GayCalgary Magazine - July 2007

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Tough Enough to Wear Pink?

Edmonton’s Capital Ex Calgary Stampede

The Body Groom: Shave Everywhere!

Your “Fruit Salad” Will Thank You

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GLBT RESOURCE • CALGARY & EDMONTON

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Established originally in January 1992 as Men For Men BBS by MFM Communications. Named changed to GayCalgary.com in 1998. Stand alone company as of January 2004. First Issue of GayCalgary.com Magazine, November 2003. Name adjusted in November 2006 to GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine.

Publisher Steve Polyak & Rob Diaz-Marino, publisher@gaycalgary.com Editor Rob Diaz Marino, editor@gaycalgary. com

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Original Graphic Design Deviant Designs Advertising Steve Polyak sales@gaycalgary.com Contributors Steve Polyak, Rob Diaz-Marino, Jason Clevett, Jerome Voltero, Kevin Alderson, Stephen Lock, Allison Brodowski , Mercedes Allen, IMU. URME , Christopher Garvey and the Gay and Lesbian Community of Calgary and Edmonton Photographer Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino Videographer Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino Please forward all inquiries to: GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine Suite 100, 215 14th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2R 0M2 Phone (403) 543-6960 or toll free (888) 543-6960 Fax (403) 703-0685 E-mail magazine@gaycalgary.com Print Run Monthly, 12 times a year

The Pride is Right Letter from the Publisher

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10 Tough Enough to Wear Pink?

Working Toward a Future Without Breast Cancer

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Capital Ex

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The Body Groom: Shave Everywhere!

Bringing The Culture of Edmonton to Center Stage

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Your “Fruit Salad” Will Thank You

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Map & Event Listings

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The Calgary Fringe Festival

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Q Scopes

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Adult Film Review

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Q Puzzle

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Taking Pride

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Western Canadian Pride Campout 2007

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Caught in a Sugar Rush

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Find out what’s happening

Calgary Goes to the Fringe of Artistry

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“Practice economy, Gemini!”

Tagteam, H2O, Mirage, Line-up “Togged Out”

The Largest Gay Campout in the West

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Music Review

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Afraid…of what?

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Bruce La Bruce

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Origins of a Filmmaker

Copies Printed Monthly, Over 10,000 copies.

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Fundraising Photos

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Queer Eye - Calgary & Edmonton

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Letters to the Editor

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The Calgary Stampede

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Lashes for Life

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Is Gay Becoming Too Straight?

Distributed by Gallant Distributions (Calgary), Clark’s Distribution (Edmonton), Canada Post (rest of Canada and USA) and by GayCalgary.com

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Boundaries To Equality

Deadline for Ad Bookings 25th of the month (unless otherwise stated)

Coffee Break, GayDays, One Mighty Weekend

Community Events this Month - Part 1

The Greatest Outdoor Show for 2007 Posh Fundraiser to Raise the Roof

The Le Stud Situation

Deadline for Ad copy 28th of the month (unless otherwise stated)

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Bitter Girl

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Press Releases

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A Couple of Guys

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Queen Street Desperados

This Issue Cover Rick Brien of Calgary, photo taken at Symon’s Valley Ranch in Calgary by Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino.

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Queer Eye - Calgary & Edmonton

The opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of GayCalgary.com or the contributors of the magazine.

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Legal Council Courtney Sebree Aarbo, Barristers and Solicitors Printers North Hill News

Andy Fabo at Skew Gallery

Community Events this Month - Part 2

People photographed or interviewed, writers, advertisers, contributors and anyone else involved with this publication are not necessarily gay, lesbian, bi, bi-curious or trans gendered. They can be straight people that are gay friendly.

August 2007 Press Deadlines

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The Pride is Right Letter from the Publisher

By Rob Diaz-Marino It was a novel thing for us to attend Edmonton Gay Pride this year, as it was the first time we have been to a Gay Pride event outside of Calgary. We were extremely glad to be a sponsor of both cities this month, but it made for a very busy two weeks.

