THE SIX DAYS OF STONEWALL JULY/ AUGUST ISSUE 01 . 2009 living out vancouver lovmag.com PARTYTIME! PRIDE CELEBRATION ESSENTIALS PRIDEIN OUT OF THE CLOSET AND FASHIONONTO THE CATWALK VANCOUVER’S HOTTEST MALE MODELS ROCK THE RUNWAY THU JUL 30, 2009 CELEBRITIES 1022 Davie St. Doors 9 p.m. PrideShow Starts 11in p.m. Music by DJ Quest Performance by House of LaDouche $20 Advance at Little Sister’s Bookstore (1238 Davie St.) Priape (1148 Davie St.), and online at Celebritiesnightclub.com Fashion$25 At the door MODEL: NICOLAS D E HASS, MAKEUP: S TEVE N C ARTY, ARTY, S TYLIST: TYLIST: D EA NN A P ALKOWSKI. 3 4 in JULY/AUGUST ISSUE 01 . 2009 14 FEATURE Six Days in ’69: Revisiting the Stonewall Rebellion 26 PRIDE IN FASHION Boys’ Co, Michael Graft. Michael Co, Boys’ Gay culture’s impact Apparel: on mainstream fashion since Stonewall Steven Carty Carty Steven Grooming: 41 Deanna Palkowski Palkowski Deanna ylist: t S PRIDE HIGHLIGHTS The parties, performers and places to be Joe DallAntonia, Wayne Phillips Phillips Wayne DallAntonia, Joe Models: TJ Ngan Ngan TJ Photo: 6 TO OUR READERS 30 BODY & SOUL Team Vancouver Heads for Copenhagen 9 NEWS Is gay dating a new Olympic sport? 35 TRAVEL INSIDE STORY: What does the future hold for Ritchie Five Favourite Gay Getaways Dowrey after being attacked in a Vancouver gay bar? Local, national and international News Briefs 38 FOOD & DINING The Oasis Gets Fresh 23 STYLE 45 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Summer Fashion Must-Haves PopOuts: Gay pop culture News Briefs Rethinking the Beach Bungalow Vancouver Queer Film Festival Dump-to-Dream-Home DIY 50 JUL/AUG EVENT CALENDAR 5 living out vancouver EDITORIAL & CREATIVE TO OUR READERS DIRECTOR TJ NGAN elcome to the fi rst issue of LOV (Living Out Vancouver), Vancouver’s EDITOR fi rst gay men’s magazine. Some people may wonder why we’ve decided to focus on one component of the GLBT community. Partly GUY BABINEAU because the magazine’s two creators, Editorial and Creative Director W COPY EDITORS TJ Ngan and myself, are gay men. We wanted to focus on what we know. And partly because gay men in the Vancouver area—from West Point Grey to the Fraser Valley, David King Sandra MacMillan and from White Rock to Whistler—have been asking for a magazine that refl ects their diverse interests and tastes. We hope that’s what you’ll fi nd in LOV. DESIGN & ART DIRECTION TJ has worked in gay media in Vancouver for years. I have written about gay issues TJ Ngan and identity, as well as fashion and design, for all the major publications in town. The support and encouragement we have received from people in all corners of the CIRCULATION / DISTRIBUTION community has been miraculous. I don’t use that word lightly. I have worked in the DIRECTOR publishing world for twenty-fi ve years and have never experienced anything like it. So Guy Babineau hats off to those who have contributed to LOV in so many ways. You know who you are. Our feature story in this issue takes readers back to the streets of New York City during CONTRIBUTORS the six days of the Stonewall Rebellion forty years ago. Nobody was planning a world- Nick Bertossi, Darren Bruce, Cate Cameron, Steven changing gay rights movement yet that’s what happened, because all the right elements Carty, Chad Combes, Terry Costa, Micah Gilbert, Parker Goode, Michael Graf, Diane Ho, Amanda Kerr, happened to coalesce at the right time in the right place. LOV won’t change the world, but James Loewen, Dean Nelson, Nicholas Opp, Deana it will, we hope, help change the city’s cultural landscape; by adding to it. Vancouver is an Palkowski, Brendan Rolfe, Blair Smith, Symone, Dan exciting young city experiencing fast, monumental growth, with tangible contributions Stafford, Redd Villanueva, Lindsay Wincherauk from the gay community. We deserve a diverse and differentiated media. It’s time. EDITORIALS Inside, Symone, Vancouver’s Queen of Style, keeps us in touch with what’s hot and what’s [email protected] not. In our fi rst Inside Story, a column presenting an insider’s perspective of issues and events affecting gay men, Lindsay Wincherauk tells us about the current condition of ADVERTISING his friend Ritch Dowrey, who suffered brain damage as the result of an attack in one of [email protected] the city’s gay bars. We hear about the exciting parties, performers and events heating up Vancouver Pride at the end of July, take a trip back in time through four decades of gay LISTINGS fashion, and salute Team Vancouver as it heads off to the World Outgames in Copenhagen. [email protected] Gay men in Vancouver have many voices. More than anything, we want CIRCULATION / DISTRIBUTION LOV to create dialogue. Let us know what you think, if you have any [email protected] news tips or story ideas, or would like to contribute to LOV. 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Current Affairs JULY/AUGUST 2009 Local & National GAY DATING NEW OLYMPIC SPORT? he Canadian Olympic competitive sport. Committee (COC) is “It’s hard to resist the challenging the right of obvious jokes about North America’s largest the Canadian Olympic chatline for gay men to use Committee claiming Ta logo it has been using since 2004. confusion with a gay Vancouver-based Interactive Male has men’s dating service,” announced that it plans to fight back. says Joe Rachert, Interactive Male is a subsidiary of a spokesperson for Teligence, parent company of a number Interactive Male. “Our of other telephone social networking advertising reflects never followed through with a required written document stating reasons for the objection, and recently decided to proceed It’s hard to resist the with the challenge through legal channels. “obvious jokes about “Our logo is a meaningful representation to the GLBT community,” says Rachert. the Canadian Olympic “We have invested a great deal of Committee claiming money and energy in building our brand through advertising, sponsorship confusion with a gay and community involvement, so we men’s dating service.” want to protect that investment.” The COC was unable to respond because the legal counsel with access to information about the challenge services. The chatline’s logo shows two our logo and often depicts two male was out of the country at press time. stick figure men facing each other and models interacting in a manner that Interactive Male is a well-regarded holding hands to form an “M”. Its style does not resemble any Olympic sporting corporate citizen in the gay community, resembles sporting event pictograms activity that I’ve ever seen. Ask any and has supported numerous events used at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, gay guy or straight; there’s always a and organizations including Vancouver which, in turn, resemble pictograms little sport involved in dating. But let’s Pride, the Vancouver Friends For widely used for decades at street face it, we’re a voice and video dating Life Society and many others. crossings, as well as warning symbols service for gay men. No one is going to and on washroom doors in private and mistake us for anything Olympic.” “The COC’s opposition hardly public spaces across the country. seems an effective use of Canadian According to Interactive Male, the COC taxpayers’ money,” says Rachert. Interactive Male’s logo does not resemble submitted a challenge about a year any of the sporting event symbols after Interactive Male applied for its The final fate of Interactive Male’s for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, logo’s trademark registration in 2005. logo is yet to be determined. Bruno Poster: www.empiremovies.com Logo & Billboard courtesy of Interactive Male Logo & Billboard courtesy of Interactive www.empiremovies.com Bruno Poster: nor does it suggest any recognizable Interactive Male claims that the COC A hearing is pending.