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Mobile Devices Flying into Whistler Pride 2017 Business Directory Community Map Events Calendar Tourist Information STARTING ON PAGE 55 Calgary • Alberta • Canada www.gaycalgary.com Table of Contents DEC 2016/JAN 2017 ® 5 Publisher’s Column PublisherPublisher: & Editor: Steve Steve Polyak Polyak 25th Anniversary of Men For Men/GayCalgary CopyEditor: Editor: Rob Janine Diaz-Marino Eva-Trotta Sales: Steve Polyak Design & Layout: 10 GayCalgary Magazine’s Top 20 Most Read Rob Diaz-Marino,Steve Polyak Ara Shimoon Articles in 2016 Writers and Contributors ChrisMercedes Azzopardi, Allen, Jeff Chris Berry, Azzopardi, Dave Brousseau, Dallas Barnes, Keith DaveJohnson, Brousseau, Lisa Lunney, Sam Casselman, Ivy Miller, SteveJason Polyak, Clevett, MikeyAndrew Rox, Collins, Romeo Emily San Collins, Vicente, Rob Brandon Diaz-Marino, Shultz, 11 DJ Matt Effect Janineand the Eva LGBT Trotta, Community Jack Fertig, of Calgary, Glen Hanson, Edmonton, Joan On Love, Life, and his First Time...In Calgary Hilty, Evan Kayne,and Stephen Alberta. Lock, Neil McMullen, Allan Neuwirth, Steve Polyak, Carey Rutherford, 11 PAGE Romeo San Vicente,Photography Ed Sikov, Nick Vivian and the GLBT CommunitySteve of PolyakCalgary, Edmonton, and Alberta. 12 Touched By An Angel Videography Emeli Sandé talks first album in five years, empathetic gay fans and PhotographySteve Polyak Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, her musical savior Mariah Carey SalesB&J Steve Polyak [email protected] Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino Legal Council 16 Finding Nathan Sykes Courtney Aarbo,Printers Barristers and Solicitors Boy bander on self-discovery, gay rumors and his sometimes- North Hill News/Central Web ‘bromosexual’ relationship with Tom Daley General Inquiries GayCalgaryDistribution® Magazine Calgary2136: 17thGallant Avenue Distribution SW Calgary,GayCalgary AB, Canada Staff T2T 0G3 [email protected]: Clark’s Distribution 18 January, Snow, Alaska Other: Canada Post Interview with “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2” winner, Alaska 13 PAGE Office Hours: By appointment ONLY Phone:Legal 403-543-6960 Council 12 PAGE CourtneyToll Aarbo,Free: Barristers1-888-543-6960 and Solicitors 21 Positive Thoughts Fax: 403-703-0685 A sense of community E-Mail:Sales [email protected] & General Inquiries GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine 2136This Month's17th Avenue Cover SW Main: MichaelCalgary, Bublé, photo AB, Canada by Warner Bros. 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Proud Members of: 27 Philips Wake-up Light 18 PAGE Proud Member of: Waking up to a simulated sunrise 28 Pam Ann At Whistler Pride 2017 30 Stink, Stank, Stunk 7 of 2016’s Biggest Grinches International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association 31 The Frivolist 6 Ways to Start the New Year as the Best Gay You Can Be National Lesbian & Gay Gay European Tourism Journalists Association Association 32 2016 in Review What the Celebs Said 23 PAGE Continued on Next Page www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary Magazine #156, December 2016 / January 2017 3 Table of Contents Continued From Previous Page ® 33 Hear Me Out Magazine Figures Monthly Online Magazine Best Albums Of 2016 Readership: Combined total of PDF and ISSUU Downloads/Reads –100,000 copies 36 Catching Up with Total Readership of PDF/ISSUU/WEB Alison Bechdel Readers Per Copy: 4.9 (PMB) Dykes to Watch Out For Avg. Online Circulation: 310,000 readers Out cartoonist on new , the universal appeal of Estimated Total Readership: PAGE 28 PAGE Fun Home and her doubts about making it a musical >319,800 readers Frequency: Monthly Proof of monthly figures are 40 Having His Cake and available on request. History Eating It Too Originally established in January 1992 as Joe Jonas on ‘fun’ gay rumors, Barbra Streisand fandom and the Men for Men BBS by MFM Communications. pleasures of S&M Name changed to GayCalgary in 1998. Independent company as of January 2004. First edition of GayCalgary.com Magazine published November 2003. Name adjusted in November 2006 to GayCalgary 44 Love Is Love Is Love and Edmonton Magazine. February Michael Bublé on leaving an LGBT-affirming legacy, man crushes and 2012 returned to GayCalgary Magazine. male admirers February 2013, GayCalgary® becomes a registered trademark. December 2014/ January 2015 is the last print edition. 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In 2000, we broadcast the first drag Men For Men BBS allowed guys in Calgary to connect using their show live over the Internet. The videos became so popular that computers and dial-up modems to interact with one another. a separate website called GayCalgary.TV was created. After a This was all done before the Internet became mainstream. while, it was brought back into the GayCalgary website to be Think of the apps Scruff or Grindr; the website Squirt.org with along the photos that were also taken during those shows. no photos or graphics, with all text, no mouse or touch, but This was all done before YouTube existed, and streaming text menu options that you selected where you want to go. sites, like Netflix. Though it was used primarily for hook-ups or guys looking for In 2002, we did our first email blasts letting digital friends, there was still a community events calendar, business subscribers know what was going on in Calgary. GayCalgary directory, discussion groups and an extensive X-rated photo Internet kiosks were set up throughout Calgary’s gay bars. gallery, wherein you needed to download the photo to see it. Also, in several gay bars, the computer screen savers were While you were downloading, you could not do anything else adapted to run on the TVs, which showcased events going on on the site but wait for it to complete. in the community, as well as inside the bars. Each bar had The number of guys you could chat with live, one-on-one, photos of guys intermixed with the ads, but the photos of the was dependent on how many phone lines the system had. It guys were custom selected for each bar to go along with the started with one phone line, and all you could do was leave a clientele. Guys could also download the screen saver from the message for other users, or post a message on the discussion GayCalgary website so they could watch it at home. forum. Once BBS got busy, I added four phone lines, and then It was too cost prohibitive to set up a computer to generate guys could chat live one-on-one. it live, even though I really wanted to, so all the bars needed it I was running it out of my apartment; I found out four lines recorded to an eight-hour VHS tape every month. Eventually are the limit for residential, even though I was paying for we could burn them to recordable DVDs, but it still took a long business lines. Eventually I had to move the system down to time to do it and – depending on how old the bar’s DVD player Boyztown and the Rekroom so I could expand to eight.