In Calgary it finally didn’t rain on our parade! In fact, it was a beautiful day and probably the best attended Gay Pride I have seen in the last five years that I‘ve been out.

The parade was significantly better than the 10-minute wonders of years prior, and following it a sea of people, all converging on Olympic Plaza. Not a single protestor that I saw, but thank god, nothing like the scandal that marred Gay Pride last year. With the sun still out, people stayed longer at the street festival rather than immediately running out to the bars. The plaza pool was full of water which turned into a large wet dance floor, on which many youth frolicked as the DJ blasted tunes across the park.

We did our usual routine of popping over to photograph all of the post parade parties at the bars. At first, things were a little slow but picked up as the street festival wound down. The Backlot was full of chatter and laughter; Money Pennies was decked out with major rainbow banners, and had a live band and outdoor beer garden; Twisted had the first ever female version of their Wet Wednesday competition, and gave away some rather large door prizes; the patio at the Eagle was so packed that you couldn’t move, and Barry was on the grill serving burgers. It was a day of celebration…and in our case, satisfied exhaustion.

To attend Edmonton Gay Pride, we regrettably had to cut out on our Calgary Pride Dance (though our writer Jason still showed up to snap some photos). The parade in Edmonton was fabulous but didn’t seem to go on as long as Calgary’s. A nasty downpour started just as things were wrapping up, leaving everyone running for cover on their way to the street festival. Though the rain subsided, the clouds still hovered ominously over the festivities. I have to admit that Edmonton’s street festival beat ours out with the larger venue of Churchill Square. The beer garden encompassed a stage where various drag queens and performers from The Roost and Buddies put on a fabulous show to keep the masses entertained. This included a relay race on the sidelines, where drag queens and Edmonton Pride volunteers competed for fun.

Although I usually stay behind in Calgary, the long list of events happening during Edmonton Pride (some of which overlapped one another) made Steve insist that I come along to help. The night before the Parade, I photographed the Northern Chaps Leather Cocktails held at The Roost. There was quite a large contingent of people in attendance from Calgary, which made me feel at home. The Mr. and Ms. Edmonton Leather candidates were given a fun challenge:

Martha Stewart mummification of a willing audience member.

With a selection of props and items, each candidate wrapped up and dressed up their volunteer. The winning mummification – what looked to me like a gardening grandma gone horribly wrong - was described by judges as reminiscent of Michael Phair. This was a name that I would be hearing a lot this weekend.

Indeed, Steve and I were both amazed at how often we saw Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman and City Councillor Michael Phair – they were at practically every Edmonton Pride event that we covered! Even at the Northern Chaps Mr. and Ms. Leather Competition, both showed up. They presented Laurie with a T-Shirt that read “Member Leather Assembly”, but Michael stole the show when he turned up in full leather gear. To the audience’s delight, he was escorted onto the stage and spanked by a leather daddy twice his size! He was also the flamboyantly dressed umpire at the softball game that pitted members of Edmonton’s gay community against the City of Edmonton Police. Sadly we lost, but seeing the policemen changing back into their uniforms was ample compensation.

One event that particularly impressed us was the Mayor’s Brunch, attended by Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel himself! Proceeds of the event went to sponsor Camp fYrefly, and they announced the launch of a new scholarship specifically for members of the GLBT community.

It would be monumental if we could get Calgary’s mayor more involved with our Gay Pride festivities…maybe in time.

My birthday this year fell on a Monday, however I celebrated it the Sunday while we were still in Edmonton. After the softball game, Steve and I split off from the masses to go out for a wonderful dinner. Later in the gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #45, July 2007

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evening we went to the Roost for their Sunday drag show.

It wasn’t quite as wild as my past birthdays at the Calgary bars – mainly because I wasn’t in the mood for drinking till I felt sick. Joe, the assistant manager of the Roost, was kind enough to offer us the few drinks I was willing to have, but introduced me to a vile concoction called a “snakebite” to clinch it all. I nearly refused to drink it until I was told it contained $8 worth of premium Jack Daniels. Grudgingly I downed it…I’ll really never be a hard liquor kind of guy.

