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By Rob Diaz-Marino, MSc. But prior to heading over to the Evolution T-dance that September was one heck of a busy month, and thankfully Sunday, Steve and I went to Earl’s on Jasper Avenue for a with this climax comes a lull in October. special media event launching their new Brunch service across We already included coverage of Calgary Pride in the last the US and Canada. Funny enough we had to turn them down edition, so the next major thing to happen was the grand for the event in Calgary, so they instead invited us to one in opening of a new LGBT nightclub in Edmonton the weekend of Edmonton. the 14th: Evolution Wonder Lounge. The brunch items on the menu, such as the Sourdough Evolution set up shop in what some may remember as the French Toast, the Croque Madam, and the Eggs Benedict all PLAY Nightclub space. While the layout has remained roughly looked as good as they tasted. Even though we were given the same, the owners have gone great lengths to break the sample-sized portions, I was completely stuffed before the final “dark and dingy gay bar” stereotype with their offering. From plate came. Seeing the full portion sizes, a single item would white floors and furniture in the lounge area, to an abundance be more than enough to satisfy a big appetite. You can check of LED and other lighting cycling through the colours of the out the photos we took on our website (http://www.gaycalgary. rainbow, the place is anything but drab. com/n980) – or try the dishes for yourself! Earl’s now offers brunch Saturday, Sunday, and holiday Mondays until 2pm. They brought out quite a roster of celebrities for their grand opening weekend, three of whom you might have read about in The next weekend, on September 21st we headed southeast our previous edition. As a bonus, we were able to do a video to Medicine Hat for their annual Pride festival and dance. It interview with Chi Chi LaRue, the legendary drag queen and was a slightly shorter trip than the one we usually make to porn producer herself, while she was in town! Edmonton, although heading in the direction of Saskatchewan, the land was noticeably flatter (in fact, the most memorable The Friday Night was a meet and greet, where customers had part of the trip was the unpleasant stench near Brooks). the opportunity to casually interact with Chi Chi, Christopher Daniels, Tyler Saint, and Matthew Rush. On Saturday however, Steve had visited Medicine Hat for the Pride Festival last Chi Chi did some DJing for part of the night, while the 3 porn year with his friend Don, while I was covering the AIDS Walk in stars put on a steamy stage performance. They wrapped the Edmonton. So this year was my first time at Medicine Hat Pride weekend up with a Sunday afternoon T-dance. Continued on Next Page 

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– actually, the first time in my life that I’ve ever been to Medicine Hat, period! I can’t say we got to see much of the city, but the Online Last Month (1/2) organizers were kind enough to make hotel arrangements for us so that we could spend the night and enjoy the full extent Banff Has Wild Pride of the dance. ‘Who are they, and what are they doing?’ The weather was quite nice for the festival in Riverside These are the hard-hitting questions Veteran’s Memorial Park. Lots of businesses and non-profit we ask here at the “Gaily Planet”. Ken groups from Medicine Hat and across Alberta had set up tents Fierheller, Program Manager... and booths. We were treated to a brief drag show and some belly dancers on the outdoor stage. I got to impress some people http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3679 with my rarely-used Frisbee skills for a whole five minutes, and got to eat one of the biggest freezies I’ve ever seen (considering Creep of the Week: Gov. Rick Snyder I’m diabetic…actually, I only ate about half of it). I’m in a rather shitty Embassy Suites in The drag show at the dance was quite entertaining, and San Diego using $12 wi-fi and typing this featured a number of queens who had driven out from beyond on my iPad. Why, you ask? Because I’m the Saskatchewan border, like Yada Ya-Oughtta-Book-Ahead, getting married tomorrow. To... Jenny Talia, and Kricket. The host, Medicine Hat local Sabrina http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3683 Seville, was a laugh riot on the microphone. We headed back quite early in the morning so we could arrive Deep Inside Hollywood back in Calgary in time for the AIDS Walk. I said last month we Now add Portia de Rossi had to make some choices with so many events happening that Casual fans of Portia de Rossi (aka particular weekend, so while we made it to Medicine Hat Pride everyone not a lesbian or otherwise and the Calgary AIDS Walk, we missed covering Banff Pride, addicted to Arrested Development) might ISCWR Investitures, the AIDS Walks in Edmonton and other not realize that the actress formerly... cities, and (break my heart) the ARGRA Hot Tub Party. On Wednesday the 25th, the ISCCA resumed their monthly http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3688 drag shows at Cowboys. Though we missed April Storm on the Hear Me Out mic (as she had gone into drag retirement during Pride), the girls found their stride – although a little rushed by the new DJ. The Civil Wars, Backstreet Boys, Gregory Keep an eye out for more such drag nights to come. Alan Isakov, Vince Gill & Paul Franklin The Civil Wars, The Civil Wars Nitty-gritty The weekend of the 28th, we were kept very well occupied with the Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo. We got details are few concerning the highly to spend some quality time with our newer Edmonton writers, publicized drama between The Civil Wars Farley and Marissa, as we lined them up to do celebrity twosome Joy Williams... interviews when the publicists could squeeze us in. Though http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3690 we didn’t get to do another interview with John Barrowman, we did get the opportunity to have a casual chat with his husband Creep of the Week: Christopher Doyle Scott when he stopped by our booth. Otherwise, we handed out “One is the loneliest number that you’ll some magazines, gawked at some good looking men, played out ever know...” I’m sorry to report, but Ex- some irreverent physical comedy on an eerily realistic baby doll, Gay Pride Month has been retroactively and generally geeked out. cancelled. I mean,... A funny story: back in June, as we were heading back from Lethbridge Pride, we had stopped in at Fort MacLeod just http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3684 to check it out. We still had our GayCalgary t-shirts on as we walked into an antique shop and bought a small Snoopy Screen Queen ornament that we found. The owner noticed our shirts and told Spring Breakers, 42, Mud, The us a story about how recently, a gay couple had been in there Ice Storm, The Place Beyond and bought a large booth seat that had been used in the diner the Pines, Stoker, The Call scene in Brokeback Mountain. We joked that we probably Spring Breakers The intention of knew them, for how small the community can be sometimes. Harmony Korine’s unsettling spring break As we were chatting with the couple that own the Trekcetera dramatization – as discussed during the... Museum in Vulcan, they mentioned having recently acquired http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3692 a piece of the Brokeback Mountain set – sure enough, the Do We Have to Forgive the Ex-Gays? For people who have endured the ex- gay message of Exodus, apologies might be much too little, too late. When Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus “ex-gay” Ministries publically apologized for the hurt he has caused LGBT people, I forgave him.... http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3693

6 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com booth seat from the diner scene! To quote a t-shirt that was Online Last Month (2/2) generously given to us by MoL Gifts & More, “If you’re going to blow my mind, could you at least swallow?” Paint the Town Red That Saturday night, the Pride Centre of Edmonton held the Paint the Town Red Gala as a fundraiser. It was a very upscale Get ready Edmonton, there’s evening with some fun performances, and great dance music to a party coming! finish off the night. “A big party is a lot of fun! We’re looking Though our press deadline was impending the next weekend, to create some strong presence, and we couldn’t miss the ISCCA Hoedown out on the Regency I think that with me going out into the Ranch. This year’s “Run Bitch, Run” included the option of community, and doing a few... paint grenades! Unfortunately, it was very difficult to hit the http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3695 runners with them. I was the only one up for trying to tackle Les in the Slippery Creep of the Week Bear event this year, so we made a fun photo shoot out of Ted Yoho it. Les and I both stripped down to our undies, we slathered People who identify as gay or lesbian Les from head to toe with vegetable oil, and then I had to try are often accused of being “confused,” tackling him to the ground. especially when we first come out. As if I wasn’t as quick to get him down this year as I did the last heterosexuality were the... time. Since we did it on the grass rather than in the soft dirt that would get stuck in the oil, Les stayed slippery enough that http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3685 he was able to break away from my grip several times. Also, last year we did teams of two, so with only me chasing him Deep Inside Hollywood he had a lot more room to escape. Eventually I did get him to Amber Tamblyn is Two and the ground, after one failed attempt almost took his underwear a Half Men’s lesbian down to his knees. It’s a lot of fun if you don’t mind getting Usually when a series is as long in dirty, and especially if you enjoy man-handling a lubed-up the tooth as Two and a Half Men, the straight guy in his underwear! producers bring in a cute kid to boost the ratings. But with Angus T. Jones... http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3689

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The Skin I’m In now on DVD Broderick Fox’s film launches internationally on iTunes and Amazon

By Janine Eva Trotta Fox is speaking on the accessible, and affordable, digital A film that takes you down deep into the underbelly of age. The first draft of Fox’s film was entirely self-funded, self one man’s struggle with identity, gender, sexuality, body directed and self made. As this base version was polished image and alcohol will be readily available to view across from an amateur reel into a feature length piece, Fox the globe beginning October 1st. collaborated with some talented, creative artists, sought and secured grants, and crowd sourced the rest. The Skin I’m In is a candid, honest and raw autobiographical look at Broderick Fox’s brush with death in a Berlin subway “Friends, family and strangers that believed in the terminal and rise to self-actualization. content,” he names as the people who generated the funds to make the film possible. Fox tends to steer clear of the “Being blunt about my story I can… entertain but corporate arena. potentially also help other people,” he says. “One of the gifts that sobriety has given me is the sense that honesty is a With The Skin I’m In’s official release date looming, Fox’s great liberator.” trepidation over how it would be received by his family, colleagues and pupils mounted. In his film Fox, a world travelled gay university professor/ film maker/erotic hairdresser/actor/singer and variety of “I knew I needed to show it to [my parents] before it got other things journeys to Victoria, British Columbia to have it out there to the world,” he says. Fox sat with them, just First Nations artist Randy Cook design him a personal prior to Christmas, to view the film. “It was the longest 86 tattoo, commemorative of a lifetime of trial and achievement. minutes of my life.” In the process he analyzes the events that have composed Though initially his parents were saddened, Fox says the his life, interviews his parents, explores his four personas, screening “opened up a tremendous new space now for me and reunites them in a comfortable agreement to be one – approaching 40 – to have an open relationship with my true self. parents that I don’t know, necessarily, everyone has.” “Everything that I’ve gone through I’ve had to verify “That alone made the movie worthwhile.” through personal experience,” Fox says, recognizing that Following its public release faculty members wrote Fox even with a privileged upbringing and caring parents, one privately to talk about their own addictions, students used still needs to embark on their own journey to forge out the the film as an opportunity to raise coming out issues with self that feels right to them. their own families, and Fox was able to assemble smaller “I always knew that I wanted to make media or somehow focus groups and conversation groups on campus. find a way to express things creatively, but I’ve also had this A forum was created on which to discuss “what it means critical side to everything… which I can do to a fault,” he to be queer and come of age in our sort of rapidly globalizing describes. Now he has found his balance. and …post identity politics moment,” he says. As a professor in the media arts and culture department That forum was brought to 17 different cities in 11 at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Fox teaches theory countries during an intense festival circuit that included a and production based classes by day, leaving him free to handful of LGBT film festivals but an interesting assortment make the films he dreams of after hours. of non-community festivals as well. “I’m very fortunate to have tenure and job security at a One of these was the DMZ Korean International pretty liberal teaching institution that allows me to be this Documentary Film Festival, which takes place annually in open,” he says. the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. “People [now] can use the tools at their disposal to make Fox says he embraces the opportunity to show his film to work that is important to them….work that hasn’t been new audiences with fresh questions and perspectives on his represented by mainstream media.” story and themes.

8 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com The last festival screening of The Skin I’m In took place at Fairytales here in Calgary. “It was a sweet and special end to our festival run,” Fox says. “The festival was really intimate; it felt like the queer community was a really tight knit community.” Fox says unlike larger cities, such as LA where the LGBT festivals can get quite large, corporate and political, Fairytales offered a refreshing atmosphere and tackled prevalent, hard-hitting subjects. The director was especially affected by his attendance at the film Love Free or Die, a movie that follows the first openly gay Bishop’s appointment and inner struggle between his love for God and his love for his partner Mark, and its screening venue – a church. “It was humbling and exciting to be with audiences that are asking tough questions and going through this stuff together,” Fox describes. Fox’s female persona Dina Brown had the chance to make an appearance at the racy screening of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, in an open-back pantsuit that revealed the Aboriginal tattoo LA artist Zulu summoned out of Fox’s back in a series of gruelling ink sessions we get to see in his film. “A Calgary premier as it were… which was fun,” Fox says. Though The Skin I’m In was Fox’s first feature length film it was not his first time behind or in front of the camera. Fox previously directed a feature documentary with peers as well as numerous shorts, including the evocative 2001 short Things Girls Do. “Things Girls Do looks at gendered treatment of body dysmorphia and eating disorders, viewed as a woman’s issue,” he says. Fox cleverly uses the slowing of the female narrator’s voice as a segue for his own voice to emerge – thus revealing that this woman’s issue is his own. “Embodied media,” he calls this very personal, resonating film style.

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 Scott Terry, Today  Scott & Sister, circa 1967  Scott, College Years Cowboys, Armageddon, and the Truth

By P.J. Bremner His father remarried and his new wife, Fluffy, was far, far worse Scott Terry, a successful water colorist, installation than any fictional evil stepmother. Her husband’s children were artist, and writer, spent his childhood and youth treated as free labour. Scott dusted baseboards while his sister dodging emotional landmines in a wasteland of neglect, scrubbed skillets. The two of them were locked out of the home abuse and hunger. That he survived and prospered is when Fluffy went shopping. Fluffy’s children were fed proper remarkable, as is his memoir, “Cowboys, Armageddon, meals while they were denied even Kool-Aid. They lived in constant and the Truth.” fear of punishment, which took bizarre forms, including holding one’s arms above their head for long periods of time and, as mere The book describes incongruity found in our North American children, kicked out of the house. society; hunger in a land of plenty, love harbored and doled out to only our own as though is was a rare commodity, detachment Terry’s father, an unskilled, uneducated Okie, moved from job instead of parental love, religion that preaches fear and damnation to job and county-to-county. Always the new boy, Terry had few instead of love and inclusivity. friends. He and his sister grew extremely close and together they faced life, stealing food whenever possible and sharing secrets. Terry’s story is really one of metamorphosis. He emerged from Secrets, of course, were their defense against the world. No-one poverty into financial security; from abandonment into a long-term knew how awful home life was. In an interview, Terry noted that he relationship and a wide circle of friends; from religious intolerance would have lied to protect Fluffy just as many abused spouses deny into a life of acceptance; from knowing only homophobia into life as their bruises are from their partner’s fists. He notes, poignantly, “I an openly gay man, a masculine man attracted to other masculine don’t know why he asks things like that. People try to tell him about men. how things are with Fluffy, but he doesn’t believe them. When Scott’s childhood was a nightmare of abuse and his book clearly brothers in the Kingdom Hall ask questions, the kind you don’t describes the injustices served to him. His mother left early in his want them to ask, Dad gets mad. He says we spread stories, things life. Indeed, he has no clear memory of her as a toddler. One hears that aren’t true, but it isn’t true. I don’t tell anyone anything.” the feeling of rejection in Terry’s memory of childcare. “We had a His father and stepmother are members of the Jehovah Witness string of babysitters over the next year, each of whom disappeared. religion, a faith that holds as its core the belief that Armageddon My mother had done likewise.” is imminent. There is little purpose in education when the world is going to end soon. Jehovah Witnesses (JWs) do not allow discussion of its doctrines; one believes the dogma on faith alone. In addition to military service, marking birthdays, donating blood and observing Christmas, JWs preach against homosexuality as an abomination and perversion. Jim Moon is webmaster of A Common Bond, an international support group for ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Their web site states that: “The Jehovah’s Witness religion teaches its membership to believe that homosexuality is ‘detestable’, ‘an abomination’, ‘abhorrent’, and is caused by demon possession. Because of this, thousands of gay Witnesses are living lives of deeply closeted guilt, and fear of destruction by God. Those who choose to leave, or are expelled from the Witnesses face immediate isolation and shunning from family and friends….” Gays and lesbians who have been kicked out of the JWs are in a special need for all the emotional and spiritual support they can get. If JWs don’t conform completely to the sect’s doctrines and practices, including a strict prohibition against merely being

