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April 2011

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Articles in the April 2011 Edition

A Good Old Fashioned (S)EXorcism

Publisher’s Column

I think sex has gotten a really unfair rap in our society. People are plagued by all sorts of unnatural phobias and aversions to sex; they feel ashamed...

Shania Twain

Hall of Famer on the future, success, and her love of Canadian bush

In 1996 Shania Twain received multiple Juno nominations and went home with her first two awards. Fast forward 15 years, and she is not only the most successful...

Junos Turn 40

A Look at Toronto’s Juno Week

In attending the Juno Awards for the third time in the past four years, it seemed Toronto had an almost indifferent buzz about the 40th annual awards...

Morgan Fairchild: Her Gay Love Story

Actress on new film, Meryl stealing movies and her latest role – as fairy godmother

It’s no stretch really that Morgan Fairchild’s latest role as a wise waitress in the queer-themed romantic-comedy eCupid has her trying to connect two...

Jennifer Nettles Gives the Gays Some Sugar(land)

Country superstar speaks out on homophobia, girl crushes and being a gay man

As the lovable lady half of supergroup Sugarland, Jennifer Nettles is country’s answer to the contemporary diva – she can belt like the best of ’em. And...

FIND OUT!

LGBT Community Directory

It’s In You To Give...If You’re Allowed

As years go by, it is easy for the human psyche to accept certain situations as "normal", even if they’re not. Take, for instance, the current stance...

A Taste For Life & the Sharp Foundation

Make your dinner reservations now, because on April 27th the SHARP Foundation will hold the sixth iteration, and their second year with the National campaign...

Emperor & Empress 34 Review the Past Year

The Imperial Sovereign Court of the Chinook Arch (ISCCA) is having Coronation 35 this coming April 16th. GayCalgary & Edmonton Magazine, a long...

The LGBT Community Needs

It is rare that I walk out on a play. Even sometimes when I am watching something that I don’t like, I feel I have to stay. But in recent memory, I walked...

Q Scopes

“One step at a time, Scorpio!”

After three weeks retrograde, Mercury is turning direct while conjunct Mars. New ideas to fix recent problems are coming too fast and furious. Think carefully...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Hanks adds Julia Roberts and George Takei to his Crowne

Arguably the coolest and among the most beloved of all former original Star Trek cast members, George Takei can add Tom Hanks to his list of admirers...

Cocktail Chatter

Lenivbli Malioik, or The La-Z-Boy and the Marlene Dietrich

Here’s some advice: You need a restaurant manager as a close friend. Why? Because when you go to his restaurant, he’ll tell the chef to send out all sorts...

Fundraising Photos

Project Blue Sky

Words of Encouragement from Calgary Youth

Coming soon to a club near you, Project Blue Sky presents "It Gets Better Calgary" – a series of video productions promoting the distribution and support...

Under the Skin

Theatre Junction GRAND has taken a lot of heat over the years for what some have felt was the extreme weirdness and inaccessibility of the unconventional...

Why I Will Keep Visiting Monterey Until I Die

As I lay there all tied up in knots, with my right leg piercing the air near my ear, all I could think about was sea otters. Never mind the fact that...

Hillhurst United Church

Celebrating 2 Years as an Affirming Ministry

Religion is a touchy subject at the best of times. And the word touchy doesn’t even begin to cut it from the perspective of an entire segment of the world’s...

Alberta’s Top Ten LGBT Figures

Part Two

Last issue we profiled five of the ten community members that readers selected as the top influential LGBT figures in Alberta. This issue we finish with...

Canadian Princes

These Kids Wear Crowns Jumpstart their Career

Depending on your taste in radio stations, you likely have heard Chilliwack, BC’s own group, These Kids Wear Crowns. Their song Break It Up has become...

A Couple of Guys

Bitter Girl

Apollo Western Cup

A Rundown of the 2011 Competition

Now into its 29th year, the Apollo Western Cup LGBT sporting weekend is coming up during the April long weekend. This year there have been a few...

