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June 2011

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Articles in the June 2011 Edition

Getting Physical

Publisher’s Column

For the longest time I thought I was cursed; resigned to being stuck with the build of a twink for the rest of my life. That may not seem like a...

INTERVIEW - Make it so, Number One

Chatting with Jonathan Frakes

In 2010, Calgarians jammed the BMO centre in part to meet Star Trek’s Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Lt. Commander Data (Brent...

Pure Pride, Pure Party

As a young man in Edmonton during the early 1990s, I heard of circuit parties like the White Parties in the States, along with Black and Blue in Montreal...

Ewan McGregor: ‘I Learned a Lot’

Beginners actor on new film, the gay history lesson he got and getting naked again

Ewan McGregor didn’t mean to offend you. As the debonair actor sits down in Los Angeles to talk up his latest film Beginners, he’s genuinely upset if his...

Mike Mills: My Gay Dad

The personal story behind Beginners

Mike Mills didn’t really know his father until he came out. When the director’s dad came swooshing out of the closet at the ripe age of 75, after decades...

CRIR Rodeo Preview

Part 2: Yes, We Know it’s a Rodeo, But...

While the competition is at the core of ARGRA’s annual Rodeo, one of the things that makes it the largest LGBT Community spectacle of the year is that...

INTERVIEW - Maile Flanagan

Anime Ninja & Adorable Lesbian

Appearing at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo June 17th to 19th, actress Maile Flanagan is known as the voice of the protagonist ninja Naruto Uzumaki...

FIND OUT!

LGBT Community Directory

GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine is the go-to source for information about Alberta LGBT businesses and community groups—the most extensive and accurate...

A Silencing That Echoes

Jan Buterman Refuses to Be Quiet and Just Go Away

The Catholic Church prides itself on being compassionate and doing God’s will on Earth, or some such thing. But when it comes to the day-to-day realities...

Children’s Wish recognizes ISCCA’s Long-Standing Support

It was over twenty five years ago that an unlikely partnership was formed between two organizations that, at first glance, seemed to share no common ground...

Q Scopes

Relax, Taurus!

Mars in Taurus aspecting Eris in Aries cranks up competitive urges. Be open and flexible. Goals may need adjusting as conditions change. ARIES (March...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Johnny Depp is going to get Thin, man

You can’t tell anyone in Hollywood anything. It seems like, more often than not, that people in positions of power believe they have the secret formula...

Cocktail Chatter

The Saketumi

"Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of Judy Carne!" Craig roared at Kyle, who shook visibly from the shock. "I can’t believe how, how, how deficient you...

Mister Manners

Steven Petrow talks new book, crazy questions and the importance of LGBT etiquette for straight people

For years, Steven Petrow’s been answering your questions about gay and lesbian life – everything from social-media etiquette to surviving the holidays...

2011 Rodeo Mini-Guide

Out of Town

Louisville and Lexington

Every year in May, all eyes fall upon Kentucky’s pastoral Bluegrass region. During the first week of the month, the city of Louisville holds the Kentucky...

Fundraising Photos

Stevie Nicks: A Fairy Tale

Rock legend on gays getting her, Glee controversy and first solo album in a decade

Ten years have passed since Stevie Nicks released her last solo album, but she’s still the same gay-loved goddess of earthy rock she built her legend on...

A Couple of Guys

Bitter Girl

Edmonton Pride

Nine Days of Celebration to Suit Every Flavour

This month Edmonton’s LGBTQ community and a host of allies will take to various events and festivals to celebrate Pride in Alberta’s capital: June 10th...

INTERVIEW - Mistress of the Gays

Iconic Elvira’s Rainbow Connection

Bringing beauty, humor, and putting the "boob" in "boob tube", Cassandra Peterson’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark has been a part of...

Chelsea Boys

INTERVIEW - Schwinging with Tia Carrere

Wayne’s World & Relic Hunter star comes to Calgary

Tia Carrere seemed to curse our interview from the start. "Hopefully my iPhone doesn’t drop because I am right by the Apple campus," she said...

