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OCTOBER 2012 ISSUE 108 • FREE The Voice of Alberta’s LGBT Community RUPAUL Drag Race All Stars Sean Maher on coming out in Hollywood Jordan Knight has Unfinished Business PLUS: Gay Night at Cowboys? Pitch Perfect Rebel Wilson Lily Tomlin ...and more! Scan to Read on Mobile Devices Nichelle Nichols http://gettag.mobi Groundbreaking Actress Business Directory Community Map Events Calendar Tourist Information STARTING ON PAGE 55 Calgary • Alberta • Canada www.gaycalgary.com Table of Contents OCTOBER 2012 5 Mr & Ms GayCalgary Publisher: Steve Polyak Publisher’s Column Editor: Rob Diaz-Marino Sales: Steve Polyak Design & Layout: 7 Letters Rob Diaz-Marino, AraSteve Shimoon Polyak Writers and Contributors 8 Rebel Rising Mercedes Allen, Allen, Chris Joey Azzopardi,Amato, Chris Dallas Azzopardi, Barnes, Pitch Perfect star and director on what’s so gay about the movie, Dave Brousseau, SamRob Casselman,Diaz-Marino, Jason Janine Clevett, Eva Trotta,Andrew Jack Collins, Fertig, Emily Dustin Collins, Fitzharris, Rob Diaz-Marino, Mark Gray, outsiders and spotting lesbians JanineGlen Hanson, Eva Trotta, Joan Jack Hilty, Fertig, Evan Glen Kayne, Hanson, Stephen Joan Lock,Hilty, Lisa Evan Lunney, Kayne, AllanStephen Neuwirth, Lock, Neil Steve McMullen, Polyak, CareyAllan Rutherford,Neuwirth, Steve Romeo Polyak, San CareyVicente, Rutherford, Ed Sikov, 10 Sean Maher Comes 8 PAGE RomeoKrista Sylvester San Vicente, and Ed the Sikov, LGBT Nick Community Vivian and of the GLBTCalgary, Community Edmonton, of Calgary, and Alberta.Edmonton, and To Edmonton Alberta. Photography Firefly & Playboy Club Star on fans, Joss Whedon, and coming out in Hollywood Steve Polyak,Photography Rob Diaz-Marino Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, 13 Gordon the Giraffe VideographyB&J Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino A tale of tolerance Videography Steve Polyak,Printers Rob Diaz-Marino Web exPress 14 Jordan Knight’s Printers North HillDistribution News/Central Web Unfinished Business Calgary: Gallant Distribution, GayCalgaryDistribution Staff New Kid Brings Solo Tour To Canada EdmontonCalgary: Gallant: Clark’s Distribution Distribution OtherGayCalgary: Canada Staff Post 17 Calgary Gay History Project Edmonton: Clark’s Distribution OtherLegal: Canada Council Post Exploring Calgary’s secret history of the 50’s and 60’s Courtney Aarbo, Barristers and Solicitors Legal Council 18 A Conversation With Nichelle Nichols 10 PAGE CourtneySales Aarbo, & General Barristers Inquiries and Solicitors GayCalgary Magazine Groundbreaking Actress Speaks To GayCalgary Sales2136 & General 17th Avenue Inquiries SW GayCalgaryCalgary, andAB, CanadaEdmonton T2T Magazine 0G3 21 Calgary Sexual Health Centre Celebrates [email protected] 17th Avenue SW Calgary, AB, Canada 40 Years of Service Office Hours: ByT2T appointment0G3 ONLY Phone: 403-543-6960 OfficeToll Hours: Free: By 1-888-543-6960 appointment ONLY 22 Silly Lily Phone:Fax: 403-703-0685 403-543-6960 Comedian talks longtime relationship, gay repression and retirement rumors E-Mail:Toll [email protected] Free: 1-888-543-6960 Fax: 403-703-0685 24 The Perks of Being Ezragazine Miller E-Mail: [email protected] Month's Cover Main: RuPaul, photo by Mathu Anderson Breakthrough actor talks gay teen role, why he’s queer and doing drag as a kid Top Right:This Sean Month's Maher, Cover photo by Fox ma Cher andMiddle Christina Right: Aguilera Jordan courtesy Knight of Sony Pictures; BottomAnnie LennoxRight: Nichelle courtesy Nichols of Mike Owen; 26 The Other Reproductive Rights Rex Goudie. 28 The Level Playing Field Is Still Askew 14 PAGE Proud Members of: Proud Members of: 29 BEAUTY AND THE BEAT 30 Deep Inside Hollywood Which one is Queen of The Desert? Edmonton Rainbow Business Association 31 Cocktail Chatter Gazpacho Borracho International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association 32 Greta Gerwig: The New Gay-Loved Girl Actress talks gay fake-out in new film, preference for gay boyfriends and filling Liza’s shoes National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association PAGE 18 PAGE Continued on Next Page www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #108, October 2012 3 Table of Contents Continued From Previous Page 34 How a Movement is Born SlutWalk co-founder, queer