November 2006 Issue 37 FREE of charge TThehe NakedNaked NewsNews PPuttingutting tthehe ““nude”nude” iinn NNewsworthyewsworthy BBretret HHartart ““TheThe HHitman”itman” ComesComes HHomeome iinn AAladdinladdin 33rdrd AnniversaryAnniversary EditionEdition >> STARTING ON PAGE 16 GLBT RESOURCE • CALGARY & EDMONTON 2 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #37, November 2006 Established originally in January 1992 as Men For Men BBS by MFM Communications. Named changed to 13 GayCalgary.com in 1998. Stand alone company as of January 2004. First Issue of GayCalgary.com Magazine, November 10 2003. Name adjusted in November 2006 to GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine. Publisher Steve Polyak & Rob Diaz-Marino, [email protected] Table of Contents Editor Rob Diaz Marino, [email protected] 5 Reflecting on 3 Years Original Graphic Design Deviant Designs Letter from the Publisher Advertising Steve Polyak [email protected], David 10 The Naked News Bonin [email protected] Vancouver and BC area Putting the “nude” in Newsworthy Contributors Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, Nina Tron, 16 Stephen Lock, Jason Clevett, Jerome Voltero, 13 Bret Hart Kevin Alderson, Roseline Carter, Kaitlyn S. C. “The Hitman” Comes Home in Aladdin Hatch, Benjamin Hawkcliffe, and the Gay and Lesbian Community of Calgary 16 Map & Event Listings Photographer Find out what’s happening Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino Videographer 23 B & D Emporium Edmonton Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino Not Just for the Kinky Please forward all inquiries to: GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine 25 Q Scopes Suite 100, 215 14th Avenue S.W. “Get nasty, Cancer!” Calgary, Alberta T2R 0M2 Phone (403) 543-6960 or toll free (888) 26 Adult Film Review 543-6960 Lebanon, Rammer, The Coach, and Last Call 48 Fax (403) 703-0685 E-mail [email protected] 28 If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…Bully Them Intimidation Tactics of the Right Print Run Monthly, 12 times a year Masthead continued on page 4 30 23rd Annual AIDS Benefit Roost Fundraises for AIDS Research 32 Q Puzzle “C Minus,” 33 The Twisted Element 2 Years and Going Strong Continued on page 4 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #37, November 2006 3 Continued from page 3 34 A Couple of Guys 35 Fundraising Photos 39 Leather and Lace Continued from page 3 The Art of Romance Copies Printed Monthly, up to 10,000 35 40 Boots copies. Gay Space for 28 Years Distribution points 200 points in Calgary, largest number of distribution points for any Gay publication in Calgary. 150 41 Music Review points in Edmonton, largest number of Snakehouse and We Love You but… distribution points for any Gay publication in Edmonton. Also distributed coast to 42 “Focus on the (Gay and Lesbian )Family” coast across Canada in select locations in Part I – Are Lesbian Women and Gay Men Suitable Parents? 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Deadlines Copyright 2006 AAdd SSpacepace BookingBooking - WednesdayWednesday NNovemberovember 29th29th 20062006 AAdd SSubmissionubmission - GayCalgary.com FFridayriday DDecemberecember 1st1st 20062006 GayCalgary.com Magazine is a proud IInn CirculationCirculation - ThursdayThursday Magazine is a proud member of Edmonton DDecemberecember 7th7th 20062006 member of Tourism Rainbow Business Calgary. Association. 4 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #37, November 2006 Reflecting on 3 Years Letter from the Publisher This Month By Rob Diaz-Marino This month we felt that we wanted to do something very Where has the time gone? When I was a child, a special to further boost the popularity of our magazine online, and offer our advertisers a very unique new way of reaching year seemed like a very long time but now, this gay readers. We’ve done some looking around, and believe we year in particular has positively zoomed by. I are perhaps the fi rst publication in Canada (possibly North remember what I was doing last November as if America), gay or straight, to make use of these features that it were yesterday – scary enough, to some degree have been available in Adobe Acrobat for the past 5 years or so. I even remember writing the publisher’s column back then. Time fl ies when you’re working hard Look for streaming VIDEO CLIPS and SOUND BYTES em- just as much as it does when you’re having fun. bedded right in the PDF that you download from our website each month! Advertisers can now have video commercials While running GayCalgary.com Magazine, Steve appear online, in conjunction with their conventional print and I can say that we’ve gotten a big share of advertising that appears in the hard copies of the magazine. both. We have also been taking short video clips of drag shows and other events while we were photographing, so several photo- Similar to climbing a mountain, in life it’s customary to take graphs in this issue can invoke these clips when clicked. In a moment to look back when you reach a major milestone. To the music review you can now preview select tracks from some appreciate the view is to refl ect on how much you have grown, of the CDs that I write about. both personally and professionally. In my case, I hold a lot of skill-based duties: graphic design, writing, editing, and The neat part is that because all of this video and audio is website design. The magazine has helped me to hone these streamed from our servers, the PDF fi le is not any larger a far beyond what I ever thought I was capable of. download than it usually is. Naturally the streaming content cannot be viewed when on a machine that doesn’t have an I remember writing articles not too long ago about my be- internet connection, but in that case readers will just default ing shy, but ironically enough the magazine has helped me back to what they would normally see in a printed copy. make big strides on a social level too. Last year Steve needed me to photograph an ARGRA Dance because he was covering We were very proud of the outstanding performance by another confl icting event in the city. It was my fi rst time doing Nina, Selma and Jaylee when they performed Madonna’s photography for the magazine and although I had seen him do “Vogue” at the coronation earlier this year. As many people it hundreds of times I was terrifi ed to approach anyone, even who missed it (and those who would love to see it again) have people that I knew. This Halloween, Steve was in Edmon- asked to see the video, we decided to include the clip with ton covering the events up there while I was doing the same Nina’s column this month as a fun bonus. in Calgary, and I noticed how once I get the ball rolling, my You may also notice that our logo on the front cover has an hesitation is all but gone. In a way, taking photos has become addition to it. As we have been receiving more acceptance, an ice-breaker for an introvert like me, and I’ve befriended a support, readership and content from the Edmonton gay number of people this way. Steve has told me this was one community, we deemed it necessary to refl ect that fact in our reason he photographed events at some of the bars before the title. At the same time…we like our name and our logo. At magazine started, as believe it or not he has been through a our inception many commented “GayCalgary.com Magazine is stage where he felt awkward trying to meet new people too. too long, it has too many syllables,” but innumerable others gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #37, November 2006 5 praised us for the fact that it explains beyond a doubt what Last Month our magazine is about. It would be stupid for us to let this name, and 11 years of using it, go down the drain in favor of a I haven’t always written the publisher’s column; when the snazzy but arbitrary title. We promised ourselves that no mat- magazine fi rst started it was up to Steve to write it.