Queer Eye

Edmonton Pride Festival 2011 Guide

Online Articles this Month

Advice for LGBT Mortgage Applicants

Deploy preemptive tactics in 2011

LGBT real estate buyers and homeowners who have been thinking about taking out a home loan or doing a mortgage refinance may now have more reasons...

Creep of the Week

Linda Harvey

Calling all homos: do you live near anyone facing foreclosure? Well, the least you can do is help them move because it turns out that losing their...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Jane Lynch swaps tracksuit for Wimple in Stooges

Jane Lynch knows a thing or two about playing terrifying teachers, what with her Emmy-winning stint as cheerleading taskmaster Sue Sylvester...

Oh Susanna

Soon The Birds singer/songwriter hits Alberta with Matthew Barber

Vancouver born, Toronto based singer-songwriter Suzie Ungerleider, better known as Oh Susanna, took her time when producing her sixth album...

MARY B’s AUSTRALIA ADVENTURE [PART 1]

I’ve never really had a Bucket List, but if I did, it would obviously be called {{The Buckheit List}}. On top the top, in bright red ink...

Hear Me Out

Brandi Carlile, Augustana

Brandi Carlile, Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony No wonder Brandi Carlile’s always releasing live music – her big, bellowy voice...

Mamma Mio is ABBA-tastic

While the Jubilations concept has always been about taking pop culture – films and TV shows primarily – and putting a musical spin on them, doing a...

The OutField

Changing the game for good

Over the past two decades, LGBT educational issues surged into the headlines. Library books, curricula, protection for gay students – all have earned...

Book Marks

Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender

Leche, by R. Zamora Linmark. Coffee House Press, 280 pages, $15.95 paper. The message of this kaleidoscopic novel is that you can go home...

Creep of the Week

Dave Agema

If you go to Michigan State Rep. Dave Agema’s website you see quotes related to Michigan’s economy. It’s pretty boilerplate Republican speak: “We...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Paperboy delivering McConaughey and Efron

Two high-profile gay filmmakers collaborating on a sexy thriller? That’s the news with The Paperboy, a feature being produced by Pedro Almodovar and...

Catalina Island

A Gay and a Lesbian Makin’ Romance Out at Sea

"Are there more resident bald eagles on the island or resident gays?" My lesbian wife, the always-sunny Mary B., and I are 22 miles away from...

Queeries

Must two brides dress like twins?

Q: My fiancée and I are planning our wedding, which is going to be very "traditional" in many ways. We agree on almost all the details, except the...

When Wasilla High School Principal Dwight Probasco told the jazz choir they could not perform Queen’s "Bohemian Rhapsody" at graduation, the kids in...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Carrie ruins prom for everybody. Again.

Once Is Not Enough is more than just the name of a best-selling Jacqueline Susann novel, it’s how Hollywood does business all the time, cranking out...

Hear Me Out

Jennifer Lopez, Matthew Morrison

Jennifer Lopez, Love? On her first album in four years, J.Lo isn’t waiting for tonight – it’s already here. There’s debaucherous drinking and...

The OutField

Brian Burke and the Bowdoin ‘bubble’

Bowdoin College is a warm, welcoming place. Nestled in a small Maine town, it’s the kind of place where Ben Chadwick could be out – and enjoy full...

Rihanna Heats Up The Dome

In 1998 I attended Janet Jackson's Velvet Rope tour in Vancouver, in which she tied an audience member to a bed and proceeded to seduce them. Fast forward...

Book Marks

My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, & Labor History

Progress, by Michael V. Smith. Cormorant Books, 262 pages, $21 paper. Fifteen years and a haunting secret separate siblings Robert and...

Creep of the Week

Stacey Campfield

Ah, yes. The joys of sex education. I think all of us have fond memories of that day in fifth or sixth grade when the boys got shuffled into one room...

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