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Gaycalgary and Edmonton Magazine October 2007 Issue 48 FREE of charge TThehe FullFull MMontyonty HHitit andand MythMyth BaresBares AllAll atat thethe GrandeGrande GGayay HistoryHistory MonthMonth TThehe IImportancemportance ooff BBeingeing RRememberedemembered MMunicipalunicipal EElectionslections 22007007 CCalgaryalgary andand EEdmontondmonton >> STARTING ON PAGE 16 GLBT RESOURCE • CALGARY & EDMONTON 2 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #48, October 2007 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #48, October 2007 3 4 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #48, October 2007 Established originally in January 1992 as Men For Men BBS by MFM 15 Communications. Named changed to GayCalgary.com in 1998. Stand alone company as of January 2004. First Issue of GayCalgary.com Magazine, November 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, editor@gaycalgary. com 7 See you Next Month! 12 Original Graphic Design Deviant Designs Letter from the Publisher Advertising Steve Polyak [email protected] 12 Lisa Heinricks Contributors The Art of Zen Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, Jason Clevett, Jerome Voltero, Kevin Alderson, Allison Brodowski , Mercedes Allen, Stephen Lock, 15 The Full Monty 16 Arthur McComish and the Gay and Lesbian Hit and Myth Bares All at the Grande Community of Calgary and Edmonton Photographer 16 Map & Event Listings Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino Find out what’s happening Videographer Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino 23 THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE Please forward all inquiries to: HOME GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine …IF ONE HAS A HOME Suite 100, 215 14th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2R 0M2 24 Bitter Girl Phone (403) 543-6960 or toll free (888) 543-6960 25 Q Scopes Fax (403) 703-0685 “Don’t shop, Leo!” 37 E-mail [email protected] 26 Adult Film Review Print Run Monthly, 12 times a year Barn Storm, Trunks 4, Hairy, and the Stone Age Masthead continued on page 6 28 Q Puzzle “Best Supporting Actor/Actress,” 29 Spin For the Disenfranchised 32 Fundraising Photos Continued on page 6 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #48, October 2007 5 Continued from page 5 37 Gay History Month Continued from page 5 The Importance of Being Remembered Copies Printed Monthly, Over 10,000 38 Queer Friendships copies. Distribution points up to 200 points in Calgary, largest number of distribution 40 Municipal Elections 2007 points for any Gay publication in Calgary. Calgary and Edmonton Up to 150 points in Edmonton, largest number of distribution points for any Gay 45 Letters to the Editor publication in Edmonton. Also distributed coast to coast across Canada in select locations in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, 49 Press Releases Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and other places across Canada and the United 51 The Love List States. Please call us if you would like to be a distribution point. 58 52 Queer Eye - Calgary & Edmonton Distributed by Gallant Distributions Community Events this Month (Calgary), Clark’s Distribution (Edmonton), Canada Post (rest of Canada and USA) 57 A Couple of Guys and by GayCalgary.com Deadline for Ad Bookings 25th of the month 58 Movie Review (unless otherwise stated) Gods and Monsters Deadline for Ad copy 28th of the month (unless otherwise stated) 59 Music Review Legal Council Courtney Sebree Aarbo, Kate Reid – Comin’ Alive Barristers and Solicitors 60 Classifieds Ads Printers North Hill News This Issue Cover Model Salem, photo taken at the GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine Office by Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino. Props provided by La Fleur. The opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of GayCalgary.com or 52 the contributors of the magazine. People photographed or interviewed, writers, advertisers, contributors and anyone else involved with this publication are not necessarily gay, lesbian, bi, November bi-curious or trans gendered. They can be straight people that are gay friendly. 2007 Press No part of the publication may be reprinted without the expressed permission of the Deadlines editor-in-chief. Member of Copyright 2007 AAdd SSpacepace BookingBooking - WednesdayWednesday Canadian Gay & OOctoberctober 224th4th 22007007 Lesbian Chamber of Commerce AAdd SSubmissionubmission - Member of International Gay & FFridayriday OctoberOctober 26th26th 20072007 Lesbian Travel Association IInn CirculationCirculation - ThursdayThursday NNovemberovember 11stst 20072007 PPleaselease contactcontact usus ifif youyou maymay hhaveave missedmissed thethe BookingBooking oror SSubmissionubmission DeadlinesDeadlines Member of Edmonton Rainbow Member of Tourism Calgary. Business Association. 