Secret Identities, Superheroes and Sexuality

Coming from their newsprint origins, comic-book superheroes can now be seen on film, on TV, and have become an integral part of popular culture. Secret...

Uni

Satirizing the Ex-Gay Camps

As everyone knows, unicorns are unique mythical beings. It seems appropriate a local fifteen minute film Uni (currently in production) uses the myth of...

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Here’s Johnny

Figure skater talks memoir, being ‘born this way’ and how the closet cost him a magazine cover

At only 26, Johnny Weir’s done more than most people do in a lifetime. But the skater-turned-everything-else is known for being flamboyantly gay, which...

Chelsea Boys

Oh Land is Our Land

Danish import talks gay fans, sex in pop music and her no-rules world

Nanna Oland Fabricius is in her own world again. That’s where the Danish artist – who goes by Oh Land, a play on her middle name – imagines a mystical...

Queer Eye

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April 2011

Book Marks

The Empty Family and Maye’s Request

The Empty Family, by Colm Toibin. Scribner, 288 pages, $24 hardcover. Master Irish storyteller Toibin queers it up, after last year’s...

Book Marks

Unnatural and The Temperamentals

Unnatural, by Michael Griffo. Kensington Books, 498 pages, $9.95 paper. Pallid boys, beautiful boys, jealous boys, closeted boys, boys...

Creep of the Week

Rick Santorum

I'm sure glad my last name isn't Santorum. For one thing, I wouldn't want to be related to Rick Santorum. For another thing, his name means "The frothy...

Creep of the Week

Peter Sprigg

We've all heard the argument that letting gays and lesbians marry will "hurt" heterosexual marriages. Or our country. Or children. Actual support...

Creep of the Week

Victoria Jackson

I used to love Saturday Night Live when I was a kid. By far one of my favorite cast members was Victoria Jackson. I thought she was hilarious. Granted...

Creep of the Week

Matt Barber

Have you punched a gay middle-schooler for Christ today? Well, you'd better do it fast, because Barack Obama is trying to take this God-given duty...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Wonder Woman + Elizabeth Hurley = love?

If she comes from an already man-free, lesbian-leaning place called Paradise Island, are we surprised that the rebooted Wonder Woman TV project from...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Emily Deschanel joins The Perfect Family

Striking while the iron is still warm – thanks to the loving reception The Kids Are All Right received from critics, audiences and the Oscars – is...

Hear Me Out

R.E.M., Avril Lavigne

R.E.M., Collapse Into Now R.E.M.’s first album since 2008’s Accelerate, a return to form for the misstepping rock icons, is as obvious as lead...

Hear Me Out

Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson

Britney Spears, Femme Fatale Razors stowed and sanity in check, pop’s queen of comebacks is ready to forget about her tabloid-making troubles...

Queeries

To spy or not to spy on my girlfriend

Q: Last week I picked up my girlfriend’s cell and read a very intimate text from someone who was no doubt a sexual partner. I completely flipped out...

The OutField

Basketball in the closet

"On the Internet," the famous New Yorker cartoon goes, "no one knows you’re a dog." And on the Internet, no one knows who "Anonymous Baller"...

The OutField

Three boys’ gay high school blog

For a high school athlete who was so terrified of being gay he contemplated suicide, coming out was huge. But Robert Scott did it – and, within a couple...

Whistler WinterPRIDE: Boards, Boys and Beers

Moments after arriving in Whistler, Canada, I find myself walking down the main drag in a harness, with straps dangling and my crotch scrunched up...

Vermont is For Lovers

I woke up disoriented, holding a plaid-clad teddy bear. It was unusually quiet as I reached for the moose-embellished bedside lamp. Click. My ...

INTERVIEW - THE HOST WITH THE MOST

Leslie Jordan Hosts the 2011 Hookie Awards

Leslie Jordan won an Emmy® Award for his portrayal of the gleefully bitchy Beverley Leslie on TV’s Will and Grace. He is also recognized nationally...

Solving the Riverdance Mystery

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