identify as are not...

The bad news: Alyson Books, founded 30 years ago and for a time the preeminent gay and lesbian press, flamed out in October despite a bid by editor Don...

Rockin Night At The Museum

Jubilations Rocks Out With Brilliant Show

Night At The Museum Of Rock N Roll is one of the best shows Jubilations Dinner Theatre has put on in quite awhile. With an awesome soundtrack ranging from...

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A Thousand Laughs

Badly Named Product Edition

Chelsea Boys

Immigrants and Refugees

Creating Safe and Positive Spaces for LGBTQ Newcomers

Canada is one of the leading countries when it comes to granting rights and freedoms to Lesbian, Gay, Queer, Bisexual, and Transgender citizens. Therefore...

Hear Me Out

Best of 2010

Queer Eye

Online Articles this Month

PopSex!

Exhibit Explores Sex and Sexuality in Public Sphere

Using the Institute for Sexual Science (1919-1933) in Berlin as its starting point for discussion, PopSex! – an exhibition, academic conference and film...

Five 2011 Energy and Money Saving Tips for LGBT Homeowners

Saving energy around the house makes sense, and it can also help save a significant amount of money now and in the future. Here are a handful of ideas...

Favorite Theatre Shows of 2010

2010 was an entertaining year for Calgary. With dozens of local theatre companies, and multiple productions touring, it can be hard to decide what to...

The Best Concerts I Saw In 2010

2010 was certainly a packed year for music lovers in Alberta. It was a year that saw music icons like Aerosmith, Guns N Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, Diana Ross, ...

Sal Mineo, by Michael Gregg Michaud. Crown Archetype, 424 pages, $25.99 hardcover. He debuted on Broadway at age 11, burst onto the Hollywood scene as...

Book Marks

The Cruel Ever After

The Cruel Ever After, by Ellen Hart. Minotaur Books, 320 pages, $25.99 hardcover. Did readers of Hart’s long-running mystery series – this is book number...

Creep of the Week: John McCain

I wish I still had my dog-eared and tattered copy of Conduct Unbecoming so I could send it to John McCain. Not that he'd bother to read it. The U.S. military's...

Creep of the Week: Freedom Federation

By the time you read this, no doubt "don't ask, don't tell" will be but a sad blip in our nation's long and storied anti-gay history. No doubt Congress...

Creep of the Week: William Donohue

If there’s one thing that makes America uncomfortable, it’s art. Because art is gay in a very literal, serious, and horrible way. And it must be stopped...

Creep of the Week: John McCain

"Today is a very sad day," sighed a doddering and out of touch John McCain on the day "don't ask, don't tell" was finally repealed by Congress. Oh, shut...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Keira Knightley and Elizabeth Moss are West End Girls

The revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour at London’s Comedy Theatre has rounded out its cast. Previously announced lead Keira Knightley...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Becoming Chaz and bikini kill docs coming right up

A tale of two documentaries, one financing and one finished: In the starting gate is a film about the already-remarkable career of third-wave feminist...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Paltrow and Baldwin getting a piece of the Rock?

The casting continues for Adam Shankman’s big-screen adaptation of the hit stage musical Rock of Ages. You know, the one where all the songs are big...

Hear Me Out

Duffy, Kandi Burruss

Duffy, Endlessly Duffy wants nothing to do with Amy Winehouse after an impressive debut cast the Welsh singer as the soberer shadow of the drunken...

The OutField

Glenn Burke’s story

"Glenn was comfortable with who he was. Baseball was not comfortable with who he was." That encapsulates the life and career of Glenn Burke...

The OutField

Keelin Godsey has a hammer

As a high school student in Palmer, Colo., Keelin Godsey dabbled in track’s throwing events. Shot put and discus were OK; soccer, basketball and softball...

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