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February 2011

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Articles in the February 2011 Edition

No Time better than Drag Time?

I’ve know about "Drag Time" probably since the first Drag Show I had ever attended. By now I can’t remember exactly if it was at Boyztown or at Detour...

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

The Beef Dip is a week-long holiday outing to share company with bears and admirers in a climate conducive to wearing as little clothing as possible. This...

Grande Prairie boys mark 10 years with greatest hits album

The story of Emerson drive is one of incredible highs – small town Alberta boys who have gone on to success in Nashville including a Grammy award nomination...

Scissor Sisters’ frontman on his second puberty, performing naked and the band’s Lady

They’ve always been gorgeous, but it took a decade before the Scissor Sisters, with their third album Night Work, became full-on filthy. The romp-pop album...

Life After A-List

Reichen Lehmkuhl candidly talks reality TV regrets, DADT and ex Lance Bass’ career copycats

Some people had a hard time sitting through The A-List: New York, Logo’s tawdry teledoc about a gay gaggle that got eye-roll reactions from viewers who...

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...

Dire Straits in Dire Straits after Censorship Ruling

The tentacles of censorship have always uncurled in insidious ways, but usually the grip is more immediate than 26 years later and in reaction to one (count...

2011 Survey Results

Outcomes from the GC&E Magazine Reader Survey

We ran our bi-annual in-house reader survey over the course of last month. I’m happy to report that we got a good deal more people participating this year...

Team Edmonton Mixer

Sports and Recreation Mingles with the Public

Team Edmonton is having its 4th annual Mixer on Saturday, February 26th at the Sawridge Inn. This is the second year that the Sawridge Inn has played host...

“Trust your instincts, Pisces!”

The Sun lining up with Neptune in Aquarius, and in a rare combination of aspects with Uranus (for the last time in our lifetime!), offers an unusual boost...

Deep Inside Hollywood

A Star is Beyoncé

It looks like the always-seemingly-being-discussed update of A Star Is Born, the one Beyoncé has been attached to for some time now (and before her it...

Cocktail Chatter

The Pomegranate Cocktail and The Virtue of Pricey Liquor

"I will! I will! I-I wi-ill!" I sang wildly off-key in the shower, where only the Korean family next door and the lesbian phlebotomist with the Phyllis...

The beautiful game heads to anti-gay Qatar and Ryan Quinn comes out with The Fall

When the World Cup kicks off in Qatar in 2022 there will be no alcohol. There will also be few gay people in the stands, watching the most popular sports...

“I was outed on Facebook”

"I was outed on Facebook" Q: Even though my good friend Letisha lives with her girlfriend, she is not out to her family. At least she wasn’t until last...

Fundraising Photos

Edmonton Remembers Roost Founder

Dow Hicks, founder of The Roost Nightclub in Edmonton, passed away this past January 19th. A memorial was held on Friday, January 28th at the Christ Church...

Miami and South Beach

Long a magnet for gay tourists, especially in winter but increasingly year-round, Miami is the largest and most diverse of the three prongs that comprise...

When the Devil Knocks

A raw and intimate look at Dissociative Identity Disorder

I admit, I’m hooked on The United States of Tara, the Showtime series that follows the life of a suburban housewife with Dissociative Identity Disorder...

Defining Hate Crime

Late November 2010, local Country musician Patrick Masse and a friend pulled their vehicle into a strip mall downtown on 11th Avenue and 5th Street SW...

The Ex-Gay Jesus-Fix-It Perpetual Emotion Machine

(The following is not meant to absolve anyone, but to just show what it’s like. Because the religious right would have everyone believe that it’s all...

HIV Edmonton’s Legacy Gala

A Wrap Up to a Fabulous Project

Fifteen months ago HIV Edmonton launched the seven component Legacy Project, a 25th Anniversary initiative aimed at "raising awareness, garnering support...

Apollo SPYKE! Women’s Volleyball

A Women’s Only Event!