10 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com gay, they are disfellowshipped, which is a severe punishment. It GC: What writers do you admire? Why? amounts to total ostracism.” ST: As a kid I always had my nose buried in books, to the point Young Terry, indoctrinated by continual exposure to a church that more than once I took home a report card with a teacher’s that hates what he realized he was, endured years of self-denial. comment of, “Scott reads too much.” I admire writers who can move When a picture of a naked man sparks his desire, he prayed against me with their stories without burying me in over-the-top language. it and, thus, against his very self. I’m not interested in reading a book to marvel at the writer’s skill in Einsten once said, “A man’s ethical behavior should be based sharing every word in his vocabulary. I want the story to move me. effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious But the story that I remember most, and moved me the most, was basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had a short story by African American author Langston Hughes. I read to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after his story, “The Salvation” when I was a teenager, and that’s when I death.” The quotation fits Terry’s view on religion today. realized that a good story and good writing had tremendous power. As Terry grows older, things came to a head. No longer able to GC: What are you reading at present? live as he had been, he successfully fled and found a home, love ST: I just finished reading The Orchardist, which I enjoyed very and acceptance with his aunt. He also found a new passion, rodeo much. There are perhaps ten other books sitting on my desk from and bull riding, went to college and came to terms with who and authors who asked me to review their works. That was something I how he is. did not expect. After publishing my book I found myself buried with Terry’s story is compelling. It is much, much more than a review requests, and it’s difficult to get to them. coming out story or a coming of age piece. I think it is a story about GC: You mention that you like masculine men. How do you feel finding one’s humanity, one’s self worth, one’s dignity. It is a tale of about drag queens? resurrection from the death of inhumane treatment, abandonment ST: I’m a masculine guy and I am romantically and physically and cruelty. attracted to other masculine men, but that doesn’t really have any While I encourage everyone, not only LGBT readers but everyone, bearing on how I view drag queens. I’m not interested in dressing to read “Cowboys, Armageddon and the Truth”, I do not give it full in drag, but I’ve known many other men who do. I suppose the best stars. I rate it 7 / 10. Terry’s phrases are periodically awkward and way to answer this question is by saying that I view drag queens his technique of using his child voice in places serves to disrupt in the same way I view masculine men, effeminate men, lipstick more than enlighten. lesbians, heterosexuals, transgendered, and every other letter in Perhaps he tackled too much material. A full childhood and the LGBTQ rainbow. People are people. Everyone needs to find the adolescence of fighting cruelty, loss, hatred, fundamentalism, and way to exist in this world which makes them happy. homophobia may be too much for a first novel. GC: Do you ever go to a drag show? I eagerly await his next book. And, in the meantime, I am passing ST: Sure. I’m an openly gay man, so I’ve seen drag shows. The out my copy to all of my friends, straight and gay alike. gay rodeos, in particular, have a large contingent of drag queens I had the opportunity to chat with Scott to exchange ideas. He who perform and raise money for charity. That’s an admirable graciously answered several of my questions. thing. GC: The title,” Cowboys, Armageddon, and the Truth”, is GC: Do you have any desire to write another book? If so, would it compelling. How did you come up with it? also be autobiographical or would you consider fiction? ST: It was kind of last minute. I spent almost 7 years writing the ST: Writing another book wasn’t my original objective, but after book (learning how to write a book takes time) and the title during writing Cowboys I’ve realized that writers write books. I am a writer. that time was “The House of Fluffy.” My publisher didn’t like that I will write another book. I am currently working on the outline for title. He thought it sounded like a story about a cat….so I changed a work of fiction. It won’t be too far off in theme from Cowboys, but it. I didn’t put a lot of thought into it. It just kind of arrived on its fiction will allow me to take the story in any direction I like. That own. feels very liberating, powerful, and daunting. I’ve never written fiction, but I would like to write without being constrained by my GC: If you were just starting to write the book, is there anything you would change? personal history. When writing my memoir I felt an overwhelming need to be honest and accurate in the telling of my story. I refused ST: If I had it to do over, I would probably include more material to fictionalize it, even though many publishers asked me to. So I about cowboys, rodeos, etc. Some readers have commented that think writing a new book of fiction will be a terrific experience. It they wanted more blood, sweat, and trauma about the bull riding will be another cowboy themed story, but perhaps in the romance experience, so I would probably expand on that more if I could. category. But the reality is that what gets included in a book isn’t always up to the author. There is a size limit for a first time author, and GC: Do you have any desire to write for a non-gay audience? publishers were adamant that I had to keep the word count under ST: Most of my writing has been for a non-gay audience. My 90,000 words…which meant that some details and material didn’t essays for Huffington Post - Gay Voices page weren’t geared get included. specifically for a gay audience, nor was my memoir, Cowboys. I Continued on Page 29 

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 11 Catching Up with Michael Urie Actor talks breaking from Ugly Betty, sexually mysterious new role and being Barbra

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By Chris Azzopardi the center of attention and the colorful one, but it was really great Michael Urie doesn’t mean to disappoint you. It’s just and exciting for me to tone it down and play a more introspective that after basically becoming Marc St. James on Ugly character. Betty, the hit ABC comedy that launched his career, he’s GC: Did you know filmmaker Ash Christian and his work before often expected to be a flamboyantly catty queen. this script came to you? And he’s not. MU: I got to know it because of this. He and my partner, Ryan, His role in Petunia, a new indie from Wolfe out now on DVD, is are old friends, so I knew him socially. He’d also been on an episode almost the antithesis of Marc: aloof, not-so-effeminate and sexually of Ugly Betty, but I didn’t work with him, so I didn’t know him from ambiguous, George is the kind of man the 33-year-old actor has that. I remembered his work, though, because he’s a great actor longed to play. as well. In addition to his enigmatic part in Petunia, Urie talked about GC: Are you and your family anything like the Petunias? entertaining the idea of a polyamorous relationship, the trick to MU: (Laughs) No. Nooo! I think the three boys’ dynamic is a impersonating Barbra Streisand and not living up to people’s Ugly pretty specific thing and my parents – we’re from Texas –spent Betty expectations. most of their lives in Texas. I have an older sister who’s about seven GC: George is a different role for you. What was it like stepping years older than I am and is married to a woman, so we have a very into his shoes for Petunia? different thing going on. She’s in northern California, I’m in New York, my parents are now in Virginia. We get along very well but That’s exactly what I was so excited about when I read it. MU: don’t meddle in each other’s lives like the Petunias, so there’s a lot I thought it was such a good script. Halfway through reading it I less friction and conflict in our family. was laughing at situations based on character traits, not just jokes and physical bits. I was really interested in it because I love – as GC: Helps being so far apart from each other. you can probably imagine – camping out and being silly and being MU: Yes, it does! It absolutely does. So the time together is isolated and lovely. (Laughs)

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GC: You’ve been with women in the past, and you identity as the Barbra that is really there if you were to break down the barriers “queer” and not gay. So was this sexually mysterious role something ... and live in her mall. (Laughs) you were interested in on a personal level? GC: Will you bring the show on the road? MU: Yeah! That was another thing that I thought was really cool – MU: I hope so. I would like to. We’ll see. There are some rumblings that there was this character (Ash) wrote who wasn’t entirely happy but nothing to report just yet. I would like to do it. We’re gonna stay in his marriage but wasn’t necessarily looking to get out of it. I in New York for a while longer and there are certainly other cities I loved the scenes where George wants to have his cake and eat it would like to play in, so I think so. too. The moment where he thought maybe he could have a wife and a boyfriend – that was really interesting. And obviously I know that’s not a healthy thing, but I can’t say I haven’t thought about Continued on Page 23  it. (Laughs) GC: Well, there are people in polyamorous relationships who seem to make it work. What are your thoughts on poly relationships, and do you think you could make one work? MU: I don’t know. Ultimately, if I could make that work, obviously all three parties would have to be 100 percent on the same page. GC: One partner is plenty of work anyway. MU: That would be the thing for me. I mean, I’m lucky in life that I’m quite busy, so keeping up with one partner is plenty, but what I loved about (George) was the idea that maybe I could vicariously see what that felt like. I don’t think it would actually work for me personally. Maybe for other people, or maybe as an experiment for a period of time. I don’t think Ryan would be so into it. (Laughs) GC: Currently you’re starring in the off-Broadway production of your one-man show Buyer & Cellar. Because of it, you’ve said you’re more invested in Barbra Streisand than you’ve ever been. What have you learned and observed about Barbra from doing this show that even her most devoted gay fans wouldn’t know? MU: In preparing for this show and preparing to play her, what was most beneficial to me was not her singing, which is what she’s most popular for I would imagine, and not her interviews – for the most part she keeps interviewers at arm’s length and she’s pretty guarded – but it was her performances in movies. And I’m certainly not the first person to discover that Barbra Streisand is agreat actor, but I realized that when we watch her in movies, especially movies like Funny Girl or What’s Up, Doc?, we get to see that sense of play that you don’t really get in her concert banter or in interviews. That to me is the real her. That is the her that we have in our play, and our play is a fictional story of what it might be like to work for her and her street shops that she keeps in her basement – that is very real, by the way. (Laughs) It’s sort of a fantasia on that, and so I found that watching her silliness in movies, and watching that fun that she had and is now continuing to have, is the real her. And I don’t know her. I have never met her. I don’t know if I ever will. But that, to me, is probably

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 13 Everyone’s Favourite Nightmare In depth with Robert Englund

By Lisa Lunney in it are really going up in value, because “3D is back.” That was Robert Englund, everyone’s favourite nightmare took definitely the coolest thing I have seen recently. time to chat with GayCalgary Magazine prior to the GC: If you had been cast as the Hans Solo role, do you think 2013 edition of the Edmonton Expo. This year marks you would have taken the same path to becoming a horror icon? Englund’s fortieth year in film, which is certainly RE: I just don’t know. I’m at that stage in my career, especially something to celebrate! now where I go where I am wanted. One week I am on the new GC: Hello, Robert! How are you doing today? Hawaii Five-O or I am guest starring on an episode of Bones, then a week later I am doing Call of Duty where I am killing zombies. RE: Hello, I have just been watching all the Emmy updates on the morning TV! As I mentioned, I recently started filming a wonderful movie in London with Finn Jones from Game of Thrones. GC: Well, that’s always an entertaining way to start the day! So what are some of your favourite things about attending Comic When I did the series V, I was playing the good alien Willie, sort Expo’s and Conventions? of a nerd character. I received fan mail from women who wanted to mother me. I often wonder, if that show had remained a hit and RE: I have been very fortunate in my career, because of the stayed on the air, would I be like a loveable, “Doctor Spock” kind TV series V, Nightmare on Elm Street and other horror movies of character? I have done, I have an international audience. Science fiction, horror movies, action movies and fantasy speak the international You just never know. I used to go up for parts against one of language of cinema much more than just comedy and romance. I the actors that was in Murphy Brown, I also used to go up for have been able to go abroad since the middle ‘80’s and still have a parts against one of the actors who did a stretch in Breaking Bad. huge ban base overseas as well! I think back to that moment in time when I did Freddy, and I did Freddy just because it was the only thing that fit in my schedule For me, one of the great things about going to the [conventions] because at the time I was starring in a TV show. It is always a or Film Festivals is seeing the foreign movie posters. It is really twist of fate, you just never know. I know actors that were on fun; you see art you have never seen before. You get the chance great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done to see your name in Russian or Thai. I was recently at a show in anything that good since. Yet I know the show was great, they Wales; I saw a giant circus sized poster of me as Freddy with his really got to show their stuff and blow their horn. It’s tricky. I am hat off. He was wearing 3D glasses; the whole side of the poster really grateful for Freddy. was scenes from the movie in 3D. If you put on the glasses, the images came out at you in 3D. I know it was really valuable, it was I went across the hall to be looked at for Hans Solo, when I was French, and I know now all memorabilia and collectables with 3D auditioning for Apocalypse Now. I remember after I auditioned, I went back to my apartment in the Hollywood Hills and Mark

14 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com Hamil was on my couch watching the Mary Tyler Moore show and to be a marathon somewhere. That would be fun. It would also drinking a beer. I told him about the audition, and the breakdown be nice to reunite the cast somewhere. I know sometimes when of the character and I told him about Luke Skywalker. So he went, I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring and got on the phone with his agent, got an audition, and was me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never cast as Luke Skywalker. So, maybe that is what was meant to be. seen before. Stills of Heather and I, photos of Johnny Depp and That’s sort of how it works with Hollywood, you never quite know. I sitting around director’s chairs. It would be really great to get GC: Is it difficult transitioning away from your iconic Freddy everybody together so that people could get both those autographs Krueger character and becoming different, more family friendly together on those items. We are rarely together; at a convention it characters? is difficult. I might go to [a convention] and be doing a panel, and then proceed to a signing and meet very passionate fans that just RE: For me, it has been okay. When I did Freddy, which was in 1984, I had been starring in movies since 1974. Actually, ’73 bring me such great stuff and I wish we could all be together to in fact. This year marks my 40th year in movies. I starred in my sign it. first movie in 1973. So, I had done ten years of movies, twelve or GC: Freddy vs. Jason drew in a new generation of fans. If Freddy fourteen movies before I did Freddy. I was on a hit TV series called were to take on another film villain, who would it be and how do V, so I was already established in Hollywood. I was already typed you think it would make the fans feel? as a nerd, a redneck—I had already worked with a lot of big actors. RE: Well, I’m getting old, so it may be Freddy vs Viagra! It’s kind But, if I had done Freddy really early in my career, I might have of hard for me to do stunts anymore, all my old surfing and stunt been really stuck. I learned from Wes Craven to respect the horror injuries have kind of come back to haunt me. genre. I loved horror since I was a kid. But, I can certainly joke about that. I certainly don’t want to I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the fight Chucky. I always make that joke; Chucky was invented by old horror movies. Forbidden Planet, Horrors From The Black the same guy who did my makeup, Kevin Yagher. Ronnie Yu who Museum, Twilight Zone—I just loved that stuff as a kid. Wes made directed Freddy vs Jason, directed Bride of Chucky, which is my me respect it again. Because I am known in the horror genre now, favourite of the Chucky movies. I think it turned out great, it was I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans. My fans punk and over-the-top. have been so good to me. We became really close to making Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, It’s easy to go back and forth for me. I just did some comedy on which would have reunited Freddy and Jason, and have them Workaholics, I just played a Vietnam vet on Hawaii Five-O, a good being attacked by the hero from Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell. This cop on Criminal Minds, a weird old Janitor on Bones. I do a lot of was right after Hollywood, and Sam Raimi was like the king of stuff in my career, but I like to keep a hand in horror. Horror has Hollywood. I think what happened was, Sam wanted Ash to win. been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the He wanted Bruce to kill himself, which I thought was kind of a fans and helps keep that part of my career alive. cool idea. I could just imagine the posters with Bruce standing GC: Well, you are certainly well rounded! RE: Most actors are. We were talking about Mark Hamil a second ago, Mark is known for Luke Skywalker, but Mark is one Continued on Next Page  of the funniest people I have ever met in my life. The same time I was hanging out with Mark, my girlfriend was doing comedy with Robin Williams. You know how funny Robin is, I love Robin! Mark Hamil sitting around in the living room, talking back to the television or joking around about our careers - he was the funniest person I had ever met. But, he doesn’t take the roles of comedy, he takes the roles of bad guys. People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things. GC: From the entire Freddy franchise, which film is your favourite? RE: I think now, my favourite is Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, which we could call Part 7. It was a reunion film. It was a ten- year anniversary of the first film. It was a very smart film and it was made for the fans. It really deals with a kind of deconstructed horror; he made it just before he did his Scream franchise. It was really Wes talking about how the fans knew what we are up to and knew all of our tricks. We also wanted to pull the rug out from under them and scare them too. It is a movie about horror movies. It’s a movie about Hollywood and the people that make movies. It’s also a movie about the fans and it works to scare you. There is a great underlying tension in that film with the earthquake in California that Wes stuck in there that I love. I also like that there is a kid in it, the kid is so vulnerable. [It is] similar to the great Guillermo del Toro director of Pacific Rim. He has directed some of my favourite films like Mimic and Devils Backbone. Del Toro always has a kid in his movies. I love that. The kid is a weakness. That is what Wes used in a New Nightmare. I think if we took a poll of all the fans of Nightmare for the past 30 years and asked for fan favourite, it would be Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. GC: The third was utterly brilliant, I can agree. RE: Three and four are great to watch together, they go together with an overlapping cast. GC: 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of Freddy, are there any plans for a celebration? RE: I’ve got a really great Halloween experience happening this year in Chicago. I’ve heard various rumors; I would love for there

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 15 Kris Holden-Ried Hungry like the Wolf

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By Marisa Hudson as a wolf. And I had backstory ideas, so like it wasn’t so much as Kris Holden-Ried is an incredibly difficult man to an audition, I went in and basically told them what I wanted to do interview. Not because he is distant or unfriendly – quite with the character. the opposite, in fact. But with his lean, boyish good GC: You pitched the character? looks, and stunning charm, it can make any interviewer KHR: I pitched them, yeah. And they went for it. And I screen forget what they were going to say next. tested with Anna [Silk] and we just hit it off, we had great chemistry. We were able to have a quick chat with Kris in between his busy We actually – it’s out there a little bit – but in our audition I picked schedule at the Edmonton Expo about his current project, Lost her up and threw her against the wall to make out with her, and Girl, where he plays werewolf cop Dyson, and how we can use the we actually broke the drywall in the audition room. And so later on greatest fiction to tell the greatest truths about human nature. Also, when the show became successful we went back and we signed the about how his kisses can break drywall. cracked drywall. GC: I really wanted to talk to you about Lost Girl, actually, because GC: As a Canadian actor, what do you hope to do, at least in Lost Girl is under the radar but still very steadily successful. And Canadian cinema? as you go with it you’re breaking so many boundaries and getting KHR: We’ve always been able to make fantastic product here, but certain themes on TV. It’s a show about the Fae – fairies – and it still it’s usually been for the Americans. They come up here and they reflects human nature. make their A-list films. And now we’re actually making our own. KHR: Well that’s one of the beautiful things about genre work And I hope we just keep going and creating great television and like this, it’s that you can put so many metaphors in – most of them great films that can be sold on the international market, bringing are metaphors for what’s going on. Like, I think that historically some money back to our industry. We have so much talent in this it came from back during McCarthy, when he really kyboshed all country, and it’s time for it to get out there a little. the screenwriters, and they would start writing subversive, political material, in the form of movies and fictional stories. GC: How did you get the part? Kris Holden-Ried KHR: Pretty standard, you know. The script came across, I read http://www.krisholden-ried.com it, I loved it, I went in and met the producers, I did an audition. But I was really passionate about it, when I read it I knew it was something I really wanted to do. I actually brought my headshot http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3701 in – I went online and I got the face of a wolf and brought in myself View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

