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May 2009 ISSUE 67 The Only Magazine Dedicated to Alberta’s GLBT+ Community FREE LARAMIE PROJECT Remembering Matthew Shepard Trans Healthcare NIGHTMARE 19 Cents Too Steep to Save Lives? Fairy Tales 11 Film Guide COMMUNITY DIRECTORY • MAP AND EVENTS • TOURISM INFO >> STARTING ON PAGE 17 GLBT RESOURce • CALGARy • EDMONTon • ALBERTA www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #67, May 009 Table of Contents Table of Contents Publisher: ................................Steve Polyak 5 Adventures in Drag Editor: ...............................Rob Diaz-Marino Publisher’s Column Graphic Design: ................Rob Diaz-Marino Sales: .......................................Steve Polyak 8 Suzanne Whang Writers and Contributors Multi-tasking Entertainer visits The Comic Strip Mercedes Allen, Chris Azzopardi, Camper British, Dave Brousseau, Jason Clevett, Andrew Collins, James S.M. Demers, Rob 10 Pimpin Ain’t Easy 5 Diaz-Marino, Jack Fertig, Glen Hanson, An interview with Gay Pimp Jonny McGovern Joan Hilty, Evan Kayne, Stephen Lock, AGE Allan Neuwirth, Steve Polyak, Romeo San P Vicente, D’Anne Witkowski, and the GLBT Community of Calgary, Edmonton, and 13 Chelsea Boys Alberta. Photography 14 Out of Town Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, and Taos, New Mexico contributors Karen Hofmann. 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All rights reserved. you may have missed the booking or GayCalgary is a registered trademark. submission deadline. www.gaycalgary.com/facebook www.gaycalgary.com/twitter GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #67, May 009 Editorial Adventures in Drag Publisher’s Column ally had the desire By Rob Diaz-Marino, MSc. to do drag. We like our beards and body I’ve been watching and photographing Drag Shows hair, and we deem since I first met Steve. Before I understood what any interruption of its it was all about, I was a little put off by his appar- presence to be com- pletely unacceptable. ent interest in men wearing dresses. It took nearly Nevertheless, we a year of periodic exposure to drag shows before I had still planned out began to appreciate them for their entertainment what our drag names value. I suppose one needs to collect enough memo- would be, should either of us ever get ries of the hard-hitting numbers, rather than the roped into drag for more transient weekly ones, to really get into the a rare occasion. We right mindset. Admittedly, I enjoyed some of the told ourselves that outrageously crude numbers by Selma Body (“Like we’d only do this for A Virgin”, “I Keep a Piece of You”) and Candy Cum- some sort of big fund- raiser, but this night I mings (“C is for Cookie”) on the Detours stage before was feeling like doing I appreciated the more classical styles of queens like something crazy. Nina, Voodoo, Carly, and Kricket. The premise of My first Coronation was somewhat confusing. I remember tough drag meant heading to the Days Inn after a final exam, to join Steve who was that I could perform in the process of photograph- without any preparation al a razor. Of course I still had a cou- ing and videotaping (using a ple of concerns. My first, of actually getting into drag, was taken tripod) so I didn’t have much care of by Makayla (Steve R.) who graciously offered to do the to do but stand and watch the makeup and lend me clothes and a wig. By gracious, I probably equipment, and of course, the mean eager to help me make a fool of myself (wink). My next show. I remember that year was having a song to perform that I knew well enough, which was an Egyptian theme with Makayla helped me find in her CD collection. Once I knew those some reference to Stargate were taken care of, I had no more excuses. - and one performance sticks out in my mind for the fact I believed him when he told me I might be less nervous that the performer was carried if I didn’t look at myself until after I had performed. onstage inside a sarcopha- Indeed I would later discover that I looked like some gus. I wasn’t sure how to act demented peppy prostitute, fresh out of a Ponoka around the queens in crowns who introduced themselves to mental institution. me. I ended up kissing a few of them on the hand, thinking It all happened so fast - I had waffled long enough and show it was customary to do so after time was approaching. Makayla rushed to get my face painted seeing someone else doing it. in a mere 10 minutes, got me into a dress (ironically the same I’m sure none objected, I just one worn by Vadge The Bucket only a month ago…that’s Karma felt a little silly when I later re- for you) with balloons for breasts, and a wild bushy wig. If you alized it wasn’t necessary, and thought socks and sandals was a bad combination, try socks perhaps a little flirtatious. and heels. I believed him when he told me I might be less ner- Fast forward through nearly vous if I didn’t look at myself until after I had performed. Indeed 7 years of being purely an I would later discover that I looked like some demented peppy observer and supporter of the prostitute, fresh out of a Ponoka mental institution. As train drag scene, to the Tough Drag wrecks go, I was spectacular, but that was exactly the point of show the night after this year’s tough drag. Coronation. Both Steve and I Continued on Page 37 were exhausted and I suppose I must have been in a particu- larly malleable mood because when Dion Boink approached me with the idea, my answer was NOT a flat-out “no” as Steve’s was. Steve and I have never re- GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #67, May 009 6 GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #67, May 009 GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #67, May 009 7 Celebrity Interview Suzanne Whang Multi-tasking Entertainer visits The Comic Strip have to be at the pres- By Jason Clevett ent moment. It kicks in endorphins and To list the resume of Suzanne Whang would take up boosts your immune a full page of this magazine. So to sum it up, she is system, you feel good. a comic, author, TV host on HGTV’s House Hunters, Truly it is the best way to have people learn.