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July 2011

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Articles in the July 2011 Edition

Not In Kansas Anymore

Publisher’s Column

June never fails to be a crazy month, and this one was both a literal and figurative whirlwind... Pride 2011 At its very outset we were up in...

Dallas Green’s Little Hell

City & Colour back with new album

For some, learning that you are the #1 album in Canada, ahead of heavyweights Lady Gaga and Adele, would be cause for a lavish champagne-fueled celebration...

Queer Eye - Part 1

Photos from Edmonton Pride, PurePride Dance - Edmonton, Canadian Rockies International Rodeo - Strathmore and Lethbridge Pride Festival.

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...

The Bow River Football Club

First of all, don’t be confused by Mitch Matthews, the Bow River Football Club coach, when he’s talking about their soccer team. With the dramatic increase...

A Conflict between Faith-based Education within Public Schools and Secular Tradition

One of the great irreconcilables of our age is likely the chasm between "faith" and "sexuality", specifically GLBT sexuality. While some liberal Christian...

Calgary Outlink Reaches Out

For the longest time the Calgary Outlink webpage stated a stale message: "Stay tuned for exciting changes Over the Next 60 Days!" Okay, fair enough, we’re...

Pay attention, Capricorn!

Mercury in Leo, cranking up egos and voices, is at the end of a "yod" with Pluto and Chiron. The real challenge is to shut up, listen and adapt to difficult...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Hugh Jackman can’t help loving musical theater

If you want to get technical about it, Hugh Jackman has already made one movie musical: Happy Feet. Granted, you didn’t see him in the film, but that was...

Cocktail Chatter

Jack Fogg Rolls In: The Bourbon Sour

An afternoon in June. Under a bright blue dome of a sky, boys paraded around like Speedo models and dressed accordingly. Cher’s "Believe" wafted through...

Why the Umbrella Failed – Part 1

While writing "The Death of the ‘Transgender’ Umbrella," it became necessary to clarify something in my own mind. The language is changing, yes...

Alyssa Reid Brings The Game

Edmonton-born singer returns home

Edmonton-born Alyssa Reid, who currently resides just outside of Toronto, has all the tools for success. At just 18 years old she has a top single in Canada...

This Year’s Fringe Fest Celebrates Sexuality, Individuality and Community Spirit

Hitting the eclectic community of Inglewood this month will be the sixth annual Calgary Fringe Festival. What started as one Calgary man’s dream has quickly...

The French Riviera: Nice and Cannes

The French Riviera, or Côte d’Azur, ranks among Europe’s most enduring - and alluring - gay playgrounds. True, this stretch of rugged Mediterranean coastline...

Wicked Impresses in Calgary Debut

Since it debuted on Broadway in 2003, it seems everyone, including me, has been eagerly awaiting Wicked to tour Canada. Every time I was told of an announcement...

k.d. lang: ‘Loud’ and Proud

Singer talks being butch, out and the first gay country star

k.d. lang is manning up, and here’s why: Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and all the other sexpots of pop who shoot whipped cream from their chests and ride disco...

A Couple of Guys

Star Trekking in Calgary

Beaming Down White Hats

Continuing the tradition from last year of having one guest from the original Star Trek and one guest from Star Trek: the Next Generation, this year visitors...

INTERVIEW - InnerSPACE

Sci-fi Hosts at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo

Amidst the sea of science fiction/horror/fantasy fans in attendance for the 2011 edition of the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, you might have seen...

Western Canadian Pride Festival

For the Community, by the Community

The Western Canadian Pride Festival is one of the largest campouts in the Canadian West for the LGBT community. Our success stems directly out of the great...

The (Gay) GAGA Interview

Superstar talks activism, her legacy and how being a gay icon is a ‘tall order’

Lady Gaga is one of the biggest superstars in the world. But speaking to her only briefly during this rare interview, she evades her larger-than-life image...

