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Publisher: Steve Polyak 7 Surviving August Editor: Rob Diaz-Marino Publisher’s Column Sales: Steve Polyak Design & Layout: Rob Diaz-Marino, AraSteve Shimoon Polyak 10 No Redress for Past Discrimination

Writers and Contributors ChrisMercedes Azzopardi, Allen, ChrisDave Azzopardi, Brousseau, Dallas Jason Barnes, Clevett, 12 Inside Out DaveAndrew Brousseau, Collins, RobSam Diaz-Marino,Casselman, Jason Janine Clevett, Eva Celeb superfan Ross Mathews on his own talk show, road to success AndrewTrotta, Collins,Marisa Hudson,Emily Collins, Evan Rob Kayne, Diaz-Marino, Stephen JanineLock, EvaLisa Trotta, Lunney, Jack Steve Fertig, Polyak, Glen RomeoHanson, San Joan and being a ‘full tilt’ gay Hilty,Vicente, Evan Krista Kayne, Sylvester, Stephen Nick Lock, Winnick Neil McMullen, and the

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By Rob Diaz-Marino, MSc. over, there was quite an impressive turn out that night. For I remember a time when August used to be a slow month the past several events at Vinyl, a major highlight for Steve for us. That’s certainly not the case anymore. and I has been when the straight male bar tenders get into The weekend of the 10th we made our way up to Red the spirit and lose some of their clothes. This time around Deer in the evening to photograph the Pride celebrations at we enjoyed convincing (all we did was ask) one particular the Vat. Calgary’s Fake Mustache drag king troupe, along bearded bartender with a gorgeous furry body to show a little with several representatives from the ISCCA all performed skin for the camera. *sigh* His tips for that night must have alongside the hilarious girls of the Dirrty Show. The venue been phenomenal! was packed solid, albeit a little hot and humid; organizers I was in energy-conservation mode when we went out on were ecstatic about the turnout, and were happy to meet us Saturday afternoon to photograph and film the Dyke March for the first time. down 4th street, and the festival that followed at Rideau The weekend of August 24th we made our way up to Park. A straight friend of mine who lives along 4th street and Edmonton for ISCWR Coronation 38. We arrived the Friday doesn’t know much about the reason for the Dyke March, over night to cover the Out of Town Show, before the main event a text, joked about it turning into a giant wet T-shirt contests Saturday evening. if it rained. I dryly texted him back a photo of a marcher’s placard stating, “We are not your fetish”. “Oh, sorry,” he I usually describe Coronations to people as a 6+ hour replied, stifled. I later gave him a proper explanation of the drag show, but somehow this year the ISCWR managed to event, so girls, he gets it now, please don’t hurt him! pull off a miracle and cut it down to be 5 ½ hours! The new monarchs were crowned nearly a half an hour before Later in the afternoon we attended the Bi-BQ at James midnight. At hospitality afterwards, I was told by an out- Short Park, for which we (and they) were happy to see a much of-towner who had been around the Imperial Court circuit stronger turnout this year. We don’t often get the opportunity in Canada and the States, that such an efficient Coronation to hang out with our Bi brethren – or oftentimes when we see was nearly unheard of, with events in some cities pressing them out at LGBT events we don’t realize that they identify as as late as 3am! Bi – so it was a great opportunity to chat. Of course, an undertone to this Coronation was the news of The turning point for my pre-Pride lethargy was the much the recent passing of Mama José, the founder of the Imperial anticipated PURE Pride dance at Flames Central that night. Court system, and first Empress of San Francisco. If you see As we arrived, shortly after 9pm, organizers told us they had members of the Imperial Court wearing a black ribbon over sold out of tickets. But this was to be expected – it was only the course of the next year, this is an expression of mourning a matter of whether it would happen in advance, or at the for her loss. door. By 10:30 the place had filled up to the point where it was difficult to move through the crowd. We were very proud of the outgoing Empress, Vanity Fair, and outgoing Emperor, JJ Velour. During the ball they Even though my videotaping duties meant I couldn’t presented the Pride Centre of Edmonton with a cheque for drink or dance, the energy in the room, the superb stage $22,000, with further amounts going to their other charities. performances, and the great music really energized me. We also have high hopes for the newly elected monarchs, Aside from my ass being sore from my seated perch near the Empress 38 Dayzi Chayne and Emperor 38 JeffyLube stage, I barely felt tired at all by the end of the night – and XXXPress. disappointed that I had missed last call! Only a week later was the September long weekend and Oh well, the lack of drinking made it easier to get up bright Calgary Pride. I usually put myself into a grumpy mood and early the next morning to prepare for the Pride Parade leading up to it because I think of how much effort I’m going and Street Festival. Originally forecast to rain, this day to be expending to do my part of our duties covering the turned out to be a real scorcher. We found a spot along many events. the parade route to photograph and video, and then joined the throngs of people tailing the parade to its destination at The weekend started off a little early with the Louder dance Shaw Millennium Park. put on by the YYC Badboys at Vinyl, and the Louder Pop Lounge downstairs at Hyde. Despite the work week not being Continued on Next Page 

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Pride organizers had estimated their turnout would grow this year to around 30,000 attendees. While this may have Online Last Month (1/2) been the case for the first hour or two, the crowds died off early. Perhaps it was the beating sun sending people packing Calgary ProPRIDE 2013 – Steve and I got a bit burned ourselves before we had a free LGBT Professionals Unite! moment to put on sun screen – or perhaps it was the large Calvin Campbell is the Regional Lead for number of events happening opposite the festival that drew the Prairies, and a Director on the Board people away. of Pride at Work Canada - and he’s... The Backlot was certainly lively for their Pride BBQ! Arriving here at around 4pm I was finally able to get something to eat http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3639 for lunch. Meanwhile Steve was covering the drag show at Broken City, where I later joined him before we headed over Possibilities Calgary Presents to Commonwealth for the Fused 2 dance. There Steve finally The 2nd Annual BiBQ got his lunch from Tubby Dog. Possibilities is currently Calgary’s only We have never visited Commonwealth before, but it’s a bisexual/pansexual/fluid-specific really nice space. I had trouble visualizing it as its previous community group, aiming to create a incarnation, the Warehouse, as it has been so long since we strong,... were last there. The audience was treated to a sexy fashion http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3638 show, followed by a drag show. What was special about this drag show is that this would Creep of the Week be April Storm’s last performance before she takes a long Tony Perkins break from drag. She came out on stage wearing nothing but And so it was that the Defense of Marriage a wig and a long-haired merkin. She decided to symbolize Act was declared unconstitutional by the the end of her drag life by enacting a fake suicide, with fake Supreme Court and Prop 8 was dead in blood and everything. California. And the gays did... Of course, fake or not, I don’t react well to the sight of blood. I was managing fine until Steve told a friend nearby, http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3644 “Watch him, he might pass out.” Then I was in trouble. I managed to stay standing to the end of the number, but as Deep Inside Hollywood soon as I could lock the camera I crouched down so that I HR gives Alicia Silverstone the job wouldn’t fall over. The drag show ended and I went searching We’ve missed Alicia Silverstone. Like, a for somewhere – in a very crowded bar – that I could sit down. lot. Our worn out VHS tape of Clueless bit It ended up being on the patio out back, where April and the dust and then we wore out the DVD, several others were trying to clean all the blood off of her, too (yes, it can be done)... and mop up the trail that she had left behind her on the http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3648 way there. It was quite a sight. I found a seat, put my head between my legs and tried not to think about it. Hear Me Out We made one final stop at Local 522 for the Hot Mess dance, Sigur Rós, LeAnn Rimes which like everything that day, was packed. I admired the Sigur Rós, Kveikur When frontman Jónsi energy of the people that were still dancing by this time. Birgisson went stag for his kaleidoscopic Steve and I had agreed to give a blanket “no” to anything solo venture, he introduced sunshine and happening on the holiday Monday. We needed a day to rainbows to the... recover, never mind do some grocery shopping and start processing all the video we had collected. But in the end we http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3649 made a teensy exception for the Big Gay Pride Brunch put on by Gay Friends in Calgary at the National on 10th. This was The OutField another venue that Steve and I have never had the pleasure Nike Summit just does it for LGBT sports of visiting before. It was so full that the huge main area with A year ago, the first Nike LGBT Sports rows and rows of tables had run out of room and people were Summit took place. Held near the industry spilling over to other parts of the bar. We didn’t stay for giant’s Oregon headquarters, it brought brunch, but we took photos and had some good chats with together 25 LGBT coaches, athletes... the organizers and the staff of the establishment. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3652

Thinking Out Loud: DOMA’s Still Here But if you want to know how we’ll get full marriage equality anyway, just ask conservative Justice Scalia The Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA last week was incredible, no doubt – a turning point, a tipping point, a critical... http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3653

Creep of the Week Greg Quinlan Have you been feeling a little less gay than usual this month? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Ever since the Family Research Council declared July “Ex-Gay... http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3645

8 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com forward to the official grand opening this coming weekend Online Last Month (2/2) of the 14th. Oopsie Daisy! Hear Me Out Last month we launched a News Release area in the Sara Bareilles, Merry Clayton magazine that lists the news headlines for the previous Sara Bareilles, The Blessed Unrest Maybe month, with links to the full articles online. I wrote a script you didn’t ask for it, but Sara Bareilles on our website to generate this list of headlines and links wrote you a love song anyway. Actually, based on the existing script I use to generate the list of online she wrote you... articles. To make a long story short, the shortcut links used http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3650 an “a” before the ID of the article when they should have been an “n”. The difference is that “a” brings you to articles and Thinking Out Loud: Still Waiting “n” brings you to news releases, so the links were pointing for a Great Lesbian Movie to articles with the IDs of the news releases. What a mess. 28 years after Desert Hearts, lesbian Anyway, while this mistake was in last month’s print cinema hasn’t changed much edition, we were able to correct it for the online edition, and Now that the excitement of the DOMA case it has been corrected for everything moving forward. has mellowed, my thoughts have turned GayCalgary Online to the second most important LGBT pride moment of my life: the release... This September marks the one year anniversary of GayCalgary Magazine being the #1 most popular Canadian http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3654 LGBT publication, according to third-party statistics collected by Alexa.com and Issuu.com. In that time we’ve made further Creep of the Week gains on competitors for this title, with us now being ranked Pat Robertson within the top 2000 websites (in the whole world) visited by Oh, Pat Robertson. He really is trying too Canadians! Our website “stickyness” continues to soar, with hard to present himself as the epitome of the average visitor sticking around for over 25 minutes, while angry and dogmatic old man determined most other Canadian gay media websites only keep visitors to go to his grave on the... for 2 minutes or less. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3646 This month we added a new section to our website. Well, it was an existing area that was previously buried under the Hear Me Out Magazine section, but has been taking off so much that we Robin Thicke, Kanye West decided to promote it for ease of access. If you’ve never seen Robin Thicke, Blurred Lines It’s probably our News section before, make sure you check it out! We post news releases just about every day, with all sorts of safe to call “Blurred Lines” – Robin interesting information about what’s happening in the gay Thicke’s ubiquitous dirty ditty that your world - everything from entertainment to fashion, politics to grandma... sports, food to fitness. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3651 Another upgrade that we made was an overhaul of our Newsletter system to allow us to send out a shiny new Creep of the Week Membership newsletter to those who subscribe. This weekly Ken Cuccinelli email update contains a list of what’s new on the website, Let’s say, hypothetically, that you wanted including articles, news releases, prize draws and more! You to become Virginia’s next governor and can subscribe to it directly by joining GayCalgary.com (with you want to find a way to stand out and email notifications enabled), and we also post a web version get noticed. You could run... of it onto our Facebook and Twitter groups. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3647

http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3655 View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments This Month If you’ve still got some party left in you, there is plenty more pride to go around this month. Medicine Hat and Banff Pride are still to come, though unfortunately on the same day (Saturday, Sept 21st). To make matters worse, most of the AIDS Walks across Alberta are happening the Sunday immediately after. We’ve had to make some decisions, let me tell you. But there is no question where we will be the weekend of the 28th - the Edmonton Expo, and the fundraising gala for the Pride Centre of Edmonton.

Evolution Edmonton Edmonton, you lucky dog, you’re getting a new gay club this month! We’re told the soft launch for Evolution Wonder Lounge went extremely well, and Edmontonians can look

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against a homophobic atmosphere. But it was subtler than direct taunting or physical altercations. Paul encountered exclusion, he was denied promotions, and he faced negative evaluations on work that was otherwise deemed well done: “...this started in 1970 in the Department of Finance - Federal / Provincial relations Division. I worked there for 2 years then I moved on to the Department of Regional Economic Expansion, where I work till 1975.” After taking a year off to recuperate from the hostile work environment, he returned to work; this time as the senior development economist in Agriculture. Paul’s office was in Quebec. “That’s where it started to really go wrong. Reorganizations just to get me out...that’s how they get people out. You have to re-apply for your job and they don’t pick you, even though you qualify”. He faced harassment through things like exclusion – situating Paul’s office a great distance from the team he supported; and sabotage – documents Paul had prepared for important meetings would either vanish or would be expropriated from him. True, there wasn’t any direct bigotry aimed at him; these were civil servants, and they knew direct action like that would get them in trouble. Creating a hostile work environment for the resident homo, however...well, that was just regular work duties.  Paul Richard In 1984, Paul applied for and obtained a job in the Department of Industry. Although he performed well, they still were trying to force him out. The stress had built up so much his body reacted – he had gallstones. Upon informing a supervisor he would have No Redress for Past to have an operation, rather than wishing him well or even asking how long Paul’s recovery would be, the supervisor informed him an upcoming evaluation would be negative. Paul tried to muster Discrimination support from unions or other professional organizations for public service but ultimately in 1985 he was forced out. By Evan Kayne “All throughout this it was bad evaluations that got me into trouble that were totally unreasonable, reorganizations...I apply for My name is Paul-Emile Richard and my complaint is against jobs, I even get job offers but at least twice these jobs disappeared the Federal Treasury Board. I was forced to leave the before I could get there...just to get me out. Even though my Federal Public Service(FPS) on August 31, 1985 because of performance was always well received, my superiors would always discrimination. I was never able to resume my career. The change their minds at evaluation time.” discrimination I experienced had a very devastating effect Stripping his career and livelihood away from him psychologically on me. This led me to have clinical depression and I was traumatized Paul – over the next 20 years he faced unemployment, subsequently never able to find employment comparable homelessness and suicidal tendencies. It was only after a therapist to the one I had in the FPS. I started having doubts about helped him realize he was the victim of a prejudiced system, that the nature and the motives of what I had experienced in Paul began to pull his life back together. the FPS. The concept of gay rights was virtually unknown In 2005, Paul filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights in 1985 and it was not until the late 1990’s that I started Commission (CHRC). He explained his delay as a result of the realizing that my rights had in fact been violated. My rights consequence of psychological trauma. Unfortunately, the CHRC were not respected in accordance with the 1978 Human – like many human rights tribunals (Alberta included) – usually Rights legislation and the 1982 Charter of Rights. require you file your claim within a year of the discriminatory action Excerpt from the complaint form submitted to or your complaint may be refused. They do have “discretionary the Canada Human Rights Commission powers” to look outside of that year term but it’s a maddeningly grey zone without any regulations or guidelines. Consequently the CHRC ruled his complaint was “time barred”. One year after Pierre Trudeau passed the Criminal Law Upon appealing this decision to the Federal Court, the judge sided Amendment Act, 1968-69 (an act which decriminalized homosexual with Paul. While it was noted the CHRC usually has a one year time- acts between consenting adults), Paul-Emile Richard entered the frame for complaints, it was suggested they use their discretionary Federal Public Service (FPS), and from the start he had to fight powers to take health concerns such as Paul’s depression into

