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Articles in the July 2016 Edition

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Backwards is finally open, Orlando Shooting, Edmonton and Lethbridge Pride

Edmonton Pride Weekend To some great weather, Edmonton Pride was celebrated at the start of June. Though many were present in body, it appeared their...

The Love of Michael Bernard Fitzgerald

Calgary Singer releases new album, playing Calgary Folk Festival

"In case you can’t tell, the whole thing is about a relationship. I have written a lot of love songs before but this album is about love lost. I had...

VIDEO - GayCalgary at Lethbridge Pride

Drag Race’s Milk… on Ice

Syracuse-born Milk barely fits onscreen while Publisher Steve discovers that her heels are about the same length as a particular male body part... A decent-sized...

Queer Eye

Edmonton Pride 2016

INTERVIEW - Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi

The allied Alberta way

Your faithful GayCalgary craftspeople have done it for you! We’ve answered the burning question on every Calgarian’s mind about our internationally-renowned...

Chad Michaels Returns to Alberta

Ru Paul’s Drag Race Superstar Highlights Pure Pride’s Aqua-IGLA After-Party

A Pure Pride event is one of your best bets for a fantastic evening, and this year’s event in Edmonton just levelled up. Chad Michaels, winner of RuPaul’s...

Discussing Community Safety

Orlando Shooting, Toronto Pride

Hello again everyone. Yet again I have the unfortunate pleasure of speaking with you after some traumatic and difficult situations have taken place...

INTERVIEW - Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson

His word on gender politics

True to GC’s hard-hitting journalistic mandate, we put the same dangerous questions before the Mayor of Edmonton, Don Iveson, as we had his unsuspecting...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Kristian Nairn, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Ford, Azealia Banks

Kristian Nairn, Game of Thrones’ Hodor, lives on in new fantasy worlds Hodor is dead. We know, you’re still upset. So are we. But Kristian Nairn, the...

Queer Eye

Lethbridge Pride 2016

Positive Thoughts

Good Morning Vietnam

My stepfather came back from Vietnam in the mid-’70s, a broken man with post-traumatic stress disorder and health complications that grow more dire the...

Forever Fabulous - Over drinks (obvs), Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley dish

on their gay darlings, drag doubles & being ahead of the queer curve

How to be a free spirit, why a wallet, not a toaster, is better suited to carry cash, the power of a heavy pour – since 1992, fictional besties Edina Monsoon...

Alexander Skarsgård the Great Ally

True Blood alum on coaching gay sex scenes, his outsider perspective, and Tarzan vs. Farrah Fawcett

Alexander Skarsgård sure knows how to offset the uproar over his missing loincloth in The Legend of Tarzan. "I’m actually wearing it right now,"...

VIDEO - Kristian Bruun at the Calgary Comic Expo 2016

Orphan Black actor on upcoming twist

Toronto actor, writer and producer, Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black’s Donnie Hendrix), and GC’s Steve Polyak discuss how much they both enjoy the social dynamics...

7 Hard Truths the LGBT Community Must Address in the Wake of the Orlando Massacre

For the past few years that I’ve penned this column, I’ve kept it light and fluffy. It’s called The Frivolist after all, and my goal is to entertain with...

7 Steps to Weaning Yourself Off Social Media for a More Memorable Summer

We all love social media – myself included. But if checking in, updating statuses, taking photos of your food and scrolling through the bubble butts of...

Queer Eye

Bears in the Park, Edmonton http://gaycalgary.com/pa1169 EVO Pride at Evolution Nightclub, Edmonton http://gaycalgary.com/pa1171 Pure Pride with...

Calgary Pride Statement regarding Orlando FL shooting On behalf of Calgary’s LGBTQ community, Calgary Pride offers its heartfelt condolences to those...

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LGBT Community Directory

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Online Articles this Month

Creep of the Week

Donald Trump

So much anti-LGBT dumb fuckery has emerged after the shooting of 102 people, of which 49 were killed, by a man with a military-style assault weapon at...

I went to go see Finding Dory with my son and I feel compelled to report that there is no transgender stingray featured in the film. I repeat: there is...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Laura Linney, Wanda Sykes, Jim Parsons, 'Broadway: The Next Generation'

Laura Linney and Armistead Maupin pitching brand new Tales of The City Laura Linney is committed to playing Mary Ann Singleton. When other ongoing film/TV...

Remember when FEMA put all of those people in North Carolina in trailers after the streets were flooded with the pee of transgender men and women who weren’t...

The Outfield

Cyd Zeigler’s ‘fair play’

Conventional wisdom says that the locker room is the last closet. The sports world is seen as unwelcoming, anti-gay, left behind in a pathetic time warp...

EXTRA! EXTRA! – Disney’s Newsies is worth striking out for

Of all of the Disney movies to be turned into a stage production, Newsies is an interesting choice. The 1992 film wasn’t exactly a hit though it has built...

Editorial Cartoon

Pride Parade Planning

Creep of the Week

Raul Labrador

With the massacre of men and women at a gay club in Orlando barely behind us, one could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that this horrific hate crime...

6 Tricks to Throwing the Gayest Pool Party Ever

Let’s get soakin’ wet!

Sit on your throne as the reigning prince of homemade homo pool parties with these tips on how to throw the dippiest, drippiest Sunday Funday this side...

Chris Cornell Creates Art On Stage

Higher Ground Acoustic Tour a Stunning Night of Music

There are many types of concerts and music, but regardless of the style, theatrics or production at its core, it is simple. Most songs start with a guitar...

Peter Gabriel and Sting Make Magic

Rock Paper Scissors Tour a Legendary Concert

The concept of a co-headlining concert – in which two major artists tour together – is not a new one. Typically, the shows feature two separate, full length...

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