Drag queens Binky and Vanity even congratulated me on the mic and worked me into their hilarious banter. Although I was in a yet unfamiliar city, I still felt like I was in the company of friends.

Fighting Hate with Hate?

Steve went back up to Edmonton the very next weekend for their dance and closing ceremonies. As he was returning on the Greyhound Monday morning, he was witness to an incident as passengers were loading onto the bus. An old man who appeared to be in a bad mood to begin with, started trying to dictate where a Chinese man – a complete stranger - could sit, all the while mumbling racist slurs quite audibly to himself. The poor Chinese man, who did not speak fluent English, didn’t really understand what was going on. A number of other passengers saw this happening, and came to his defence.

As the old bigot became more belligerent, one passenger started calling him a “bigoted fag” and a cocksucker. Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black? Before the situation was able to escalate any further, the bus driver intervened and the bigoted man was promptly kicked off. Though Steve was pretty offended by the homophobic slurs, nobody else seemed dissatisfied that the homophobe stayed.

In a perfect world I suppose Steve could have said “I’m a faggot and a cocksucker – I don’t want to be associated with this jackass!”

In a departure from reality, an angry donky might get up from one of the seats and say “I’m a jackass, and I don’t want to be associated with this bastard!” And then a guy without a father…well, you get the picture. But the irony of it all is just sickening. Bigotry and faggotry definitely don’t mix.

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we were lucky enough to get a proper camping ground with hook-ups, rather than being in overflow as we did the last time. It’s a relief for us, because running two laptops off a power inverter seemed a little risky! I wish we didn’t have to bring them at all, but we have our share of responsibilities while we’re up there.

Don’t forget, if you need to get back and forth between Symon’s Valley and downtown Calgary, the Rodeo Bus will be running all three days from early morning (Saturday and Sunday) to late at night. The posters are up at the bars, and postcards are available for you to take for a convenient list of stop addresses and the schedule. Failing that, the information is available at www.gaycalgary.com/rodeobus. During peak hours, there will be two separate buses running to cover the 5 stop locations, so if you get on at Symon’s Valley please verify that particular bus is going where you need it to. On the schedule, pick up times for the downtown stop locations are grouped into a single “Calgary Stops” time; the traffic makes it impossible to designate exact times for each individual location. As long as you are at waiting at the stop come the listed time, you should not miss the bus.

Of course the Calgary Stampede will be another fun diversion this month. Jann Arden will be performing during Sneak-a-Peek on July 5th, but read the article on page 44 for more details. Also, Steve and I will likely both be attending the Capital EX event in Edmonton since we have never been to it before (pg. 12). Otherwise things should be pretty quiet as we enter the lazy summer months once again. I’m looking forward to having a little more time to get caught up on all the things I have been putting off. It’s definitely going to be a summer of change.

Bar Banter – Time to Cut the Crap Personally I really hate bringing up gay community politics in the publisher’s column. I really really really hate it. I wrack my brain for any alternate way of dealing with it that doesn’t involve legitimizing the often petty issues in print.

But I fear for the future when people start doing unforgivable things on the premise of a half-baked rumor, so in the end I only do mention this tripe to try and deflate the issues through awareness. In the gay publishing industry, our magazine is an anomaly for the fact that we have garnered support from all gay bars in Calgary as long as we have. In most other cities across Canada and the US, such a thing is completely unheard of. But when bar politics get nasty and things start to come unravelled, we are the first ones to feel the pinch. We still haven’t been able to get the larger bars in Edmonton to advertise consistently. People have described it to us as: if a bar thinks their competition might advertise, they won’t advertise themselves. This makes it very difficult to support the Edmonton community when we are not receiving full support in return, due to this warped philosophy. But we hope to move them to the spirit of cooperation, eventually.

There’s a well known saying: the two things you don’t discuss with your friends are Religion and Politics. There is good reason for that. They are two issues that people feel passionately about, and unfortunately ones where people are destined to disagree. There are rarely any right answers, only popular opinions. However many will argue (to the death?) that theirs is the correct one. Maybe if everyone in

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Tough Enough to Wear Pink?

