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Cary Grant Pumpjack Expanding Dx Travel FREE 20,000 AUDITED CIRCULATION VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS 2014 16–29, JAN #532 PROUD LIFE: @dailyxtra CARY GRANT E 8 PUMPJACK SACKED EXPANDING Former punter facebook.com/dailyxtra facebook.com/dailyxtra E 9 Chris Kluwe says homophobia cut short DX TRAVEL: his NFL career dailyxtra.com dailyxtra.com LAS VEGAS E10 E 22 More at at More 2 JAN 16–29, 2014 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS XTRA VANCOUVER’S Published by Pink Triangle Press GAY & LESBIAN NEWS PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Brandon Matheson www.westend-dentist.ca #532 JAN 16–29, 2014 Roundup EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR Robin Perelle STAFF REPORTER Natasha Barsotti COPY EDITOR Lesley Fraser EVENT LISTINGS [email protected] NIKO BELL NIKO CONTRIBUTE OR INQUIRE about Xtra’s editorial content: [email protected] EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Victor Bearpark, Niko Bell, Tom Coleman, Tyler Dorchester, Jacques Gaudet, Danny Glenwright, Shauna Lewis, James Loewen, Ash McGregor, Kevin Dale McKeown, Raziel Reid, Yuki Shirato, The Canadian Press/Bob Leverone, The Canadian Press/ Genevieve Ross, Dave Yin ART & PRODUCTION CREATIVE DIRECTOR Lucinda Wallace GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Darryl Mabey, Bryce Stuart, Landon Whittaker ADVERTISING ADVERTISING & SALES DIRECTOR Ken Hickling NATIONAL SALES MANAGER Jeff rey Hoff man DISPLAY ADVERTISING Corey Giles, Teila Smart CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Jessie Bennett ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Lexi Chuba DISPLAY ADVERTISING Call 604-684-9696 FESTIVAL or email [email protected]. 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Saturday and The pixel is political Founded 1971 Feedback E4 evening appointments available. A growing number of DIRECTORS Jim Bartley, Gerald Hannon, Xcetera E5 Glenn Kauth, Didier Pomerleau, Ken Popert, developers are pushing for Gillian Rodgerson diversity in video games E15 HONORARY DIRECTOR Colin Brownlee PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Ken Popert Upfront Blitz & Shitz CEO, DIGITAL MEDIA David Walberg Battle of the bad singles CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Andrew Chang Former Duff erin manager By Raziel Reid E18 T/ dies Cary Grant remembered Real Estate E19 as a generous, kind man E8 What’s On E20 PumpJack expanding Xtra Living E21 City endorses Davie Street pub’s plan to double its space E9 Daily Xtra Travel Simpson, Thomas Cover Story Boys’ weekend in Vegas Out of bounds? Former & Associates Party like a rock star NFL punter Chris Kluwe says in the city of sin E22 his coaches fi red him for his TRIAL LAWYERS support of gay rights E10 The Brotherhood By Tyler Dorchester E25 My tale of two dads We need to encourage Barrister & Solicitor more intergenerational Practice restricted to ICBC communication among ondailyxtra.com gay people E12 personal injury claims E Activist alleges assault Still QQ after being recognized as Questioning the kiss-in protester use of ‘queer’ E JEAN-MARC HÉBERT* By Kevin Dale McKeown E13 Vancouver council aims to increase safety and 778 999 5328 services for sex workers cell COVER PHOTO: THE CANADIAN PRESS/ E Nigeria’s president signs [email protected] GENEVIEVE ROSS anti-gay bill into law *Professional Law Corporation MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! JAN 16–29, 2014 3 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook.com/dailyxtra Comment tweet @dailyxtra was that ‘I didn’t feel like I could be FREE 20,000 AUDITED myself. I felt like it aff ected my play- FEEDBACK CIRCULATION ing because I was always worried that VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS Chris Kluwe, role model 2014 2–15, JAN someone’s going to fi nd out who I am. #531 QMUNITY GETS $7M Is today the day that someone discov- E 7 Sexphobic Eight years of SEX WORK social issues? Or is it one where every- ers my secret?’ DECISION EDITORIAL Trinity Western E 9 pokes UGANDA’S ROBIN PERELLE one is tip-toeing around things and “You can’t play to your full poten- ANTI-GAY Trinity Western would be homophobic L AW worried about saying anything at all tial that way,” he says, pointing out & tokes E 10 Whether or not we because they’re worried about losing the obvious. if they only banned same-sex inti- @dailyxtra can ever defi nitively their job?” Nor can you play to your full po- macy [“Fighting Trinity Western,” Xtra #531, Jan 2]. They actually ban prove that homophobia caused Chris tential when your coaches label you a facebook.com/dailyxtra Henkl and The Kluwe blames the National Foot- Brotherhood celebrate opposite-sex intimacy outside of mar- 200 episodes of Tyler Kluwe’s termination, the now-former ball League’s older coaches and ad- “distraction” and turf you for having dailyxtra.com Dorchester’s homegrown comic strip E14 punter could teach his coaches a thing ministrators for the less-than-warm the courage to stand up for others. riage (ie, premarital sex and adultery) at More or two about being a team player. welcome gay athletes and their more The Vikings deny that Kluwe was as well, so they are more sexphobic than homophobic. Kluwe is the former Minnesota outspoken allies may receive. Though released for his activism. They main- I’d like to say, as a queer person, that Diff erent cultures tend to be dif- Vikings punter who shook the he doesn’t think homophobia is tain that the decision was “strictly this makes me want to fight even ferent ways. Gay cultures tend to be sports world in early January with pervasive in the league among play- based on his football performance.” harder and become a lawyer despite fairly Asian-phobic in spite of being his allegations that he was cut not ers — whom he generally describes I’m skeptical. Given Kluwe’s consis- this [“Trinity Western Law School hyper-sexual. Go on any popular gay for poor performance, but for his as young and supportive, cycling up tent performance throughout his ca- Approval Humiliating, Clayton Ruby site or space, and the way gay Asian vocal support of same-sex marriage from college with new attitudes — reer and the record-high net average Says,” dailyxtra.com, Dec 16]. Truth- and Indian men are treated is appall- in the run-up to Minnesota’s 2012 he says some coaches may be less yards he punted in what turned out fully, I’m questioning whether I should ing and could be classifi ed as fairly referendum. open-minded. to be his last season with the team, submit my law school application at discriminatory. However, the aver- He says he doesn’t regret “I think problems would come from I think his vocal advocacy for gay all. Is what’s happening at TWU in- age gay person just sees it as a part speaking out, even though it likely coaches and administrators because rights tipped a previously dormant dicative of a trend of discrimination of gay culture and its complex codes cost him his job. they tend to be older individuals scale out of his favour. within the legal profession? of desire. “It’s the basis of a sound society,” [with] a certain mindset,” he says. Asked if he would encourage others FREYBUG he tells me. “People have to be free to Kluwe suggests the key to chang- to speak out, despite the consequenc- If gay people don’t want their cul- (DAILYXTRA.COM) live their own lives.” ing these coaches’ attitudes lies in es he faced, Kluwe doesn’t hesitate. ture to change, why do they expect He says he’d want others to speak showing them the player potential “Yeah, there might be consequences Christians to change their culture? Farewell, Cary Grant out for him if his rights were in jeop- they’re failing to capitalize on. If for speaking out. Yeah, there is a possi- Live and let live. SAMUEL.DANIEL.1829 As the manager at the Duff erin that ardy — even if it cost them their jobs coaches need players to play at their bility that you could lose your job. But (DAILYXTRA.COM) passed the torch to Cary [“Former too. The consequences reinforce the full potential to win as many games at the end of the day, if you feel strong- Dufferin Manager Dies,” dailyxtra. need to speak out, he says. If we live in as possible, then maybe they’ll be ly about the issues — you feel that peo- You might have a point if they allowed com, Jan 9] and also managed for a a world where people can be penalized more receptive to the argument that ple should be treated with respect and “same-sex intimacy” within a same-sex stint between his times there, Cary al- for expressing their views, shouldn’t players play best when they’re free to you’re willing to fi ght for that — accept marriage, but they don’t, so you don’t. ways helped a lot of people.
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