Apollo Friends in Sport has granted the wish of many women in Calgary by sponsoring SPYKE! Women’s Volleyball from January 9th to April 17th. Sue Bossley...

A Couple of Guys

Letters to the Editor

Dear GC&E Magazine, I cannot believe how stressful it is living in Alberta, what with the cold weather and the constant threats and intimidation I...

Apollo Boot camp

Boot camp Doesn’t Have to Be Scary

Are you ready to brush up on your hardcore military techniques? What about sending your kids to tough-love wilderness camps celebrated by Maury Povich’s...

George Michael, Natasha Bedingfield

Faith (Special Edition) By: George Michael When he wasn’t setting his own monkey free, George Michael was singing about it. The single "Monkey" was...

Finger Eleven Rock Onwards

Veteran Canadian band hits the road with Life Turns Electric

Finger Eleven drummer Rich Beddoe has mixed feelings about the band’s cross country tour (bringing them to Macewan Hall on February 4th and the Edmonton...

Drag Race winner Tyra Sanchez goes cross country

With the launch of the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, airing Mondays on OUTtv, the previous season winner Tyra Sanchez recently left the warmth of...

Take Back the Night Art Fundraiser

Eclectic Art Showcase Hopeful to Fund September’s March

On February 3rd, the doors of the Marquis Room opened for the Take Back the Night Calgary committee’s first fundraiser for the annual march that has taken...

Online Articles this Month

Valentines Gift Ideas

Haven't figured out what to get your partner/friend/secret crush for Valentines Day yet? Here are some great ideas within the LGBT community!Click...

5 Real Estate Tips for LGBT Homeowners Who Want a Faster Sale in 2011

LGBT home sellers should understand that it is still a buyer’s market and that the average time it takes to sell a home is more indicative of a bear market...

Wilson sisters still have it after 35 years

It seems like a wave of incredible women are washing over Alberta right now. Just 24 hours after Melissa Etheridge & Serena Ryder rocked Calgary's ...

Editorial Cartoons

February 2011 Edition

Hidden, by Tomas Mournian. Kensington Books, 392 pages, $15 paper. Much has been written, factual and fictional, about so-called conversion...

The Metropolis Case

The Metropolis Case, by Matthew Gallaway. Crown Publishers, 382 pages, $25 hardcover. First-time novelist Gallaway strikes beguiling chords...

Cocktail Chatter

The Old Fashioned

After that spirit-killing dinner with Craig and his – gag – new boyfriend, Kyle (my perfect Kyle, with his gymnast’s ass and a treasure trail that...

Creep of the Week: Cindy Jacobs

Thanks to Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist thugs, everybody knows that God hates fags. But you know what else God hates? Birds and fish. Because...

Creep of the Week: Joseph Allen

For many years people have been trying to figure out what makes a person gay. Scientists, psychologists, and theologists alike have been stumped. Of ...

Creep of the Week: Gordon Klingenschmitt

You know what gay people need? Exorcisms. It's the only way to get rid of the gay-making demon lurking in the homosexual soul. And who better...

Creep of the Week: Brent Bozell

"Homosexual activists" are at it again. Just when you thought it was safe to watch prime time TV, gay propagandists have taken airwaves and are doing...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Hammer does Hoover

Now that everyone has seen The Social Network, the talk has swung back and forth between Oscars and the cool way director David Fincher turned super-tall...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Chris Colfer strikes with Lightning

Actors’ shelf-lives can be short, so it’s never wrong to take advantage of any window of career heat. That’s the wisdom Glee cast member and recent...

The Decemberists, Runner Runner

The Decemberists, The King is Dead The Decemberists sure know how to turn their sound on its head. And spin it around a few times. They land...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Anne Hathaway begs for, then gets, role on Glee

Sometime an A-list actor still has to audition for a role. Sometimes the A-list actor just gets a call and an offer. And sometimes that A-list actor...

Kye Allums is trans; world does not end

The most newsworthy part of college basketball player Kye Allums’ coming out story as the first openly transgender man to play on an NCCA Division...

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