Queer Eye - Part 2

Photos include FAB Anniversary Party - Calgary Backlot Anniversary - Calgary Bowling: My what a Drag! - Calgary 2011 Pride Kick Off Party at...

Online Articles this Month

Remembrance of Things I Forgot

Remembrance of Things I Forgot, by Bob Smith. Terrace Books/University of Wisconsin Press, 272 pages, $26.95 hardcover. Comic book dealer John Sherkson...

Creep of the Week: American Family Association

Well, it’s June, which means it’s officially Gay Pride Month. And I do mean official. President Obama declared it himself, which I think is a pretty...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Glee’s Naya Rivera goes solo

Another fresh week, another wisely-timed, brand-sustaining nugget of Glee-related news. The kids are spending the summer touring the nation and their...

Lady Gaga, Matraca Berg

Lady Gaga, Born This Way The third album from pop’s poker-faced ingénue isn’t quite album-of-the-decade deserving, as the star herself claimed...

Talking about HIV and other STDs with a new partner

"Talking about HIV and other STDs with a new partner" Q: I’ve gotten pretty confused about when to talk with new partners or boyfriends...

The President comes out

The president has come out. No, not the president of the United States. (Though Barack Obama does have a better bod than, say, Newt Gingrich.) It’s...

Creep of the Week: Tracy Morgan

Imagine you paid money to see some stand up comedy and the comedian was totally hilarious. He had this amazing bit about homosexuality where he said...

Love/Imperfect, by Christopher T. Leland. Wayne State University Press, 184 pages, $18.95 paper. As in real life, gay mingles with straight...

Dallas: Shining Bright in the Lone Star State

It’s impossible to visit Texas with a virgin mind, uncorrupted by a steady diet of images in the media. So when I landed in Dallas, I immediately started...

Sweet as Sugarland

Incredible Machine works its way to Stampede

Last year Atlanta's Sugarland pretty much stole the show at Lilith with their high energy set of infectious pop-country tunes that undoubtedly garnered...

Katy Perry Sweet as Candy

As the final Friday night of Stampede brought Sugarland to Calgary, the next night, July 17th, brought Candyland. Katy Perry's candy-infused music ...

NKOTBSB a Blast

Reviews for the supertour of New Kids on the Block and The Backstreet Boys seem to fit a formula. The reviewer talks about their history, maybe admits...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Cyndi Lauper doesn’t miss a Beat

Cyndi Lauper’s gay diva status in the 1980s was always somewhat overshadowed by the towering presence of Madonna, but in recent years with her ongoing...

Best of 2011 (So Far)

Divas dominated the first half of this year, but the Adele-Britney-Gaga train wasn’t the only one rolling through. All three ladies, though, made our...

Editorial Cartoons

The G(Force) is with lacrosse

For years, ice hockey and lacrosse have been stereotyped as two of the sports least welcoming to gay men. They’re contact sports, played by insular...

Creep of the Week: Kim Haynes

Remember back in the day when black people couldn’t swim in public pools because white people didn’t want to catch being black? Luckily that...

Shaken and Stirred

Shaken and Stirred, by Joan Opyr. Bywater Books, 398 pages, $14.95 paper. Opyr is a master (mistress?) of mixing light and dark – of telling...

Cultural Capitol: It’s DC, Baby

I slipped out from the Renaissance Dupont Circle into a frozen wall of sleety rain, and it was perfect: Today was a museum day. Of course, ...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Mildred Pierce director Todd Haynes’s next conservative move

If you haven’t yet seen Todd Haynes’s five-and-a-half-hour, book-faithful miniseries masterpiece Mildred Pierce, you still have your chance when the...

Creep of the Week: Pat Robertson

Nothing brings the creeps out of the woodwork like pro marriage equality. The good news out of New York has gotten some people fired up. And by "fire"...

Three Common Pitfalls for LGBT Home Buyers to Avoid

Buying a home is huge step, and often represents the culmination of a lifelong dream. But while under the thrilling spell of the home buying experience...

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