positive feminist to speak at upcoming event 35 AGOKWE: A Two-Spirited Love Story Magazine Figures Ojibwa Artist, Waawaate Fobister, Portrays Queer Teenage Love on the Rez Monthly Print Quantity: 7,000–9,000 copies Guaranteed Circulation: 7,000 copies 36 Out Destination Bonus Circulation: up to 2,000 copies Fort Lauderdale Readership Readers Per Copy: 4.9 (PMB) 38 Send In My Girls Print Readership: >41,650 Queens Return to All Star Drag Race Avg. Online Circulation: 150,000 readers Estimated Total Readership: PAGE 22 PAGE >191,650 readers 40 Jordin Sparkles Frequency: Monthly Singer talks acting debut, her gay following and how ‘Whitney loved her gays’ Proof of monthly figures are 42 Cowboys Nightclub available on request. Distribution Locations: Calgary: 160, Edmonton: 120 Turns A Shade Pink? Other Alberta Cities: 15 Other Provinces: 35 44 JUST A GIGOLO United States: 15 46 Queer Eye Please call us if your establishment would like to become a distribution location. 52 Chelsea Boys History 53 A Couple of Guys Originally established in January 1992 as Men for Men BBS by MFM Communications. Name changed to GayCalgary in 1998. PAGE 38 PAGE 54 Bitter Girl Independent company as of January 2004. First edition of GayCalgary.com Magazine 55 Directory and Events published November 2003. Name adjusted in November 2006 to GayCalgary 60 Classified Ads and Edmonton Magazine. February 2012 returned to GayCalgary Magazine 62 Q Scopes Be helpful, Leo! Disclaimer and Copyright Opinions expressed in this magazine are specific to the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of GayCalgary gazine staff and contributors. Those involved in the making of this ma publication, whether advertisers, contributors, or the subjects of articles Scan for Scan for or photographs, are not necessarily gay, this Issue Latest Issue lesbian, bisexual, or trans. This magazine also includes straight allies and those who PAGE 40 PAGE are gay friendly. http://gettag.mobi No part of this publication may be reprinted or modified without the expressed written http://www.gaycalgary.com/RSS permission of the editor or publisher. Articles • Recent News • Prize Draws • Events • Travel Info Copyright 2012. All rights reserved. GayCalgary is a registered trademark. http://www.gaycalgary.com/Twitter NOV 2012 Print Deadlines Follow us on Twitter for articles, weekly news and updates! 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In recent times you just have to share a bit of what makes you uniquely you. however, big name celebrities like Madonna, Cher, and Past GayCalgary Magazine cover models are eligible. Lady Gaga have stolen the spotlight. Once selected, we’ll brainstorm some photo ideas based on Can you blame us? Pragmatically speaking, as a magazine what you tell us about yourself, and arrange to meet up as we need to put our biggest highlights up front and centre so needed to execute these plans. We can’t promise anything like that we make a splash. In our industry, people often do judge the high fashion photo shoots you see on TV, but we’ll get some a book by its cover - at least until they get to know us a little great shots and have some fun in the process. We’ll also give better. Unfortunately this makes it hard for us to devote the you digital copies of your photos, including the ones we don’t cover to local people as we used to. use in the feature, for your own personal use. Nevertheless, we miss the old grassroots days when we Popularity Contest would do the photography ourselves. It was a chance to get the creative juices flowing – deciding on a concept, gathering Alexa.com is a third party website that we like to use to clothing and props, finding a setting, working with our subjects compare the popularity of GayCalgary.com to other websites to capture some truly striking photos, and then fine tuning to in our province and around the world. Alexa uses a metric get the images just right. We also miss hearing the fun stories that judges both quantity and “quality” of web traffic to millions from the people we photograph, who are surprised and excited of websites around the world, and uses it to rank them in about the wave of attention that the publicity brings them. order from best to…well, worst wouldn’t even show up on their charts. 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