Working Toward a Future Without Breast Cancer

By Rob Diaz-Marino

The color Pink has held a special place in the gay community, but this Stampede it is going to take on a whole new meaning for everyone.

The last thing you might imagine is a big rugged cowboy, a symbol of virulent manhood, wearing this color – but expect it to fill the streets this Stampede season.

Tough Enough to Wear Pink (TETWP) is a Wrangler initiative that recognizes the tens of thousands of courageous individuals across Canada who face breast cancer every day. Wrangler, Lammle’s Western Wear & Tack, the Calgary Stampede, and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) have teamed up this year to launch a special campaign with the goal of creating a future without breast cancer. The event entitled “30 hours of Tough” will help to kick off the Calgary Stampede.

An integral part of painting the Stampede and Stampede Parade pink is to get participants to dress accordingly. This is where Lammle’s Western Wear & Tack comes in with a new and fashionable product line. Purchasing men’s or women’s shirts from the TETWP line not only gets you a special discount on a pair of Wrangler jeans, but the net proceeds from the merchandise will go to the CBCF – Prairies/ NWT chapter’s fundraising campaign. While you’re there, check out their wide selection of clothing – everything else you’ll need to cowboy-up!

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Review | Fashion The 2007 Calgary Stampede opens with 30-Hours of Tough on Thursday, July 5th at 4pm, with a $3 park admission to Sneak-a-Peek, where 100 per cent of paid admission will go to the campaign. See Jann Arden perform on the Coca-Cola stage for free with your admission fee!

The fundraising event concludes with a cheque presentation on July 6th at 10 pm during the Evening Show.

It’s estimated that 22,300 women and 170 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in Canada this year. This year the most courageous cowboys and cowgirls in the world will be wearing pink... and so can you!

For more information: http://www.toughenoughtowearpink.com http://cs.calgarystampede.com/deals/tough.html http://www.lammles.com/showcase.htm Photos included with article is from the Lammle’s Fashion show at Twisted Element

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Capital Ex

Bringing The Culture of Edmonton to Center Stage

By Allison Brodowski

Our neighbors to the north are gearing up for the biggest showcase festival of the season: Capital EX. If you had three words to describe Capital EX, the phrase “summer’s biggest celebration” might come to mind. The original title for the city-wide event was Klondike Days and it all began with a local exhibition of the Edmonton Agricultural Society on October 15th, 1879. Now the renamed and reclaimed Capital EX festival will span from July 19th through to the 29th and will be featuring such stars as Nelly Furtado, Our Lady Peace, Hot Hot Heat, Hedley, Blue Rodeo, Credence Clearwater Revisited, Three Days Grace and many many more. The festival features a colourful line-up of big-name stars, family fun, shopping and midway that attracts more visitors than most other city festivals combined.

As Canada’s largest non-profit agricultural society, Northlands produces the exhibition on behalf of the community, putting on the year’s biggest party for its citizens and about its citizens. “Capital EX celebrates and reflects the best aspects of the community year-round, condensed into the 10 biggest days of the year,” says Laura Gadowsky, Northlands volunteer director responsible for Capital EX. In this year’s line-up, you’ll see community representation through sports, arts and multi-cultural programs, as well as the kind of big concerts, variety shows and engaging kids’ entertainment that reflect the surrounding Edmonton community.

One of the primary features at Rexall center will be a show hosted by a bevy of 200 million year old guests.

Walking, fully animated dinosaurs, most fifteen feet tall,

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some towering at forty five feet tall are the main attraction for this theatrical show case. This Canadian brain child is making its debut in Edmonton before embarking on a world tour which will hit Winnipeg and Toronto before crossing over to Europe. The show requires the full arena of the Rexall center because of the creatures’ immense size.

Australian-born Bruce Mactaggart, who is one of the show’s creators, has said “This is a show that could only fit in arenas, as the creatures are so absolutely immense in size. It is the closest thing you’ll ever get to experience what it was like when they walked and ruled the earth.”