10 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com account. “What needed to be done was that the Commission needed he does have several liberal MPs who are interested in his cause. to set up a series of criteria to establish when the discretionary For example, Marc Garneau, Liberal Member of Parliament for power could be used,” Paul told me. Westmount/Ville-Marie has submitted a proposal for a Private Back at the CHRC, the paperwork and appeals were piling up. Members’ Bill in the House of Commons which will be announced The government did admit to a certain amount of suffering caused in a press conference at the opening of the fall session (probably by a homophobic work environment, but ultimately the commission in October). The bill will be to create guidelines so the CHRC has returned to the argument that too much time had passed. Paul a little bit more clarity on situations where there may be a time took this decision to the Federal Court of Appeal. Sadly, the delay between the discriminatory actions and the victim filing the decision came down against him – even though from the questions complaint. One good thing which has arisen from Paul’s case is, the judges asked it was apparent they couldn’t understand the with him setting this challenging precedent, the time bar may be government side of the argument. Again, it had to do with the weakened / disallowed; yet as Paul tells me, “a precedent doesn’t passage of time, with the addition that it would cause an onerous establish the law.” prejudice for the government to prepare a defence – being that it Paul agrees to a certain extent the government is waiting him out was a long time since the incidents of discrimination occurred and until he dies because he’s an old man. Consequently, he is hoping government lawyers would have difficulty locating witnesses. By with the public knowledge of his case, much like the Duplessis way of an example, the government said they were unable to locate Orphans or the native residential schools, if enough LGBT victims the witnesses in their database. come forward a class action suit can be formed. “Well that’s a lot of bullshit again because all those public As Paul’s situation illustrates, we may have our rights now, but servants are all in the pension directory. They said they looked into we still have within our society those who fought and now wear the employee database... well it’s not the right database!” Paul was the scars of past bigotry. A generation ago, bigoted and hateful able to locate through Google and the Internet several coworkers - behavior which would have been considered “part of the norm” in complete with names, addresses, and telephone numbers. our schoolyards, in the public setting, and in workplaces today is Paul then appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. But unlike deemed unacceptable. While we cannot change what has happened some of the other courts, you must first request permission to be in the past, saying it has happened too long ago and we should heard - and they refused. “I was disappointed of course because my forget about it cheapens the rights we have today. lawyer said, with them, accepting that they discriminated against you and that you suffered, they could have settled the matter right then and there because they acted against the law,” but they found For More Information another way to get out of it. “The government just doesn’t want to admit their faults,” he says. http://www.gaycalgary.com/u576 So while Paul’s legal quest seems to have reached an impasse, he is trying to drum up both support and interest from other http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3656 LGBT people who suffered similar discrimination when they were employed by the federal government in the past. As well, View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 11 Inside Out Celeb superfan Ross Mathews on his own talk show, road to success and being a ‘full tilt’ gay

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By Chris Azzopardi them. And I hope people can see me on Chelsea Lately and see me on my Ross Mathews is talking to me from his own office in show and say, “Hey, look, he’s got a partner and a family and a dog and Hollywood and he can’t believe it. “It’s the dream,” he friends, and he never apologized for who he is and neither will I.” says, bubbling over with joy. “I’m getting to do exactly GC: Do you realize that you are like the modern-day Ellen and the what I’ve always wanted to do.” modern-day Rosie? You are now that person that you once looked up to. That dream began back in 2001 when the pop-culture fanatic landed RM: OK, now that freaks me out! I have a lot more to achieve to reach a spot on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as the host’s buoyant intern. It anything like that, but I will gladly fulfill that role for people, whomever wasn’t long before Chelsea Handler took him under her wing and he became needs it. I feel like I have a big ol’ wagon; everybody hop on it and let’s do the comedian’s resident gay. Now, she’s letting him fly solo: Mathews this together. launches his very own show, Hello Ross, with Handler co-producing, on GC: Who’s the tougher boss: Jay Leno or Chelsea Handler? Sept. 6 on the E! network. RM: (Laughs) Well, I would never categorize either one of them as tough In our recent chat, Mathew talks about how over-the-top gay his new in terms of tough on me. I will tell you, though: They’ve both given me show will be, why he learned to embrace his high-pitched voice and the incredible platforms, which is very rare for comics to do. I take it very trick to keeping it together when meeting Madonna. seriously when they do that because they don’t do it lightly, and I know if GC: Your story of being this kid from a farm town who didn’t feel like he they give me that opportunity, I gotta show up and be on point. That’s how fit in, who was bullied and is now the star of his own show, must be really you get the next opportunity. That’s how this town works. You get a shot, inspiring to young gay people. How do you hope your story inspires those you deliver and you get another one. who are going through what you went through as a young gay kid? GC: And now look at you in your own office. RM: When I was growing up, I remember thinking, “What is my life RM: I know. Isn’t that nuts? And Chelsea is upstairs. You know, there’s gonna be like?” I didn’t know what it meant to be a successful, happy, been two pivots in my life when it comes to my career: one was meeting Jay grown-up gay person because I didn’t see that. I didn’t see that in my small Leno and the other was meeting Chelsea Handler, and both of them have town. I didn’t see that represented on television. Even when I started on been so instrumental and crucial and supportive and inspiring and have television in 2001, it was really at the beginning, before Queer Eye and served as the most amazing mentors anybody in this town could ever have. Will & Grace, before Ellen was out, before Rosie was out; it really wasn’t I don’t know what I ever did to deserve them, but I will spend the rest of my represented anywhere. I started appearing on national television as people life thanking them. like Rosie and Neil Patrick Harris came out and shows like those became GC: Don’t forget about Mark-Paul Gosselaar, who you interviewed relevant, and I was part of something. recently when you guest hosted Chelsea Lately. From this point forward, whenever kids are realizing they’re gay, they RM: When I guest hosted and I said, “Please welcome Mark-Paul know what it means to be a happy, successful, openly and unapologetically Gosselaar,” and he walked around the corner, it was like I needed a time grown-up gay person, and what that looks like and what life can be for machine to go back to myself at 12 years old in my bedroom and be like, “Oh my god, guess what he just said?” – because it was the most surreal thing in the world. (Laughs) All of a sudden he’s there and he had heard me on Howard Stern talking about how, maybe, I had fantasized about him as a young kid watching Saved by the Bell, and he said he heard that and told his wife and screamed, “Ross Mathews masturbated to me!” It really was like my head was going to explode. GC: No pun intended? RM: (Laughs) Hilarious! GC: Tell me about the “interactive” element of your new show. RM: It’s a big party. This show is what I wish existed when I was a little kid, when I could reach out and be a part of pop culture. The audience is joining the conversation, and I’ll literally be in the audience with a microphone asking people’s opinions. When I have a guest, the people in

12 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com the audience can ask the guest questions. We’re Skype-ing people in from to stand out. I could’ve come to this town and taken hosting classes and all over the country so they can ask questions as well. Everybody’s welcome. done this and that and tried to lower my voice, but I would’ve looked like GC: There’s never been a show like this on TV then, has there? every other rock on the beach. The ones that work are those weird-looking rocks. Those are the ones you notice. RM: No, there hasn’t. I looked at all these shows that sort of talk about pop culture and the majority of them, if not all of them, were kind of saying, GC: When did you start to really love and embrace your voice? “Isn’t she a dumb bitch?” “Isn’t that stupid?” “He’s so lame.” There wasn’t a RM: There was a point in my teenhood when I realized that the voice show that was doing what I’m doing, which is saying, “I love this stuff, you wasn’t changing. I was this gay cartoon of a person and it was a crossroad guys love this stuff, let’s talk it out.” for me: I could either hate myself or I could love myself, and it’s just not in GC: How gay and fabulous is your set? my nature to hate, so I said, “Fine, I accept myself fully. Go 100 percent. Be you. Do you.” RM: Oh my god, it’s pretty great. It’s a little Palm Spring chic-y, but very comfortable as well. We’re trying to mix the two things. And it’s all GC: You talk about your Madonna encounter in your book. What’s the a little elevated because I am super gay, so it has to be; people would be trick to keeping it together when meeting Madge? disappointed if it wasn’t. RM: Clench your legs. Don’t just, like, lose it. And if you’re a huge fan, GC: Ellen has her dancing. Rosie had her Koosh balls. What will be your perhaps bring a diaper, because I have to tell you, that was so surreal. All I signature thing on this show? was thinking was, “Don’t say something that makes her kick you out.” I’ve shot pieces at zoos with animal keepers where they hand you a snake and I don’t know! I think that kind of thing just evolves, so I’ll figure that RM: you think, “This is exotic, this could bite me and this could kill me at any out. My thing is interacting with the audience; this show is really for the second.” It felt the same way when I met Madonna. fans, so if that’s the legacy of this show, I’m thrilled with that. There’s already talk of a follow-up to your first book. Where might How did you decide on Hello Ross as the name? GC: GC: you take the second one? There was a lot of debate from a lot of people about the name, but RM: The first book was about this person who loves pop culture and got there was never a debate on my end about the show. To me, it was always RM: plopped in the middle of it and tried to paddle and survive. I wanted to sort Hello Ross. That’s my Twitter, that’s my website, that’s the spirit of the of establish who I was growing up, how I got plopped in pop culture and show. why that was such a big deal. Chelsea is a producer on the show. How involved will she be? GC: The next book is about what happens now. You achieved this dream; RM: She’s been involved every step of the way. She sees the whole what’s it like? I have a partner, we’re starting a family, I’m trying to see the process and she’s invested a lot in this. Not financially or anything like that, world and travel. Every day I live this crazy life and I think to myself, “You’ve but to say, “I pick Ross, I think the audience wants to hear from Ross, I get gotta write this down.” I mean, the fact that I’m sitting where I’m sitting and behind Ross” means more to me than she’ll ever know. I walk by celebrities every day on this lot and amazing things happen, and GC: What have you learned from Chelsea about having your own show? I go to these celebrity houses and I just can’t believe it. I am this superfan, RM: That there’s a power in saying “I am what I am.” Never second- but I get to be on the inside. I think that’s a story people want to hear. guessing that thing that only you own and only you know, which is your point of view and your perception of things and your truth. I know that sounds really hippy-dippy, but if you look at her, how many times do you http://www.gaycalgary.com/ think she’s probably heard, “You can’t say that”? And I’ve heard, “You can’t a3657 be that gay, you can’t be that high-pitched, you’ll never host a show with View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments that voice.” But what I’ve learned from her is to use what makes you different

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By Chris Azzopardi done the first two, and then we were like, “What’s the last one When the Backstreet Boys dropped their latest album’s gonna be?” I was like, “Why don’t we do something about same- title track, “In a World Like This,” they did something sex marriage? We have a huge gay following and it’s a huge special with the video: They ended it with a victorious deal.” The guys were all on board and we made it happen. I was moment in LGBT history, as an older lesbian couple so happy about it. finally celebrated their right to marry. GC: When were the Backstreet Boys first aware they had a We caught up with self-proclaimed “fag hag” AJ McLean, a gay following? founding member of one of the biggest-selling boy bands in AJ: We did a show years ago in Ybor City in Tampa and Divine history, to chat about how his queer friends (and “Same Love” Brown – the girl who messed around with Hugh Grant back in rapper Macklemore) inspired that video, doing Marilyn Monroe the day (laughs) – was hosting a drag show. We actually had no in the nude for an upcoming book and the time the band idea. We were all really young. Kevin (Richardson) was obviously performed with men they thought were women. older, so he had been around all his gays at Disney (when he worked there before Backstreet Boys) and he had been around GC: The video for the album’s first single, “In a World Like This,” celebrates marriage equality. Why was it important to drag queens before Nick (Carter) and me. We were in our trailer take that stance with that music video? and we were watching these guys changing. We thought these were chicks – and all of a sudden they were taking off their AJ: It stemmed from me personally. I have a lot of gay friends clothes and I’m like, “Wait, that girl’s got, like, pecs. And oh, and two of my best friends have been together for almost 10 that’s a penis.” I was like, “What the hell is going on?” years. And living in California, it’s been so friggin’ frustrating to me that they could not get it right; they couldn’t pass the We did three or four songs, the crowd went nuts and I was bill. Then, literally, right after we dropped the video, they standing next to this 6-foot-6 drag queen who gave me a hug actually passed the bill (allowing LGBT people to get married) and a kiss. I was beside myself, and that was when we first in California, and I was just ecstatic. I just love the fact that knew that we had a big gay following. I was just like, “Wow, this people love each other, no matter if they’re the same sex or not. is kind of friggin’ crazy.” Thinking back on it, I’ve been in this I think everybody’s equal, period. business since I was 3 and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was I had just seen the Macklemore video for “Same Love” and hardly around anyone straight. that really inspired me. Knowing what the subject was about for “In a World Like This” – about love conquering all – we GC: It’s amazing you’re straight, actually. had talked with the director about basically having different AJ: It kind of is. Everyone always says, “When you look at a moments in history that really were very impactful. We had boy band, one of them has to be gay.” No, they don’t. Instead

14 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com of me being gay, I’m the fag GC: You’ve been hag. outspoken about bullying GC: What do you think and the suicides that of all the interest and hope have resulted in the LGBT from fans that there is a gay community by making member in the Backstreet an It Gets Better video. A Boys? song on the new album, “Madeline,” was inspired by AJ: I think it’s awesome. It’s great. I’ve worn a dress someone who was bullied at my wedding. I’ve worn into suicide, too. What do 6-inch Louboutins. I’ve you hope fans who are or got no fear and no shame. who’ve been bullied gain There’s one guy named from that song? Matt and he’s a big, big Nick AJ: I just hope that it Carter fan. He’s this older shows that there are mean gentleman from Tampa people in this world that and he’s gay, and he’s been will never understand or following us during this even try to understand whole tour from China to what you’re going through, Japan and now through the but there is always going U.S. I think he really hopes to be more people who do. that Nick might have a little Unfortunately, people that bit of gay. get bullied as much as some of these fans of ours GC: What’s the verdict on that? have, or many of these young gay teens that got bulled into AJ: I don’t think he does. I’m gonna say no. committing suicide, there comes a point where it starts on the GC: You’ve performed at G-A-Y in London recently, and other end – it starts on the bully side. You don’t have to like you’ve done San Francisco Pride in the past. Who’s louder: a what someone’s gender is and you don’t have to like what they bunch of screaming girls or a bunch of screaming gays? believe in. And if you don’t, don’t say anything. Just shut the AJ: If we did a full arena with the LGBT community, I bet you fuck up. Let them do their thing. they’d be louder. When we did G-A-Y, there was about 2,200 I just hope the bullying stops. I hope that these young people crammed into this little club, and they went buck wild. I teens, or even full-grown gay men and gay women that are still feed off of a crowd anyway, but it was just so cool to sing a love struggling with bullying and still struggling with being looked song and grab this guy’s hand. He about melted. down upon, know that you can do this as long as you surround GC: You really rock a tutu, AJ. After wearing one for a series yourself with the right people and believe in yourself and stay of photos, have you considered a side career as a drag queen? true to who you are. AJ: I thought about it. I thought it might be fun to do a music GC: When you see other boy bands who’ve risen to the top in video where I’m a drag queen, but I got a thing with my facial the last few years, does it remind you of the early days of the hair. I don’t like to shave. Also, I might be the ugliest drag Backstreet Boys? queen you’ve ever seen. AJ: Oh, absolutely. We obviously miss certain parts of our GC: You’d have to shave your legs too, you know. career, and there are certain parts we don’t miss, but I think AJ: Oh, trust me, I’ve shaved my legs before. My poor wife we wouldn’t be the men that we are today or the band that hates me because she’s like, “You have better legs than most we are today had we not gone through all the shit we’ve been women I know.” through, both highs and lows. It’s definitely cool to sit back and watch One Direction, The Wanted, Big Time Rush, Jonas and GC: See, you’d be the perfect queen. all these different groups. There are a lot of similarities, from AJ: And I can walk in heels. I was a little wobbly at first. I was the songs to the music titles to the producers that they work like a baby calf, but then I figured it out. I don’t see how women with to image. Everything. It’s like looking in a mirror. The only walk heel to toe in friggin’ heels, so, for me, I walk toe to heel. difference is 90 percent of the new boy bands don’t dance, and It’s weird. I walk like a stork, but at least I’m not falling down. not all of them play instruments. But that doesn’t take away GC: What inspired the Tyler Shields drag photo shoot? from their natural talent. They all sound great, they all look AJ: Tyler and I have been friends with each other for about great and obviously they’ve got a bunch of screaming girls going eight years. We’re always trying to push the envelope with each buck wild for ’em. It is very reminiscent of us in our early days. other and push each other to the next level. Once Tyler said GC: Do you prefer where you’re at now in your career? he was gonna marry my wife and I, I was like, “You know, I’m AJ: I do. We all have a newfound respect for each other. And gonna wear a dress in our wedding.” we still act like a bunch of friggin’ twatsicles. I mean, I’m 35 We went to downtown L.A., I was in the full outfit with the years old and I just bought a friggin’ remote control car just to hat and the heels, and he’s like, “You look too pretty. I want you race around backstage. So we’re still kids at heart. We’ll always to look all cracked out.” So we sat down on the curb – there’s have that little piece of youth for the rest of our lives. a homeless guy pissing in the corner – and we took about 15 Also, being fathers now, we don’t want to be all chiseled and shots and that’s about it. old. We still play jokes on each other. There’s an app called There’s gonna be more. You’re gonna see a lot more of me Burner where you can basically text someone from a fake than you probably ever wanted to. Tyler is doing a coffee table number and really fuck with them. Nick really got me good book. It’s due out at the end of this year and it’s called The Dirty talking about this fucking fan that I had slept with 10 years ago Side of Glamour. You just might see me completely naked in who has a kid that’s mine. I was having a friggin’ panic attack nothing but heels. and sure enough, he came and knocked on the door and he’s GC: Well, you gotta one-up the Jonas Brothers and their like, “I’m that fan.” I’m like, “You son of a bitch.” shirtless pics with some full frontal, right? AJ: There’s no frontal, but you will see my little nonexistent ass. I’m in some very interesting poses a la the old Marilyn http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3658 Monroe pinup look. It’s pretty funny. View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

