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May 2010 ISSUE 79 The Only Magazine Dedicated to Alberta’s LGBT Community FREE FESTIVAL GUIDE Page 42 ADAM LAMBERT Sci-fi Studs: Here for Your Entertainment Leonard Nimoy Brent Spiner Malcom McDowell Marvellous Musicians: And many more! Melissa Etheridge Our Lady Peace And more! COMMUNITY DIRECTORY • MAP AND EVENTS • TOURISM INFO >> STARTING ON PAGE 17 LGBT RESOURce • CALGARy • EDMONTon • ALBERTA www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #79, May 2010 Table of Contents May 2010 5 I Heart Geeks Publisher: Steve Polyak Publisher’s Column Editor: Rob Diaz-Marino Sales: Steve Polyak 7 The 2010 Calgary Comic & Design & Layout: Rob Diaz-Marino, Ara Shimoon Entertainment Expo Writers and Contributors Looking Back on a Fun “Geek” Weekend Chris Azzopardi, Dallas Barnes, Dave Brousseau, Sam Casselman, Jason Clevett, Andrew Collins, Rob Diaz-Marino, Janine Eva Trotta, Jack Fertig, 9 Malcolm McDowell Glen Hanson, Joan Hilty, Stephen Lock, Allan Neuwirth, Steve Polyak, Ara Shimoon, Romeo San A Class Act(or) Vicente, Ed Sikov, Kyle Taylor of GayTravel.com, 9 PAGE XXX PAGE Dan Woog, and the GLBT Community of Calgary, Edmonton, and Alberta. 10 What the Frack? Photography Tahmoh Penikett and Aaron Douglass Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, Karen Hofmann Videography 12 Melissa Etheridge: Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino Printers Fierce and Fearless North Hill News/Central Web Inside the rock legend’s life now – her personal awakening and how Distribution it’s changed everything Calgary: Gallant Distribution GayCalgary Staff 15 Gay Travel Edmonton: Clark’s Distribution Other: Canada Post Montreal: It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than Queer Quebec Legal Council 17 Directory and Events Courtney Aarbo, Barristers and Solicitors PAGE 10 PAGE XXX PAGE Sales & General Inquiries 24 Mosaic Youth Group GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine Queer Youth Group Empowers and Takes Back Prom 2136 17th Avenue SW Calgary, AB, Canada T2T 0G3 24 Letters to the Editor Office Hours: By appointment ONLY 25 When is a Crime a Hate Crime? Phone: 403-543-6960 Recent Attack on Lesbian Woman Sparks Controversy Toll Free: 1-888-543-6960 Fax: 403-703-0685 26 Wild Child: A Cherie Currie Q&A E-Mail: [email protected] Lead singer of the all-girl group The Runaways This Month's Cover Adam Lambert 27 Q Scopes Courtesy of Sony Music “Strut your stuff, Leo!” Proud Members of: 28 Deep Inside Hollywood Ron Weasley explodes in Cherry Bomb 12 PAGE XXX PAGE 29 Cocktail Chatter Edmonton Rainbow Gearing up for housemates season Business Association 30 Out of Town National Parks of the Southwest Experiencing the nature and beauty of Americas national parks International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association 32 The 12th Annual Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association Something for Everyone under the Rainbow PAGE 32 PAGE XXX PAGE Continued on Next Page GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #79, May 2010 Table of Contents Continued From Previous Page 34 Fundraising Photos 34 Adult Film Review Rascal, Service Me Magazine Figures Monthly Print Quantity: 36 The Church of Rudd 9,000–11,000 copies Xavier Rudd Returns with New Album and Tour Guaranteed Circulation: 8,500 copies Bonus Circulation: 500–2,500 copies 37 Keep it Gay! Readership Well-produced Producers Fabulously Queer Readers Per Copy: 4.9 (PMB) Print Readership: >41,650 38 Queeries Avg. Online Circulation: 125,000 readers Estimated Total Readership: PAGE 36 PAGE PAGE XXX PAGE Kids at a Dinner Party, Lesbians in the Workplace and One-night >166,650 readers Stands Frequency: Monthly Proof of monthly figures are 39 The OutField available on request. Wrestling Without Borders Distribution Locations: 40 A Couple of Guys Calgary: 150 Edmonton: 130 41 Bitter Girl Other Alberta Cities: 10 Other Provinces: 30 Please call us if your establishment would 42 FairyTales Film Festival Guide like to become a distribution location. 46 Music Review History Hear Me Out: Madonna Mania! Originally established in January 1992 as Men for Men BBS by MFM 48 Classified Ads Communications. Name changed to PAGE 37 PAGE PAGE XXX PAGE GayCalgary.com in 1998. Independent 50 Chelsea Boys company as of January 2004. 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Please contact us immediately if • One Global Industry Unites you think you may have missed the http://www.gaycalgary.com/i79 for Fairness - When Good Things booking or submission deadline. Happen to Good Employees More articles and exclusive content online! PAGE 54 PAGE PAGE XXX PAGE GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #79, May 2010 Editorial I Heart Geeks Publisher’s Column By Rob Diaz-Marino No expo of this nature would be complete without some representation from cast members of Star Trek. The big names this year were Leonard Running a magazine, both Steve and I (and our writers) as Nimoy (Spock from Original Star Trek), Brent Spiner (Data from Next individuals, take an interest in such a wide variety of topics. We Generation), and Malcolm McDowell (the villain in Generations). The do this for the sake of our readers, who are a large and diverse cast of the modern-day Battlestar Galactica series made a good showing group of people with specific interests of their own, that we do with Tahmoh Penikett (Helo) and Aaron Douglass (Chief Tyrol). The our best to satisfy. We manage to transition fluently between Twilight series also made a pretty strong presence, much to the delight of hundreds of screaming 16 year old girls. many social circles, where the average person would take some time to break in and get acclimated and so remain limited to a While I wouldn’t call myself a trekkie, I admit that I grew up on Star Trek: The Next Generation and it really influenced me as a person. All small, manageable number. geeky fandom aside, I think the whole Star Trek franchise has been a If there’s one thing I have learned from the trans community, it’s very important and influential body of work. Part of this is the strong that identity is not just who you are on the inside – it’s also, quite sense of morals that guide the characters to the right decisions – morals importantly, how you outwardly represent yourself, and subsequently that are applicable even to our lives in the present. Quite revolutionary how others perceive you. And intellectually, I think a lot of how others is the portrayal of the self-discipline involved in upholding this code of perceive you comes from pursuing your own personal interests. Others ethics – no threat of an angry god is required to keep people of the future learn about you by seeing the process, the results, or the side-effects of in line. Their vision of futuristic technology has practically provided a what you enjoy doing. blueprint for real-life scientists to follow, and in fact, inspired many to When a person is a “social chameleon” for so long, as we are required pursue the field of science with the hopes of making this vision to come to be, they start to lose something of their distinctiveness. Their interests true someday. I might even go so far as to argue that Star Trek has appear to be so broad, it’s difficult to pin down the specifics that define provided the human race with better direction in modern times than the their character. Or perhaps they just get so busy with what comes their big “B” book. I mean, some of the same lessons may be rehashed, but way, that they don’t have the time to pursue the things that they truly Star Trek helps us look to the future, the direction that we are actually enjoy doing. And that’s when the unique person they are on the inside moving, rather than to a past that is growing further and further away. stops shining through to the exterior. For the sake of efficiency, they Battlestar Galactica was another amazing series – a hidden gem conform; behave like just another cog in the machine. for those who weren’t aware of it. I was only able to force myself to I think I’m in that boat at the moment.