16 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com Community Discussing Community Safety Volunteering with the CPS

By Constable Andy Buck crime prevention seminars and conduct follow-ups with Hello again everyone. I want to start by saying how much businesses that have been victims of crime. fun my colleagues and I had at the recent Pride parade. Hopefully you appreciated the turnout from the Calgary Victim Assistance Team Police Service, and it was great to have support from all Volunteer victim support workers assist victims of crime and aspects of the service, from a Superintendent to recruits, misfortune with support, information and referral services. Auxiliary cadets and support staff. Our banner, “Proud Support is offered in the form of court accompaniment, To Be Your Ally” said it all, and it was truly meant. assistance with restitution request applications and other services, and providing information about court dates and This month I want to tie in with the article from September police and/or court procedures. which gave information on the Citizens Police Academy. You may remember that I expressed concern that perhaps there Further information about the Victim Assistance Team was was a lack of knowledge about the workings of the Calgary given in the May 2013 edition of this magazine. Police Service which had resulted in some misinformed social YouthLink Calgary Police Interpretive Centre media activity. Well, now I want to tell you about other ways in which you can get involved with the community and gain Volunteers in the Interpretive Centre may work as a docent understanding of police work through general volunteer or as “Where’s the Evidence” School Program educators. opportunities. Front counter volunteers or docents greet and assist visitors The Calgary Police Service actively seeks volunteers to help with information about the centre and answer questions with a variety of programs. Opportunities are available with the about the exhibits. “Where’s the Evidence” School Program community police stations, district offices, Victim Assistance educators guide school children through work stations and Team, and YouthLink Calgary Police Interpretive Centre. provide background on investigative and evidence gathering techniques. Evening docents work with youth groups such as Scouts and Guides to facilitate their visit to the centre and do Volunteer requirements program specific material. For more information about volunteer opportunities with Volunteers must meet the following requirements: the Calgary Police Service or for any other comments, issues • must be 18 years of age; or concerns please get in touch with me in the usual way. • must have Canadian citizenship or legal permanent status Alternatively, you can contact Vivian Gathercole with the and have lived in Canada for at least 3 Volunteer Resource Team. years; Thanks again everyone. Stay safe, look after each other, and • must have no criminal convictions for which a pardon has I’ll talk to you again next month. not been granted; • must have no criminal charges pending before the courts; • must have no criminal activity within at least three years Volunteer Resource Team preceding application; Vivian Gathercole • 403-428-8322 • must be willing to give a one-year commitment; [email protected] • must be able to volunteer three to five hours per week; Constable Andy Buck • must have good written and verbal communication skills. Calgary Police Service Volunteer Programs 403-428-8154 • [email protected] The CPS recruit for the following volunteer positions: http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3702 Community Stations View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments Volunteers in community stations usually live in the community in which the station is located. They work with constables to respond to requests for information, answer phones, assist visitors, book appointments for the constables and document community concerns. Community Stations are located in Riverbend/Ogden, Braeside, Chinook Centre, and Market Mall.

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www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 17 Politics Flying the Flag of Pride

By Stephen Lock then (20 years after Stonewall) a staple in cities all over the Sometimes advances in equality and acceptance are world, with some quarters publicly condemning CLAGPAG, and measured in small, seemingly insignificant, events but those of us involved with it, as ‘radicals’ and ‘rocking the boat.’ which often carry huge symbolic meaning for those In 1990, ‘sexual orientation’ was still not a protected within the affected group. characteristic in provincial human rights legislation and one The Rainbow, or Pride, flag designed by Gilbert Baker in could, legally, be fired or evicted from a rental accommodation 1978 is perhaps one of the most recognized symbols of the for being gay or lesbian and denied access to public service. LGBTQ movement and has come to represent, in many ways, CLAGPAG was created to lobby for sexual orientation inclusion not just “gay pride” but our sense of community, a sense of in what was then known as the Individual Rights Protection Act, commonality with each other. It serves as any flag does to Alberta’s human rights legislation. represent a group identity, something akin to a nation - not It would prove to be a long and difficult battle that didn’t end in the sense of statehood like the Maple Leaf does for Canada until a shy, soft-spoken individual by the name of Delwin Vriend or the Stars and Stripes does for the US, but something more tried to get redress after being fired for being homosexual from along the lines of the concept of ‘nation’ as used within North King’s College in Edmonton by going to the Alberta Human American aboriginal culture, as something more profound Rights Commission, only to be told there was nothing they and deeper than simply ‘community’. I know when I look at a could do since ‘sexual orientation’ was not protected. His only Rainbow flag flying, I feel a surge run through me, something redress was to go through the courts. He won at the Court I can only describe as pride. I look at a Rainbow flag and it of Queen’s Bench, but the provincial government appealed the touches my soul and heart and a voice deep in my psyche says decision at the Alberta Court of Appeals, and won. Vriend took “that’s mine!” This is what flags are designed to elicit. his case to the Supreme Court of Canada which handed down, Its one thing to see a Rainbow flag hanging off a downtown in 1997, the landmark decision now known as The Vriend apartment balcony during Pride Week or see hundreds of them Decision, instructing the Klein government to ‘read in’ sexual being waved during a Pride Parade. To see it fluttering atop orientation into the provincial legislation. a flagpole alongside the flags and ensigns of other countries, This, then, is the social and political background out of recognized as representing us and the validation that offers, is which MWO McDougall’s military career began. With the something else again. LGBTQ community in Canada now finally enjoying full equality To therefore see it raised and honoured in an environment and with the battles over acceptance, legislative protection, rich in tradition and history, such as an Army base, is by no inheritance rights between spouses, and equal marriage behind means an insignificant event. us, it is easy to forget just how hard-won something as simple as raising a Rainbow flag can be. In June of this year, a month traditionally associated with the commemoration of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969 and To know that acceptance within the ranks at CF Base during which most international Pride Festivals are held Edmonton has been a matter-of-course is equally profound. in honour of that commemoration, Canadian Forces Base Soldiers and other military personnel are perhaps amongst Edmonton conducted a flag-raising ceremony attended by Base the most conservative individuals of any given population. Commander Lieutenant-Colonel John Reissenstein, his senior When the Canadian Armed Forces declared acceptance of gay, officers, and civilian members of the LGBTQ community. lesbian, bisexual and transsexual personnel to be official policy, there were dire predictions of negative troop morale, of the The military is steeped in tradition. Flags, ensigns, and what detrimental effect that someone who was openly homosexual are known as ‘colours’ (regimental standards bearing battle would have on those ‘having’ to serve alongside the individual, honours and insignia detailing the regiment’s or corps’ history) of the discomfort the average soldier would feel sharing sleeping play a key role. Enter a chapel, especially an Anglican one, space with someone he (or she) now knew to be gay or lesbian on any military base and these standards are mounted along and - oh my g-d! - showering and sharing bathroom facilities the walls. Growing up Army (and Anglican) this was a familiar with such a person...!! Predictions of a groundswell of backlash sight, just as seeing first the Canadian Ensign and then, later, were rampant. None of it, or at least very little of it, came to the Red Maple Leaf and the ensigns of the different branches of pass. Openly gay and lesbian and, yes, even transsexual the Canadian military atop flagpoles at the end of the central individuals have served in our military for years now with no parade square was. To know a Rainbow flag was raised negative affect. alongside these venerable cloths and honoured with them - that is something profound. MWO McDougall himself has served in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone, all well-known ‘trouble spots’ where unit cohesion Master Warrant Officer (MWO) John McDougall requested the is crucial to one’s survival. Your fellow soldiers are often the flag-raising through the chain-of-command as is the protocol only people around you who you can trust. Every one of them and was surprised when it was swiftly granted. literally holds your life in his or her hands, just as you hold MWO McDougall is a 23-year veteran of the Canadian Armed theirs in yours. Predictions of gay or lesbian soldiers being Forces and noted how much things have changed since he bashed or abandoned in a firefight never materialized. Soldiers joined in 1990. are like that....they are there to do a job and so long as you do “When I first joined,” he recently told Canadian Press, “I your job you are accepted. would never [have] even considered telling anyone I was gay. It A spokesperson for the military, Navy Lieutenant Jessica just wasn’t [considered] macho,” he said. McDonald, noted there has been absolutely no backlash or To put things into perspective, 1990 was the year of Calgary’s resistance to the flag-raising at CF Base Edmonton, home to first Gay and Lesbian Pride Rally and March, which later evolved the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), Lord into our annual Pride Festival, organized by the Calgary Lesbian Strathcona’s Horse (LDSH), 1 Service Battalion and 1 Field and Gay Political Action Guild (CLAGPAG) and attended by 140 Ambulance, all of which once called CFB Calgary at Currie and individuals, many of whom wore masks or paper bags over their Sarcee Barracks ‘home’, as well 1 Combat Engineer Regiment. heads. The community itself was divided on the whole idea of CFB Edmonton is a key base within the Canadian Army such a public expression, despite Pride celebrations being by

18 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com infrastructure and is where 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade them. When you watch these on BluRay on a flatscreen, these Group (1 CMBG) is headquartered. movies hold up and look great. [It is] not too violent for the young She stated the flag-raising was, “a symbol to all members generation now because there has been so much in-between. of the GLBT community, whether they are civilian or serving I loved the cast of the remake. It was great casting. Connie members, that the Canadian Forces promotes principles of Britton as the mother was well cast. I’ve worked with Clancy inclusiveness, equality, and dignity.” Brown a few times before in voiceover work, and he is great. I It appears that while, on a symbolic level, the flag-raising is worked with one of the kids several times, the boy who was in an important event in the history of the recognition of equality Jennifer’s Body as well as the Nightmare. I love Rooney Mara, I it was also met with an attitude of acceptance one would have just saw her in another film with Casey Affleck. I am a big fan of been hard-pressed to expect even ten years ago. When we look Rooney Mara. I love the cast. Maybe a problem was, the kids are to our neighbours to the south and the whole ongoing kerfuffle too haunted by Freddy from the get-go, so we never get to know over ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and DADT’s repeal by the Obama them beyond the spectral fear of Freddy. Administration and the paroxysm’s many on the right went and I am very happy to pass the baton to Jackie. He was great in are going through around that, this acceptance is highlighted Shutter Island, and Watchmen. I have been a fan of Jackie’s for a even more. long, long time and I am pleased he was the one chosen. As McDougall said after stating how proud he was to see the GC: How do you feel about the evolution of horror films? From Rainbow flag flying over the base, to have who he is recognized classics such as Nosferatu, which focus on cinematic techniques and respected, and to be able to bring his partner of 18 years and storyline, to films like Saw where gore and computer to the ceremony, “in this day and age of tolerance, it shouldn’t animations are the main forces behind the film. be a big issue.” RE: I am torn. I love the idea that all genres can have subsets. That it wasn’t speaks volumes on how far we have come. I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed. I actually liked the first Saw, then they got a little too, “torture porn” as the critics say. I saw the original Hellraiser before they dubbed it with American accents, I saw it all alone on Hollywood Blvd and I loved it. More recently, 30 Days of Night with John http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3703 Harnett was a terrific take on the vampire. The Swedish version View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments of Let The Right One In was just brilliant. I am constantly seeing new horror that I like. Nosferatu is a great film. That performance by Klaus Kinski,  Interview - From Page 15 [he] is a great actor. His gestures, the way he used his hands, his baldness—I always wanted to take Freddy’s hat off more than I did. Klaus was very influential to me. I do love old horror, every time I watch Rosemary’s Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I see images that are just so politically outrageous. I love it all. We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes. American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent. There is horror that’s too violent, too silly, and too cheesy—but also, in all of those areas there is stuff I like. It’s like when people say they don’t like sequels; well I wouldn’t like to live in a world without Aliens 2 and that great bitch fight! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres. GC: In 2009 you released your memoir. What made you finally decide to share your story? RE: Print, as you know is taking a lot of hits, economically. They made me a lot of promises with publicity, I should have hired my own publicist, asked Whoopi Goldberg to go on the view. They didn’t do any publicity. I did signings in Toronto, London, Seattle, but there wasn’t any publicity. After the first run of books I bought what was left and I now sell them on my site. In my books I add in an updated bio, like a bookmark that brings them up to date on what I have been doing. My wife and I there with his shirt off saying ‘keeping the world safe from sequels’ probably spent three to four months in my office in my downstairs while holding both Freddy and Jason in a headlock. bedroom, just trying to find the right voice. I wanted to talk to It never happened. Of the three franchises, Freddy was the my fans, but also let them know I had done many other things in most successful, and I don’t think Newline Cinema was ready to my career—before Freddy and after. That I was a theater actor, kill Freddy off yet and end the franchise. So, my opportunity to get everything, I wanted to include all those adventures. I wanted my ass kicked by Bruce Campbell never happened. to circle them back to Freddy jokes, include profanity, because I I think there would be something interesting for Freddy to take like to swear a lot. I really wanted to communicate properly. The on Michael Myers. I think I am a little too old now. Maybe they language, the vocabulary—everything had to be just right. could bring me back for a prequel, maybe before Freddy was I have been very fortunate, for life before Freddy and after burned, the old janitor—that sort of thing. Freddy. I embrace Freddy. It opened doors for me all over the I think I have now passed the baton onto Jackie Earle Haley, world. It has been such a great adventure. who did the remake. I think if they make anymore, it will be Jackie. Traveling around the world, meeting celebrities that I have GC: What did you think of the remake? always admired, going for lunch at the Four Seasons with Jared Leto, meeting locals at all different filming locations. It has been a RE: I have some distance on it now. I think the only problem was they maybe did it too soon. With all the new technology, DVD’s, real gift. I owe it all to Wes Craven and Nightmare. Blu-Ray’s, NetFlix, everyone has access to older movies. There is GC: This may be personal, but it is quite uncanny how Freddy’s a new generation now of Freddy fans. Fathers that saw the movie favourite victim is named Nancy, and the love of your life is also originally, these guys are dads now, and they let their kids watch named Nancy! Continued on Page 25  www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 19 Boy&GurL are back with Passion Pop

By Evan Kayne Vancouver, and in Alberta...actually all over Canada.” In Back in 2011 when we last spoke with musical group fact, the radio play since Boy&GurL last talked to me has Boy&GurL (Jarred Nicklen and Crystal McGrath) they been impressive: “...we’ve hit the top 40 in Canada three were promoting their album Loves Parallel. This time times with three different singles...that’s been pretty crazy to see our names right beside Rhianna and Myley Cyrus.” around I had the chance to talk to them about their new album, Passion Pop. The increasing fan base and promotion may have a part in this, yet the increase in airplay may be due to the evolution Their first single off the new album might seem familiar of their sound and how comfortable they feel with it. “With to fans because it’s an updated cover of the 1980s hit song this record we found...it really describes what Passion Pop “Waiting for a Star”. When I asked them about this song, is. It’s passionate music...it’s got that driving dance melody,” I mentioned I found it kind of amusing the original duo Crystal told me. Jarred added that the last album was more who recorded this song was “Boy Meets Girl” in 1988, and rock pop, and this one is pretty hard core pop. now it has been retooled by Boy&GurL into a fun song for a Regarding pop music, it’s often derided in some parts new audience. Jarred said it was only later they discovered of the media, yet some of the world’s biggest singers are the name similarity: “it was totally a fluke...we didn’t even pop stars. As to those who might broadly paint all pop really know who did it originally when we first discovered music as “bubblegum pop”, Crystal defended their work. the song.” “I wouldn’t describe our music as bubblegum pop. It’s not That being said, remakes can be a hit or miss proposition, Britney Spears from the early 2000s...it has that adult feel. so I wondered what the reception had been since they If you don’t like it, that’s totally fine, because we have lots released the single in June. Jarred said it has been nothing of fans. We definitely don’t write to impress people. It comes but good news. “We’ve got lots of radio play...in Toronto, in really natural to us...as a band we do what comes natural