Based upon an award-winning BBC Television series, the show depicts the evolution of dinosaurs, complete with the climatic changes and tectonic movements that took place allowing them to survive for so long. With almost cinematic realism, Walking with Dinosaurs has scenes of actual interactions between dinosaurs. The audience sees how carnivorous dinosaurs evolved to walk on two legs, and how herbivores fended off their more agile

predators.

The creatures in Walking With Dinosaurs were created by the world’s best animatronics and special effects specialists who worked on movies such as Stars Wars Episode III and the Matrix. “This brings some of that same technology to full life before their eyes. The computer software and hardware we have developed is based on the systems used to control animatronic creatures in feature films.” Says Mactaggart.

It is fitting that such a show premier in Alberta, famous for our historically rich badlands where digging up a Jurassic friend can be no further away than the royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller.

Other events include: A FIFA World Cup Soccer Game (under 20 men’s) with the finals being broadcast later in July from Toronto; a Harry Potter book launch taking place on July 21st corresponding to the book release which include themed events and games for the kids and adult fans alike; an Art Garden and Art Vending machine, courtesy of Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts; Mural Mosaic showcasing a compilation of small paintings by local artists to create one huge masterpiece; Miniature Gallery consisting of 300-piece mini-gallery presented by Night of Artists, including The Paint Spot’s Shop generous offering of art demonstrations and classes. In support of our troops in Afghanistan a C.F.B Fun Town will feature as part of Family Fun Town an interactive children’s attraction that delivers commodity group information through fun “farm chores”.

sion, which is less than the cost of a movie.”

Capital EX July 19th – 29th Edmonton, Alberta Advance tickets available.

1-780-471-7210 www.capitalex.ca

Kiyanaw – A First People’s Showcase is doing its part to ensure that the presence of the Native Canadian groups in northern Alberta is accurately represented at Capital EX. The exhibit includes arts, crafts and live entertainment. Another headlining feature of this year’s festival will include the Northern Star Talent Search which has a proud history of launching the careers of talented young performers from the area.

Capital EX has been representing Edmonton and the surrounding community as the city’s biggest summer festival over a colourful and proud history. The events scheduled are sure to please everyone from kids to up and coming Canadian stars.

“It’s all here at Capital EX for the price of gate admis-

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The Body Groom: Shave Everywhere!

Your “Fruit Salad” Will Thank You

By Jerome Voltero

Review | Product

So maybe you like your body smooth, or you want to turn that wild forest into a neatly groomed garden. In the past, managing your body hair has been – sometimes quite literally – a pain in the butt.

Finally there’s a non-excruciating alternative to waxing, and a much less dangerous alternative to taking a razor blade to the family jewels (or places you need a mirror to see). Philips recently released the new Body Groom electric shaver, a product exclusively for men that is designed to make it easy to tackle body hair in some of your most sensitive areas.

Trimming the pubic area can add what Philips refers to as an “Optical Inch” – that is, the impression of greater length where it counts. In addition to that, thick body hair can be a breeding ground for bacteria, so proper grooming can actually reduce certain forms of body odour. Besides, why hide nice pecs and a six-pack under a “shaggy pelt” – trim it back a little and you can have the best of both worlds!

What makes the body groom unique is that it combines a shaving foil with two trimming blades, making it possible to shave by pushing or dragging the head across your skin. The trimming blades cut down longer and coarser hairs, while the hypoallergenic foil cleans up stubble for a close shave. You can also clip on one of the three trimming combs to achieve different lengths, and by rocking the head from front to back, you can create a transition from shorter to longer hair. The best part is that the unit is designed to minimize hair pulling and shaver burn – which would hurt that much more on your privates.

Philips was kind enough to send us a demo unit to try out, and we really put it to the test. Their literature says that on a full charge, the unit can last for up to 5 hours of shaving (as if you’d need that much). They weren’t kidding though – we left it charging in the stand for maybe 10 minutes before we used it and it kept going for an hour solid. In fact, we finished with it before it had a chance to run out of juice.