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you get a standing ovation where the energy is so palpable and the audience is so appreciative that it is something very special. That night the audience was really grateful and appreciative and that people are excited about the work. A lot of people haven’t seen anything even remotely like War Horse before so they are really excited about it.” War Horse has revived rave reviews and accolades including the 2011 Tony Award for best play. Douglas first experienced War Horse during the Toronto run in 2012 where he had a different role, as the puppeteer of the back end of Joey the horse. “It was pretty straightforward. My agent told me I had an audition for War Horse in Toronto and I didn’t think there was much in it for me so I was kind of surprised. I auditioned for one of the horses which was a pretty extensive audition. After I got through it I thought, that will be pretty fun for whoever gets to do it not thinking at all that I was going to be getting it. I got a call back and ended up booking the show and played Joey’s hind for the 1 year run. I came down to fill in for a couple of people on the tour last year and in talking to the creative team, [I] am now playing Captain Stewart for the tour this year. After doing a show for the year you end up being really intimate with the work and you know the story that is being collectively told. War Horse is an ensemble piece so everybody is working together to tell the story, so you have a clear understanding of how the whole show works. The transition of playing the horse to Captain Stewart - there were parts that I knew because I had watched it or been a part of it, so it wasn’t as big of a transition as I thought it would be.” Getting to perform as a human is a new challenge and change for Douglas, who, in seeing the horse in action, was as amazed as audiences are. “I was halfway through rehearsals and I was watching my friend Dayna, who is playing Joey’s hind, in the scene where Joey is learning how to plow. I was just so taken with how beautiful the work is, it was a moment where  Photos (C) Brinkhoff/Mögenburg I was like, I can’t believe I did that for an entire year. It was the hardest thing I’ve done in my career physically. It is definitely a nice change to play someone new. Like anything you learn and grow from every piece of work that you can, but then it gets to a point where it is awesome to work on something new. It has been perfect for me because I had such a wonderful War Horse time and learned so much in Toronto but was ready for a different set of challenges when the show closed. To get to do a show I love again with a whole different learning curve has been really exciting.” Calgarian Caden Douglas Comes Home Regardless whether one is a musician or an actor, there is always By Jason Clevett something special about “coming home.” Having seen many touring shows on the Jubilee Auditorium stage, it is special for Caden to be part of such an incredible show on the stage in front of friends, family and Calgarians. It seems like actors with ties to Alberta continue to The potential to influence others toward an acting career much like he was, make waves. Recently Aaron Walpole, who has spent inspires him on stage. much time in Calgary came to town with Les Miserables. “I was just talking about this last night with some friends. Being kids… Last year local boy Michael Lomenda hit the Jubilee some of our very first experiences at the theatre were at the Jubilee Auditorium stage in Jersey Boys. Auditorium. To get to go back as an adult with a show that I love so much and is so beautiful, to get to come back and do it in my hometown in a Now we can add Calgary born Caden Douglas to that list. Douglas, along theatre that was where I was inspired to pursue this as a career is really with Edmonton’s Dayna Tietzen will be the latest Albertans to be part of a exciting. There were people in Calgary who were hugely influential in my major national tour. War Horse runs in Calgary September 10th to 15th and growth and choice of career. Some were strangers I saw on stage and some Edmonton September 17th to 22nd. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster. were people that encouraged me growing up. The thought of potentially “I think it is pretty incredible. If you are part of the arts community being a point of inspiration to somebody to pursue this is a pretty incredible anywhere in the country Alberta artists have a very strong representation. thing. It makes me a bit emotional as it is coming full circle and I feel so The theatre scene in Calgary is thriving, there are a lot of Alberta artists in blessed to get to do this show in Calgary.” Toronto where I have been for the last 10 years,” Douglas said of the Alberta War Horse is a powerful piece of theatre blending puppetry with live connection. “It shows what great programs and opportunity for growth exist actors that is like nothing else. In speaking to Douglas, the passion and in Alberta and I think that is really important. …Of the Albertans that I have love for the show comes through. worked with in my career, we are from hearty stock out west and we are all hard workers and really talented and we all had such great opportunities “It is a beautiful story about a boy and his horse, and the bond they growing up there it has allowed us to be very successful. I am grateful for have. They are separated by the first world war and experience the war in that opportunity.” different ways and grow from it. Albert, who is Joey’s owner, searches for him the whole war. Ultimately it is a story of hope and how, in the worst Douglas will be on the road for a year with the show. Having friends who most brutal situations, the human spirit can overcome and the best of us is have done similar tours has helped prepare him for the highs and lows of revealed. It is a really important piece and I think it is really moving. Calgary life on the road. is a horse city and I think that bond is pretty strong. It is a beautiful and “I’ve had friends who did tours of Hairspray and Mamma Mia. I work uplifting show and there is nothing like it that has existed before.” with people that I have learned were in the shows that I saw at the Jubilee when I was a kid and I am working with them as an adult. I got some really good advice on how to pack. I’ve been told to be open to the experience and what I will get to see and do in places that maybe I wouldn’t have been to otherwise. I am really looking forward to coming home to Calgary, that was a big selling part for me. I am really excited to go to New Orleans, I have never War Horse been there before. We get to visit parts of Texas and skip the winter which I am really excited about, we have 4 or 6 weeks in Florida right in February. Calgary – Jubilee Auditorium - September 10th to 15th Then we get to go to Japan at the end of the tour for five weeks which is Edmonton – Jubilee Auditorium - September 17th to 22nd really exciting. I never thought I would get to visit there but we get to go to Tokyo to do the show. It is in English, but it will be like in Opera sometime Tickets at Ticketmaster where a ticker tape runs across in Japanese. Everyone talks about how great it is to share the work you are doing to places where audiences are http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3659 really appreciative. We had our first show in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and the energy that was coming from the audience was really strong. Sometimes View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

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By Constable Andy Buck • CPS staff will process the security clearance. Hello everyone. I wanted to start this month by talking • Current volunteers with the Calgary Police Service who about the terrible incident a couple of weeks ago that was wish to participate need only to call the Chief Crowfoot of huge media interest. For those of you that didn’t see Learning Centre. the news or read the papers, a gay man was assaulted Please note: Applicants must complete this Security by another male where homophobic comments were Clearance Check even if they hold an existing/current Security used, the victim suffering facial injuries that required Clearance issued by the CPS or any other agency. Due to this hospital attention. unique program offered by the CPS, the sensitive nature of its The whole incident caused quite a stir on social media, content and the secure area in which the program is held, a however some comments were not justified surrounding the higher level of security must be met. police handling of the case. I wanted to speak to the victim Additional information before giving any reply or update as I thought it only right to clarify the situation and to get his perspective on things. Well, The Academy is free of charge and runs twice a year, usually I had the chance to speak with him recently, and I can tell you the fall and winter. It is a progressive course that runs for a that he is recovering well from his ordeal. The investigation 12-week period and weekly on Wednesday evenings for about is still in its early stages and there is much work left to do, three hours. however the victim has no issues or concerns with how he has been treated either by the original attending officer or Location from the detectives subsequently investigating the incident. Calgary Police Service’s Westwinds Campus I have had the opportunity to read the report and to speak 5111 47 St. N.E., Calgary, AB with the detectives, and I am happy to say that I am satisfied that this incident is being handled with all the diligence and Contact us professionalism that one would expect. Chief Crowfoot Learning Centre In light of some comments, it got me thinking that perhaps there was a lack of knowledge out there regarding the police 403-428-8960 service as a whole, and so I wanted to take this opportunity to give you some information about the Citizens’ Police Academy. Hopefully this information will be of interest to you. It is an The Citizen’s Police Academy (CPA) is a Calgary Police Service opportunity for you to come along and see what policing is all (CPS) initiative that encourages citizens to learn more about about without having to commit to a career in law enforcement. their municipal police service. The Academy is hosted by However, who knows where it will lead! civilian volunteers, CPS civilian employees and police officers. Please stay safe, take care of each other, and feel free to What is the purpose of the Academy? contact me with any questions, comments or concerns. To increase citizens understanding of the CPS, its role, daily operations, police limitations and powers by: Constable Andy Buck • Presentations, followed by open discussions with police officers, CPS volunteers and various representatives from 403-428-8154 • [email protected] specialty units. • Hosted tours of Calgary police facilities. These presentations provide insight into the diverse nature http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3660 of policing from a Calgary perspective from the various units View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments across CPS. At the conclusion of the program participants will graduate from the Academy and receive a special address from the Chief of Police accompanied by their own course certificates. For those interested in learning more about policing as a possible profession this program could be helpful.

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By Stephen Lock Many Russians view homosexuality as not only a sin and There was a time, during the first homosexual an aberration but, in the truest sense of the word, as a emancipation movement of the late 19th and early perversion. Lesbians and gay men are seen as somehow 20th Centuries, that Germany, the post-Czarist and decreasing Russia’s already low birthrates and many newly created state of Soviet Russia, and England were politicians and other lawmakers believe, according to a recent in the forefront of legalizing homosexuality. It was in Associated Press story, homosexuals should be barred from many ways a truly radical movement affecting the arts, government jobs, forced to undergo “medical treatment”, or be exiled. Somehow the spectre of Stalinist gulags and the politics, and the zeitgeist of the era, much like the gay horrors and deprivation of state-run psychiatric wards don’t liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s seem to haunt them or prevent them from advocating such did in North America. outrageousness. With the recent bill passed by the Russian Duma The law is not simply about “promoting homosexuality”, (Parliament) effectively criminalizing the “propaganda something many of our own socially-conservative and of non-traditional sexual relations”, and backed by the right wing types in Canada and the US constantly go on Kremlin, an international firestorm has erupted over what about when any discussion of equality rights arises. Under many in the West see as a regressive step in the area of this law, such gatherings as Pride parades or marches human and equal rights. are illegal. Discussion of LGBTQ issues and topics is a Adding to the reaction is Russia hosting the 2014 punishable criminal offence. Gay bashing is, tacitly at the Winter Olympics at Sochi and the concern gay and lesbian very least, sanctioned with the victims blamed and often the participants and spectators will face arrest or, at the very ones who end up arrested - can the rounding up of gay men least, official harassment if they are at all open about and lesbians be far behind? - all in the name of protecting their orientation... not that many, if any, Olympic-level Mother Russia from the pernicious and decadent influence athletes are or have been while competing. This issue could of Western bourgeois liberalism. Papa Stalin would be so dramatically change that. proud.... For several years now, queer activists in Russia have had Russia now joins the ranks of other repressive regimes, to deal with violent right wing and Nationalist (i.e. skinhead) although it has not gone so far (one is tempted to add thugs viciously attacking them during Pride events or other “yet”) as some like Saudi Arabia that has the death penalty gatherings and state police standing by doing nothing to for being gay, as does Iran who has actually executed prevent it or stop it when it did occur. In some instances, it homosexuals (although Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s was the LGBTQ leaders who would be arrested and detained. past president, denies it was because the youths were gay, The bill is seen by many as part of an effort to reject saying Iran doesn’t have any homosexuals, but rather were “Western values” and promote traditional Russian ones and executed for drug running and the sodomy rape of a minor), as such has been heavily backed by the Russian Orthodox or Uganda that is considering an anti-homosexual bill Church. Russia, of course, has a long history of not seeing which would impose life sentences and possibly execution itself as “European” and isolating itself from Europe, and on those found to be gay (and possibly those found to be not just under Soviet rule but under many of the Czars as lesbian, although most of these laws focus on males...sort well. of a perverse ‘sexism-in-reverse’ dynamic going on in which it is unfathomable how women can be sexual without men involved). Kenya has a similar bill before its Parliament. In predominately Muslim Senegal, there are reports of bodies of homosexual men, or men believed to have been homosexual, being dug up and tossed out of Muslim cemeteries. That’s some pretty creepy stuff, right there. In Gaza, homosexuality has been declared to be punishable by death with Hamas advocating the beating, torture, Continued on Page 39 

18 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com Review The Robots are Coming Swallow-A-Bicycle Theatre presents Beakerhead sci-fi attraction