20 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com and that’s what we get – boosted her confidence. passion pop.” Jarred believes that “... They are certainly this kind of program is impressing lots of people so important because I out there. In the last few remember being this girl’s years, Boy&GurL have age thinking...I just didn’t had the opportunity to know what the next step share the stage with such was. I would have killed to acts as Ani Difranco, be in a recording studio. I Lights, David Usher, would have loved to work Suzie McNeil, Bedouin with other songwriters Soundclash and Wide and develop my art even Mouth Mason. As for more.” producers, this album They’re just in the they worked with Trey process of bringing the Mills, as they felt he really writing workshops to understood Boy&GurL’s various schools in Calgary style and the direction and various charitable they wanted to go. They organizations such as also teamed up again with the Boys and Girls club, Russell Broom as they Big Brothers and Big liked his work on their Sisters. They’ll also be last album. doing a workshop with Future collaborations Miscellaneous Youth in may see them working the near future. with DJs to expand the Crystal and Jarred are type of sound they can in the process of putting have on their songs. “The together a few tours and nice thing about working an upcoming Christmas with DJs is they’ll take it concert. In the meantime, in a direction you might you can catch Boy&GurL not have been thinking performing at the Backlot the song could go,” Jarred once a month – usually at said. the start of the month and In addition to being usually a Saturday. The entertainers, Boy&GurL past couple times they also give back to the local have packed the venue, community through their so if you can’t get down to Write2Dream Foundation. listen to them, their songs This foundation helps are available for purchase subsidize funding for on their website. music writing workshops and inspirational courses to be made available to anyone wanting to learn to write and to be creatively inspired. As quoted from the Write2Dream webpage, “We hope to inspire, educate, raise confidence and Boy&GurL have fun with people who want to gain more from life via the arts.” www.boyandgurl.com Crystal told me they’ve just started an artist development Facebook: www.facebook.com/boyandgurl program for young writers and recently worked with a young Twitter: @BoyAndGurl artist recording six songs. “She got to come into the studio and record full songs. So it has everything – drums, bass, http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3704 guitar...it’s a song ready for radio.” It was impressive to see how the experience changed this young artist’s life and View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 21 Zoie Palmer Lost Girl

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By Farley Foo Foo It is Palmer’s hope that through her portrayal of a gay With Season 4 of Lost Girls set to begin on November character, she can help to present LGBTQ persons in a more 10th on Showcase, it’s an exciting time for the cast of realistic and compassionate manner, and by doing so help this internationally acclaimed Canadian supernatural to bring about an end to homophobia both within the world drama, chief among them Zoie Palmer who plays out of film and television and the world around her. “I’m hopeful lesbian scientist Dr. Lauren Lewis. that we soon can live in a world where whatever your sexual “It feels crazy! I can’t believe we’re in our fourth season,” preference is, it just doesn’t matter.” Zoie tells me as we sit down for a quick chat while she Palmer also hints that in the upcoming season, “there’s a takes a well-earned break from signing autographs at the very cool episode where you get to see Lauren in a way that Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo. “I say this every we’ve never seen her before.” No doubt in a way that is sure year,” Zoie continues, “but I think we kind of outdo ourselves to thrill the fans of the show and of Palmer, for whom she is every season. And when I say we I mean the writers really, extremely grateful. “Thanks to all of you guys that watch, it because that’s who we have to thank for the story. And I means the world to us.” think they’ve done it again, I think it’s going to be a really Make sure to check out the entire interview with Lost cool season.” Girls own Zoie Palmer online. Building from success to success, the show has enjoyed a cult following from Australia to Ireland to America, which includes a particularly large LGBTQ audience. Palmer attributes this success to the writers of the show and her work with co-star Anna Silk who plays Bo, a bisexual succubus with whom Palmer’s character has a dynamic Zoie Palmer romantic relationship. “Her relationship with Bo over the Twitter: @ZoiePalmer course of the show has been important and the story has been served I think, really wonderfully and in a way that is respectful.” http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3705 View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

22 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com  Interview - From Page 13

GC: Within the last year, two gay-themed shows were canceled after “Oh, he’s not that,” or they’d think I was playing coy or being shy. That just one season. One of those was your show, Partners. Do you think was a very interesting period for me to realize that, on the one hand, gay-themed shows are tough sells on major networks? I liked the attention but I wasn’t going to be able to give people what they wanted. I had to remain aloof and keep myself in an air of mystery MU: I don’t know if it’s a gay-themed show thing. I think network because I wasn’t going to be what they wanted. I wasn’t going to be the television is a very tricky beast, and ultimately I feel like Partners could’ve king gay – the catty, stylish, fashionable, funny guy they all wanted me found its footing. Unfortunately we had a lot of episodes – there were to be. That just wasn’t in my nature. I needed someone to clothe me seven episodes that never saw the light of day – that are brilliant. But and give me lines to say in order to be that. It was an interesting lesson it’s tricky. Networks are becoming more and more niche, and Partners learned, actually. really belonged amongst different shows. We were surrounded by very funny shows like How I Met Your Mother and 2 Broke Girls, but maybe GC: How did it feel knowing you couldn’t be that person to them? we needed to be in a different crop of shows. I think it was less about MU: I felt bad. But it was probably for the best. I don’t really wanna the gay thing and more about just finding a family of shows that we fit be like that guy. It’s not in my nature. better in. But it’s funny: Six-and-a-half million viewers is a lot of people. GC: There have been rumors of an Ugly Betty movie. Are you open A lot of people saw that show, but on CBS, that unfortunately is not a hit to the idea? and I get it. Though it would’ve been nice if they would’ve nurtured us. MU: Oh my god, are you kidding? All I want in life is to work with GC: Look on the bright side: At least you got to kiss Brandon Routh. those people again. I’m always trying to come up with ways to get back MU: (Laughs) That’s exactly right! There was a really funny blooper with all of them. We’ve really remained as tight of a group as we were that, of course, nobody will get to see where we did the kiss and then I without being able to see each other on a daily basis. I know everyone of messed up a line and I said, “I’m sorry, can we do it again?” us would jump at a chance to make a movie. Unfortunately, it’s not our GC: Your role on Ugly Betty as Marc St. James was so iconic and call. I hope it happens. I think it would be terrific. sometimes, when you essentially almost become that role, it’s hard for GC: Are you looking at any new TV roles? people to separate you from the character. Did you experience that at MU: Nothing in particular, but I would love to get back on TV. My all? appetite was very much whetted with Partners last year. We shot that in MU: Absolutely. In real life I’m more like George in Petunia than front of an audience – that’s where my bread is buttered, being out in Marc. I enjoy playing characters like Marc, but me personally, I’m not front of an audience. Doing a multi-camera show, it’s so much fun. It’s generally like that. I can get excited, but I’m not bitchy or fashionable like the best of both worlds for me. or a sycophant or any of the things that Marc was, but those characters are so much fun to play. What I found very quickly when that show started and was at its height in popularity – I was new to L.A. – was that I was not meeting anyone’s expectations. People wanted me to be Marc. They wanted me to be like that, and then immediately, as soon as they’d lay eyes on me they http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3699 knew I wasn’t. Especially when they started talking to me, they realized, View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 23 Julian Richings Death and Pizza

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By Marisa Hudson JR: Very relaxed. Now, don’t forget that I came in season five, so it Julian Richings is a character actor extraordinaire. had already established itself and was very confident in itself, so there He’s played roles like that of Death in Supernatural was a real sense of purpose and confidence, so nobody was trying to with great aplomb, showcasing a menacing nature prove anything. ... I thought one of the funnier things was that, as you beneath a disturbingly innocent fondness for fast food. probably know, my first big scene was I’m eating pizza with Jensen, and Naturally, he comes off as one of the nicest gentleman the fun part of it is, of course, I’m very keen and I want to do well and alive, especially during our interview with him during he’s being very supportive, and you know, just do what feels right. And we play the scene and I find myself eating more and more pizza. And the Edmonton Expo. Looks, as ever, are very deceiving. then I realize he’s not eating much pizza, and I go, you know, you can eat We dove right in, discussing fans, fandom, conventions, and eating more too. And he’s all, Oh it’s fine, it’s fine. And then I realize that after pizza with Jensen Ackles. I’ve eaten about three slices of pizza, it was getting to be really, really GC: You’re doing the convention circuit a lot now, aren’t you? difficult, and I was kind of going like,oh, God. Because I’d got locked into JR: I’m kind of new to it, I’m learning. Basically the industry has it, right? But Jensen had the foresight, he’d already done five seasons, changed, as we all know, social media and networking and fan feedback is he knew how to handle a scene with eating. becoming more and more important in the shows. So I think as an actor, GC: And you’re eating the pizza through the whole scene. particularly an actor doing genre film and television, it’s a responsibility JR: That’s right. And from now on, every time we have a scene to kind of meet fans up close and personal and understand what the together, I try to get him to eat more and more and more. You’ll actually different interest are, and who the characters that appeal to them are. see me encouraging him. Because I actually want a scene in which GC: You did do a spot in Supernatural as Death, so what have you Jensen manages to have a mouthful of food, and spit the food out, and felt from the Supernatural fans coming to these conventions? not look as elegant and cool as he always does. JR: They’re avid. They’re loyal, and huge, and it really is a family. I’m amazed. I’ve been to conventions in Europe, and there have been visitors from all over - Scandinavia, from Japan, from Korea, and there Julian Richings are fanbases in all of those different countries. It seems to be a show that’s got the right blend – it’s got a nice kind of pizzazz, of sexiness to it. Twitter: @JulianRichings It’s also got a deeper kind of worldview, a different kind of morality. So I think that it all just appeals wide across demographics. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3706 GC: What was the set like, and especially working with Jensen Ackles? View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

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RE: I know!! It is just a complete coincidence! The other odd thing is both my wife and Heather are both the same kind of beauty. The classic, Brooke Shields kind of beauty. I don’t know if you know this expression, but a really classy girl used to be called a Breck girl. The advertisements for this shampoo always showed really classic beauties, the kind of women wearing pearls. I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk. I liked girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair. All the surfer girls were the ones I had always known. When I got to New York and I saw all these beautiful pale girls, they had a crush on me, and I had a crush on them! I was like a bull in a china shop, they were so exotic to me. Nancy, is what we call a Marin girl, she grew up right across from the Golden Gate Bridge. She is the love of my life. I knew it the moment I kissed her behind a famous bar in Hollywood. My knees literally buckled, I felt like a fourteen-year-old boy. I just knew, I was in love for the last time. I was lucky. It’s hard for young people to understand when you tell them how great relationships are. Once you have a history together, it’s just another love for life. Everything is easier. It is just easier to live. Nancy and I have been together since 1988. It is our twenty- fifth anniversary this year. Fans continually get confused. Heather and Nancy don’t look alike, but they are built from the same cloth. GC: You can hear the smile in your voice when speaking of your Nancy, that is wonderful. RE: She was ‘post Freddy’. I met her on set when I was directing. She had never seen me in the makeup or any of that. She just saw me drinking a lot of coffee. I am lucky. I am fortunate. I found the love of my life. I know there really is someone out there for everyone. That old rock and roll song, “looking for love in all the wrong places,” it’s true. I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other kinds of people and that may be what you like. People get in that mindset and put their blinders on. GC: Is there anything you would like to say to your fans? RE: …I am looking forward to seeing you. It’s going to be fun! I hope to see interesting and rare memorabilia! Old laser discs, old advertisements, all that good stuff. Anxious to see it, and anxious to sign it! I am going to wear the glove, and I will strangle for photos. It will be great.

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Lance Bass producing hard-hitting gay doc When you’re one of the former members of ‘N Sync and you don’t happen to be Justin Timberlake, it’s easy to become the butt of uninformed where-are-they-now jokes. And as the lone gay member of the crew, Bass receives more than his share. So what has he been doing? Not sitting around, yearning for the good ol’ days, for starters. In addition to taking on various small acting roles, Bass is also stepping into the part of activist/ producer with Kidnapped For Christ. A documentary from first-time director Kate Logan, it explores the extreme behavior modification techniques employed by conservative Evangelical Christian camps for troubled, often gay, teenagers. The film explores the inner workings of Escuela Caribe, a “therapeutic Christian boarding school” in the Dominican Republic run by Americans and, thanks to her past as a missionary herself, Logan gets more than the normal degree of access. Expect to be outraged and moved to action when it comes to an LGBT film festival near you.

Naya Rivera’s Home is full of Satan What does a singing, dancing lesbian cheerleader with a gold medal in sarcasm do on her summer break? Make a horror movie, of course. It’s not all featured spots in M&M commercials for Naya Rivera, who plays the girl-loving Santana on Glee. She’s using her spare time to climb the role-rung in Hollywood and, for young women, that usually means a horror film or two. She’ll star in Home – due sometime in 2014 – about a young woman investigating a house that appears to be haunted by the previous tenant, a woman who had chosen to invite the devil into her life. It co-stars Maria Full of Grace’s Catalina Sandino Moreno and The Client List’s Colin Egglesfield and word is that Rivera does not play the demonic ghost. But wouldn’t be it kind  Wentworth Miller, photo by Shutterstock.com of cool if she did? And if the ghost were the hero of the film? Somebody make this happen.

Matt Bomer finally gets to show up for work in pajamas Deep Inside Hollywood He’s a busy guy, that Matt Bomer. The White Collar star also has a busy movie slate with this year’s Winter’s Tale, the film adaptation of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and Welcome out, Wentworth and Whishaw the indie comedy Space Station 76. So he’s probably a little relieved that his next gig doesn’t involve make-up, costume By Romeo San Vicente fittings or green screens, only arriving at a recording studio and wearing headphones for the animated feature B.O.O.: Bureau Actors going public with their sexual orientation may be of Otherworldly Operations. He’ll be adding his voice to those of a more and more frequent occurrence, but it’s still a big Seth Rogen, Rashida Jones and Melissa McCarthy in the family deal when they do it. And it’s especially good when it feels film about ghosts who work for a secret government agency like their own decision, rather than, say, being hounded that protects people from evil hauntings. Who knows what’s by the press to hurry up and get it over with after you’re up after that. For all we know he’ll also return for the sequel to seen kissing your personal trainer in public and then Magic Mike. But until that half-naked day, let’s allow the man a buying a house with her (or him). So welcome to the chance to do his job with bedhead. He’s earned that. other side of gayness, Wentworth Miller (who chose to Romeo San Vicente makes them earn their bedhead. come out as a political statement when he refused to attend a Russian film festival) and Ben Whishaw (who apparently just got around to it being a relevant topic http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3707 of conversation). Both men have upcoming projects View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments in the works: Miller, the former Prison Break star who also wrote this year’s thriller Stoker, has just wrapped The Loft. Co-starring James Marsden, Karl Urban and Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet, it’s a thriller – due in theaters during the summer of 2014 – about five men who share a loft for extramarital affairs until one day the body of an unknown woman is found in the clandestine love nest. Meanwhile, the hardworking Whishaw has five projects on his plate, including the new Terry Gilliam film The Zero Theorem, starring as Moby Dick author Herman Melville in Ron Howard’s The Heart of The Sea and, of course, he’s got Daniel Craig to deal with as he continues his role of Q in the next James Bond movie. Meanwhile, other actors, it’s your turn; who’s next?

