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AUGUST 2011 ISSUE 94 • FREE magazine The Voice of Alberta’s LGBT Community BEYONCÉ Exclusive Interview PURE Pride With special guest Brent Everett PLUS Interviews with: Justin Timberlake Ellie Goulding and more! Scan to Read on Guys In Disguise Mobile Devices http://gettag.mobi At the Edmonton Fringe Business Directory Community Maps Events Calendar Tourist Information STARTING ON PAGE 17 Calgary • Edmonton • Alberta www.gaycalgary.com 2 GayCalgary & Edmonton Magazine #94, August 2011 www.gaycalgary.com Table of Contents AUGUST 2011 Publisher: Steve Polyak 5 Battlefield You Editor: Rob Diaz-Marino Publisher’s Column Sales: Steve Polyak Design & Layout: Rob Diaz-Marino, Steve Polyak 8 Justin & Mila: Our Friends… Writers and Contributors Chris Azzopardi, Dave Brousseau, Jason Clevett, With Benefits Andrew Collins, Rob Diaz-Marino, Janine Eva Trotta, Jack Fertig, Glen Hanson, Joan Hilty, Evan Timberlake and Kunis talk being allies, getting naked and breaking Kayne, Stephen Lock, Chantal Macleod, Allan gay stereotypes Neuwirth, Steve Polyak, Carey Rutherford, Romeo San Vicente, Ed Sikov, Davey Wavey, Nick Vivian 8 PAGE and the LGBT Community of Calgary, Edmonton, and Alberta. 10 PURE Pride Photography Warm and Fuzzy with the Hot and Sweaty Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, B&J, Jackson Photography Videography 12 Guns and Gays Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino Singer-songwriter on her royal couple connection, next album and Printers lesbian love Transcontinental Printing Distribution Calgary: Gallant Distribution 14 Ready to Fringe GayCalgary Staff Edmonton offers wide array of shows for the Queer crowd Edmonton: Clark’s Distribution Other: Canada Post 17 Directory and Events Legal Council Courtney Aarbo, Barristers and Solicitors 10 PAGE Sales & General Inquiries 24 Sex-Ed In Schools is Education Not GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine 2136 17th Avenue SW Indoctrination Calgary, AB, Canada T2T 0G3 26 Why the Umbrella Failed – Part 2 Office Hours: By appointment ONLY Phone: 403-543-6960 Toll Free: 1-888-543-6960 28 Deep Inside Hollywood Fax: 403-703-0685 Everything’s gone Green for Cheyenne Jackson E-Mail: [email protected] This Month's Cover Beyoncé (Photo by Ellen Von Unwerth), Brent 29 Cocktail Chatter Everett, and Christopher Peterson. “Who’s Barry Esai?”: The Vodka Tonic Proud Members of: 30 Dyke March Takes to the Streets 12 PAGE Queer women show Calgary what they’re made of Edmonton Rainbow Business Association 32 Transgender Woman Challenges Radio Contest Expectations International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association 34 Calgary Pride: Past, Present, and Future 36 Adrienne Barbeau: Still Amazing National Lesbian & Gay 37 Letters Journalists Association PAGE 14 PAGE Continued on Next Page www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary & Edmonton Magazine #94, August 2011 3 Table of Contents Continued From Previous Page 38 Gay Travel A Gay Ol’ Time in the South of France Magazine Figures 40 Fundraising Photos Monthly Print Quantity: 9,000–11,000 copies Guaranteed Circulation: 8,500 copies 42 Coronation 36 Bonus Circulation: 500–2,500 copies An Interview with the Outgoing Emperor Readership Readers Per Copy: 4.9 (PMB) 43 A Couple of Guys Print Readership: >41,650 Avg. Online Circulation: 150,000 readers Estimated Total Readership: PAGE 30 PAGE 44 Bitter Girl >191,650 readers Frequency: Monthly Proof of monthly figures are 46 Matt Frewer available on request. The “headroom” to pursue quirky roles Distribution Locations: Calgary: 160, Edmonton: 120 Other Alberta Cities: 15 49 Beyoncé: ‘4’ The Gays Other Provinces: 35 In this gay press exclusive, Queen Bey talks gay fans, loving Lady Gaga United States: 15 and remaking ‘A Star Is Born’ Please call us if your establishment would like to become a distribution location. 52 Chelsea Boys History Originally established in January 53 Queer Eye 1992 as Men for Men BBS by MFM Communications. Name changed to PAGE 42 PAGE GayCalgary in 1998. Independent 60 Classified Ads company as of January 2004. First edition of GayCalgary.com Magazine published November 2003. Name adjusted in 61 Q Scopes November 2006 to GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine. “Take charge, Capricorn!” Disclaimer and Copyright Opinions expressed in this magazine are specific to the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of GayCalgary staff and contributors. Those involved in the making of this 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 46 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 2011. All rights reserved. GayCalgary is a registered trademark. http://www.gaycalgary.com/Twitter Follow us on Twitter for articles, weekly news and updates! Sept 2011 Print Deadlines Ad Booking: Fri, Aug 26th http://www.gaycalgary.com/Facebook http://www.gaycalgary.com/FacebookFan Submission: Mon, Aug 29th Join us on Facebook for articles, weekly news and updates! In Circulation: Thurs, Sept 1st Please contact us immediately if http://www.gaycalgary.com/i94 you think you may have missed the booking or submission deadline. PAGE 49 PAGE More articles and exclusive content online! 