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GayCalgary® Magazine

Articles in the January 2008 Edition
Resolutions
Letter from the Publisher
New Year’s resolutions are definitely the recurring theme of this month’s magazine. My resolution for this year is to get myself a little better organized...
Newslets
Toys 4 Tots raises $14,000 A huge mountain of toys formed at Money Pennies last month for Dr. Richard Denney’s 12th Annual Toys for Tots Christmas toy...
The Dish On Alberta Beef
It seems appropriate that a drag king troupe would form around a gender theorist, even though no one would have guessed that the successful Alberta Beef...
BASH’D!
Hip Hop Homos Hit High Performance Rodeo
In September 2006, BASH’d! exploded onto the Edmonton scene with a successful engagement at The Roost nightclub. With a buzz that reached all the way to...
Credit on the Line?
Convenience of Pre-Paid Cards
Before the invention of credit and debit cards, you could see exactly how much cash you were spending. You might have taken out a certain budgeted amount...
Out of Town
Unusual Tours to Great Destinations
If you’ve come to associate organized tours with massive chartered cruise ships, packed buses, and onerously large groups of fellow travelers, you might...
Some New Year Musings
The beginning of a new year is a time to reflect; to look inward, and maybe think about what we, as individuals and as a community, can do to make the...
Q Scopes
“Economize sensibly, Capricorn!”
The Sun aspecting Neptune and Eris makes us question our place vis-a-vis others, creating confrontations between the real and the ideal. In the gap, you...
Adult Film Review
Out on Vacation, Mutiny, College, Vanished
“Out on Vacation” by AlphaMale Media, Courtesy of Adult Depot CAST: Steve Cruz, Dillon Buck, Dan Vega, Trojan Rock, Jake Ryder, Martin Mazza, Dean Monroe...
Deep Inside Hollywood
Jake Scores Joe It’s not a given that Hollywood’s hottest actor who recently played gay would be cast in the lead of a biopic about a flamboyantly nonconformist-yet-still-hetero...
Whole Lesbian Sex
What Do Butches Want?
Butches, bois, stone butches. A sexy brew of masculinity in a female body. Do they, well, you know, get done? Heels in the air or on their knees, do butches...
Tobacco Reduction Act
Alberta Gets Tougher on Second-Hand Smoke
It has been a year since the Smoke Free Places Act was introduced, ridding Calgary bars and restaurants of second-hand smoke, and forcing smokers to take...
High Performance Rodeo
OYR’s 22nd Annual Event has Arrived
It’s a new year, and with the dawning of 2008 comes one of the highlights of Calgary’s theatre season, One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo. Truly...
Letters to the Editor
Dear GayCalgary, Artists for Quality of Life (AFQOL) has cleared over $10,000! Talk about the little engine that could!! 2007 was a banner year. Between...
Real Estate Sales Tips for Winter 2008:
5 tips to keep your listing active as the market cools in winter
Although winter is notoriously sluggish in terms of real estate shopping, the downtime provides a golden opportunity for homeowners to enhance their property’s...
The Pursuit of Muscle
“The big issues for me in being gay have been coming out and then what you look like. How am I gonna fit in? You get these messages that you have to be...
A Year Of Transgression
The Quest to Pee, Searching For a UnitedENDA, Transphobia Strike
This past year saw a diverse number of events in which gender variance made news. The rollercoaster ride shuttled between extremes of bigotry and enlightenment...
The Distress Centre
Spread Some Late Holiday Cheer
It is a sad thing to realize that the highest yearly suicide rates fall around Christmas. While the holidays can bring extreme happiness to those gifted...
Alpha-Q Volleyball
One of the defining characteristics of the Calgary GLBT community is the way it has organized itself along recreational and social lines. Compared to...
Snowballs!
A Gay Ski Weekend in Banff
Gay-themed ski trips are rapidly gaining in popularity as gay men and women head for the hills for snow, shopping and socializing. Snowballs! is your chance...
Where Else Can I Dance?
Alternatives for Calgary’s LGBT Dance Crowd
Not too many years ago there were a number of choices for gays and lesbians that wanted to go out for a night on the dance floor. Metro Boyztown was the...
Movie Review
Blades of Glory, Testosterone, Kinky Boots
Blades of Glory (2007) This over-the-top slapstick comedy takes a look at the wonderful world of figure skating. It has the style of humor typical to...
Music Review
Adagio, Songs of Mass Destruction, Sex Party
“Adagio” by Dr. Draw I must admit that I didn’t think this one looked terribly promising, though judging a CD by its cover is just as wrong as doing so...