26 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com Interview Joe Komara Breaks All Rules Cinemax Star Comes Out from Behind the Bar

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Joe Komara landed his role on The Girl’s Guide to Depravity with only one audition. “Apparently the producers liked me,” he says with a flash of his Colgate smile. “A few weeks after that first meeting, I got the offer. It couldn’t have been easier.” And Komara couldn’t be happier with the series. “It’s a show all single people can relate to. Dating, trying to figure out the right games to play or not play, trying to have fun meeting new people while also trying to keep hearts from getting broken. Especially our own.” The former gymnast-turned-singer from small town Indiana got his start in acting on the New York stage, performing in the off-Broadway production of The Donkey Show and then on Broadway in Grease. “My gymnastics background helped a lot,” he reflects. “My tumbling skills gave me an edge over a lot of the other dancers.” While in New York, Komara was offered a television role on the CBS soap, As The World Turns. It was the first time he realized that screen acting might be a realistic goal for him. He left New York for Los Angeles and immediately noticed the difference between the two showbiz cities. JK: I’m not surprised. Tyler is a decent and funny guy who tells it “It’s easier to get jobs in New York. You hit the street, go on auditions like it is. He’s doable. and eventually someone takes a chance on you. In L.A., it’s about having the right look, knowing the right people or my new favorite, having the GC: What dating advice would you give to Tyler? most Twitter followers.” JK: It’s the other way around. There’s more I can learn from Tyler. Joe Komara obviously met at least one of the criteria because he now GC: What lessons can you learn from Tyler? stars as the funny and multi-swinging Tyler in Cinemax’s hit drama JK: He cares a lot less about outcome. He trusts in the moment that series that begins airing it’s second season this month. things will work out for the best. I’d love to be more like that. Also, Tyler GC: How is Tyler different from typical gay characters on television? isn’t afraid to ask for what he wants when he wants it. I think we’d all JK: Tyler breaks stereotypes. Sure, he rants about problems, looks like to have a little more of that at times. I know I would. down on those without much style, and loves to divulge details of his GC: Tyler was a player in season one. Can a zebra really change his sex life like a lot of gay men I know but he’s also a guy who isn’t defined stripes? by labels. He has a laissez-faire attitude toward conforming. I think JK: I guess the one piece of advice I would pass along to Tyler is to viewers find him really relatable. not fuck a good thing up. Bartenders are notorious for their wandering GC: Is there a reason the character had to be gay? eyes. Tyler is used to playing the field and doing what he wants. I don’t JK: Actually, yes. The show’s writer Heather Rutman (the show is know that I can see him in a relationship for long. But, then again, when based on Ms. Rutnam’s blog and her book of the same name) says, “Like love is concerned, people can be unpredictable. I’d advise Tyler to trust any good depraved girl, she gets her best advice and stories from her in it - love can be real. GBF’s (Gay Best Friends) and Tyler is a mash-up of a bunch of them. GC: The show is about a group of girls following a book of dating rules GC: Girls Guide is pretty provocative, even for Cinemax! quickly and recklessly. Do you think it’s necessary to play games in the beginning of a relationship? JK: True, the show is more provocative than, say, Girls. Our show doesn’t shy away from nudity and sexual situations. Cable shows are JK: I wish I could stay no, but if I’m going to be truthful, I think there a subscription service, so they can contain racier plotlines than the big are some games that need to be played in the beginning. You have to network shows are able to air. I think it’s a good thing. Sex is a part of feel people out and test the waters a bit. We all come with walls up and everyone’s lives. I don’t see why it shouldn’t be reflected in the lives of the trepidation. I mean, nobody wants to get their heart broken, right? characters we watch on TV. GC: Do you follow any of the show’s dating rules? GC: Would you do a nude scene? JK: Sure, I follow some. JK: I had one in the first season. It was quite over-the-top and silly GC: Which ones? but I actually had a fun time doing it. Like me, she was a dancer so we JK: Like having a back-up plan in case a date is disastrous. Also, I kind of thought of it as choreography. always do my homework before a date, you know, I do a little stalking on GC: So you would do it again? Facebook. What? Is that creepy? JK: I would do it again. I find as I get older, I’m getting more GC: How many rules are there in The Girl’s Guide? comfortable with myself. I used to be crazily self-conscious about my JK: A lot. body. I would wear t-shirts in the pool in high school! These days I’ll GC: Following so many rules sounds like it would make dating even drop trough without blinking an eye. more complicated than it already is. GC: Are you single? JK: When confused, there is a safety net built in. Rule #55 is fuck JK: Ah, my favorite question. (Laughs) Yes, I am single. My favorite the rules. rule on The Girl’s Guide is #19: Settling is for quitters. I prefer to wait for Watch Joe Komara on Cinemax’s The Girl’s Guide to Depravity. The the elusive grand prize. second season begins airing September 13th. Follow Joe on Twitter: @ GC: Why do think it’s taking so long to find him? joekomara and Instagram: joekomara. JK: It’s hard to develop relationships in Los Angeles: much harder than it ever was in New York. In New York, you can’t avoid running into people. You see them on the subway, in line at Starbucks, or walking http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3708 home at night. Guys spend a lot more time in their cars in LA. View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments GC: Your character finds love this season.

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By Farley Foo Foo you need a little bit of balance in the character.” However, it As a long time Star Trek Voyager fan boy, I was thrilled was the character’s youth that, for Wang, would be his greatest to see this year’s Edmonton Comic and Entertainment opportunity to add his personal stamp of artistry. “Kim is the Expo would play host to none other than Garrett Wang, youngest, so it’s almost like a blank canvas. As an artist, or as best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim. But not an actor, I’m able to create that piece of artwork, piece by piece, nearly as thrilled as I was when I found out that Garrett colour by colour.” would be gracious enough to take a quick break from Wang goes on to tell me about a current project he’s working signing autographs for, and posing for photos with the on called Unbelievable, co-staring a barrage of Star Trek alumni legions of Trekkies, Trekkers and various other clans including Tim Russ, Chase Masterson, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and even a marionette puppet of William Shatner. of science fiction aficionados that make up a sizable portion of the Expo’s 25,000 attendees. To find out more about this project, as well as the one greatest lesson Wang learned from his character Harry Kim, watch the Garrett informs me that this is his third visit to Edmonton, full interview online. and that added to his multiple trips to Calgary and Vulcan, Alberta, which plays host to the annual “Spock Days,” not only has him feeling like an honorary Albertan, but that it is his favourite province to visit in Canada. “Sorry everyone else,” he jokingly adds. Garrett Wang It is this very joking nature which, Wang admits, he was Twitter: @GarrettRWang dismayed to see the producers of Voyager not include in his character’s representation. “The entire time I was on the http://www.gaycalgary.com/ show I tried to push the executive producers to allow me to a3709 be a little bit more comedic. Just because I always feel that View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

28 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com  Review - From Page 11 want to tell stories about the gay experience, from my perspective, ST: I don’t know. …In the 7 years since I left Fluffy and all of that for a very wide audience. Sometimes that means I write warm and behind, I was still having dreams, nightmares. I’d wake up angry. fuzzy gardening stories, and other times I write gay-experience With Michael, that stopped. I still have dreams but rarely. Once a pieces that are aimed at the entire world. The very first work I year or so. I just learned to accept that I deserved love. published (for pay) was an excerpt from my book that I sent to the GC: What surprised you about the book? San Francisco Chronicle. That launched a year and a half of writing ST: What people get is so different, depending on where they stories for them, none of which were aimed at the LGBT audience. come from. Some were not happy with so much religion; others GC: Why do you think your father stayed with Fluffy when there wanted more focus on my life after I came out. I think the fact are indications he wasn’t overly happy? that different people extract different meanings and ideas is a good ST: My father does not like conflict. It was easier for him to thing. hide and not confront the reality of his marriage. I also think that GC: What do you want young gay people to get from your book? religion played a huge part in his inability to rescue his kids or ST: It’s funny but I think the kid who is “obviously gay” and, search for a better life. For their entire existence, the Witnesses believe me, I hate to stereo type anyone, has a better chance of have been preaching that The End is near. Armageddon is coming being OK in the end. They will realize how they are different and soon, maybe even tomorrow, they believe. That mentality gives will have various resources to help them in life. But it’s the kids absolute permission to avoid difficult decisions in life. If you who, physically, are the same as others but they know inside that think Armageddon is coming tomorrow, you don’t need to plan for there are not the same. It’s those kids, the ones who have a hard retirement, or take your children to the dentist, or send them to time understanding their sexual orientation, that I hope read the college, or use divorce to end an unhappy marriage. And lastly, book and have a successful adult as a role model. the Jehovah’s Witnesses do not allow divorce. The only grounds for divorce is adultery. Of course, committing adultery in order to I thanked Scott for his time. I am confident I will soon be reading obtain permission to divorce is still grounds for disfellowshipping, another book written by him; his talent is too huge to stay confined so that’s not really an option for someone who has bought into the for long! JW religion and believes it is “the truth”. GC: Do you want to have children? Are you open to adoption? Cowboys, Armageddon, and the Truth ST: No. I’ve been told many times that I would make a great dad. I love kids and was asked once to be a donor for a lesbian Scott Terry. Published by Lethe Press, Inc., 118 Heritag Avenue, who wanted children, but I think the world has enough children Maple Shade, NJ 08052-3082 , 2012, 288pp. ISBN 1-59021-366-1. already. I don’t need to add my offspring to the mix. I like the idea US$18. of adoption, simply because there are so many kids who need help. I don’t believe, however, that I am the right person to take on that enormous responsibility. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a2726 GC: It seems to be that the more fundamentalist a faith structure View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments is, the more focused it is on the body. Why do you think that is? ST: I would agree with you. Rather than helping their members to become better people, fundamentalist religions tend to focus on telling their followers what they can and can’t do, or who they can and can’t be. Those religions use the Bible as a guidebook for modern day life, so they have to choose the prohibitions that will be tolerated in today’s society. For example, all those scriptures prohibiting the consumption of shellfish, or demanding that we stone to death non-virgin wives, or declaring it is perfectly acceptable to own slaves as long as you don’t beat them, won’t really fly today. If you take those out, what you’re left with is a lot of scripture about sexuality and bodies, which appeals to fundamentalism. GC: You mention your sister’s return to the “the Truth.” Given the emotional depth of your relationship, do you feel abandoned? ST: Absolutely. My sister and I were always very close, and that bond was forged during a very difficult childhood. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have convinced her that I am a “detestable unclean thing that is not to be associated with.” I will never again have a relationship with my sister. Her religion won’t allow it. Not only am I gay, but I am considered an apostate which is their phrase for people who leave the religion. That is something I would like readers of my book to know. The Jehovah’s Witnesses might appear to be very nice people when they show up on your doorstep to proselytize, but any member who dares to leave will be ostracized and shunned by their family and everyone who they once thought were friends. GC: What was the allure of rodeo? ST: I would ask, what is the allure of golf. It’s an independent event, not a team. It’s all about you. I do have an independent streak. It just fit. But when I was in school, just before I left Fluffy’s house, one of my school chums was a bull rider and I thought that was the stupidest thing. But, mostly it was the ability to get out of my old life; it was part of the new life. GC: How long have you been with your partner? ST: Two years. It’s just the most wonderful relationship. It’s perfect. It actually shocked the hell out of me. We fit, we just fit. We are going to buy some ranch land together. I have never been so happy in my life. GC: How do you cope with all of the betrayals?

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 29 Out of Town Palm Springs: Three-Day Weekend

 Taking in the amazing views from the trails at Mt. San Jacinto State Park, reached via the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Photo by Andrew Collins

by Andrew Collins a light hike) - the temperature at the upper tram station is A desert hideaway nestled beneath the dramatic San usually about 30 degrees lower than in town. Jacinto Mountains, Palm Springs has been popular with LGBT travelers for decades. It’s home to dozens of Day 1 gay-owned clothing-options resorts, friendly bars and Upon arrival, spend time relaxing by the pool and, ideally, lounges, hip restaurants, and stylish shops, and it’s combining this with a spa treatment or perhaps poolside also surrounded by spectacular natural scenery that’s cocktails and appetizers. Obviously, the earlier you get to Palm perfect for hiking, wildlife watching and photography. Springs, the more time for planning time at the spa. If partaking Easy to reach by car or plane, it’s a perfect destination of a massage, facial, or body scrub is a priority, you’ll probably for a leisurely weekend in the sun. want to stay at a property with an on-site spa, although you can always book a visit at a spa elsewhere in town (most of those Palm Springs has its own airport just a couple of miles east inside hotels welcome day visitors). of downtown with direct flights from most big West Coast cities Among gay resorts, both the upscale East Canyon Resort as well as Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, New (www.eastcanyonps.com), which primarily draws gay men but York City and Toronto. Fares can sometimes be a little steep, also welcomes women (swimsuits are required at this property) especially during the late fall–early spring high season, but and the men-only La Dolce Vita (ladolcevitaresort.com) have you may save money by not having to rent a car, as much of intimate, relaxing full-service spas offering an extensive menu central Palm Springs is within walking distance, and cabs work of treatments. Both facilities are open to nonguests, but these for short trips. If you’re staying outside the downtown core or are great places to stay on property, too, with their expansive planning many side trips, a rental car is helpful, though. pools (two of them at La Dolce Vita) and attractive rooms. Another option is to fly into one of the many major airports Many of the other LGBT-exclusive properties in town do have in Southern California, which may offer more competitive massage services, some with separate massage rooms and fares or better direct flights from your home city. The closest others providing in-room treatments. For example, at the well- big airports are Ontario (75 minutes), John Wayne in Orange established clothing-option women’s resort Casitas Laquita County (90 minutes), Burbank (2 hours), Long Beach (2 hours), (casitaslaquita.com), you can book Swedish, deep-tissue, and Los Angeles (2 hours), and San Diego (2.5 hours). From much of reflexology. Palm Springs’ other popular women’s resort, Queen the country, if you catch an early flight, you can be tanning by of Hearts (www.queenofheartsps.com) also has on-site massage. the pool of your Palm Springs hotel by early afternoon. Additionally, some great mainstream but very gay-popular Here’s one itinerary for making the most of three days in Palm resorts have fabulous spas as well as big, gorgeous swimming Springs, with a mix of lazy downtime and more scenic exploring. pools. Consider the boldly colorful, moderately priced Saguaro If you do plan to ride the aerial tram, as recommended here, be Palm Springs (thesaguaropalmsprings.com), where you can sure to pack at least one outfit for cooler weather (and possibly enjoy date-shake wraps and hydrating facials, perhaps before dining at the superb on-site restaurants El Jefe (fun for tacos

30 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com and cocktails) and the swankier Tinto (specializing in Basque visitors stop for drinks or dinner at the Peaks Restaurant or cuisine). Down the street, the ultra-hip Ace Hotel & Swim more casual, cafeteria-style Pines Café in the tram station - the Club (acehotel.com/palmsprings) is another fine place to sip food is decent, but it’s the views that make it worth dining here. cocktails by the pool and book a spa treatment. Also consider Returning to Palm Springs, assuming you’re still in the the lavish Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Spa (psriviera.com), market for dinner, head back to the Uptown Design District. an alluring crash pad for a decadent weekend in Palm Springs Trio (triopalmsprings.com) is one of the hip, see-and-be-seen - its SpaTerre offers Thai and Indonesian-inspired treatments, dining options in this lively neighborhood, serving globally and the pool is among the prettiest in town (for dinner, Circa 59 inspired modern dishes like pan-seared rare scallops with restaurant is exceptional). honeydew-watercress sauce, and center-cut pork chops with Of course, at mainstream properties, you’re going to have to tangerine-horseradish marmalade. Nearby, the owners of keep your swimsuit on - if you prefer tanning and swimming Cheeky’s operate a couple of outstanding - and reasonably au naturel, stick with one of the clothing-optional gay resorts priced - dinner venues. Birba (birbaps.com) serves modern mentioned above. These may have smaller pools, but the Italian fare, while newcomer JIAO (jiaops.com) turns out intimate vibe can also make it easier to meet new friends, and creative Pan-Asian cuisine, including addictively delicious with fewer guests than at the bigger hotels, these smaller gay tempura cauliflower with a tangy dipping sauce, roasted pork hideaways can actually feel less crowded in and around the buns with kimchee, and miso black cod with sautéed spinach pool. Check out gaytravel.about.com/od/hotelsresorts/tp/PS_ and coconut rice. Don’t miss the roster of regularly changing GayHotels.htm for a list of notable Palm Springs resorts, from house-made ice creams. the laid-back, friendly, and well-kept Triangle Inn (triangle-inn. From here you’re a short walk to several very fun downtown com) to the new-ish, bear-centric Bearfoot Inn (bearfootinn. bars, including LGBT-favored Azul Tapas Lounge/Georgie’s com). Another newcomer with a lovely pool is the 29-room Alibi (azultapaslounge.com), the chic new Clinic Bar & Lounge Skylark Hotel (skylarkps.com), the stylish transformation of (clinicbarps.com), the darkly seductive craft-cocktail spot Bar the former Camp Palm Springs - it’s still gay-owned, but the (barwastaken.com), and the always packed gay dance spot clientele is mixed and the pool area is no longer clothing- Hunters Nightclub (huntersnightclubs.com). optional. As the sun sets over Palm Springs your first night, if you’re Day 3 looking for a terrific dinner option, head for the Tropicale How you spend your final day in town again depends largely (thetropicale.com), an eclectic and fun restaurant-lounge that’s on how early you have to leave. With any luck at all, your flight perfect for just about any mood or budget, and very popular as isn’t until late in the day, and you can arrange to store your a gay-date venue - everything from gourmet pizzas to Asian- bags and linger by the pool a bit longer. In the morning, you inspired tapas to creative takes on Southern fried chicken and might consider one of the other inviting breakfast options in Cuban-style skirt steak are served. Dine inside in a space that town, such as King’s Highway in the Ace Hotel (acehotel.com), has the sophisticated ambience of a modern supper club, or out which serves delicious chilaquiles; the uber-gay java spot Koffi on the quieter patio beside the gurgling fountain. The owners (kofficoffee.com), with two locations serving superb espresso are planning to unveil a stylish, mixed gay/straight nightclub, drinks and pastries; or open-air Norma’s in the glam Parker Copa Room (coparoomps.com), next door toward the end of Palm Springs (theparkerpalmsprings.com), where the lobster- 2013. caviar frittata ranks among the most decadent and expensive breakfast meals in California. Day 2 If you still have a little time on your hands, check out the Now that you’ve hopefully settled in a bit, worked your tan, excellent Palm Springs Art Museum (psmuseum.org), continue and perhaps refreshed your skin and body, your second day your shopping adventures downtown, or pop into Great in town is an ideal time for some outdoor recreation. Start Shakes (greatshakesps.com) for a sweet treat on your way out your day at what might just be the best breakfast spot in of town - the unusual flavors here include a fun take on the town, Cheeky’s (cheekysps.com), but beware that the crowds traditional Palm Springs date shake (with crushed walnuts) to tend to inundate this cheerful cafe with indoor and outdoor the imaginative blueberry-butterscotch. seating. If there’s a wait, put your name on the list and spend some time strolling around the lively Uptown Design District (palmspringsuptowndesigndistrict.com), checking out the many shops and galleries specializing in everything from Mid- Century Modern furniture to contemporary photography and art. Cheeky’s serves a tantalizing bacon flight, featuring five slices, each a different variety (perhaps jalapeno or brown- http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3710 sugar). Open just for breakfast and lunch, it’s a good pre- hike source of sustenance, serving such hearty treats as eggs View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments Benedict with cheddar scone and grass-fed burgers with pesto fries. Next, make your way to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway (pstramway.com), which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. From the tram base, a rotating car carries passengers to the 8,516-foot tram station, which offers access to miles of hiking trails in beautiful Mt. San Jacinto State Park. When you walk out the door of the upper tram station (you can obtain trail maps and advice at the small visitor center inside), proceed down the winding paved pathway a short distance to the bottom. For a longer hike, turn right and stop inside the ranger station to sign in and obtain a free backcountry permit. Hikes from here include a 5-mile round-trip jaunt through mountain meadows and a rigorous 11-mile round-trip trek to 10,834-foot San Jacinto Peak. For a shorter, easier hike with amazing views, turn left at the end of the concrete path and follow signs for the Desert View Trail, a 1.5-mile loop with five short side legs leading to spectacular panoramas of the Imperial Valley, from Salton Sea to Joshua Tree National Park. Many