6 gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #48, October 2007 See you Next Month! Letter from the Publisher bath-tub By Rob Diaz-Marino warm in the summer By the time this article makes it out onto the months. I street, I will be gone already. My dad is dragging always get me down to Mexico for a three-week holiday, as excited he did two years ago. I say “dragging” not be- when I see cause I don’t want to go, but because it is diffi cult the ocean for me to pull myself away from all that is going on the horizon as on here in Calgary. I don’t think he realizes how we drive busy we actually are since he originally wanted to our fi rst the holiday to last a whole two months. This was destination. just not feasible with the magazine, and Hallow- In prior een events at the end of October. Thus I am fl y- years my ing back on the 25th in time to get our 4th anni- family has versary edition together. Regardless, three weeks done quite a bit of of holiday is the ideal amount of time in my mind snorkelling, because I get to return home just as I start to feel and I plan homesick. to get some When I say “Mexico” I really mean the Baja peninsula. time in this My dad is not about going to all the hot tourist destina- year too. tions, but rather taking the back roads to discover the My dad has places that few people know about. From family holidays an infl at- past, we already have our favourite out-of-the-way spots able Zodiac boat and a motor, enabling us to travel by mapped out, and we visit them every time we go to Baja. water to the many islands and remote beaches that are Needless to say, there aren’t any sorts of hotels or motels otherwise inaccessible by foot – these are great places in these places – usually the closest towns are fi shing vil- to explore above and below water. Most days we get up lages – so we camp the whole way through. painfully early in the morning to see the beautiful sun- rise and go out fi shing, then go to bed painfully early in When driving down, we always stop by the boul- the evening to compensate. der fi elds outside of Santa Rosalia to explore and take photos. When we arrive at our various destinations, I don’t participate in any Mexican gay nightlife to we often share a small camp ground with others, but speak of; most of the nearby villages to places we stay there are unoccupied beaches and islands only a walk are way too small for a gay bar, and getting away from or boat ride away just waiting to be explored. The desert my dad to visit them would be a challenge all on its own. landscape is beautiful, and many times I’ve wandered Some of the Mexican locals and fi shermen are hot, but along abandoned roads through endless fi elds of cacti, only for the eyes – maybe I’ll steal a photo, but that is elephant trees, and other desert plants, just taking in the the extent of my boldness. I check those thoughts at the scenery. Even more surreal is this landscape by the light border…it is a family holiday after all. of a full moon. In my youth I sometimes protested my dad’s style of The ocean also holds a particular fascination for me. holidaying, I have to say I’ve come to appreciate it now. Due to my Spanish heritage, my body seems designed There are very few places in a city like Calgary where for the humid climate, so I often feel that I have a strong someone can go for solitude. The parks downtown are connection to it. Calgary can be a little dry, and many shared with the homeless if not other city dwellers, and of my minor ailments disappear with a few days spent the police (with good reason) think you’re up to no good by the ocean; I had a perpetual split lip that would crack if you hang around in secluded areas of the city or the open anew from the dry air as I slept, but last time I was suburbs. Even going hiking in Banff or Kananaskis you in Baja it healed within the fi rst week and has remained will frequently bump into other hikers. But it is a special mended ever since. feeling to be able to leave the beaten path, explore, and discover new places that you have all to yourself. The Sea of Cortez, the strip of ocean between Baja and the mainland, is ideal; the waters are calm, and often Meanwhile poor Steve, who probably needs a holiday gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #48, October 2007 7 more than I do, is left on his own here in Calgary. He’s their move from the Symon’s understandably a little resentful of me going away, but Valley Ranch venue were I have promised him that one of these days we will go quashed as they announced together, just the two of us, and he’ll fi nally get to see their negotiations for anoth- these places I always talk about.
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