By Marisa Hudson into costumes, and an array of tools from video to puppetry The robots are coming. Or, at least, facsimiles of them help i-ROBOT in its quest to see how far we can go in theatre are. Swallow-A-Bicycle Theatre is soon to present technology, and what it can add to the telling of our stories. a performance which promises to be a spectacle of The show is not the only way to get a techno-buzz this science fiction and raw entertainment.I-ROBOT Theatre, month, as Beakerhead promises an array of delights - from which debuted as a stage show in November 2011, has the molecular food craze to engineering an exciting morning been given an update and will be a main attraction commute on your way to work. Still, i-ROBOT promises to for Calgary’s upcoming art and technological festival, be a star among these delights and a truly unique theatre Beakerhead, running from September 11th to 15th. experience. You can catch i-ROBOT Theatre from September 11th to its Inspired by the book i-ROBOT Poetry by Jason Christie, it closing show on Sunday, September 22nd. Tickets are $25 is to be held in the newly transformed Artbox on 17E. The per adult, with $20 tickets for students and seniors. trailer for the show, as seen on Swallow-A-Bicycle’s website, is both enchanting and puzzling, with a clear throwback to the campy science fiction of the Sixties and Seventies. Science fiction is a trend that never dies - in fact, as we power into the future, it seems to be less like fiction and i-ROBOT more and more like fact. The questions that arise with the possibility of artificial intelligence are becoming dominant Presented by Swallow-A-Bicycle Theatre in popular culture, and i-ROBOT Theatre sets the stage by September 11th – 22nd describing a world where we, as humans, live in harmony http://www.swallowabicycle.com with all of the electronics in our lives. Everything from the http://www.beakerhead.org car to the toaster has the capability of human thought and emotion, and our harmony with it is jeopardized by the advent of change - and the robots’ search for self actualization. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3662 The promoters are being understandably mysterious View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments about what the production itself entails, though it promises technical innovation alongside clever and creative writing. However, a bit more light was shed by actor and writer Paul Welch, who plays a starring role. Paul, the Artistic Director of Calgary’s Third Street Theatre and winner of the Betty Mitchell Award, is no stranger to the stage. In i-ROBOT he is Jonathon, an executive working for DreamCorp, a high-tech company that can be likened to Google - if Google spent more time attempting to fix animated consciousnesses into toasters, that is. Jonathan is pitching an android that has all of the functionality, versatility and preciseness of a robot, but with the ability to think and feel like a human. Naturally, the end goal is to make these androids indistinguishable from ourselves. Jonathan believes in this product so much he takes home the prototype to be his wife, and the fact that he truly loves this synthetic being is one of the themes the production addresses. Paul also told me about Holleay Rohm’s character, who brings forth questions of her own as the android. Her struggle is that of the machine, and the differentiation between function and purpose in the larger scope of humanity. When the robots make the decision to rebel in i-ROBOT, they are fighting for their independence and sovereignty while also embarking on missions of self discovery. For her character, with her ability to think rationally and operate in a variety of parameters, who is to say she is not able to take control of her own destiny? Integrating technology with the story, theatre goers will find both an aural and visual delight, as the play itself is set on a temporary soundstage. LED lights have been incorporated

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 The Massachusetts State House rises over the Boston Common, part of the city’s beautiful Emerald Necklace park system. Photo by Andrew Collins

by Andrew Collins Longtime favorites of the gay community, like Franklin Summer may signal the end of high season at New Café (franklincafe.com) and Tremont 647 (tremont647. England’s beach resorts, but September and October com), are as popular as ever both for dining and drinking. are the perfect months for visiting the region’s largest But in recent years, quite a few other culinary stars have metropolis, Boston, along with its smaller neighbors, helped shine a light on the neighborhood, including Coppa Cambridge and Somerville. At this time, the city comes (coppaboston.com), where you’ll find superb charcuterie and alive as students return to the area’s many colleges, cheese plates, wood-fired pizza, and wines by the glass, and newcomer Estelle’s (estellesboston.com), which earns raves the leaves turn bold shades of orange and crimson in for its updated take on Southern cuisine, from crispy catfish gardens and parks around town, and restaurants and burgers to buttermilk fried chicken. bars with terraces and sidewalk seating entertain fans of alfresco dining for a few more weeks of warm weather. Jamaica Plain Here’s a look at one of the nation’s gay-friendliest Slightly out of the way Jamaica Plain, or JP as it’s destinations, with a particular eye toward what to see during affectionately known, is a few miles southwest of downtown the fall months. But you’ll find tips here on things to do, cool Boston, in a relatively residential part of Boston that tourists inns and hotels, and hip dining and nightlife that should sometimes miss. Especially if you’re visiting during the fall come in handy no matter what time of year you visit. foliage season, this funky, progressive neighborhood with a solid gay and - particularly - lesbian following merits a visit. The South End Boston’s famed Emerald Necklace - a string of dozen This handsome neighborhood of narrow, tree-shaded green spaces laid out by eminent 19th-century landscape streets lined with Victorian bow-front, redbrick townhouses architect Frederick Law Olmsted - has several significant has steadily evolved over the years into one of the city’s sections in Jamaica Plain, including Franklin Park (with its favorite destinations for an afternoon stroll, whether to historic zoo), Arnold Arboretum (with 280 acres of plants admire the architecture, duck into tony boutiques, or seek and trees connected by well-marked paths), Jamaicaway (a out trendy neighborhood bistros and cafes. This upscale tree-lined parkway), and Jamaica Pond. You can continue district is very much the heart of Boston’s gay scene, and along the Emerald Necklace visiting the other linked parks, it’s home to several long-running LGBT nightspots - the including Olmsted Park in Brookline, the Riverway, the Back endearingly dive-y Boston Eagle, the classic dance club and Bay Fens (where you can access the outstanding Isabella video bar Club Café (www.clubcafe.com), the friendly sports Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts), bar Fritz (fritzboston.com). Commonwealth Avenue Mall, and finally the Public Garden A favorite pastime around here is dining out, with most and Boston Common. The entire string of parks is about 10 of the top restaurants along the main thoroughfares of miles (and popular as a biking route), but it’s easy just to Tremont Street, Washington Street, and Columbus Avenue. choose a few portions of it and explore those on foot. All of

30 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com the Jamaica Plain parks, for example, are great for strolling room property by the Charles River has become a desirable and jogging. overnight destination, its rooms with huge windows overlooking the river, and its bars and restaurants drawing a Cambridge and Somerville see-and-be-seen crowd, especially Clink, where you can dine These two neighboring cities just across the Charles River amid the grillwork of the former jail cells. from Boston are sometimes considered mere extensions of The South End’s gay-owned Encore B&B (encorebandb. their larger neighbor, but each has a great deal going for com) is a romantic but reasonably priced option; the redbrick it and sizable LGBT populations. Cambridge (cambridgeusa. townhouse on a tree-lined street has four stylishly appointed org), with about 106,000 residents, is most famous has rooms with private baths, flat-screen TVs, and plush bedding. the home of Harvard University and MIT, and indeed these With rates starting at under $100 for a room with shared world-renowned educational institutions are worth visiting, bath (rooms with private baths don’t cost too much more), especially the many esteemed attractions related to the arts the neighboring Adams B&B (adamsboston.com) and Oasis and sciences - the Harvard Art Museums, Peabody Museum of Guest House (oasisgh.com) are couple of the top bargains in Archaeology & Ethnology, Museum of Science, MIT Museum. the city. These gay-owned properties enjoy a great location On a sunny September day, it’s a pleasure simply to walk by Fenway and the Back Bay, and have compact, simply through verdant Harvard Square, or on a path fringing the furnished rooms, plus outdoor and indoor common areas; if Charles River. you just need a clean and safe place base for exploring, these You’ll also find quite a few performance spaces, from are a good bet. comedy improv to alternative music to modern dance. Check Gay-favored (and pet-welcoming) boutique-hotel brand out the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), where on Kimpton has a couple of dapper properties in downtown Saturday nights Club Oberon (cluboberon.com) stages the Boston: Nine Zero (ninezero.com) is situated by the Boston queer-fabulous Donkey Show, a wildly entertaining disco Common and has 190 super-swanky rooms, including extravaganza complete with hot go-go dancers. Actual gay several urbane suites with distinct themes (note the carved bars have come and gone in Cambridge over the years, but one deer heads in the Lodge Nouveau Suite). Kimpton’s Onyx has persevered: The cruise-y Paradise (paradisecambridge. (onyxhotel.com) is close to Faneuil Hall and the North End com) is a two-level club with porn showing on the TV screens and has 112 boldly decorated rooms, each with iHome in the main bar, and hot dancers in G-strings slinking about entertainment systems. on the lower floor. In Cambridge, consider Kimpton’s dapper Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge has some particularly dynamic neighborhoods whose 236 handsomely furnished rooms have animal-print for exploring, among them diverse Central Square, with carpets and opulent velvet fabrics - the spacious suites are its live music venues and affordable ethnic eateries, and especially memorable, with their floor-to-ceiling windows and student-driven Porter Square, where - particularly along telescopes, perfect for ogling the Boston skyline just across Massachusetts Avenue - the laudable dining options are the river. Guests can take out complimentary kayaks for a many. Harvard Square is the hub of the eating action, but all paddle on the Charles, and the restaurant, Bambara, serves throughout Cambridge, you can find plenty of inviting places delicious Italian-accented modern New England fare. to knock back local microbrews and feast on excellent food. A convenient Harvard Square location accounts in Among the favorite ethnic restaurants in Cambridge, part for the tremendous popularity the Charles Hotel and there are many, keep an eye out for the Maharaja (charleshotel.com), a light-filled 295-room hotel that’s home (maharajaboston.com) for well-prepared Indian cuisine in to the acclaimed restaurants Henrietta’s Table (for regional an elegantly decorated dining room, Thelonious Monkfish American) and Rialto (modern Italian), two popular bars, (theloniousmonkfish.com) over in Central Square for sushi and a terrific urban spa, Corbu. The hotel lends guests and mod Asian-Japanese fare, and Koreana (koreanaboston. complimentary bicycles to pedal along the nearby Charles com) for Korean fare. Cambridge is also at the forefront riverfront. The nearby Hotel Veritas (thehotelveritas.com) has of locavore-minded, seasonal cuisine, with some true just plush but intimate rooms, with commissioned artwork destination dining notables. T.W. Food (twfoodrestaurant. by local talents, Turkish bath linens, iPod docks, and plenty com) has helped to lead this charge with its farm-to-table of other perks - this is a lovely place to stay if you’re seeking menu - the Sunday jazz brunch is a lot of fun. Another gem, a more laid-back, boutique hotel with exceptional one-on-one near MIT, is Salts Restaurant (saltsrestaurant.com), which service. turns out well-crafted French-inflected contemporary food, from bergamot-cured ocean trout to whole roasted boneless duck for two. Somerville, with a population of about 77,000 and a http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3664 location just north of Cambridge, is primarily residential, View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments but it’s home to several cool dining and nightlife options, especially around bustling Davis Square, where you’ll find the inviting Spoke Wine Bar (facebook.com/SpokeWineBar), which serves commendable food and vino well into the evening, and hipster-favored Diesel Café (diesel-cafe.com), a worthy source of sandwiches, salads breakfast fare, and craft coffee, with an emphasis on local provisions. Bergamot (bergamotrestaurant.com), a short walk from Cambridge, is one of the hottest tables in Somerville, thanks to the super globally inspired modern American fare, the nightly $39 three-course dinner special, and top-notch cocktails (plus great beer and wine lists).

Where to Stay in Boston and Cambridge One of the most fascinating hotel adaptations in the country, the GLBT-popular Liberty Hotel (libertyhotel.com) is built around what had been the Charles Street Jail, an imposing granite building that dates to 1851. Since its masterful architectural conversion in 2007, this luxe 298-

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GC: Your latest album was in 2011, do you have any plans for a new album coming up? ES: Yeah, we do, and Amy just finished a solo album that hasn’t come out yet. Then we are going to do an Indigo album in 2014. We are already starting the writing process for that. I would like to hunker down and get into doing some writing for that right away. We’re talking about maybe starting that in late May or late spring. GC: Can fans expect a little bit more of your older stuff, a little bit more of your recent stuff – and if they’re lucky, maybe a sneak-a-peek? ES: We’ll see what happens. Amy just wrote a new song that she put on her website. It’s a really powerful song and people should check that out. GC: I was just looking at that, it seems like there is a lot of present social issues that might be grounded in that song. I know you guys have been following the whole ‘Stand Your Ground’ concept, and the war on drugs … is that the kind of message you’re hoping to get out to people? ES: Absolutely - we are trying to relay a message, and it’s helping us and we hope that it’s something that can be talked about. It’s so important recognizing the issues. And then to have those changes come about. Actual changes. So both Amy and I as songwriters, we keep it in our mind and in our spirit. GC: It must be really frustrating to have all of these situations that you need to talk about and get a message out about. ES: It’s something to think about and something to write about, Indigo Girls tour Canada you know. There are problems all over the world and the US; it’s a complicated history from state to state. The history of a country that Iconic musical duo visiting Calgary later this month is so immersed in slavery that has shaped the country, that there are deep seeded issues with classes and slaver. Fortunately, it can come to light when people write about them, or people talk about them. It is By Krista Sylvester frustrating. We just got the right to get my partner a green card, because she’s my spouse, and so weeks ago that wouldn’t have even been the The iconic lesbian musical duo Indigo Girls are bringing their case. It’s like come on, you know? Being an American is a constant state solo act to Calgary on September 30th at Knox United Church. of vigilance of what is going on, being part of the solution for problems. The duo is made up of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray, and we Everyone is complacent in some way. It’s like, there’s a lot to deal with. had the opportunity to talk to Emily on the phone in advance Everybody’s involved. of their visit. These girls know how to sing but their powerful GC: Have you noticed that people are becoming more aware of these message is just as important as their songs. This is what Emily issues and talking about them more and speaking out more? has to say on a variety of topics including how excited they are to hit up Canada. ES: I have noticed that with the increase in accessibility to technology and social media that it’s much easier to disseminate information. GC: It must be really exciting to come to Calgary for the first time with The good with the bad. The thing with social media, and Twitter, and your own show. Are you excited? Have any expectations? I mean, it’s the Networking, it’s been a great tool because people can really be informed. first time for everyone to get you guys solo. And then at the same time you have to really be vigilant where you get ES: We have total excitement for it. We’ve been wanting to tour your source from, is it true, and all of those kinds of things. But, it’s a Canada… for a long time. We want to continue to tour in the United great tool for starting to find information, and making people aware of States because it’s such a big country. There’s always something to do what is going on. and so we just finally said that we really want to tour in Canada. We’ve GC: While we are on the topic, maybe you could talk a little bit about never done a comprehensive tour there; we’ve just hit the major cities the Abolish the Death Penalty T-shirts. Are you going to be bringing and done all of the festivals. This tour we’re going to try to go back to those with you to your Canada day tour dates? small venues and travel in a van and do a lot of the stuff ourselves. It’s ES: I’m not sure if we are or aren’t. You don’t have a death penalty in exciting that we still are that do-it-yourself kind of band. It’s really going Canada. It’s more difficult to bring merch into Canada. I think we will to be like that, it’s really going to be stripped down, and we are going to end up having our merch printed in Canada, just because it’s easier take all of our instruments that we can fit in the van. It’s exciting to us. that way. The first t-shirt we did dealt with immigration issues in the We appreciate Canadian music and Canadian radio. We just played in US. The death penalty one has a lot of important quotes and striking Vancouver Island for a festival there. We’re psyched. artwork, and we are giving them to different groups. One of them is in GC: That’s awesome. I guess it’s quite intimate, but what are the Texas, because Texas is the worst. And Georgia as well, because Georgia other benefits of playing those smaller venues? executes people too. We try to be part of the solution to that problem ES: That is the main one, that it is intimate. Recently we did a tour GC: What are you most excited about in hitting the road? with another band in the US. We would get requests to do certain songs. ES: I’m excited about this Canadian tour, because it’s just so You get requests to do songs and we weren’t able to do them. Otherwise, fascinating and interesting to get to know a country from the inside. when people requests songs and we know them, we can just play them. It’s just nice to be there. It’s a different kind of energy when it’s that intimate and we’re going to be playing a lot of towns in Canada that we haven’t played before. That’s exciting to us. We like that. GC: I guess the fan experience in the smaller venues is amazing. They Indigo Girls probably feel like they’re right up front and center – does it feel that way In concert September 30th at Knox United Church for you? http://www.indigogirls.com ES: Yeah. It’s very stripped down, very much an on the road experience. In the States we travel on a tour bus and stuff traveling during the day, traveling in the van. Hopefully it will be enjoyable, but I http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3665 think it’s going to be. View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

