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GayCalgary® Magazine

December 2011

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Articles in the December 2011 Edition
Publisher’s Column
Fishing Lessons
In my monthly columns, I’ve enjoyed writing about the many success stories within our community: non-profit groups and businesses that have proven a little...
Pride Centre of Edmonton Recovers After Summer Fire
On August 10th of this year, the Pride Centre of Edmonton was devastated by a fire that destroyed its electrical panel, and electricity has yet to be restored...
Attitudes at Work
Working LGB experience tolerance, yet still some discrimination
Most members of the LGBTQ community believe the workplace has become more tolerant over the past few years; however some discrimination persists, a recent...
Scott Thompson: Up Close & Personal
Kids in the Hall comedian on why straight white men have it hard and how bullied kids should ‘grow a pair’
Scott Thompson is still a kid in the hall, but his outlook on life – it doesn’t always get better, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy ruined our community...
J. Edgar: The (Gay?) Man Behind The Mask
Out screenwriter talks Eastwood’s ‘loving’ take on J. Edgar and DiCaprio’s turn as a powerful closet case
No milk for Dustin Lance Black – the 37-year-old filmmaker who says he feels 10 years older today – on this recent morning in a suite at a Beverly Hills...
Lesbians Have a New Place to Meet Up
Can I get an Amen? Are you a woman trying to find something to do with other similar women, but find the queer social scene a little too bar-oriented for...
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...
World AIDS Day: Remembering Those We Lost
December 1st was World AIDS Day, certainly a day dedicated to AIDS Awareness, but also a day dedicated to remembering those we have lost and who continue...
Help Us Make It A Happy Hamper Holiday
Now that it is coming closer to the holiday season, AIDS Calgary Awareness Association (ACAA) is preparing for its Hamper program. On December 16th...
Multi-Colour Fun
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat comes alive at Stage West
For forty years, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has been one of the most popular shows created by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Based...
Why the Umbrella Failed
Part 4: Conclusions
I’ve written previously about the need for clarity between the terms "transsexual" and "transgender," but also why it makes sense to seek rights and inclusion...
Ring in the Holidays With Bells On
Guys in Disguise offers theatre goers a refreshing Yuletide comedic treat
Marking their 25th Anniversary Season, celebrated drag troupe Guys in Disguise brings to Edmonton’s Roxy Theatre a refreshing take on an old genre, all...
Deep Inside Hollywood
A Very Gaga Thanksgiving
Leave it to Lady Gaga to avoid the typical when it comes to holiday specials. Instead of joining the Christmas onslaught and risking getting lost in the...
Cocktail Chatter
Drinking Alone with Friends: The Yankee Mint Julep
Oh, Lord – give me the strength to change that which I cannot accept. Like closing the beach house while my hottest housemates screw their brains out upstairs. Dan...
Kaya’s Boyfriend Has A Boyfriend
The Canadian ex-Pussycat Doll’s mutual gay adoration
The world can seem a small place sometimes. Kaya Jones is on the line from her home in LA, and immediately gets excited to learn she is speaking to a Calgary...
Our Friend Dorothy
ATP brings the Wonderful Wizard to life
You may have wondered what that scream echoing through Calgary earlier this year was about. The mystery is solved, it was local actor Ksenia Thurgood...
Out of Town
Texas Coast: Galveston, Corpus Christi, and South Padre Island
Although America’s Gulf Coast doesn’t have any major gay beach resorts, the Texas barrier island of Galveston has steadily become a popular destination...
Fundraising Photos
Crowns for Kids at the Junction - Edmonton Crowns for Kids at Twisted Element - Calgary World Aids Day Show at Fab Bar - Calgary (photos by B&J)The...
MANLY MOSES
Moses is not afraid to turn conventional on its ear.  In his new album, Predictions, he sets his sights on pushing buttons and changing minds. The...
Hear Me Out… for the holidays
Michael Bublé, Glee
Christmas By: Michael BubléThe crooner’s sex appeal isn’t just surface hotness, though no one’s going to fault his boyish features. It’s all over...
A Couple of Guys
 
Bitter Girl
 
FOUR – OH!!
Michael Lucas Enters His Fourth Decade
Hitting the two-score mark is a biggie and something most gay men are not eager to rush into. Psychologists say we face two life-changing events that...
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Jackson and Coleman Vrana - of the angst-ridden, twin gay brother hip hoppers known as Elephant – return to the airwaves this month with the release of...
INTERVIEW - Jann Arden
A conversation with Calgary’s favorite daughter
"Toronto is good but I was just here 8 days ago and here I am again. This is insanity!’ To say Jann Arden is busy would be an understatement. On...
Chelsea Boys
 
