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Publisher’s Column

A century or two in the past, people would need just about every waking hour to ensure their basic survival needs were covered. But over the years...

VIDEO - Full Frontal Nerdity

A Retrospective of this year’s Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo

The Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo was, as ever, a very strange, very exciting, and very exhausting way to spend the weekend. While I interviewed...

Something In Steph Macpherson

Canadian Sweetheart Releases her Premier Album, Bells and Whistles

She’s blonde, beautiful and melodic. Canada’s answer to the Californian folk songstress Lissie releases 10 original tracks in her first album entitled...

Pride Centre of Edmonton

Longest running LGBTQ organization in Alberta re-opens

Now located in downtown Edmonton, the Pride Centre of Edmonton (PCE) has re-opened after having to close its doors in August of 2011, following an external...

VIDEO INTERVIEW - Aaron Douglas

Seriously a Funny Guy

Forced to wear an L.A. Kings jersey due to the loss of a bet with Wil Wheaton, Aaron Douglas - best known for his role as Galen Tyrol on Battlestar Galactica...

Edmonton’s Artists for Life 2012

3rd Annual Event to benefit HIV Edmonton and Camp fYrefly

This year on Saturday, May 26th is the 3rd annual Artists for Life fundraiser taking place at the Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton. This event is put...

Idina Menzel Defies… Everything

Theater icon talks queer crushes, hubby’s gay tendency and her ‘Wicked’ nightmares

Idina Menzel doesn’t do anything halfway – even when she’s deciding on her gay faves. "It’s so silly," says the homo-hearted theater queen, surfing Google...

Transcend at the Auburn

TESA Debuts its Annual Fundraiser

The Trans-Equality Society of Alberta (TESA) has a lot to celebrate. They just witnessed a hugely successful AGM – one that resulted in a fresh Board of...

Progress, One Day at a Time

Calgary Outlink Keeps Up

We live in a city that is undergoing constant evolution, and the LGBT community is inundated with groups, bars, and organizations coming and going. It...

Jason Mraz Won’t Give Up

Pop star talks supporting LGBT community, his ‘open’ sexuality and clarifies Instinct interview

How cool is Jason Mraz? For one, his unwavering fight for equal rights led him to shoot a Human Rights Campaign video recently; he’s also waiting to wed...

Catching Up With Kristine W

Dance diva on new music, keeping the gays in line and pressure to go country

We all know Kristine W – or do we? In one of her most revealing interviews ever, the gay-adored dance-music powerhouse recently caught up with us to chat...

Notorious G.A.Y.

The Return of the Gay Pimp

THE GAYEST OF ALL TIME continues Jonny McGovern’s journey into the fabulous fairyland where queens rule, glamour is celebrated, every street is a fashion...

Erin Gray

The Lady of 1000 Talents

Often when I talk to friends about doing actor/celebrity interviews, they’re disappointed I don’t interview the world-renowned names. For me, having interviewed...

In Good Conscience

I’ll need to preface this article with a position statement, to note that I support the right of people of faith to believe, speak and practice their faith...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Steel Magnolias: the TV movie

If you never saw the original 1989 film version of Steel Magnolias with Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts then you’ve got a little catching up to do on the...

Cocktail Chatter

El Nuevo Mojito

"We’re in the port of Old San Juan / We have a boat we can sleep on / Hundreds of drag queens in full bloom / Hundreds of fat men in steam room!" My...

Queer Prom

Misc Youth gives LGBT Youth a second chance

The Miscellaneous Youth Network is at it again! Calgary’s LGBT youth organization is attacking the horrors of high school prom - a sometimes uncomfortable...

A Dreamy May Lovers’ Date Night

Peter Katz is Coming to Town

The cooing, melancholy, and clear voice that brought us the zesty track Dangerous is back with a new album. Canadian born singer songwriter Peter Katz...

Two Worlds Collide

The Death of a Gay Activist

With the recent killing of Halifax gay activist, Raymond Taaval, homophobic violence is once again receiving media attention. The fact his killer...

Letters to the Publisher

Dear GayCalgary, As a transgendered man waiting to become a woman through gender reassignment surgery, I can truly say I am proud of Donald Trump...

Cape Town

Paradise in the Rainbow Nation

South Africa is a country that celebrates diversity. It’s the only country in Africa that allows same-sex couples to marry. Cape Town, the second-largest...

“The Best Life that Good Design Can Offer”

Step into 6th and Tenth – Construction Slated to Break Ground this Fall

Young urbanites and the young at heart: a new development in Calgary is being catered to suit your posh dwelling needs. Brad J. Lamb, the Toronto...

Melissa Etheridge (Kind Of) Opens Up

Rocker talks life after ex, getting remarried and upcoming album

Come to her window, but Melissa Etheridge won’t be around. Why? Because she’s everywhere else – on tour through the summer and in the studio laying down...

Jack Black (Maybe) Goes Gay

Actor talks playing a real-life man who might be gay – and the pedicure he gave Shirley MacLaine

Is this Jack Black’s first gay role? As a small-town Texan teddy bear who goes off the deep end, it might be. But, because the real-life man he’s playing...