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By Janine Eva Trotta This show plays at Eau Claire Saturday September 21st at Like eggnog to Christmas the worldly cinema grandeur 9:45pm and at the Globe on Friday, September 27th at 5pm. of the Calgary International Film Festival defines the taste of fall. Vic + Flo Saw a Bear Canada – Denis Côté This year ‘Long Live the Director’ marks the theme of the 11- day festival span, which will take place September 19th to 29th The experimental and prolific Brayon director takes on an at various screens throughout the city centre. atypical adult love story in this bittersweet thriller. Victoria The list of LGBT tagged films in this year’s line up is a sweet (Pierrette Robitaille) is a recently released convict in her mid- mix of romantic and downright sizzling. GayCalgary Magazine sixties who decides to settle in a sugar shack nestled deep in the is proud to once again sponsor some of these films and to Quebec woods with her former cellmate and lover Flo (Romane highlight their intriguing storylines for you to peruse as you Bohringer). Amidst this ethereal setting both women must plan your CIFF itinerary this year. face their demons in order to begin living a life that resembles normalcy. Vic + Flo Ont vu un Ours received the Silver Bear Gerontophilia Alfred Bauer Award at this year’s prestigious Berlinale. Canada – Bruce LaBruce The film plays Friday, September 20th at 4:30pm atthe As the cover shot suggests, this is a film about an attractive Globe and Thursday, September 26th at 9:45pm at Eau Claire. young man and his intimacy with seniors in a retirement home. In the Name Of Part of the Canadian Cinema Series, Gerontophilia (literally Poland – Malgorzata Szumowska meaning ‘love of the elderly’) follows the 18-year-old Lake (played by the dreamy Pier-Gabriel Lajoie) who, upon taking a Father Adam is a good man, but a man nonetheless. When he job at a nursing home, finds himself drawn to its residents and moves to a small Polish parish he is cruelly tempted by young, the stories of their youth. When Lake discovers the residents troubled men of age. As his struggle against repressed desire are being drugged to keep them sedentary, he breaks one man surmounts, the village begins to notice the Father is not the free for a finalThelma and Louise style road trip. man they thought he was. This Alberta premiere plays at Eau Claire Tuesday, September This Alberta premiere takes place at Eau Claire Wednesday, 24th at 10pm and Thursday, September 26th at 5:15pm. September 25th at 9:45pm and shows again on Friday, September 27th at 4:45pm. Blue is the Warmest Color France – Abdellatif Kechiche Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Taiwan – Arvin Chen This coming of age story follows Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) a 15-year-old girl who believes in the classic love story, until she Welchung (Richie Jen) lives seemingly in domestic bliss. His meets Emma (Léa Seydoux) a blue-haired vixen who introduces wife is beautiful, his son is affectionate, his job is good. That her to ‘a whole new dimension of love, desire and attraction’. is until his mother-in-law plants a bee in his wife’s bonnet to Based on the French graphic novel Blue Angel, this film took have a second child, and simultaneously an old male flame home the Palme d’Or, FIPRESCI Prize at this year’s Cannes and reappears in his life to remind him of the romance he truly promises much more than an average teenage love story. longs for and the different life he once lived. Blue is the Warmest Color plays in part of the Headliner Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow offers audiences a fresh look Series at Eau Claire Sunday, September 22nd at 6:15pm. Get at a modern love triangle at Eau Claire on Monday, September your tickets in advance. 23rd at 5pm and Saturday, September 28th at 9:15pm at the Globe. Oil Sands Karaoke Canada – Charles Wilkinson Goltzius & The Pelican Company Croatia/France/Netherlands/UK – Peter Greenaway Brace yourself for a look at Fort McMurray like you never thought you’d see; a look through the lens of a heartfelt karaoke This bizarre, erotic drama is director/screenwriter competition at Bailey’s Pub. Five contestants – including a Greenaway’s second instalment in a three-part ‘Dutch Masters’ towering drag queen – belt out more than a song in this strange trilogy. Hendrick Goltzius is a 16th-Century printmaker and documentary, and alter the perceptions we all have of the engraver of erotic art, famed for his detailed interpretations of isolated, industrial oil sands community. the human form. To secure funding, the artist promises his See it Wednesday, September 25th at 7pm or Sunday, proprietor erotic stories from court in addition to his personal September 29th at 4:30pm at the Globe. passion – steamy takes on stories from the Old Testament. The film tantalizes its viewers with an alluring perspective on Unhung Hero voyeurism and an x-rated view of the Bible. United States – Brian Spitz See it Wednesday, September 25th at 9:30pm or Saturday, Does size really matter? It sure did to Patrick Moote’s September 28th at 2pm at Eau Claire. girlfriend. After a giant public rejection to a marriage proposal made on the jumbotron of a UCLA basketball game, Moote Calgary International Film Festival embarks on a documentative journey to find out what people really think of the small penis. To get his answer he meets with September 19th-29th the world’s leading sex pundits – including interviews with Dan http://www.calgaryfilm.com Savage, Annie Sprinkle, and Jonah Falcon: the man currently holding title for world’s largest appendage. Moote journeys to http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3666 porn conventions, Korean sex museums and witch doctors in Papua New Guinea all to discover why the world is so interested View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments in phallic measurement.

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GC: You sort of buy that freedom at a cost of exposing yourself in a lot of ways. Christopher Daniels CD: And you pretty much have to accept the fact that you will never do things like be a President, or be a schoolteacher. I’m fine with that, but you have to realize that it could harm Actor, Escort, Firebrand you in the future. GC: I got the impression that you prefer working on camera By Nick Winnick to escorting. Is that fair to say? CD: I go through phases, I think. I’ve been very fortunate to Christopher Daniels’ bright blond hair and chiseled body do first escorting and then porn, and then these appearances started happening more frequently, [because] I feel that it’s are attention-grabbers, without a doubt, but the escort easy to get burned out on any one of those three things, and model has a lot more to offer the world than the especially if I’m only doing one at a time. I find that if I purely visual. I had a chance to speak with him ahead balance the three and switch it up, it’s much better for me of his visit to Edmonton’s Evolution Wonder Lounge this physically and emotionally, and for my sanity. month, and he pulled no punches when chatting about GC: Doing both the porn work and the escorting, some people probably feel like they’re entitled to your body or your work, “work,” life, and how even our own side can get its space to some extent when they see you in person. Do things messages muddled sometimes. ever get, you know, weird? GC: One of the first things I noticed when researching your CD: I always try to be friendly and appreciative, but I think work is what an active online presence you have. Do you try some people have a hard time understanding that there are to keep things at arm’s length, or dive right in? still some boundaries. Just because I’m fucking on camera CD: I don’t really think there’s too much of a difference doesn’t mean that you can come up to me in the club and between my professional porn life and my personal one. I stick your finger in my asshole! ... But for the most part it’s use Twitter and other social media under my porn name, positive, and people are appreciative, and I have fun with and I think I can get away with saying a lot more being in them, and it’s a good experience. the porn industry, because people sort of expect outrageous GC: You’ve mentioned in other interviews that it’s really behaviour. It allows me that freedom. critical for someone in your line of work to have strong GC: So doing porn was liberating in a sense? support networks and good outlets, emotionally. What are CD: Once I’d done a few scenes, and decided that this was the most important ones for you? something that I wanted to focus on... It’s freeing and it’s CD: I’ve been dating a guy for almost a year now, and he’s liberating, but it was kind of scary to cross over, because you very balanced, and not in the industry. So having him helps realize that once it’s out there you can’t really go back. balance me out. Having a lot of non-industry-related friends who knew me before I started at this, that helps ground me. And also, having a group of friends that are ... doing the same thing I’m doing, they understand the stress and the drama the industry will bring up. GC: Has your work ever become a source of friction between you and your man? CD: It’s not something a lot of people can handle, but he’s a bit older than me, and it’s just not really an issue for some reason. He’s a confident guy, and there are a lot of things that only he and I share. He knows that what I’m doing is work, but that it’s not just work – there’s some enjoyment in it. If anything, he sometimes acts like a stage mom. There’s no jealousy, and if there is jealousy, we joke around about it. We do have our issues sometimes, but that’s not one of them. GC: DOMA is a landmark decision for the entire community south of the border. But from what I’ve read elsewhere, it seems like it’s giving you access to something that you don’t have a lot of personal interest in. What is it about marriage that you figure doesn’t really work?

36 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com CD: I believe that we writing about two years should all have the same after [starting] escorting. rights, and I know a lot ... I had so much time on of couples out there that my hands travelling and want the right to marry. shooting porn that I was They can have whatever spending a majority of my kind of relationship they time in airports and hotel want, and I think we need rooms, and the stories that. What I don’t support just started coming to is this pressure on the gay me. ... I finished it about community to make us a year and a half ago, and more like straight people. I I spent that time doing feel like a lot of people push the real work which has this agenda of monogamy been editing, and editing, and having kids, and if and editing. ... The cover that’s what you want to is designed, and hopefully do, that’s fine! But I worry it will be on Amazon and that it’s just going to make Barnes and Noble, and the gay community more everything by the end of like straight people, and the year. I really want to I think that would be the focus on that and see what most boring thing in the happens with it. That’s the entire world. I think one next step for me. of the best things about being gay is that we’re not like straight people. We have different kinds of relationships, we are colourful. ... I know so many straight, married people who are miserable. If that’s what we’re trying to aim for, then I don’t really want a part of that. Christopher Daniels GC: Or to settle down with the one spouse, the two-point- five kids, the dog, the white picket fence... Appearing at Evolution Wonder Lounge on Sept 14th Facebook: ctopherdanielsvegas • Twitter: @ctopherdaniels CD: Oh, I would shoot myself in the head. Hey, maybe in five years that will be my life, and I think that’s great, and I http://www.ctopherdaniels.com should have that choice, but I don’t think anyone should be pushing that on anyone else. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3667 GC: Any other projects on the go lately? CD: Mainly I’ve just been working on my book (Money’s View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments on the Dresser). ... It’s a collection of short stories I started

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By Janine Eva Trotta Ironically, a John Will piece is featured at the start of the exhibit, From September 7th to January 5th, 2014, Calgary’s in which the artist unknowingly depicted Spalding’s task three Glenbow Museum will host its third instalment in a five- decades before its reality. In a comical ‘Great Moments in Sports’ jest, part series displaying the best of what was happening in Will illustrates a goalie in a net, swiping away items that shouldn’t the city in a chronological ode to art decades. get through. However in the net the goalie has let slide a piece of Spalding’s that made it into the 1970s show. Made in Calgary: the 1980s highlights a period of time when Calgary emerged onto the international art front, not for kowtowing Indeed humour is rife throughout the exhibit, particularly in to the popular media but for standing out on a limb and doing what thanks to John Will. The former U of C professor pokes fun at smear felt right. strokes, the painstaking, obsessive dotted strokes used by his wife, and the French Canadian style of paintings particular of the time. While the ’70s was a time of abstraction and copycat stylistics, the ‘This is a prairie landscape’ he paints in balloon-like font floating over ’80s was a time of personal narrative in all media, a new frontier for a vertically placed prairie landscape. representational realists. His creative ‘slice of life’ film is available to view on the fourth floor “Calgary has a sensational history of it,” says curator for this section of the exhibit, in which the artist equipped a woman with a instalment, artist Jeffrey Spalding. “The ’80s is when Calgary really donations box, a camera and mic and set her off in search of visitors comes into its own.” to Banff who would be willing to be part of the film in exchange for Finally the artists who were holding genuine to their own forms some spare change. were going to be noticed. Big names like the so-true-to-life-it’s-creepy Hilariously we watch as tourists know not what to do with their sculptor Evan Penny, and the University of Calgary professor John moment on film. As the credits role we find out that the two hundred Hall alongside his prolific wife Joice. and some dollar budget was not reclaimed by donations. The film’s “[Hall] essentially helped spawn and train a whole generation of random participants in fact pooled less than $20 all together. representational painters,” Spalding says. “Artists said ‘screw it’, and And what collection representing the ’80s in Calgary would be began to embrace all these other strange themes and notions.” complete without some 1988 Olympics regalia? Don’t miss the Artists ceased their smudge strokes and still lifes in place of vibrant recalling of Heidi and Howdy amongst other sentiments of something more intimate and unique. The ‘damn broke’ and an the Calgary games, by Tim Zuck, which hangs on the first floor. outpouring of fantastic, statement art inundated the scene. Spalding was so overtaken by the works he found eligible for this “It’s when a real renaissance starts to happen,” Spalding says; an show that he decided to piggy back it with a sort of part two down the end to the restrictive, singular ’70s school and a start to complete street at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) at which he has pluralism. been director for the last two years. We see the dreamy, underwater couple painted by Dan Hudson; September 21st, 2013 will mark the contemporary museum’s first Joice Hall’s floating nudes; Polaroid shots of apples and roses pinned show and grand reopening since its closure due to flooding. to painted trees and vases by Ian Baxter; the intriguing photography “This allows me to make sure to acknowledge the contribution of that brings us right to the table with Barbara Spohr; Ron Moppet’s more people,” Spalding says. “[The show] could have been twice the zany symbols and collage; Chris Cran’s honest self portrait dualities; size again.” and Don Corman’s collection of blown up negatives the drugstore rejected. The September 21st opening promises a dazzling display of light: three dozen disco balls are to be suspended on cranes, inflatable “Seventies photography was fairly straight – black and white,” sculptures by Toronto’s famed Max Streicher are to be perched on Spalding says. “In the ’80s it was used to create a strong image, rooftop, as well as an outdoor video program, live music, a visit opposed to snapping something that was clearly there.” by Calgary Opera, cash bar and food trucks are all slated for the Artists were wearing their hearts on their canvas. Paintings of a evening’s roster of events. woman’s knowledge of her partner’s affair haunt us; ceramic crows “It’s going to be magical,” Spalding forecasts. “We’re going to be infest a multi-coloured vestibule of antiquated teacups. What was trying to sparkle this year.” once displayed as mere handy craft was now being used to illicit emotions and stir memories. Additional artist talks and family events will also be hosted in part of the Made in Calgary ‘80s series. “Ceramics became polychromed and about things, as opposed to… functional ware,” describes Spalding. He himself has a large piece up at the Glenbow overlooking the Made in Calgary: the 1980s reception area. The museum surprised the artist by securing the painting from a private collector. The canvas illustrates a misty view At the Glenbow Museum over the peaks of a Vancouver glacier range. September 7th to January 5th The curator says the most difficult aspect of assembling this show http://www.Glenbow.org was in giving it flow, with so many contrasting pieces and styles to display; and in keeping it concise. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3668 View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

38 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com  Politics - From Page 18 beheading, and extra-judicial killing of homosexuals, all coincidently, Landolt’s openly gay nephew. So, it’s not like in the name of Islam, and things are not much better for she or R.E.A.L. Women didn’t have some opportunities for homosexuals within the Palestinian Authority. Israel is exposure to the realities of LGBTQ politics and culture. I unique in the region for not only its democracy but its legal always thought Thanksgiving and Christmas family dinners protection of LGBTQ individuals and culture. must have been very interesting... assuming he and Auntie Russia is a Christian country with the Russian Orthodox Gwen were both invited. Church enjoying considerable influence after years of While Harper’s Conservatives were never perceived as repression, even persecution, by the Soviet system. It could particularly ‘gay-friendly’, to their credit they are now be argued the Orthodox Church has regained the same level able to set aside whatever views they may or may not hold of influence and even power it had under the Czars. Sadly, around being gay or lesbian and come out, so to speak, it would seem the Orthodox Church in Russia has more on the side of democratic rights, both within Canada and in common with reactionary Islamism than it does with its internationally. more enlightened Western Christian brethren...and that’s Rick Roth, spokesperson for the Department of Foreign saying something given our own history of church versus Affairs, has gone on record as stating Baird’s comments are orientation issues. not a “left versus right issue”, adding: When John Baird, minister responsible for Foreign “Canada believes that the criminalization of homosexuality Affairs, recently spoke out against the Russian bill, as well is wrong, as is the suppression of fundamental rights as the situations in both Kenya and Uganda, the socially- like freedom of expression and freedom of speech. The conservative anti-feminist and anti-choice group R.E.A.L. expression of these rights should not be met with the death Women quickly accused him of “abusing” his position and penalty, nor violence.” promoting “special interests”. Canada, as a Western liberal democracy, has an Gwen Landolt, the group’s national vice-president, obligation - as do all other such democracies - to challenge accused Baird of “using an agenda that is not internationally those nations which repress and persecute minorities. Be accepted”, of “intruding on the sovereign rights of it publicly hanging gay men in Iran or imposing repressive independent countries”, and of being “elitist” and “offensive laws onto otherwise law-abiding individuals simply because to the Canadian grassroots political base.” At the same they are gay or lesbian in Russia. time, just for good measure one assumes, she tossed in how “homosexual rights elitists” silence opposition and have become a ‘’tyrannical minority.” An interesting sidebar here: When Egale Canada was still based in Ottawa (now based out of Toronto), and while I served on its National board of directors, R.E.A.L. Women http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3661 had their national office literally down the hall from Egale’s. Not only that, but Egale’s vice-president at the time was, View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