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 31 Canadian Mary By Marisa Hudson Katherine Isabelle on conventions, Katherine Isabelle is more than just a scream queen, though she may have wormed herself firmly into our hearts with her iconic performance in 2000’s Ginger abnormal roles, and filming in Canada Snaps. It was not just any Canadian movie – it morphed into a trilogy due to its originality and fearlessness. Such things could be said of its title actress, who has starred in a collection of originals, like American Mary and Supernatural. With her friendly nature and eloquent speech, Katherine manages to easily tread middle ground between social and intellectual. When we sat down to speak with her at the Edmonton Expo she was upbeat, friendly, and impressively loquacious. In our chat we discussed her experience at conventions, the fortitude required to film in Canada in the middle of February, and how abnormal roles have turned her into a very normal person. GC: So how’s the Expo so far? KI: The Expo’s amazing! I was just saying that these things are fun because no one comes here to wait in line to tell you that you suck and are awful. They all come to tell you how great you are and how much they enjoy your work. And it makes you feel very good about yourself at the end of the day. So that’s always really fun. It’s fun to meet the people that we make these movies for and really appreciate it, and it helps when you’re out freezing to death in Fort Edmonton in the middle of February to think about how much all the fans really appreciate it. It helps you get through your days. GC: It’s much tougher to film in Canada than in the States. KI: It is! We have a lot of American actors come up and they are just terrified of what happens to them. And we’re like “Oh come on, it’s only twenty-five below and there’s hardly even any wind, what are you whining about?” GC: You’ve been in quite a few Canadian pieces, one of the best known being Ginger Snaps. What’s it like being in a trilogy of very iconic movies that were filmed in Canada, and are very Canadian as well as being very genre specific? KI: When we did the firstGinger Snaps, we shot it in Toronto and we had no idea what we were doing. We weren’t sure – this was before werewolves and vampires and that was like, cool? Yeah, we did it before it was cool! But we were like, we might never work again. This is a weird Canadian movie about werewolf teenagers, menstruation... we were just like, this could be really, really awesome, or everyone will hate us. And thankfully it turned out to be awesome, which we thought and hoped it would, but you never know when you’re making something like that. You’re all, I think it’s cool, but maybe I’m weird… To work in Canada, the Canadian film industry is important to me. They raised me, this is how I grew up. This is my life. And I really want to see interesting, smart things come out of Canada that are powerful for a wider audience. GC: Do you think that the Ginger Snaps movie set you off for being in the supernatural genres? KI: Ginger Snaps definitely put me on the map of genre people. You know, they knew what that was. And that led to yeah, a lot of genre things. I mean I’ve been working forever, and I’ve done a million different things. But the genre fans, the horror movie fans, are so enthusiastic. You don’t get conventions for family dramas set in the prairies about farming, you know what I mean? And family issues and fights between siblings. You just don’t. It’s like horror movies, and comics, stuff, that’s where the most enthusiastic, absolutely rabid fans are. … Shooting horror movies is really, really fun. It’s hilarious. You get to scream and cry and murder people, and I think it makes me a more normal person when I go into daily life, because I don’t think I’ve ever yelled at anyone - because every couple months I get to scream and bawl and basically bludgeon people to death. And I go, ah, I feel so much better!

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32 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com A Lieb of Faith YouTube sensation talks Steve Grand, being a heartthrob and his gay competition

 Eli Lieb, photo by Ben Easter

By Chris Azzopardi guitar by listening to her songs. I don’t know how to read music. YouTube’s been good to Eli Lieb. The Iowa-born, boyishly I never could learn. I don’t know any chord names, but if I can handsome musician, who’s amassed a faithful following hear something, I can learn how to play it. with his own distinctive twist on radio songs, recently GC: And this was before YouTube. dropped his new intoxicating pop single “Young Love.” EL: This was back in the olden days! It’s sweet and liberating, and it features two lovers who GC: Why did you decide to move back home to Iowa after just happen to be men (who happen to be cute, and who living in New York for so many years? also happen to kiss). The video premiered just days after EL: My decision to move back didn’t have anything to do with “All-American Boy,” in which out “country” hunk Steve my career. I reached this point where I’d been in New York for Grand falls for a straight boy, became a viral hit. The 11 years and I just wasn’t super happy there; every time I went two, however, couldn’t be more different. home to Iowa, I was just beyond happy. I told myself that if I And in this chat with Lieb, he opens up about why. The web went (to Iowa) I wouldn’t be able to have a career. I let go of the sensation also talks about learning guitar from Ani DiFranco, fear and went back and became so happy. Ironically, though not seeing himself as a heartthrob and how happiness was the I don’t think it’s ironic, that’s the time my career took off – key to his success. because I was operating from this happier place. And with the Internet, I was lucky to do what I was doing from anywhere. All How did you learn to sing? GC: I needed was a music studio and video camera. EL: Singing was always something that came naturally to GC: Where would you be without YouTube? me. I started when I was 12, and that’s when I was in my first musical theater show and when I first discovered singing. EL: I have no idea. I’ve been making music since I was 16 and YouTube didn’t really become a huge platform until the last At 16 you picked up a guitar for the first time. What was GC: few years. I would’ve found another way of doing it, but thank the first song you learned to play? god for YouTube and the Internet because it’s so much more EL: I don’t remember the first song, but I know it was an Ani DiFranco song. At that age I was totally into her and I learned Continued on Next Page 

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 33  From Previous Page accessible. Now YouTube is a massive machine and everybody is trying to make it their stage. GC: Would you consider reality TV shows like American Idol? EL: I’m never closed off to anything. If it’s something that feels right, I’ll go for it. If it’s something that doesn’t feel right, no matter what it is, I won’t do it. GC: I don’t get how you haven’t been signed to a major record label yet. How has that not happened? EL: (Laughs) I can’t answer that. GC: What’s going on with the sophomore album? EL: A lot of stuff in my life right now is changing for the positive career-wise. I recently moved to L.A. and I’m doing a lot. There’s a lot of change happening. I’m never gonna stop making music, that’s for sure. But I can’t be like, “My next album is coming out in a couple of months,” you know? But I’m making music every day, let’s just say that. GC: It sounds like things are in the works that you can’t talk about right now. EL: (Laughs) Yeah. GC: Why more of an acoustic approach to the upcoming album? EL: I’m writing a lot on guitar. It doesn’t mean the songs will end up on guitar, but my first album was experimenting with sound and learning to use all the programs. Now I’m more into the swing of things and my writing has changed a lot in terms of the music that I release. Now it’s pop music, which I love. I love a straight-up pop song. And that’s definitely my sensibility. It’s just the evolution of me as an artist. GC: After hearing “Young Love,” I have the sense you’re inspired by ’80s music and Taylor Swift. EL: Yeah, it’s funny the way that I write music: Whatever comes out is purely just what comes out. And it’s not overly

 Eli Lieb, photo by Ben Easter saturated with influence, because I’m just making music all day long. I just don’t sit down and listen to stuff that’s going on, so a lot of times I think there’s a lot of energy in the air and ideas keep passing through. If it sounds like something, it’s a coincidence, I guess. Everything is in the eye of the beholder. GC: Was it a coincidence, too, that “Young Love” was released just days after Steve Grand’s “All-American Boy,” or was that released in reaction to his video? EL: I released this a week after his got released, and there’s no way I could’ve made that in a week. But people are accusing me of trying to ride his coattail. I’ve been planning this video for a long time, and it just so happened that his was released a week before mine was about to come out. So it’s the most bizarre coincidence. The even more bizarre coincidence is that some of the shots in the videos are similar. That’s what blew my mind more. The reality is, it seems like a shocking thing when people release a video that has same-sex partners in it, but if you were to take away the firework scene or the car scene, it’s just the same as Rihanna and Adele putting out videos and both having love stories. But because it’s two guys, it seems like it’s trying to be the same thing. GC: And not just two men … two gay men. Does that change things? EL: What I’ve noticed with the comparisons to Steve and I: When I set out to make this video, I specifically did not want it to have a “gay theme”; I just wanted to be authentic to who I am, and who I am is this very comfortable human being in

34 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com my own skin. My sexuality is just one part of who I am; it’s not something I focus on and I definitely don’t want to make it a big deal. So, when I was going to shoot this video, I knew it had to have a love interest, because it’s a love song and it just was not an option to me to not have a guy. I also wanted to shoot it in a way that was no different than any other video, where you just feel the love rather than being hit over the head with an agenda or a point of view. Not saying that was Steve at all, but I find a lot of gay stuff does have sort of a gay theme to it, which isn’t bad; I just didn’t want to do that. And Steve’s story is a different story than mine. I guess I can say that we have different points of view and we’re at different places in our lives, and different people respond to different things. Some people, who are very free in their love and who they are, might relate to mine more because they see it as a celebration – about not having to hide who you are. But then there’s other people who might be struggling more and aren’t at that place in their life and they still feel that struggle and seeing (Grand’s version), they can relate to that more. They’re just telling two different stories. Obviously there’s something in the air if he and I both release a video this close to each other with … I almost don’t want to say similar content; it’s just our people speaking out for who they are and showing who they are in the world, regardless of where they are in their life. I’m very happy to be able to show my story and the lack of fear and acceptance with who I am. I didn’t have an agenda with the video, and I feel very fulfilled that I can help people feel better about themselves and shed fear and be who they are. And as an openly gay man, I definitely want to represent the community in a positive way. There’s a sense of pride with it. I just want everybody in the world to just be who they are without fear, and that transcends way beyond sexuality. GC: Are you at all bothered by comparisons between not just you and Steve Grand but with other gay artists? EL: That’s something you get used to and understand. I actually have been really happy about the response to the video. Most people are saying it’s not grouped into this “gay” category. It’s just a video about people in love. GC: Has being out affected your career in either direction? EL: It’s affected it for the better. I think being independent and calling my own shots has helped as well. When you’re being your authentic self and you are free with who you are, you will gravitate an audience. GC: There’s a big part of the gay community who admires your music as much as your looks. Have you thought about yourself as a heartthrob in the community? And how do you deal with that flattery and attention? EL: Oh man, I don’t even know how to answer that. (Laughs) We all are human beings and we all have our insecurities, and people see you in a different way than you see yourself. But I don’t think of myself as a heartthrob. I don’t really know how to answer that question. It’s a really difficult one. GC: Because you have to talk about how good you look? EL: And it’s arrogant. There’s a very common misconception about me. People think I’m standoffish, but I’m not; I’m just shy. I am a super grounded, down-to-earth person, and I think the more that I put stuff out that is my authentic self, that comes across more. Nobody sees themselves as other people see them. I don’t know anybody who does. And if they do, a lot of times they’re a person you don’t want to be around. (Laughs)

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www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 35 Queen Dream Janelle Monáe on her gay inspiration, gender-bending and lesbian rumors

 Janelle Monáe, photo by Marc Baptiste

By Chris Azzopardi JM: Yes. I think it is an art form that’s so funny and so inspiring, The ambiguity of Janelle Monáe can be summed up in so I use it in my lyrics. I have gay friends who speak in this language, her own two words: “top secret.” and it’s just hilarious and entertaining and I thought it would be That – and, “I’m sorry, I can’t tell you” – is all she says about her cool to, you know, give them something to kiki about. pompadour when asked how it stays in a perfect pouf. It’s the kind GC: Because of your fondness for suits, people have described of James Bond elusiveness that’s left a lot to the imagination since you in some ways as being a drag king. the Kansas City native spawned her fembot alter ego. JM: Right. The Electric Lady, the third in the saga, is designed to be a GC: How do you feel about the term “gender bender” as it’s prequel to the narrative of 2010’s The ArchAndroid. It’s very gay – applied to you? but it doesn’t mean she is. JM: I think it’s awesome. I think it’s uniting; I’m a uniter. I won’t People have speculated that the album’s first single, “Q.U.E.E.N.,” allow myself to be a slave to my own interpretation of myself nor the alludes to your attraction to women. And on “Givin Em What They interpretations that people may have of me. I just live my life, and Love,” you refer to a woman who follows you back to the lobby people can feel free to discuss whatever it is that they think and use for some “undercover love.” Are people reading too much into the whatever adjectives they feel. It’s a free country. lesbian themes of this album and applying them to you? GC: You’ve said The Electric Lady was inspired by a female I actually have never heard that. This is the first time I’m hearing silhouette you were painting. You saw her as a new 21st century it. But I will say that a lot of my work always comes from an woman who’s not marginalized. Are there any real-life women you authoritative stance, so it may not be about me; it may just be would call “electric ladies”? about a story, or something that I’ve witnessed, or my imagination. JM: Absolutely. They’re walking all around every day. You can find You just never know. a lot of them in the community, nurturing the community. Electric GC: A lot of people are relating this music directly to you. ladies don’t have the same shape or hair color or background, but JM: And that’s fine. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with our number one commonality is the ability to want to be the change being gay or lesbian or straight or black or green or purple, so I’m that we want to see. We want to see positivity. We want to see the OK with that. community cleaned up. We know that we have to go out and be GC: “Q.U.E.E.N.” uses phrases like “throwing shade” and leaders and take action and make it happen. “serving face,” which are often heard in drag culture. Has the drag GC: Can the electric lady be a lesbian or transgender woman? world influenced your style and how you present yourself and your JM: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely! music?

36 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com GC: Is the android an artifice that allows you to be more JM: By just allowing your kids and the people around you to be earnest, especially politically and even sexually, than you would themselves. We have so many different ways to live marketed to us be otherwise? in the media – what we should look like, what beauty is – and it’s JM: No, no. The android represents the form of the new other. so important to embrace the things that make you unique, even if You can parallel the android to someone who has been ostracized it makes other people uncomfortable. You never know whom you’ll or discriminated against or marginalized, like you would of a gay free by just being yourself – flaws and all. man or woman. Or African Americans during slaveries, even post I just think it’s so important that at a young age we teach our slavery. Immigrants. The excommunicated. The untouchables. And kids and those whose future we’re nurturing that it’s OK to love the negroids. There are so many parallels to the android – and it’s whomever it is that you love and whom you’re attracted to – and important to speak about the future, as well – so it’s just my way it’s OK to like a dress if you’re a boy and to like a pantsuit if you’re of communicating to my audience and anyone listening that these a girl. These are just fears that previous generations have placed people, they walk amongst us. As an artist and as a human rights upon us, or people who’ve tried to control us and make us believe activist, I feel it’s my duty to speak out against any discrimination that this is just bad. But I think whenever you stop the true essence or marginalization of people who might not have the power to gain of a person loving who they are – the god-given person that they’ve control of their rights. been blessed to be – that is a crime. GC: Why is standing up for the oppressed, particularly the gay GC: What does being part of the queer community mean to you? community, important to you? JM: It means everything. I feel like I have a community to JM: Because I can relate. I can relate being a woman and continue to write music for and inspire and empower. There are so being African American. There are definitely stereotypes that I many people in the queer community who have committed suicide am fighting against. There is marginalization. There is sexism. So for being shunned by their families, there have been hate crimes – many things that I think we’re mutually having to go through. And and I’m just about love. I’m ready to unite. I want to make sure that I have parents, I have friends, I have loved ones who come from I’m living on Dr. King’s dream. I feel like it is my job as a descendant working-class backgrounds and who have oftentimes definitely felt of that dream to stand up for other civil rights and human rights. oppressed. And I have friends who are gay. I have people I love and care about, and I feel like I want to use my platform to bring awareness and talk about that. “Q.U.E.E.N.” was written for those who are oftentimes marginalized. I mention the word “marginalized” a lot, but it’s important that people understand what that word Janelle Monáe means and what we can do to get rid of it. http:// www.jmonae.com GC: Do you feel that artists have a responsibility to stand up for causes they believe in, or is doing so simply a personal choice you’ve made? http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3713 JM: It’s a personal choice. I don’t think the world should put any View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments pressure on artists to be leaders; it’s just been a personal choice of mine. Your heart has to feel propelled to want to be a leader. If that’s your calling, you go after it. GC: From the beginning, your hope was to unite people and bridge gaps among various communities, including the LGBT community. How is The Electric Lady an extension of that career mission? JM: I think that The Electric Lady is interested in a purple state – not a red one or a blue one, but mixing those colors together and creating something that everyone can believe in. With more compassion for one another, we will be more united and able to look past our religious beliefs and sexual preferences and realize that we came into this world together and we’ll leave together, and so we have to protect each other and protect ourselves while we’re here. I have songs on The Electric Lady – from “Sally Ride” to “Electric Lady” to “Q.U.E.E.N.,” and the list goes on – where I definitely thought of the gay community in terms of a community that is oftentimes discriminated against and marginalized. Again, when I speak about the android, it’s the other. And I think, again, you can parallel that to the gay community, to the black community, to women – we have so many things in common, and we sometimes don’t know it when we allow small things to get in the way. So this music is meant to inspire and bring wings to those who are weak and grace to those when they are strong. GC: You’ve told Rolling Stone that “the lesbian community has tried to claim me.” How did they try to claim you? JM: I was just making an observation. You know, the straight community has tried to claim me as well – sorry, maybe that didn’t get written in the article. But the straight community tried to claim me, the android community tried to claim me, the Hispanic community tried to claim me. We can go on and on. (Laughs) It just feels good to be loved. And no disrespect to anybody. GC: You have challenged and redefined the concepts of masculine and feminine fashion in a way that really resonates with the queer community. How do you personally think our society can begin to encourage healthy self-expression and self-image for future generations?