Queer Eye

LGBT Project Art Show/Sale at Deva Dave’s http://gaycalgary.com/p221 Sharp Foundation Mac & Cheese Contest at the Eagle http://gaycalgary.com/p222 Beef...

LGBT Community Directory

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

Classifieds

Q Scopes

Be very careful, Aquarius!

The Sun conjoins Jupiter in Taurus offering a bright spot in the economy, both global and your own. Venus is in close aspect boosting that optimism, but...

Online Articles this Month

Virus Detected in Semen of Those on HIV Meds, Studies Show

Transmission Risk low but significant, STIs also a factor

Several new studies show that some on antiviral therapy may have enough HIV in their semen to transmit the virus to others. The studies also suggest that...

Gender Outlaw Stalks the Bible Belt

I’m not particularly religious but I have read some of the Old Testament. I am familiar with the story of Lot, and the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah...

Creep of the Week

National Organization for Marriage

Hey girlfriend, what are you wearing to the race war? Some sexy camouflage chaps, perhaps? A rainbow stripped Kevlar vest? Wait, haven’t you heard? The...

Out of Town

Upstate New York Vacations

The recent legalization of same-sex marriage in New York has given a number of classic romantic vacation spots throughout the state's northern and...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Sofia Vergara in bed with Sharon Stone and…

Take one actress best known for an iconic lesbian role and another actress that lesbians simply wish would switch teams, put them both in a new film...

The OutField

Lisa Howe has hope

So much of life is about being in the right place at the right time. For Lisa Howe, that meant that at the age of 25 being part of a group of...

Hear Me Out

Madonna

No one can replace Madonna. We get it. And should we not, the queen of pop’s latest electro-romp and eighth No. 1-charting album, MDNA, reminds us...

Thinking Out Loud

NOM’s Marriage Strategy: The cynical art of being wholesome

Is anyone really shocked about the revelations from the recently released internal memorandum from the National Organization for Marriage ("NOM")?...

Book Marks

Carry the One

Carry the One, by Carol Anshaw. Simon & Schuster, 272 pages, $25 hardcover. The flawed natures of ordinary people are at the core of ...

myBad iPad

When he was alive, Steve Jobs praised the iPad’s ability to offer freedom from, among other things, pornography. He believed Apple had a moral responsibility...

Creep of the Week

Rep. Steve King (R-IA)

Oh, Steve King. You are a royal creep, indeed. A longstanding foe of LGBT people and anyone who sees LGBT people as, oh I don't know, human...

Show (It All) Business

Lesbian Porn Director Reveals…

Nakedness. Everywhere. All the time. Running Juicy Pink Box, I look at women in various stages of undress all day long, every day. I think...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Oscar-winning lesbians make a break for Canada in Cloudburst

Olympia Dukakis won hers for Moonstruck, while U.K. actress Brenda Fricker won hers for My Left Foot. Those wins would be Academy Awards, by the way...

The OutField

Texas A&M tackles diversity

A school on the list of America’s 10 least inclusive colleges for LGBT students would seem an unlikely host for a conference called "Sexual Orientation...

The Real Mike Ruiz

Photographer to the stars opens up about turning his fantasy childhood into a career catalyst

A child imagines life outside reality by creating a wild, monster-inhabited world of escapism in Pan’s Labyrinth, a stylistic fantasy-art film released...

Thinking Out Loud

Our Civil Rights Paradox: Why we have to have political power to prove that we don’t have political power

I’ve often thought I should write a column called, "Weird Things Lawyers Do," to explain to normal people why attorneys, like me, spend so much time...

WeHo? No, SaMo!

Yes, most LGBT travelers know West Hollywood is the focal point of gay and lesbian life in the greater

Creep of the Week

James Loomer

Have you heard the one about the National Day of Silence? Here’s the set up: A teen walks into her high school. A few of her friends are all...

Editorial Cartoon

Don't Say Gay

Hear Me Out

Nicki Minaj, Bonnie Raitt

Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Nicki Minaj botched her Grammy performance so bad earlier this year, when she weirdly channeled The Exorcist...

Creep of the Week

Heather Wilson

I’ve been reading about Kenneth Weishuhn, a 14-year-old who recently took his own life after reportedly enduring death threats after coming out as...

Editorial Cartoon

Romney and NOM

Heat Up Your Night with Some Good Ol’ Fashion Hippy Lovin’

Stage West Presents Summer In the City Until June 10

It was a Saturday night, a brisk chill in the air, but seated inside Stage West Theatre the ambiance was hot. Summer In the City – A Musical Revue –...

Edmonton’s Queer Prom

Celebrating Everyone

Do you ever wish that you could go back in time, and relive, or shall I say revive your prom experience? You know, rather than squeezing yourself...

Editorial Cartoon

Maj. Archibald Butt

Editorial Cartoon

Hilary Rosen Faux News

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