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 Photos by JJ Levine Rae Spoon Alberta-raised trans musician to perform for Calgary Folk Fest By Lisa Lunney and Rob Diaz-Marino Rae Spoon, a Calgary-born singer who has touched on a number of musical styles including country and indie rock, will be returning to his hometown for an October 10th performance courtesy of the Calgary Folk Fest. Spoon has released 10 albums to date, and having lived for a decade as a trans-man, has advocated preference for the gender-neutral “they” pronoun. GayCalgary Magazine caught up with Spoon in anticipation of their(?) upcoming performance for the Calgary Folk Fest. Although this year’s festival has already passed, the organization continues putting on concerts for folk artists throughout the year. GC: You have a busy schedule of touring this fall! Are you excited to return to your hometown of Calgary? RS: Luckily I tour so much that I get to come back to Calgary quite a bit. It’s always nice to see old friends, and Calgary has very supportive queer and arts communities. GC: What was it like growing up in Calgary? RS: Well, it definitely had its challenges. The homophobia I experienced as a queer teenager was often pretty difficult, and combined with the religiosity of my family it wasn’t the easiest situation. I find Calgary a much more supportive city these days, but 15 years ago it was definitely harder. GC: Was it always a dream to become a musician? RS: Yes, I decided at twelve that I wanted to be a musician. I started playing guitar at eleven and then began writing my own songs shortly after. GC: What artists have inspired you most? RS: Freddie Mercury, Dolly Parton, Kate Bush, Kurt Cobain and Beyoncé.

40 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com GC: Last year you RS: The best international released a book of short experience I’ve had was stories, what sparked the actually filming a music idea to write a book? video in Venice. Chelsea RS: When Chelsea McMullan, the director of McMullan and I the documentary My Prairie began working on the Home, made a music video documentary My Prairie for my song Ocean Blue. We Home, she and I thought had a great time filming and that the filming might the location was fantastic. progress more smoothly GC: You last performed if I provided some overall in the Calgary Folk Fest structure. I wrote ten in 2004. Are you looking stories about my childhood forward to your appearance for her, but I found that I on October 10th? really did enjoy writing so RS: Absolutely! I’m really I continued on from there. excited for the show, and GC: Are there plans for I’m looking forward to more books in the future? playing in the Folk Festival RS: Right now I’m Music Hall. collaborating on a book with Ivan E. Coyote based on our show Gender Failure. The book, also titled Gender Failure, is set to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in the spring of 2014. GC: Can you tell us about your latest album, My Prairie Home. The lyrics are powerful, raw and devastatingly beautiful. Rae Spoon in Concert Was it hard to share such emotions? Brought to you by the Calgary Folk Music Festival RS: It was a difficult process at times, but I do feel that the Thurs, Oct 10th, 7pm • Festival Hall (1215 10th Ave SE) overall experience was positive. Re-visiting the past can be hard, http://www.raespoon.com but having the opportunity to create something meaningful out http://www.calgaryfolkfest.com of it has been really good. GC: You have toured internationally; no doubt you have had many terrific experiences. Can you share with us a few of your http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3669 fondest memories? View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

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know me or to get me into bed. Most people that come up and talk to me are genuinely interested in who I am and how I got into the adult film industry. GC: So, back in 2011, you had sworn off doing porn shoots, but you got back into it a little while later. Did you have a change of heart, or was it more a pragmatic decision? MR: I left the industry because I thought I had found Mr. Right. When I started doing porn, I made a promise to myself that if I ever found “the one,” I would leave the industry. He asked me to quit, so I did. Long story short: he broke up with me and months later he became the porn star known as Jake Genesis. GC: Apart from acting and your gig as a trainer, what takes up most of your time, day-to-day? MR: Well, I have an amazing boyfriend and we have two dogs. After work it’s dinner and family time in front of the TV before bed. We have such crazy schedules that we don’t have time for much more. GC: Pro Wrestlers Vs. Zombies has just become the movie I never knew I always wanted to see. Did you end up getting a decent amount of screen time? MR: I definitely got my share of screen time. I play a pro wrestler who’s a video game freak. My character thinks that the zombie attack is part of a video game. He’s not the brightest, but I think he’s the most loveable. GC: What was it like working with wrestling greats like Roddy Piper and the others? MR: It was so much fun making this movie. Working with Piper, Hacksaw Jim Dugan and Shane “The Franchise” Douglas was a childhood fantasy come true. They were awesome and they treated me like one of the guys. I kinda had a bromance with Piper. He’s actually a very witty guy. GC: So I take it you were a fan of the WWF in your younger days? MR: I used to watch WWF every Friday night with my dad when I was younger. GC: Was that part of what made bodybuilding appealing? MR: It really didn’t influence my bodybuilding career - my ego and having two older brothers that would beat the crap out of me is what made bodybuilding appealing. GC: So, the DOMA decision was pretty huge - kind of an amazing step forward. Has that changed your hopes or expectations, or the way you  Matthew Rush, photo by Vincent Marco look at your relationship? MR: It was a huge step forward for us. I’m not sure if you knew Wilfried Knight - he was a porn star and a very dear friend of mine. He and his partner committed suicide [on March 5th and February Matthew Rush 21st, 2013, respectively] after a long battle with Immigration. They were married in Canada, but it wasn’t recognized in the US. They fought for years to have their marriage recognized but they were unsuccessful. Mens Sana in Corpore Sano They decided if they couldn’t be together in life, they would be together in death. Wilfried was such an amazing man. I loved being around him By Nick Winnick because he made me laugh. The DOMA decision was so bittersweet for me. It gives me hope for me and my boyfriend, but before the decision Those of you who will be in Edmonton on September 14th will was made, DOMA took my friend. have the pleasure of seeing Matthew Rush live at Evolution GC: You’ve got a bit of an outspoken streak, from what I’ve seen in Wonder Lounge. Recently I had some time to chat with Greg other interviews and on Twitter. Do you think doing porn has given you Grove, the smart and self-aware man behind the Matthew more freedom to talk about the sorts of things that are important to you, as if it ‘broke the ice,’ so to speak? Rush persona, about life, keeping in the kind of shape we all love to watch, and his latest acting project: “Pro Wrestlers Vs. MR: Porn has given me a platform to speak my mind and use my “star” power for good. When I can, I try to give back to my community Zombies,” featuring a (quite possibly literal) ton of veterans of through charity work and whatnot. The industry has allowed my voice to the squared circle. be heard. I’d still be bitter and jaded if I had not done porn. GC: Your body’s obviously the result of a lot of work and dedication. GC: What are some of your favourite experiences since creating When did you start lifting? Matthew Rush? On-camera or off. MR: I started lifting when I was a senior in high school. I was 6 feet GG: It’s been a hell of a ride over the past 12 years. Because of tall and 130 pounds. I was a really skinny, nerdy kid. The moment I Matthew Rush, I have travelled the world. I’ve acted on stage and in picked up my first weight, I was hooked. I quickly started to see my body movies. I have met some amazing people along the way as well. I don’t change and people started treating me differently. think any of this would have been possible without Matthew and his fans GC: Have you ever competed as a bodybuilder, or is it mainly for your that have kept him around for this long. own satisfaction? MR: At first, it was an ego thing. People were noticing me and my confidence grew. Then a guy at my gym convinced me to compete in my first competition. I competed for a few years and worked my way up to Greg Grove, aka. Matthew Rush nationals. Bodybuilding can be very political especially at national level. It wasn’t fun anymore and I realized I didn’t have to prove anything Appearing at Evolution Wonder Lounge on September 14th to anyone. I left the bodybuilding world and I now train for my own Twitter: @MeetGreg personal health. GC: You come off as a really funny, well-spoken guy. Do you ever run into people who expect you to be a slab of mindless muscle? http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3670 MR: I do get stereotyped as a “meathead,” but I use it to my advantage. View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments I play dumb to see what a person’s intention is - whether it’s to get to

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We may have established a bit of a rapport, but I was still able to put my foot wrong with the no-nonsense Saint. Man at Work Angling for, perhaps, a bit of juicy on-set gossip, I asked after his favourite type of performer to work with, and got a characteristically forthright answer. “I never answer that Tyler Saint talks leaving the work at work question. I don’t want to elevate anybody over anybody else. What makes one person better than the other? We’re all there to do a job.” By Nick Winnick It’s a pragmatic, no-nonsense attitude that infuses all aspects of his work in the industry. Talking about the number Since 2006, hunky Tyler Saint has graced many of our of GayVN awards Saint has won (and it’s four, with another screens, and enriched our lives (or at least our libidos) ten nominations), I had to ask how someone can maintain a in the process. career like his while being, as he describes himself, painfully shy. “I was pretty nervous when I first started shooting, but I But for all that we’ve seen him in, ever more creative got used to it.” Simple as that. As to whether he still grappled permutations of partners, positions, and penetrations, the with his shyness in his recent shoots, he was just as quick man himself remains quite private, and even, by his own to give the professional answer. “I’ve done so many things admission, “painfully shy.” You might be pleased to know, in my career that I’m not even bothered by it any more. then, that the Tyler Saint I spoke with recently was a warm, There’s only ever two or three people on set at once.” And genuine soul, and that there’s a simple reason why he has while he certainly appreciates that people enjoy his work, kept his head down while others in the industry tweet and that pragmatic attitude extends to the awards, as well. “I instagram up a storm: he’s on the job. don’t even go to the awards shows. They don’t make me any Our conversation started a little slowly as we warmed up extra money.” to one another. My first false start was when I asked about “I actually used to do a lot of personal appearances. This whether, like many other models, there’s overlap between will be the first one in a while.” Referring, of course, to his his professional and his personal life. He obliterated any September 14th visit to Evolution Wonder Lounge. “I love ambiguity. “No. There’s no overlap at all.” them because I get a chance to meet the fans. It’s always nice “I got into the industry at 40 years old,” he told me. “People to hear supportive words in person.” For Tyler, in-person would ask me over and over and over if I’d consider it, and trumps online interaction any day, especially since he has I finally said yes.” Prior to jumping into the adult industry, found that old truism of internet anonymity to be very real, Saint paid his bills by running his own business with its in his case. “People on the internet can be very forward. two employees – something that he continues to do today, They have very little, very little in the way of boundaries.” despite the demands on his time from shooting and making Harkening back to his very clear delineation between his personal appearances. It’s not without its strains, of course. work and his personal life, he went on to say, “I think what “My schedule is packed. I’m lucky if I get to the gym twice a lot of people don’t understand is that I’m doing a job. Tyler a week.” I wondered if that might contribute to a lack of a Saint is a character I play.” social media presence. “Hah! Yeah, the last thing I want to do And he plays it well, from all appearances. In an is spend an hour on Twitter every day.” entertainment environment dominated by constant online He’s certainly not hurting for current projects, presently dialogue and instant, real-time broadcasts from the people filming for several websites, as opposed to major studio whose careers we follow, Tyler Saint may have managed a productions. “I’ve actually been busier in the last two years feat so elusive that there are few who even attempt it. As than I was when I was shooting regularly.” much effort as he pours into his performances on stage or in I asked him a little bit about how he maintains his front of the camera, he manages to leave the work at work. impressively-muscled physique, given that woeful lack of There might be a lesson in there. gym time. For Saint, it’s all about maintenance and self- discipline. “Well, I don’t drink; just a lot of clean living, and portion control. I think most people eat basically healthy, but they eat too much.” Tyler Saint “I’ve had this body for the last 25 years,” he said. “The Appearing at Evolution Wonder Lounge on September 14th face has changed a little, but the body hasn’t changed in 25 years.” This is great news for a man still in the first decade of his modelling career. I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but I would be surprised beyond belief if there weren’t a ton of http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3671 men aching to see a mainstream star with a little bit of silver at the temples. View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

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By Chris Azzopardi all very quick and sort of sanitized to fit into a Hollywood Who doesn’t see Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the “perfect movie, if you want to call this movie a Hollywood movie. It’s man”? The one man who knows him best: Joseph sort of an atypical one, but it’s a movie about mainstream Gordon-Levitt. culture, so I wanted it to become part of mainstream culture. And neither should you, he says. I always intended it to be that way. I think, in that way, it’s self-referential and it wouldn’t be as strong or effective After playing a gay hustler in Mysterious Skin, a Mormon or as complete a film if it were outside of those Hollywood homophobe in Latter Days and Batman’s cool sidekick in filmmaking traditions. The Dark Knight Rises, the actor takes on a porn-obsessed womanizer in his latest film Don Jon, a sex comedy he wrote, GC: How much did you want to get away with in this movie, directed and stars in that contends there’s more to a person and how much did you actually get away with? than meets the eye. JG: What’s in the movie is exactly what I wanted it to be. Surely, plenty of Gordon-Levitt meets the eye in Don Jon: I wrote it exactly that way. I don’t think it’s all that sexually that chest, those arms and all the near nakedness of the New explicit; there are some very modified and stylized clips from Jersey lothario he plays. Yeah, it’s easy to see why people pornography videos because that’s a central symbol in the might think he’s pretty perfect. movie, but there aren’t really any realistic sex scenes. It’s not a movie that’s about shocking you with anything graphic. In our interview, Gordon-Levitt discusses the dangers of believing he’s the ideal mate, contributing to the gay GC: This film demonstrates what you’ve discussed in the rights movement and what he’s really doing during those past: that the media – the films we watch, the music we masturbation scenes in Don Jon. listen to, and so on – can really screw with our minds. When choosing films, do you think about how much influence you GC: Let’s talk about this intense, seductive look on your have on the people who watch them? face during those masturbation scenes. What were you actually thinking about? And were you really watching porn? JG: I do, yeah. It’s always a balance between trying to keep an eye on my own self-fulfillment so that I’m always doing JG: Nah, I wasn’t really looking at porn. But I was what’s inspiring to me, but also thinking about what this will pretending I was looking at porn. mean to people who see it. I know for me, the movies and GC: I’ve never pretended to watch porn. TV shows that I watch, and the songs or the books or the JG: (Laughs) I have now! articles, are a big part of how I make sense of the world. I feel GC: There’s a bit of sex in the movie – and you’re always fortunate to be a part of that cultural conversation. And I try the one having it. How do you direct yourself in a sex scene? to be something positive. JG: See, the sex scenes – with one exception – are very, very GC: The way in which media affects romantic relationships highly stylized and they’re not so much scenes that play out is also explored in another film of yours, (500) Days of in real time; they’re more like narrated storybook versions of a Summer, in which you embody more of the traditional female look inside the mind of this guy, and so shooting them is like archetype. What parallels do you see between that film and putting together a puzzle. They’re made of lots of little pieces. Don Jon? When you put the puzzle together it seems like a sex scene, JG: Yeah, there’s definitely a real parallel between(500) but when you’re shooting it, it’s not like that at all. Days of Summer and Don Jon in that both male protagonists GC: This is a movie that has sex at its core, and we see are quite selfish at the beginning of the story. Both of them in plenty of boobs but never any Joseph Gordon-Levitt bits. their own ways are very much objectifying the opposite sex. Was it a conscious decision for you to avoid being completely With Jon, his ideas of what women are supposed to be, or naked? what love or sex are supposed to be, are sort of preset, and he’s not paying attention to the actual people in front of him. JG: Yeah, because that would just be distracting. It’s really Then, they’re similar also in that they’re both coming-of-age not the point of the movie. This is not a movie of brutal realism; stories, and by the end you see them both beginning to break it’s a comedy and it’s a story. It’s sort of a parable, so there out of their old ways and grow up a bit. would really be no reason to have any nudity. The only nudity that’s in the movie are these clips from real pornography GC: You seem like the complete opposite of a meathead, so videos, but they’re all very edited and cropped and they’re how did you get in the mind and body of Don Jon?