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 Characters Humphrey (left) and Wilburn (right) A Campy Queer Twist on an Old Classic Third Street Theatre vamps up Macbeth in time for Halloween

By Janine Eva Trotta nightclub scene, a script was born in which two actors With its first production of the year Third Street compete for the role of Lady Macbeth. Theatre is offering audiences a fun new spin on a Set in the 17th Century, the play offers a funny look Shakespearean definitive with the show Unsex’d, at the passionate, and dogged, attempt each actor will written by Jay Whitehead and Daniel Judes. make to steal the Bard’s favour and conquer the role of This show has already raked in several awards a lifetime. including winner of the Third Street Theatre company’s “I think this show is a fun twist on the infamous curse New Queer Theatre Playwriting Competition last year, as on Macbeth,” says Paul Welch, Artistic Director at Third well as Best of Fest at the Atlantic Fringe which takes Street Theatre. “There have been so many different place in Halifax. It also played seven shows at the Dublin superstitions around Shakespeare’s work, that it’s International Queer Theatre Festival where it received interesting to see a campy, queer version of the origins three nominations for Best Acting, Best Production of the curse.” Values and Best Writing, and in Lethbridge was put on Artistic Producer Jonathan Brewer says he hopes the and produced by Theatre Outré. timing of the show dates, surrounding Halloween, will Now it will have its premier run in Calgary, presented inspire audience members to attend performances in along with Theatre Outré, at the Motel at the Epcor costume. Centre for the Performing Arts October 27th to November “Maybe even Elizabethan drag?” suggests Welch. “Who 2nd. knows!” “I always had this idea to write a play about two Gordon Farrell, for Elle Magazine, calls Unsex’d a Shakespearean boy players who were like Paris Hilton “fast-paced, slapstick comedy with great acting and and Nicole Richie,” says Whitehead, on a part of what production values … a riot of colour, action and comedy.” inspired this male casted rendition. Seat fares range from $17.55 to $24.60. Evening Whitehead and Judes were both enrolled in graduate performances begin at 7:30pm with one matinee programs at York University where their ‘witty raport’ scheduled for Sunday, November 2 at 2pm. For tickets and ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ way of banter was doted as visit www.epcorcentre.org. too effeminate to allow them to play heterosexual roles in school theatre projects. This is when Whitehead began exploring the Elizabethan era; a time when a feminine man was Unsex’d perceived as great value to the theatre stage for his aptitude to perform a female role. Presented by Third Street Theatre October 27th – November 2nd The two thespians agreed, a plot in which two such http://www.thirdstreet.ca feminine-traited boy players were vying for the same stage role could be one of interest. Summoning the rivalry in All About Eve and their real life battles on the http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3714 View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

38 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com Review I Love You Because Show struggles despite solid cast

By Jason Clevett In the decade that GayCalgary has been reviewing shows at Stage West the quality of the productions have always been top notch. Whether their popular and fun music reviews like British Invasion or One Hit Wonders, revivals of Broadway classics like Jesus Christ Superstar or earlier this year’s award winning Chicago, or a non-musical show, they have always had stellar talent on stage and high production value from the sets to the live music. That is where the frustration lies in I Love You Because, playing until November 10th. It is a fantastic production - with incredibly talented actors - of a so-so show. It has its moments that verge on great, such as the fantastic number That’s What’s Gonna Happen, but there are not enough of them. There is definite chemistry between Canadian Idol alumni Steffi Dwho plays photographer Marcy, and the adorable Daniel Abrahamson who plays  Photo courtesy of Stage West Austin, in the modern twist of Pride and Prejudice. They are both likeable despite their quirks, and their adventures on the dating scene, along with those of Jeff (Jay Davis) and Diana (Blair Irwin) are experiences many of us have had. Somehow despite the familiarity it doesn’t resonate, perhaps I Love You Because because aspects of it are clichéd and explored in every romantic comedy. At Stage West Theatre Restaurant Justin Bott and Lindsey Frasier round out the cast playing baristas, bartenders and a Chinese food waiter - different people the 4 main characters http://www.stagewestcalgary.com interact with on another Saturday night in New York. I Love You Because is an enjoyable night out, with great food (the white chocolate lemon cheesecake is amazing) exceptional singing and a likeable http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3715 cast. I can’t exactly put my finger on what’s missing, but like dating itself, you have some that are fun for a night but who you wouldn’t call back. View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 39 Chi Chi LaRue Iconic drag queen/producer visits Edmonton

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By Farley Foo Foo We further discuss her parting ways with straight porn To say Chi Chi LaRue has a presence that commands juggernaut Vivid for their refusal to require their actors to the crowd’s attention would be an enormous do just that. As a long time safe sex advocate, it is clearly a understatement. Already very tall, in punishingly high passion of Chi Chi’s and it’s great to see someone with her heels she towers above the crowd as they part like the stature in the industry refuse to compromise her ethics on Red Sea before Moses to allow her through. the matter. She has just arrived to Evolution Wonder Lounge in The juiciest moments in the interview, however, happens Edmonton to DJ the opening night Big Bang party and I’m when I ask for her opinion on the success of RuPaul’s Drag fortunate to have been granted an exclusive interview with Race. her before she takes to the booth. “Ru’s a great friend of mine and this next season is going Even though she has arrived generously early, I’ve been to be insane!” Along with a hint at some insider knowledge instructed to keep my interview somewhat brief as Chi Chi as to how quickly the drama starts in the upcoming season, likes to get a feel for the sound system and DJ booth set Chi Chi tells us who she believes will undoubtedly walk up to ensure there are no complications during her set. An away with the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar! example of her professionalism and thoroughness that has To find out who Chi Chi thinks will take home the had adult film production companies and now nightclubs crown this year, along with a discussion on Chi Chi’s and festivals lining up to work with her. transformation from drag queen to porn czar to headlining On this evening, following the announcement of adult DJ, watch the full video online. film stars Cameron Bay and Rod Daily coming forward as having tested positive for HIV, the latest in a string of cases that has resulted in the current moratorium on porn production in the greater Los Angeles area which serves as the industry’s epicentre, I am eager to get Chi Chi’s opinion Chi Chi LaRue on these developments. Twitter: @DJChiChiLaRue “It’s so stupid, because I’ve been making porn for 29 years and I’ve used condoms ever since I started. There should be no moratorium, just put a fucking condom on your cock!” http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3716 View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

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 Megan Hilty  Sean Hayes  Linda Lavin (left), Samantha Isler (middle) and Sean Hayes

“Fish have the right idea,” says mom Lorna. “You just drop them and go!” Sean Saves the World “She’s a force of nature,” Lavin said of Lorna. “She’s a very energetic, funny woman, with a strong affection for her son. They see life the same way, and she’s very committed to his By David-Elijah Nahmod happiness.” “I hope it runs for a million years,” said Megan Hilty. Hilty feels that Sean’s gayness is incidental to the story. “It’s just another detail of who he is,” she said. “It’s not OMG, he’s “Or at least seven.” The actress is very happy about gay! He just is. That says a lot about where we are now.” being reunited with Sean Hayes (Will and Grace) in the In the aftermath of the New Normal/Smash failures, we’ll new NBC sitcom Sean Saves the World, which debuted have to wait and see whether or not Sean Saves the World clicks recently in Canada. with viewers. The online trailer is genuinely funny and the buzz Last season, the pair was seen in a five episode story arc on around the show has been positive, so perhaps this time the the cherished if embattled musical drama Smash. On Smash, Peacock Network will enjoy the kind of success they saw with Hayes and Hilty played co-stars on Broadway in an ill-advised Will and Grace. musical based on Dangerous Liaisons. Though Smash barely “When you start a new show, you hope for a long life,” said got through its second season, it amassed an intensely loyal Lavin. “You hope for growth, and for a substantial income for cult following which continues to support its reruns on the those working on the show.” Ovation Network, and it’s DVD release. Smash, along with The New Normal, were both cancelled this past summer after struggling in the ratings. Both series featured gay characters in leading roles and were expected to be Sean Saves the World huge hits. Both debuted with great fanfare and initially brought http://www.nbc.com/sean-saves-the-world in decent numbers. No one is sure what happened when both series ultimately failed. Yet NBC, which brought both shows to the airwaves, is willing to try again. http://www.gaycalgary.com/a3717 “The New Normal didn’t have Sean Hayes,” said TV legend View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments Linda Lavin (Alice). “He’s an extraordinary talent.” In the new series, Hayes plays…Sean! He’s a single gay dad whose wise, wisecracking teen daughter has moved in with him. As he struggles to be the best dad he can be, he also searches for Mr. Right, deals with the boss from hell, and spars with Lorna, his overbearing but loving Mom (Lavin). Hilty plays Liz, Sean’s best friend. “Sean Saves the World is an identifiable story about a gay single dad as he balances his home and work life,” said Lavin. “I’m delighted to be a part of it. It’s a terrific company filled with talented people and talented writers.” “Sean Hayes is magical, incredibly funny and a nice guy,” said Hilty. “Liz is kind of a mess. She talks before she thinks, but she has the best intentions. They met at his wedding to a woman, and she outed him!” In a fast paced trailer now posted on NBC.com, potential viewers can get a glimpse of what to expect when they tune in to Sean Saves the World. “If you’re gay, then how did you and Mom have sex?” inquires daughter Ellie (Samantha Isler), as Sean nervously drops a pile of dishes.

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 Shoulder (before)

It’s a Jungle Out There The Philips Bodygroom Plus

By Rob Diaz-Marino  Shoulder (after) Philips wants to go down on you – down below the neck that is, with their newest offering: the Bodygroom Plus. made for less straining and twisting as I tried to get at the spots We received a model to try out for ourselves, and it further back. While I opted to do this dry, the shaver is 100% does the job quite nicely. But don’t throw out your old waterproof and can be used in the shower. Bodygroom models just yet. Aesthetically speaking, the Plus looks a great deal sturdier The Plus come with three different combs for various trim and better quality than the smaller bodygroom that I own. lengths, plus a special extension handle to reach all those However I was disappointed that the charging stand for the awkward places like your shoulders and back. Plus didn’t have a compartment to store the accessories, as In theory, with a great deal of time and patience, a person my cheaper model did. So you’ll need to find a place in your with a particularly hairy back might be able to shave themselves bathroom cabinet to stash the combs and handle. smooth without the help of a buddy. The foot-long handle Visit our website for videos of us unpacking, comparing, and should make it possible to reach all areas of the back, and trying out the Philips Bodygroom Plus. the shaver carries a 50 minute charge to last you through the ordeal. The shaver itself feels a lot bulkier than previous models, like it’s meant for more heavy-duty body work rather than finer grained detailing. In fact, it doesn’t have an interchangeable Philips Bodygroom Plus head as previous models did. So you’re stuck with the coarse- grained shaver head designed to mow down thicker hairs with Buy it at: Best Buy, Future Shop, Canadian Tire, London Drugs, the blades on the edges, and then take the shave closer to your Sears, Shoppers Drug Mart, The Bay, Walmart, and more. skin with the foil in the centre – unless you put a comb on it, http://www.philips.ca that is. I let my odd tufts of shoulder hair grow so that I could test http://www.gaycalgary.com/ the Bodygroom Plus out. I found it did just as good a job as a3718 my older Philips Bodygroom, however the extension handle View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments

42 GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 www.gaycalgary.com Review F.Virtue Hip Hop artist tackles sexuality with Anita Bryant

By Lisa Lunney Hip-hop has long since provided a musical voice for the Calgary born emcee F.Virtue, born William Kowall, is oppressed. In the current battle for equality for the LGBT wise beyond his twenty-three-years. He recently released community, it makes perfect sense for a bold artist to use a song that is making massive waves in the music hip-hop as a medium to fight for equality. Anita Bryant has industry: Anita Bryant, part of his latest album, We Are already been dubbed as the definitive anti-homophobia song Not The Shame. F.Virtue is embracing his sexuality in hip-hop. F. Virtue raps, “This isn’t gay rap. Do gay chefs through his lyrics for the first time on a public scale, and make gay food?” this album shows listeners they are not alone. The message behind F.Virtue’s lyrics go beyond equality and acceptance - they are a push for social change and F.Virtue cleverly named this groundbreaking song after the bettering the next generation. It is an anthem for the LGBT outspoken critic of homosexuality, and the music video is community; a force to be reckoned with. about his experiences being a closeted MC in a straight rap culture. The work behind Anita Bryant was three-years in the Watch the video: making, and he is finally comfortable and confident enough in his own identity to share his experience with his fan base http://www.gaycalgary.com/u590 and the world of hip-hop. Hip-hop music has a reputation for being bold and outrageous, with shocking lyrics and crude videos. It is an ideal musical outlet to be brutally honest and send a strong message. Through his choice of words, the listener identifies F. Virtue and relates to the stresses of fitting in and finding acceptance from peers. The track benefits significantly from the strength Twitter: @famelessvirtue of the video. F.Virtue’s emphatic delivery combined with powerful visuals creates a mind-blowing and captivating http://www.gaycalgary.com/ experience for the viewer. However, it is the lyrics that have a3719 garnished the biggest response: he’s a gay hip-hop artist, View Bonus Pics/Videos • Share with a Friend • Post Comments questioning hip-hop’s homophobic tendencies.

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www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 53 Les is currently in his 2nd year as a Director on the board of the ISCCA, and is straight, he feels he has found family in the LGBT community. He has been feels he brings a unique perspective to the table. His ideas for fundraisers are married to his wife Eunice Kong, who is also an active member of the ISCCA, a little different - like “Run Bitch Run”, where people can pay to shoot drag for 5 years now. His son Xander Xavier Kong (affectionately nicknamed “Mr. queens with a paintball gun as they run an obstacle course, or “Slippery Bear” X”) was born nearly 7 months ago, and is the best dressed kid around thanks where, stripped down to his underwear and slathered in oil, people pay to enter to his “uncles”. the ring and try to tackle him. But he is always looking for ways to help out, and Les works at Supreme Windows and enjoys his job because he gets to work you can often find him at ISCCA BBQs and other fundraisers. with his hands. Though, he confesses, he is a closet Star Trek fan. He first started visiting gay bars in High School, and found many people in the community seemed more real than those he met outside of it. Though he http://gaycalgary.com/pa598

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FAB (CLOSED) FIND OUT! CALGARY  1742 - 10th Ave SW Accommodations Bathhouses/Saunas 6 Goliaths------✰ LGBT Community Directory 13 ✰ Westways Guest House------ 308 - 17 Ave SW  403-229-0911  216 - 25th Avenue SW  403-229-1758  www.goliaths.ca  1-866-846-7038  [email protected]  Open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day GayCalgary Magazine is the go-to source for information about  www.gaywestways.com Alberta LGBT businesses and community groups—the most extensive and accurate resource of its kind! This print supplement Bars & Clubs Community Groups contains a subset of active community groups and venues, with 2 AIDS Calgary------✰ 3 ✰ premium business listings of paid advertisers. Backlot------ 110, 1603 10th Avenue SW  209 - 10th Ave SW  403-265-5211  403-508-2500  Open 7 days a week, 2pm-close ✰...... Find our Magazine Here ...... Wheelchair Accessible  [email protected] 60 Cowboys Nightclub------ www.aidscalgary.org Spot something inaccurate or outdated? Want your business or  421 12th Avenue SE Alberta Society for Kink organization listed? We welcome you to contact us! 5 Texas Lounge------✰  403-398-9968  308 - 17 Ave SW  403-229-0911  [email protected]  403-543-6960  1-888-543-6960  www.goliaths.ca  http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/  Open 7 days a week, 11am-close group.albertasocietyforkink  [email protected] 33 Twisted Element------✰ Apollo Calgary - Friends in Sports  1006 - 11th Ave SW  403-802-0230  www.apollocalgary.com  www.twistedelement.ca  www.myapollo.com Dance Club and Lounge. A volunteer operated, non-profit organization serving primarily members of the LGBT communities but open to all East Village Cafe (CLOSED) members of all communities. Primary focus is to provide http://www.gaycalgary.com/CalgaryTravelRSS  2nd floor, 610 - 8 Avenue SE members with well-organized and fun sporting events and other activities. http://www.gaycalgary.com/EdmontonTravelRSS Calgary Eagle Inc. (CLOSED)  424a - 8th Ave SE • Western Cup 31 Local Bars, Restaurants, and Accommodations info on the go!  www.westerncup.com Club Sapien (CLOSED) http://www.gaycalgary.com/  1140 10th Ave SW • Badminton (Absolutely Smashing) Directory  6020 - 4 Avenue NE Browse our complete directory of over 650 gay-frieindly listings!  [email protected] www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #120, October 2013 55 Directory & Events