4 GayCalgary & Edmonton Magazine #94, August 2011 www.gaycalgary.com Editorial Battlefield You Publisher’s Column By Rob Diaz-Marino me how far the virus was able to get before the immune system was even Our bodies are under constant attack from outside forces. It’s aware that the body was under attack. Even when the response finally because our bodies are a self-sufficient habitat for our cells to came and the white blood cells began rounding up the viruses, it seemed survive in. Bacteria are living organisms, like our own cells, very sluggish and imperfect. Several virus particles were missed, but that would love to benefit from the rich environment our bodies the immune system was able to react much quicker when they began could provide them. But the crucial difference is that our cells to resurge, and eventually the threat was eliminated and everything returned to normal. are working toward a common goal of assured survival, where bacteria and viruses only seek to exploit as much as they can Seeing this irked me on some level – especially the time it took for the chemical signals to propagate before anything started to happen to without care for whether they destroy the system that sustains combat the invaders. But I realized that while the visualization was them. They count on the fact that they will find another system designed to let us see exactly what the viruses were doing, the cells in to exploit, once they have used this one up. the simulation were completely blind and moving in random directions, Of course I’m not writing about this to dole out a biology lesson, I’m only able to react when they happened to run into a virus, and only able writing about it because I see it as a microcosm for what happens in to trigger a reaction when enough of them put out the same signal at society, and in our community. The battle between our collaborating the same time. cells and opportunistic outsiders merely demonstrates the most basic It’s very much like what I’ve seen happen in the LGBT community definition of “good” and “evil”. Both are valid approaches to survival when good people have fallen victim to scams and other dishonest but, one seeks the synergy of banding with its peers for mutual benefit, means of making off with their wealth and wellbeing. Here the viruses while the other seeks only to satisfy itself with no regard for the damage are ideas, fabricated to trick us into betraying ourselves and our peers it causes others of its kind. so that “evil” can take advantage of us. The damage depends on how It’s often said that good and evil cannot survive without one another, quickly they are able to identify a threat, and how soon they can raise and I think that is true. In the context of our bodies, certain disease- the alarm. Even with proper warning, some are still reluctant to react causing intruders would not survive without us to “steal a meal” from, until they have seen evidence with their own eyes. When enough people and then unwittingly pass along to their next victim. Meanwhile, wise up and take action to block malicious things from happening, the unchecked prosperity would cause our numbers to grow too rapidly, perpetrators often (but not always) have no choice but to abandon their and eventually we would exhaust our resources, collapsing the greater efforts and move on to somewhere not yet “immune” to them. system that sustains us. The single most crucial thing that you, as a “good” being, need to While these forces are working against one another, neither can realize is that your strength is in your numbers, and “evil” thrives on ever win. Even if one succeeds in completely wiping out the other, the you when you are isolated. They will purposely try to divide you and balance will restore itself: evil organisms will be forced to band together isolate you from others that are looking out for your wellbeing, until you to survive when there is nothing else to exploit, and good organisms will are vulnerable enough for them to begin their work on you. Most of us turn on each other when there aren’t enough resources for everyone to are no match for them one on one, and once they get a hold, you’re at survive. It’s a balance that cannot be overturned no matter how hard their mercy.
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