44 GayCalgary Magazine #119, September 2013 www.gaycalgary.com JG: Yeah, I worked out a ton. And I ate a ton of chicken! JG: (Laughs) That’s exactly the kind of oversimplified You know, I think we all know guys like that, and we all have fantasy shit that I’m making fun of in Don Jon. some of Jon and some of Barbara (his love interest in Don Jon, GC: So you don’t like being the “perfect man,” then? played by Scarlett Johansson) within us. I know that I have some of both. They’re both at extreme ends of the spectrum JG: To be honest, I understand it’s all in good fun and that’s of cultural norms: what a man is supposed to be and what fine, of course. We all have our media that we consume that we a woman is supposed to be. But I think we all have that can admit is not the most healthy or positive, and sometimes tendency in a way. It’s easier to just oversimplify ourselves I eat French fries and sometimes I’ll smoke cigarettes. We all and our identities and our lives, and especially our loves lives. do things that we know are bad for us. But I think it’s worth It’s very seductive to think that it just ought to be simple – pointing out that stuff like that, it’s not harmless, especially and in real life, it’s not. if you consume a lot of that kind of media. I think it does seep into your brain and into your identity GC: You use the word “faggot” at one point in the film, and and will absolutely interfere in your ability to be happy – and even though it feels appropriate to the character, was there that’s exactly what Don Jon is about. It’s a young man who ever a discussion or any hesitation to use a word that many watches too much pornography and a young woman who in the gay community find offensive? watches too many romantic Hollywood movies, and neither JG: Like you said, that character would say that at that one of them can be satisfied in their relationship because point. It’s at a moment when he’s sort of feeling threatened. they’re too busy comparing real life to these simplistic His buddy just said that there was a hotter girl at the club fantasies that they’ve seen on screen. than his girl, and so in that moment of insecurity he uses Real life is so much more beautiful and rich and nuanced that word. I think that’s usually where that sort of hateful than those oversimplified fantasies, but you won’t feel that language comes from: out of people’s insecurity. beauty if you’re too busy comparing it to the 42 reasons why GC: When it comes to directing, what did you learn from your favorite actor is the perfect man. There’s no such thing Gregg Araki on Mysterious Skin that you fell back on during as a perfect man. Every human being is a unique person. the filming ofDon Jon? GC: There’s been talk of you starring in a remake of Guys JG: I remember working with Gregg and being very struck and Dolls with Channing Tatum. Should we expect to see you by the fact that he could watch the movie in his head while in it? we were making it. It allowed him to be very decisive and specific because he knew how the whole movie was gonna cut JG: It’s one possibility. Chan and I really like the idea of together already, whereas oftentimes films are made and you doing a musical together, and we’re working on making that just shoot lots of angles and cut it together later. With Don happen. We don’t know exactly how it will happen or what it’ll Jon, we took more of the approach that’s closer to what Gregg be or how long it’ll take, but we’re determined to do it. did. I already had in mind how I wanted the thing to be cut GC: I must say that every gay man also likes that idea. together while we were shooting. Another filmmaker who is JG: (Laughs) I’ll keep that in mind! like that is Rian Johnson (Looper). Another one is Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises). These are the guys who are thinking that far ahead. Gregg really stood out in that regard. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3672 GC: You first really reached a gay audience withMysterious Skin. How aware are you of having a gay following? View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments JG: I don’t spend much time distinguishing people into categories like that, so to be honest, I can’t say it’s really something I think about any more than I think about, “Oh, how many black people are watching my movies?” and “How many Catholics are watching my movies?” I don’t really think about it in that way. GC: If you were gay, you might realize how many gay people adore you. JG: Well, that’s very nice to hear! I’m glad to hear it. GC: With Don Jon and your new beefy body, are you prepared for the extra attention you might get from the gay community? JG: (Laughs) I hadn’t thought of it. My body’s not like that anymore. I was working out every day to play that character, but bodybuilding isn’t really my thing. I’ve lost most of the weight. GC: How do you reflect on your kiss with Topher Grace during a 1998 episode of That ’70s Show – the first gay kiss on North American primetime TV? JG: Yeah, proud moment! GC: When you look back on that moment, how far do you think we’ve come since that landmark kiss? JG: I was actually just talking about this with a good friend of mine who’s gay. We were saying there really has been a change. I mean, that was more than 10 years ago that we shot that episode, and a lot has changed. I do think that television and movies have played a big part in it. It’s certainly not solely responsible, but that has been a part of it becoming a more normal and accepted part of our culture – that some people are gay and that’s just how it is, especially for people who are not used to that or close-minded toward that. There’s been a pretty big change, and we’re certainly not all the way open- minded – I mean, there was a civil rights movement in the ’60s and there’s still plenty of racism in the world – but we’ve come a long way. I certainly am proud to have made that small contribution of whatever kind to that progress. GC: BuzzFeed recently named off 42 things that prove you’re the perfect man. Included on that list: the forearms, your chic style, that you look great in women’s underwear. Even the 3rd Rock from the Sun pigtails got a mention.

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Pool Night------ Evening New Directions------ 7-9pm Flashlight Night------ 6pm-6am Calgary Events At 59 East Village Cafe with Prime Timers Calgary See 1 Calgary Outlink  3rd At 6 Goliaths Mondays Wing Night------ 5-8pm Heading Out------ 8pm-10pm Thursday, September 19th At 59 East Village Cafe See 1 Calgary Outlink  4th Buddy Night------ 6pm-6am Calgary Internaltional Film Fest------ All Day At 6 Goliaths Student Night------ 6pm-6am Alcoholics Anonymous------ 8pm Sep29 ASK Meet and Greet------ 7-9:30pm At 6 Goliaths  Hillhurst United Church (Gym Entrance) Sunday, September 22nd  Bonasera (1204 Edmonton Tr. NE) 1227 Kensington Close NW Mosaic Youth Group------ 7-9pm AIDS Walk for Life------ 10am Inside Out Youth Group------ 7-9pm  Old Y Centre (223 12th Ave SW) Saturdays By 2 AIDS Calgary See 1 Calgary Outlink Thursdays Coffee------ 10am Wednesday, September 25th Tuesdays By Prime Timers Calgary Lesbian Seniors------ 2pm  Midtown Co-op (1130 - 11th Ave SW) 80’s Retro Drag-Extravaganza------ 7pm Calgary Networking Club------ 5-7pm  Kerby Center, Sunshine Room  3rd By ISCCA at 60 Cowboys Night Club See 1 Calgary Outlink  1st 1133 7th Ave SW Alcoholics Anonymous------ 8pm  Hillhurst United Church (Gym Entrance) Saturday, September 28th  Uniform Night------ 6pm-6am 1227 Kensington Close NW Student Night------6pm-6am Hottub Pool Party------ 7pm-1am At 6 Goliaths At 6 Goliaths Sundays By ARGRA  Lesbian Meetup Group------ 7:30-9pm  2320 Sunset Ave SW Between Men------7-9pm Worship Time------ 10am See 1 Calgary Outlink  2nd, 4th At 1 Calgary Outlink  1st See Deer Park United Church LEATHER ONLY------ Evening  Alcoholics Anonymous------ 8pm At 3 Backlot Karaoke------8pm-12:30am Worship------ 10:30am At 5 Texas Lounge  Hillhurst United Church (Gym Entrance) 1227 Kensington Close NW See Scarboro United Church Saturday, October 5th Fetish Slosh------ Evening   Sunday Services------ 10:45am Tornado Nightclub------8pm-2am At 3 Backlot  2nd Karaoke------7pm By ARGRA At 3 Backlot See Hillhurst United Church  Arrata Opera Centre (1315 7 St SW)  Alcoholics Anonymous------8pm Worship Services------ 11am  Hillhurst United Church (Gym Entrance) Fridays See Knox United Church Boy & GurL Concert------ Evening 1227 Kensington Close NW Illusions------ 7-10pm At 3 Backlot Wednesdays See 1 Calgary Outlink  1st Church Service------ 4pm See Rainbow Community Church Communion Service------ 12:10pm Womynspace------ 7-9pm See Knox United Church See 1 Calgary Outlink  2nd

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• Boot Camp • Squash Calgary Sexual Health Centre------✰ Gay Friends in Calgary  Platoon FX, 1351 Aviation Park NE  Mount Royal University Recreation  304, 301 14th Street NW  http://www.gayfriendsincalgary.ca  [email protected]  [email protected]  403-283-5580 Organizes and hosts social activities catered to the LGBT All skill levels welcome.  http://www.calgarysexualhealth.ca people and friends. • Bowling (Rainbow Riders League) A pro-choice organization that believes all people have the  Let’s Bowl (2916 5th Avenue NE) • Tennis right and ability to make their own choices regarding their Girl Friends  [email protected]  [email protected] sexual and reproductive health.  [email protected]  members.shaw.ca/girlfriends • Curling • Volleyball (Beach) 1 Calgary Outlink------✰  North Hill Curling Club (1201 - 2 Street NW)  [email protected]  Old Y Centre (303 – 223, 12 Ave SW) Girlsgroove  [email protected]  http://www.girlsgroove.ca • Volleyball (Competitive)  403-234-8973 • Golf  [email protected]  [email protected]  http://www.calgaryoutlink.com Hillhurst United Church  [email protected]  1227 Kensington Close NW • Volleyball (Recreational) • Peer Support and Crisis Line  (403) 283-1539 • Lawn Bowling  [email protected]  [email protected]  [email protected]  1-877-OUT-IS-OK (1-877-688-4765) • Yoga Front-line help service for GLBT individuals and their family  www.hillhurstunited.com • Outdoor Pursuits  Robin: 403-618-9642 and friends, or anyone questioning their sexuality. HIV Peer Support Group  [email protected]  [email protected] • Calgary Lesbian Ladies Meet up Group  403-230-5832 If it’s done outdoors, we do it. Volunteer led events all  [email protected] summer and winter. Hiking, camping, biking, skiing, snow Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association (ARGRA) • Between Men and Between Men Online shoeing, etc. Sign up at myapollo.org to get updates on  www.argra.org • Heading Out ISCCA Social Association the sport you like. We’re always looking for people to ✰  http://www.iscca.ca lead events. • Monthly Dances------• Illusions Calgary  Arrata Opera Centre (1315 - 7 Street SW) Imperial Sovereign Court of the Chinook Arch. Charity • Inside Out fundraising group.. • Running (Calgary Frontrunners) • New Directions  YMCA Eau Claire (4th St, 1st Ave SW) Calgary Gay Fathers  [email protected] Knox United Church  [email protected] • Womynspace  http://www.calgarygayfathers.ca  506 - 4th Street SW  403-269-8382 East Doors (directly off the Bow river pathway). Distances Peer support group for gay, bisexual and questioning  http://www.knoxunited.ab.ca vary from 8 km - 15 km. Runners from 6 minutes/mile to fathers. Meeting twice a month. Calgary Queer Book Club Knox United Church is an all-inclusive church located in 9+ minute miles.  Weeds Cafe (1903 20 Ave NW) downtown Calgary. A variety of facility rentals are also available for meetings, events and concerts. • Slow Pitch Calgary Men’s Chorus  http://www.calgarymenschorus.org Deer Park United Church/Wholeness Centre  [email protected]  77 Deerpoint Road SE  403-278-8263 Lesbian Meetup Group • Rehearsals  http://www.dpuc.ca  http://www.meetup.com/CalgaryLesbian  Temple B’Nai Tikvah, 900 - 47 Avenue SW Monthly events planned for Queer women over 18+ such Different Strokes as book clubs, games nights, movie nights, dinners out,  http://www.differentstrokescalgary.org and volunteering events. FairyTales Presentation Society Miscellaneous Youth Network  403-244-1956  http://www.miscyouth.com  http://www.fairytalesfilmfest.com Alberta Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. • Fake Mustache • DVD Resource Library • Mosaic Youth Group Over a hundred titles to choose from. Annual membership  The Old Y Centre (223 12th Ave SW) is $10. For queer and trans youth and their allies.