Wing Night------ 5-8pm Alcoholics Anonymous------ 8pm Wednesday, October 16th Calgary Events At 59 East Village Cafe  Hillhurst United Church (Gym Entrance) 1227 Kensington Close NW Delwin Vriend Panel------ 7-9pm Mondays Student Night------ 6pm-6am By Sheldom Chumir Foundation Buddy Night------ 6pm-6am At 6 Goliaths Saturdays  Epcor Centre: Engineered Air Theatre (205 8 Ave SE) At 6 Goliaths Mosaic Youth Group------ 7-9pm Coffee------ 10am Saturday, October 26th By Prime Timers Calgary   Old Y Centre (223 12th Ave SW) ASK Meet and Greet------7-9:30pm  Midtown Co-op (1130 - 11th Ave SW) Hounds & Hides------ 9pm  Bonasera (1204 Edmonton Tr. NE) Thursdays At 3 Backlot (upstairs) Alcoholics Anonymous------ 8pm  Inside Out Youth Group------7-9pm Lesbian Seniors------ 2pm  Hillhurst United Church (Gym Entrance) Drag Show------ 10pm See 1 Calgary Outlink  Kerby Center, Sunshine Room  3rd 1227 Kensington Close NW By ISCCA at 3 Backlot (downstairs) Tuesdays 1133 7th Ave SW Sundays Thursday, November 7th  Uniform Night------ 6pm-6am Calgary Networking Club------5-7pm Worship Time------ 10am Taboo See 1 Calgary Outlink  1st At 6 Goliaths See Deer Park United Church  BMO Centre, Stampede Park Nov10  Lesbian Meetup Group------ 7:30-9pm Saturday, November 16th Student Night------6pm-6am Worship------ 10:30am At 6 Goliaths At 1 Calgary Outlink  1st See Scarboro United Church Art & Music Show------ 7pm  Alcoholics Anonymous------ 8pm At 3 Backlot Between Men------7-9pm Sunday Services------ 10:45am See 1 Calgary Outlink  2nd, 4th  Hillhurst United Church (Gym Entrance) 1227 Kensington Close NW See Hillhurst United Church Drag Show------ 10pm Karaoke------ 8pm-12:30am By ISCCA at 3 Backlot (upstairs) Karaoke------ 7pm Worship Services------ 11am At 5 Texas Lounge Saturday, November 23rd At 3 Backlot See Knox United Church  Fetish Slosh------Evening Church Service------ 4pm Crowns for Kids At 3 Backlot  2nd Fridays See Rainbow Community Church At 3 Backlot Illusions------ 7-10pm  Alcoholics Anonymous------8pm See 1 Calgary Outlink  1st Flashlight Night------ 6pm-6am Sunday, November 24th  Hillhurst United Church (Gym Entrance) At 6 Goliaths 1227 Kensington Close NW Womynspace------ 7-9pm We Are Diverse-City------ 6pm-12am See 1 Calgary Outlink  2nd Saturday, October 12th By 2 AIDS Calgary/HEAT Wednesdays  Aratta Opera House (1315 7 St SW) Investitures 3.0------ 10pm  New Directions------ 7-9pm Communion Service------12:10pm By ISCCA at 3 Backlot Saturday, November 30th See Knox United Church See 1 Calgary Outlink  3rd World AIDS Day Pool Night------ Evening Heading Out------ 8pm-10pm At 3 Backlot At 59 East Village Cafe with Prime Timers Calgary See 1 Calgary Outlink  4th

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

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 Calgary Contd. • Fake Mustache Retail Stores • Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre AltView Foundation • Mosaic Youth Group  1213 - 4th Str SW  403-955-6014  #44, 48 Brentwood Blvd, Sherwood Park, AB  The Old Y Centre (223 12th Ave SW) Adult Depot------✰  Sat-Thu: 4:15pm-7:45pm, Fri: Closed  403-398-9968  [email protected] For queer and trans youth and their allies.  140, 58th Ave SW  403-258-2777 • Safeworks Van Gay, bi, straight video rentals and sex toys.  www.altview.ca Mystique  403-850-3755 For gender variant and sexual minorities.  [email protected] 41 La Fleur------ Sat-Thu: 8pm-12am, Fri: 4pm-12am Mystique is primarily a Lesbian group for women 30 and  103 - 100 7th Avenue SW Book Worm’s Book Club up but all are welcome.  403-266-1707 Theatre & Fine Arts  Howard McBride Chapel of Chimes Florist and Flower Shop. 10179 - 108 Street • Coffee Night 36 ATP, Alberta Theatre Projects  [email protected]  Good Earth Cafe (1502 - 11th Street SW) The Naked Leaf------ 403-294-7402  http://www.ATPlive.com  305 10th Street NW  403-283-3555 Buck Naked Boys Club NETWORKS  http://www.thenakedleaf.ca AXIS Contemporary Art------ 780-471-6993  [email protected] Organic teas and tea ware.  107, 100 - 7 Ave SW  403-262-3356  http://www.bucknakedboys.ca A social, cultural, and service organization for the mature  [email protected]  www.axisart.ca Naturism club for men—being social while everyone is minded and “Plus 40” LGBT individuals seeking to meet 16 Priape Calgary------✰ naked, and it does not include sexual activity. Participants do others at age-appropriate activities within a positive, safe  1322 - 17 Ave SW  403-215-1800 Fairytales not need to be gay, only male. environment.  http://www.priape.com See Calgary - Community Groups. Clothing and accessories. Adult toys, leather wear, movies Camp fYrefly Parents for Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and magazines. Gifts. Jubilations Dinner Theatre  7-104 Dept. of Educational Policy Studies  Sean: 403-695-5791  Bow Trail and 37th St. SW Faculty of Education, University of Alberta  http://www.pflagcanada.ca Best Health  403-249-7799 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5 A registered charitable organization that provides  206A 2525 Woodview Dr SW  403-281-5582  www.jubilations.ca  http://www.fyrefly.ualberta.ca support, education and resources to parents, families and  [email protected] individuals who have questions or concerns about sexual  http://www.besthealthcalgary.com 35 One Yellow Rabbit------Edmonton Pride Festival Society (EPFS) orientation or gender identity.  Big Secret Theatre - EPCOR CENTRE  http://www.edmontonpride.ca  403-299-8888  www.oyr.org Positive Space Committee Services & Products Edmonton Prime Timers 37 Pumphouse Theatre------✰  4825 Mount Royal Gate SW Calgary Civil Marriage Centre  [email protected]  2140 Pumphouse Avenue SW  www.primetimersww.org/edmonton  403-440-6383  403-246-4134 (Rork Hilford)  403-263-0079 Group of older gay men and their admirers who come from  http://www.mtroyal.ca/positivespace  Works to raise awareness and challenge the patterns of [email protected]  http://www.pumphousetheatres.ca diverse backgrounds but have common social interests. silence that continue to marginalize LGBTTQ individuals. Marriage Commissioner for Alberta (aka Justice of the Peace Affiliated with Prime Timers World Wide. - JP), Marriage Officiant, Commissioner for Oaths. Stagewest------✰  727 - 42 Avenue SE  403-243-6642 Edmonton Rainbow Business Association Pride Calgary Planning Committee 24 Courtney Aarbo (Barristers & Solicitors)  http://www.stagewestcalgary.com  3379, 11215 Jasper Ave  780-429-5014  403-797-6564  www.pridecalgary.ca  1138 Kensington Road NW  http://www.edmontonrba.org  403-571-5120 58 Theatre Junction------✰ Primetimers Calgary Primary focus is the provision of networking opportunities  http://www.courtneyaarbo.ca  Theatre Junction GRAND, 608 1st St. SW  [email protected] for LGBT owned or operated and LGBT-friendly businesses GLBT legal services.  403-205-2922  http://www.primetimerscalgary.com in the Edmonton region. Designed to foster social interaction for its members  [email protected] Cruiseline  http://www.theatrejunction.com through a variety of social, educational and recreational  Calgary: 403-777-9494 Edmonton Illusions Social Club  5 The Junction activities. Open to all gay and bisexual men of any age,  Edmonton: 780-413-7122 34 Vertigo Mystery Theatre------ 780-387-3343 respects whatever degree of anonymity that each member  Other Cities: 1-877-882-2010  161, 115 - 9 Ave SE  403-221-3708  groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions desires.  http://www.cruiseline.ca  http://www.vertigomysterytheatre.com Queers on Campus------✰ Telephone classifieds and chat - 18+ ONLY. 4 Edmonton STD  279R Student Union Club Spaces, U of C DevaDave Salon & Boutique  11111 Jasper Ave  403-220-6394  810 Edmonton Trail NE  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~glass EDMONTON Edmonton Vocal Minority  403-290-1973  780-479-2038  [email protected] Formerly GLASS - Gay/Lesbian Association of Students Cuts, Colour, Hilights. and Staff. Bars & Clubs  www.evmchoir.com Ellen Embury • Coffee Night GLBTQ Sage Bowling Club  403-750-1128  www.DBBlaw.com 6 Buddy’s Nite Club------✰  780-474-8240  [email protected]  2nd Cup, Kensington Fellow, American Academy of Reproductive Technology  11725 Jasper Ave  780-488-6636 Safety Under the Rainbow Attorneys HIV Network Of Edmonton Society---- ✰ Evolution Wonder Lounge  9702 111 Ave NW 780-488-5742  www.sutr.ca Hardline  10220 - 103 St  780-424-0077 A collaborative effort dedicated to building capacity  www.hivedmonton.com  Calgary: 403-770-0776  http://www.yourgaybar.com Provides healthy sexuality education for Edmonton’s LGBT and acting as a voice for the LGBTQ community, service  Edmonton: 780-665-6666 providers, organizations and the community at large FLASH (CLOSED) community and support for those infected or affected  Other Cities: 1-877-628-9696 by HIV. to address violence. For same-sex domestic violence  http://www.hardlinechat.com  10018 105 Street  780-938-2941 information, resources and a link to our survey please see Telephone classifieds and chat - 18+ ONLY.  [email protected] InQueeries our website. The Junction (CLOSED)  [email protected] Lorne Doucette (CIR Realtors) Student-run GLBTQ Alliance at MacEwan University. Scarboro United Church  403-461-9195  10242 106th St  134 Scarboro Avenue SW  http://www.lornedoucette.com Hooliganz Pub (CLOSED) Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wild Rose  403-244-1161  www.scarborounited.ab.ca  http://www.iscwr.ca An affirming congregation—the full inclusion of LGBT MFM Communications  10704 124 St NW people is essential to our mission and purpose.  403-543-6970 13 UpStares Ultralounge Living Positive Society of Alberta  1-877-543-6970  4th Floor, Jasper Ave and 107th Street  #50, 9912 - 106 Street 780-423-3737 Sharp Foundation  http://www.mfmcommunications.com  http://www.facebook.com/LivingPoz  403-272-2912 Web site hosting and development. Computer hardware Living Positive through Positive Living.  [email protected] 12 Woody’s------✰ and software.  11725 Jasper Ave  780-488-6557  http://www.thesharpfoundation.com Men’s Games Nights SafeWorks  Unitarian Church (10804 119th Street) Unity Bowling Free and confidential HIV/AIDS and STI testing. Bathhouses/Saunas  780-474-8240  [email protected]  Let’s Bowl (2916 - 5th Ave NE)  [email protected] • Calgary Drop-in Centre 11 Steamworks------✰ OUTreach  Room 117, 423 - 4th Ave SE  11745 Jasper Ave  780-451-5554  University of Alberta, basement of SUB Wild Rose United Church  403-699-8216  http://www.steamworksedmonton.com  [email protected]  1317-1st Street NW  Mon-Fri: 9am-12pm, Sat: 12:15pm-3:15pm  http://www.ualberta.ca/~outreach Community Groups Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender/transsexual, Queer, Restaurants • Centre of Hope Questioning and Straight-but-not-Narrow student group.  Room 201, 420 - 9th Ave SE Alberta Bears East Village Cafe (CLOSED)  403-410-1180  Mon-Fri: 1pm-5pm  www.beefbearbash.com Pride Centre of Edmonton------✰  2nd floor, 610 - 8 Avenue SE  10608 - 105 Ave  780-488-3234  [email protected]

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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 Friday, October 18th 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 Rocky Horror------ 8pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton By ISCWR at 15 Evolution Youth Sports/Recreation------ 4pm Saturdays Saturday, October 19th 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 Rocky Horror------ 8pm See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton By ISCWR 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 Friday, October 25th See Team Edmonton Wednesdays Monthly Meeting------ 2:30pm Heaven & Hell Pub Crawl------ Night At 15 Evolution and 13 UpStares 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, October 26th QH Youth Drop-in------ 3-8pm Book Club------ 7:30pm Bowling------ 5pm Mutation DJ------ Night See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton See BookWorm’s Book Club  3rd See Team Edmonton At 15 Evolution Youth Sports/Recreation------ 4pm Martial Arts------ 7:30-8:30pm Sundays Thursday, October 31st 1 See Team Edmonton See Youth Understanding Youth Running------ 10-11am Dance and Costume Contest------ Night Counseling------ 5:30-8:30pm Intermediate Volleyball------ 7:30-9:30pm See Team Edmonton At 15 Evolution See 1 Pride Centre of Edmonton See Team Edmonton Yoga------ 2-3:30pm See Team Edmonton

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 http://www.pridecentreofedmonton.org • Movie Night Team Edmonton • Blazin’ Bootcamp  Tue-Fri 12pm-9pm, Sat 2pm-6:30pm Movie Night is open to everyone! Come over and sit back,  [email protected]  Garneau Elementary School We provide a safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental relax, and watch a movie with us.  http://www.teamedmonton.ca 10925 - 87 Ave drop-in space, and offer support programs and resources Members are invited to attend and help determine the  [email protected] for members of the GLBTQ community and for their families • Queer HangOUT: Game Night board for the next term. If you are interested in running for and friends. Come OUT with your game face on and meet some the board or getting involved in some of the committees, • Bowling (Northern Titans) awesome people through board game fun. please contact us.  Ed’s Rec Room (West Edmonton Mall) • Counselling  [email protected]  780.488.3234 • Queer HangOUT: Craft Night • Badminton (Mixed) $15.00 per person. Free, short-term counselling provided by registered Come OUT and embrace your creative side in a safe space.  St. Thomas Moore School, 9610 165 Street • Cross Country Skiing counsellors. • Queer HangOUT: Anime Night  [email protected] New group seeking male & female players.  [email protected] • HIV Support Group Come and watch ALL the anime until your heart is content. • Curling with Pride  [email protected] • TTIQ • Badminton (Women’s) Support and discussion group for gay men.  Granite Curling Club, 8620 107 Street NW A support and information group for all those who fall  Oliver School, 10227 - 118 Street  780-465-3620  [email protected] • Knotty Knitters under the transgender umbrella and their family or supporters.  [email protected] • Cycling (Edmonton Prideriders) Come knit and socialize in a safe and accepting Women’s Drop-In Recreational Badminton. $40.00 season environment - all skill levels are welcome.  Dawson Park, picnic shelter • Women’s Social Circle or $5.00 per drop in.  [email protected] • Men Talking with Pride  [email protected] Women’s Social Circle: A social support group for all •Ballroom Dancing • Dragon Boat (Flaming Dragons)  [email protected]  Foot Notes Dance Studio, 9708-45 Avenue NW Support & social group for gay & bisexual men to discuss female-identified persons over 18 years of age in the GLBT  [email protected] community - new members are always welcome.  Cynthia: 780-469-3281 current issues. • Golf Seniors Association of Greater Edmonton  [email protected]  780-474-8240  [email protected]

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• Gymnastics, Drop-in Open to women 21+, experienced or not, all are welcome.  Ortona Gymnastics Club, 8755 - 50 Avenue Call for info.  [email protected] BANFF RED DEER Have the whole gym to yourselves and an instructor to • Yoga help you achieve your individual goals. Cost is $5.00  Lion's Breath Yoga Studio (10350-124 Street) Community Groups Community Groups per session.  [email protected] Bow Valley Cares Centre Affirm • Hockey Womonspace  302 Buffalo Street, Banff, AB  Sunnybrook United Church   [email protected] 780-482-1794  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  • Martial Arts http://www.womonspace.ca  [email protected] Composed of LGBTQ people, their friends, family and  15450 - 105 Ave (daycare entrance) Women’s social group, but all welcome at events. allies. No religious affiliation necessary. 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