Kent Hehr
MLA blazing the trail for the 99 percent
Chances are you have met Kent Hehr. As MLA of Calgary-Buffalo, Hehr has been as much a companion to community functions as dip is to chips. In a time when...
Queer Eye
BearBash at the Junction - Edmonton (BT McDonald) Fake Moustache at the Junction - Edmonton http://gaycalgary.com/pa49 Goliath’s and the Texas Lounge...
Classifieds
 
Q Scopes
Think ahead, Sagittarius!
This week’s lunar eclipse will be partially visible in New Zealand, but felt everywhere as brainstorms lead too easily to arguments. Rather than inadvertently...
Online Articles this Month
Pop Opera bare Tackles Teenage Tribulations
Pumphouse Theatre Follows Catholic Students through their Trials with Sex, Drugs and Religion
Ready to relive those awkward teenage years contemplating God, identity, acceptance and intimacy? This week through to December 3rd the Cappuccino ...
Welcome2Calgary
Prince show a mixed bag
Prince has always been a man wrapped in mystery. From his turn as "The Artist Formerly Known As" to his reluctance to do interviews he has always maintained...
Book Marks
The Marbled Swarm
The Marbled Swarm, by Dennis Cooper. Harper Perennial, 208 pages, $14.99 paper. Time and again, the unnamed narrator of this deliciously, ...
Book Marks
The Stranger’s Child
The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst. Knopf, 448 pages, $27.95 hardcover. For gay fans of Hollinghurst’s first novel, The Swimming-Pool...
Creep of the Week
Michigan’s Republican State Senators
Everyone knows that bullying is wrong. It is awful to be bullied and a person who is a bully isn’t exactly a poster-child for a happy and healthy well-adjusted ...
Creep of the Week
Jerry Cox
Newsflash: homosexuality and pedophilia are not the same things. Equating the two makes as much sense as equating adopting a pet kitty from a shelter...
Creep of the Week
Tamara Scott
Bravo to Michele Bachmann for her newly appointed Iowa co-chair Tamara Scott, a woman who will no doubt help woo anti-gay Iowans to Bachmann’s dimly...
Creep of the Week
T.I.
Attention gays: recently paroled felon and rapper T.I. thinks you are too sensitive. And maybe he’s right. Maybe years of being treated like...
Deep Inside Hollywood
Zachary Quinto was Never Here
The now-publicly gay Zachary Quinto recently appeared in a weird, funny turn on American Horror Story and the biggest upcoming project on his plate...
The City of Angels?
To put it simply, I have a love/hate relationship with Los Angeles. The fast-paced mentality and lifestyle is a bit more than I can handle, although...
Slopes, Snow and Studs! Aspen Gay Ski Week is Coming!
Aspen, Colorado is notorious for entertaining the upper crust of the skiing community- but not just during the wintertime. This adorable mountain town...
Hear Me Out
Florence + the Machine, Coldplay
Florence + The Machine, Ceremonials The dog days are over for Florence Welch, so it's onto a different animal: this behemoth of supersized songs that...
The OutField
Galen Dodd blocks, hits, comes out
At 6-feet-4-inches – and still three months away from his 16th birthday – Galen Dodd might have been expected to play basketball. There’s pressure to do...
Thinking Outloud
Homosexual Difficulties: The scary truth about one Osmond brother’s family-friendly website
I had meant to write about serious LGBT news this week, but I accidently fell down the sinkhole of celebrity gossip – in particular, the goings on of one...
Thinking Outloud
Prop 8’s Slow Crawl to the U.S. Supreme Court: Why it’s time to take a big risk for nationwide marriage equality
Sometimes I wish lawsuits in real life were more like they are on TV. They’d wrap up in days rather than years, and they wouldn’t spend most of that time...
Editorial Cartoon
Family Research Council Award
Editorial Cartoon
J. Edgar
Editorial Cartoon
Jerry Sandusky
Editorial Cartoon
Republican Red Meat Department
Beauty and the Beast
Magic for all ages
In 1991 the Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast captured the imagination of young and old, and its theme song launched Celine Dion. It is so...
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