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 Calgary Contd. Mystique 41 La Fleur------Theatre & Fine Arts Book Worm’s Book Club  [email protected]  103 - 100 7th Avenue SW  Howard McBride Chapel of Chimes Mystique is primarily a Lesbian group for women 30 and  403-266-1707 36 ATP, Alberta Theatre Projects 10179 - 108 Street up but all are welcome. Florist and Flower Shop.  403-294-7402  http://www.ATPlive.com  [email protected] • Coffee Night The Naked Leaf------AXIS Contemporary Art------Buck Naked Boys Club  Good Earth Cafe (1502 - 11th Street SW)  305 10th Street NW  403-283-3555  107, 100 - 7 Ave SW  403-262-3356  780-471-6993  http://www.thenakedleaf.ca  [email protected]  www.axisart.ca  http://www.bucknakedboys.ca NETWORKS Organic teas and tea ware. Naturism club for men—being social while everyone is  [email protected] Fairytales naked, and it does not include sexual activity. Participants do A social, cultural, and service organization for the mature 16 Priape Calgary------✰ See Calgary - Community Groups. not need to be gay, only male. minded and “Plus 40” LGBT individuals seeking to meet  1322 - 17 Ave SW  403-215-1800 others at age-appropriate activities within a positive, safe  http://www.priape.com Jubilations Dinner Theatre Camp fYrefly environment. Clothing and accessories. Adult toys, leather wear, movies  Bow Trail and 37th St. SW  7-104 Dept. of Educational Policy Studies and magazines. Gifts.  403-249-7799 Faculty of Education, University of Alberta Parents for Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)  www.jubilations.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5  Sean: 403-695-5791 Trinity Best Health  http://www.fyrefly.ualberta.ca  http://www.pflagcanada.ca  206A 2525 Woodview Dr SW  403-281-5582 35 One Yellow Rabbit------A registered charitable organization that provides  [email protected]  Big Secret Theatre - EPCOR CENTRE Edmonton Pride Festival Society (EPFS) support, education and resources to parents, families and  http://www.besthealthcalgary.com  403-299-8888  www.oyr.org  http://www.edmontonpride.ca individuals who have questions or concerns about sexual orientation or gender identity. 37 Pumphouse Theatre------✰ Edmonton Prime Timers Services & Products  2140 Pumphouse Avenue SW  [email protected]  Positive Space Committee Calgary Civil Marriage Centre 403-263-0079  www.primetimersww.org/edmonton  4825 Mount Royal Gate SW  http://www.pumphousetheatres.ca Group of older gay men and their admirers who come from  403-246-4134 (Rork Hilford)  403-440-6383  diverse backgrounds but have common social interests.  http://www.mtroyal.ca/positivespace [email protected] Stagewest------✰ Affiliated with Prime Timers World Wide. Works to raise awareness and challenge the patterns of Marriage Commissioner for Alberta (aka Justice of the Peace  727 - 42 Avenue SE  403-243-6642 silence that continue to marginalize LGBTTQ individuals. - JP), Marriage Officiant, Commissioner for Oaths.  http://www.stagewestcalgary.com Edmonton Rainbow Business Association  3379, 11215 Jasper Ave  780-429-5014 24 Courtney Aarbo (Barristers & Solicitors) 58 Theatre Junction------✰ Pride Calgary Planning Committee  1138 Kensington Road NW  http://www.edmontonrba.org  403-797-6564  www.pridecalgary.ca  Theatre Junction GRAND, 608 1st St. SW Primary focus is the provision of networking opportunities  403-571-5120  403-205-2922  http://www.courtneyaarbo.ca for LGBT owned or operated and LGBT-friendly businesses Primetimers Calgary  [email protected] in the Edmonton region.  [email protected] GLBT legal services.  http://www.theatrejunction.com  http://www.primetimerscalgary.com Edmonton Illusions Social Club Cruiseline 34 Vertigo Mystery Theatre------Designed to foster social interaction for its members  Calgary: 403-777-9494  5 The Junction through a variety of social, educational and recreational  161, 115 - 9 Ave SE  403-221-3708  780-387-3343  Edmonton: 780-413-7122  http://www.vertigomysterytheatre.com activities. Open to all gay and bisexual men of any age,  Other Cities: 1-877-882-2010  groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions respects whatever degree of anonymity that each member  http://www.cruiseline.ca desires. 4 Edmonton STD Telephone classifieds and chat - 18+ ONLY.  11111 Jasper Ave Queers on Campus------✰ DevaDave Salon & Boutique EDMONTON Edmonton Vocal Minority  279R Student Union Club Spaces, U of C  810 Edmonton Trail NE  403-220-6394  780-479-2038  [email protected]  403-290-1973 Bars & Clubs  www.evmchoir.com  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~glass Cuts, Colour, Hilights. Formerly GLASS - Gay/Lesbian Association of Students 6 Buddy’s Nite Club------✰ and Staff. GLBTQ Sage Bowling Club Ellen Embury  11725 Jasper Ave  780-488-6636  780-474-8240  [email protected]  403-750-1128  www.DBBlaw.com • Coffee Night Fellow, American Academy of Reproductive Technology Evolution Wonder Lounge ✰  2nd Cup, Kensington HIV Network Of Edmonton Society---- Attorneys  10220 - 103 St  780-424-0077  9702 111 Ave NW 780-488-5742  http://www.yourgaybar.com  www.hivedmonton.com Safety Under the Rainbow Hardline  www.sutr.ca Provides healthy sexuality education for Edmonton’s LGBT  Calgary: 403-770-0776 FLASH (CLOSED) community and support for those infected or affected A collaborative effort dedicated to building capacity    Edmonton: 780-665-6666 10018 105 Street 780-938-2941 by HIV. and acting as a voice for the LGBTQ community, service  Other Cities: 1-877-628-9696  [email protected] providers, organizations and the community at large  http://www.hardlinechat.com to address violence. For same-sex domestic violence InQueeries Telephone classifieds and chat - 18+ ONLY. The Junction (CLOSED)  [email protected] information, resources and a link to our survey please see  10242 106th St Student-run GLBTQ Alliance at MacEwan University. our website. Lorne Doucette (CIR Realtors)  403-461-9195 Hooliganz Pub (CLOSED) Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wild Rose Scarboro United Church   http://www.lornedoucette.com 10704 124 St NW  http://www.iscwr.ca  134 Scarboro Avenue SW  403-244-1161  www.scarborounited.ab.ca MFM Communications 13 UpStares Ultralounge Living Positive Society of Alberta  An affirming congregation—the full inclusion of LGBT  403-543-6970 4th Floor, Jasper Ave and 107th Street  #50, 9912 - 106 Street 780-423-3737 people is essential to our mission and purpose.  1-877-543-6970 12 Woody’s------✰  http://www.facebook.com/LivingPoz  http://www.mfmcommunications.com  11725 Jasper Ave  780-488-6557 Living Positive through Positive Living. Sharp Foundation Web site hosting and development. Computer hardware  403-272-2912 and software. Men’s Games Nights  [email protected] Bathhouses/Saunas  Unitarian Church (10804 119th Street)  http://www.thesharpfoundation.com SafeWorks  780-474-8240  [email protected] Free and confidential HIV/AIDS and STI testing. 11 Steamworks------✰ Unity Bowling  11745 Jasper Ave  780-451-5554 OUTreach  Let’s Bowl (2916 - 5th Ave NE) • Calgary Drop-in Centre  http://www.steamworksedmonton.com  University of Alberta, basement of SUB  [email protected]  Room 117, 423 - 4th Ave SE  [email protected]  403-699-8216 Wild Rose United Church Community Groups  http://www.ualberta.ca/~outreach  Mon-Fri: 9am-12pm, Sat: 12:15pm-3:15pm Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender/transsexual, Queer,  1317-1st Street NW Alberta Bears Questioning and Straight-but-not-Narrow student group. • Centre of Hope  www.beefbearbash.com Restaurants  Room 201, 420 - 9th Ave SE Pride Centre of Edmonton------✰  403-410-1180  Mon-Fri: 1pm-5pm AltView Foundation  10608 - 105 Ave  780-488-3234 East Village Cafe (CLOSED)  #44, 48 Brentwood Blvd, Sherwood Park, AB  [email protected]  2nd floor, 610 - 8 Avenue SE • Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre  403-398-9968  http://www.pridecentreofedmonton.org  1213 - 4th Str SW  403-955-6014  [email protected]  Tue-Fri 12pm-9pm, Sat 2pm-6:30pm  Sat-Thu: 4:15pm-7:45pm, Fri: Closed Retail Stores  www.altview.ca We provide a safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental • Safeworks Van For gender variant and sexual minorities. drop-in space, and offer support programs and resources Adult Depot------✰  403-850-3755 for members of the GLBTQ community and for their families  140, 58th Ave SW  403-258-2777  Sat-Thu: 8pm-12am, Fri: 4pm-12am and friends. Gay, bi, straight video rentals and sex toys.

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Knotty Knitters------ 6-8pm Fridays Men Talking with Pride------ 7-9pm Edmonton Events See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton QH Youth Drop-in------ 3-8pm Mondays QH Craft Night------ 6-8pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton Ballroom Dancing------ 7:30-8:30pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton See Team Edmonton Boot Camp------ 7-8pm QH Anime Night------ 6-8pm See Team Edmonton Cycling------ 6:30-7:30pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton Soul Outing------ 7pm See Team Edmonton  Robertson-Wesley United (10209 123 St)  2nd TTIQ------ 7-9pm Movie Night------ 6-9pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton  3rd Yoga------ 7:30-8pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton Monthly Meetings------ 2:30pm HIV Support Group------ 7-9pm See Team Edmonton  Unitarian Church (10804 119th Street) Men’s Games Nights------ 7-10:30pm See Edmonton Primetimers  2nd See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton  2nd Thursdays See Men’s Games Nights  2nd, Last Saturday, September 14th Tuesdays QH Youth Drop-in------ 3-8pm Youth Sports/Recreation------ 4pm QH Youth Drop-in------ 3-8pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton See Youth Understanding Youth The Big Bang------ 9pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton At 15 Evolution Youth Sports/Recreation------ 4pm Saturdays Sunday, September 15th Martial Arts------ 7:30-8:30pm See Youth Understanding Youth Naturalist Gettogether See Team Edmonton QH Game Night------ 6-8pm See Buck Naked Boys Club  2nd Natural Selection Tea Dance------ 2-8pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton At 15 Evolution Swim Practice------ 7:30-8:30pm QH Youth Drop-in------ 2-6:30pm See Team Edmonton Swim Practice------ 7-8pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton Saturday, September 21st See Team Edmonton Wednesdays Monthly Meeting------ 2:30pm Investiture------ 9pm By ISCWR at The Locker Room (Ramada Hotel) GLBTQ Bowling------ 1:30-3:30pm Women’s Social Circle------ 6-9pm By Edmonton Primetimers  2nd See GLBTQ Sage Bowling Club See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton  2nd, 4th  Unitarian Church, 10804 - 119th Street Saturday, September 28th QH Youth Drop-in------ 3-8pm Book Club------ 7:30pm Bowling------ 5pm The Edmonton Expo------ All Day See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton See BookWorm’s Book Club  3rd See Team Edmonton  Northlands Park Sep29 Youth Sports/Recreation------ 4pm Martial Arts------ 7:30-8:30pm Sundays Paint the Town Red------ 7:30pm See 1 Youth Understanding Youth See Team Edmonton Running------ 10-11am By 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton  ATB Financial Arts Barns (10330 - 84 Ave) Counseling------ 5:30-8:30pm Intermediate Volleyball------ 7:30-9:30pm See Team Edmonton See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton See Team Edmonton Yoga------ 2-3:30pm See Team Edmonton

 Edmonton Contd. Legend:  = Monthly Reoccurrance,  = Date (Range),  = Sponsored Event

• Counselling • Queer HangOUT: Anime Night • Badminton (Mixed) • Cross Country Skiing  780.488.3234 Come and watch ALL the anime until your heart is content.  St. Thomas Moore School, 9610 165 Street  [email protected] Free, short-term counselling provided by registered  [email protected] counsellors. • TTIQ New group seeking male & female players. • Curling with Pride A support and information group for all those who fall  Granite Curling Club, 8620 107 Street NW • HIV Support Group under the transgender umbrella and their family or • Badminton (Women’s)  [email protected]  [email protected] supporters.  Oliver School, 10227 - 118 Street Support and discussion group for gay men.  780-465-3620 • Cycling (Edmonton Prideriders) • Women’s Social Circle  [email protected]  Dawson Park, picnic shelter • Knotty Knitters  [email protected] Women’s Drop-In Recreational Badminton. $40.00 season  [email protected] Come knit and socialize in a safe and accepting Women’s Social Circle: A social support group for all or $5.00 per drop in. environment - all skill levels are welcome. female-identified persons over 18 years of age in the GLBT • Dragon Boat (Flaming Dragons) community - new members are always welcome. •Ballroom Dancing  [email protected] • Men Talking with Pride  Foot Notes Dance Studio, 9708-45 Avenue NW  [email protected] Seniors Association of Greater Edmonton  Cynthia: 780-469-3281 • Golf Support & social group for gay & bisexual men to discuss  780-474-8240  [email protected] current issues.  [email protected] • Blazin’ Bootcamp  Garneau Elementary School • Gymnastics, Drop-in  Ortona Gymnastics Club, 8755 - 50 Avenue • Movie Night Team Edmonton 10925 - 87 Ave  [email protected] Movie Night is open to everyone! Come over and sit back,  [email protected]  [email protected] relax, and watch a movie with us.  http://www.teamedmonton.ca Have the whole gym to yourselves and an instructor to Members are invited to attend and help determine the • Bowling (Northern Titans) help you achieve your individual goals. Cost is $5.00 • Queer HangOUT: Game Night board for the next term. If you are interested in running for  Ed’s Rec Room (West Edmonton Mall) per session. Come OUT with your game face on and meet some the board or getting involved in some of the committees,  [email protected] awesome people through board game fun. please contact us. $15.00 per person. • Hockey  [email protected] • Queer HangOUT: Craft Night Come OUT and embrace your creative side in a safe space.

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Red Deer Events Banff Peace River Medicine Hat Wednesdays Saturday, September 21st Sunday, September 22nd Saturday, September 21st LGBT Coffee Night------ 7pm Banff Pride 2013------ 9pm-2am AIDS Walk for Life Medicine Hat Pride------ 12-5pm See CAANS  1st At Wild Bill’s (201 Banff Ave) By HIV North  Riverside Veteran’s Memorial Park (1st Street & 6th Ave SE) Sunday, September 22nd Grand Prairie   18+ Pride Dance------9pm AIDS Walk for Life------2pm By Medicine Hat Pride By CAANS Monday, September 23rd  The Club (954 7 St SW) Rotary Park AIDS Walk for Life By HIV North

 Edmonton Contd.

• Martial Arts  http://www.womonspace.ca  15450 - 105 Ave (daycare entrance) Women’s social group, but all welcome at events.  780-328-6414 BANFF RED DEER  [email protected] Youth Understanding Youth  [email protected]  780-248-1971  www.yuyedm.ca Community Groups Community Groups Drop-ins welcome. A support and social group for queer youth 12-25. Bow Valley Cares Centre Affirm • Outdoor Pursuits • Sports and Recreation  302 Buffalo Street, Banff, AB  Sunnybrook United Church   [email protected] Brendan: 780-488-3234  PO Box 3160, Banff, AB T1L 1C8  403-347-6073  [email protected]  403-762-0690  1-877-440-2437  2nd Tuesday of the month, 7pm • Running (Arctic Frontrunners)  [email protected] Composed of LGBTQ people, their friends, family and  Kinsmen Sports Centre Restaurants allies. No religious affiliation necessary. Activities include  [email protected] support, faith and social justice discussions, film nights, All genders and levels of runners and walkers are invited to The Junction (Closed)------and potlucks! join this free activity.  10242 106th St  780-756-5667 LETHBRIDGE Central Alberta AIDS Network Society • Slo Pitch 12 Woody’s------✰  4611-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB  Parkallen Field, 111 st and 68 ave  11725 Jasper Ave  780-488-6557 Community Groups  http://www.caans.org  [email protected] The Central Alberta AIDS Network Society is the local Season fee is $30.00 per person. $10 discount for players Retail Stores GALA/LA charity responsible for HIV prevention and support in from the 2008 season.  403-308-2893 Central Alberta. Passion Vault  http://www.galalethbridge.ca • Snowballs V  15239 - 111 Ave Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Lethbridge and Area.  LGBTQ Education January 27-29, 2012  780-930-1169  [email protected]  [email protected]  [email protected] • Monthly Dances  http://LGBTQeducation.webs.com Skiing and Snowboarding Weekend. “Edmonton’s Classiest Adult Store”  Henotic (402 - 2 Ave S) Red Deer (and area) now has a website designed to bring Bring your membership card and photo ID. • Soccer various LGBTQ friendly groups/individuals together for fun,  [email protected] Products & Services • Monthly Potluck Dinners and to promote acceptance in our communities.  McKillop United Church, 2329 - 15 Ave S • Spin Pride on Campus Cruiseline GALA/LA will provide the turkey...you bring the rest. Please  [email protected]  MacEwan Centre for Sport and Wellness  780-413-7122 trial code 3500 bring a dish to share that will serve 4-6 people, and your A group of LGBTQ persons and Allies at Red Deer College. 109 St. and 104 Ave  http://www.cruiseline.ca own beverage.  Wednesdays, 5:45-6:45pm Telephone classifieds and chat - 18+ ONLY. Season has ended. • Support Line  [email protected] Robertson-Wesley United Church  403-308-2893 7 classes, $28.00 per registrant.  10209 - 123 St. NW  780-482-1587  Monday OR Wednesday, 7pm-11pm MEDICINE HAT  [email protected]  www.rwuc.org Leave a message any other time. • Swimming (Making Waves)  Worship: Sunday mornings at 10:30am  NAIT Pool (11762 - 106 Street) People of all sexual orientations welcome. Other LGBT • Friday Mixer Community Groups  [email protected] events include a monthly book club and a bi-monthly film  The Mix (green water tower) Medicine Hat Cares Centre  http://www.makingwavesswimclub.ca night. As a caring spiritual community, we’d love to have 103 Mayor Magrath Dr S  356 - 2 Street SE, Medicine Hat, AB you join us!  Every Friday at 10pm • Tennis  403-527-5882  1-877-440-2437  [email protected]  Kinsmen Sports Centre • Soul OUTing Gay & Lesbian Integrity Assoc. (GALIA)  Sundays, 12pm-3pm  Second Sunday every month, 7pm  University of Lethbridge  [email protected] • Telephone Support  [email protected] An LGBT-focused alternative worship. 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