During that time we tried a number of things. Although the unit can be used for wet-shaving in the shower, we figured water would only soften the hairs – thus we kept everything dry to test its limits. After shaving my crotch totally smooth, I was pleased to note that I felt absolutely 14

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no skin irritation: no cuts or friction scrapes, and it only pulled a hair once when I pushed too hard in an area I hadn’t trimmed first.

The ultimate test was the coarse hair on my partner’s back…you know you love someone when you have the patience to shave their back hair. And you know someone loves you when they don’t get mad at your really nasty hack-job – but that was the past, and I digress. The body groom actually did pretty decent! Perhaps dry-shaving wasn’t the way to go in this case, as it couldn’t get some of the really thick stubble. But in the end it was still smooth to the touch, and nothing two minutes with a razor couldn’t clean up. As long as I went slowly and didn’t push too hard, it didn’t tug any hairs either.

Cleaning the unit afterward was also really easy. Shavers that I have used in the past have been a nightmare to reassemble after cleaning, since you have to make sure

all of the components are meshing properly when you clip it shut again. However, the Body Shave’s head pops off in modular layers that are intuitive to reassemble – it’s as easy as clicking them back into place. One thing that proved a little tricky was removing the trimming combs once I had clipped them onto the head.

My first instinct was to pry the front or the back, which ended up popping the entire head off the unit. Serves me right for not reading the manual – the trick is quite simple and the combs detached easily once I applied it.

Another thing particularly endearing about the Body Groom is the website, shaveeverywhere.com. The interactive site is hilarious to watch, but does a masterful job of explaining the product with enough humor to diffuse any embarrassment. After you see it, I promise the “Fruit Salad” reference will finally make sense!

Philips Norelco Body Groom Buy it at: Sears, Wal-Mart, Target, and Costco Online at: Amazon.com www.shaveeverywhere.com

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Events Listing

Find out what’s happening Calgary Listings Accommodations

Westways Guest House 13 216 - 25 Ave SW • (403) 229-1758 http://www.gaywestways.com

Bars and Clubs

BackLot 3 See our ad on page 47 209 - 10 Ave SW • (403) 265-5211 Open 7 days a week, 4pm-close Calgary Eagle Inc. 4 See our ad on page 27 424a - 8 Ave SE • (403) 263-5847 Open Wed-Sun 5pm-close http://www.calgaryeagle.com

Money-Pennies 9 See our ad on page 19 and 55 1742 - 10 Ave SW • (403) 263-7411 http://www.money-pennies.com Texas Lounge 6 See our ad on page 59 308 - 17 Ave SW • (403) 229-0911 Twisted Element 33 1006 11th Ave SW - Front Entrance• (403) 802-0230 http://www.twistedelement.ca Twisted Element Lounge 33 1006 11th Ave SW - Back door Entrance • (403) 802-0230 http://www.twistedelement.ca

Bathhouse and Sauna’s Goliath’s 6 See our ad on page 15

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308 - 17 Ave SW • (403) 229-0911 Open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day

Businesses Alykhan Velji (403) 617-2406 Interior Decorator

Adult Depot 140, 58th Ave SW •(403) 258-2777 1514 14th St SW •(403) 264-7399 23 See our ad on page 13 Sex toys, and Straight, Bi, Gay video rentals Barbies Shop 48 1518 4th Street SW • (403) 262-8265 Adult clothing store, shoes, Gothic, punk, fetish, custom corsettes and more.

Brian Mahoney & John McNeill #10, 6020 - 1A St SW • (403) 259-4141 Re/Max Reality Professionals

BuBu Bear (403) 852-6977 http://www.bububear.ca Portable adult novelties Courtney Sebree Aarbo 24 1138 Kensington Road NW • (403) 571-5120 http://www.csalaw.ca Barristers & solicitors Chronos Apollo #520 922 5th Avenue SW • (403) 237-2353 Physician directed skin care and more Cruiseline See our ad on page 72 (403) 777-9494 trial code 3500 http://www.cruiseline.ca Phone chat room & talking classifieds for 18+ Deva Dave Salon 32 910 12th Avenue SW • (403) 290-1973 http://www.devadave.com

eXude Productions http://www.exudeproductions.com See our ad on page 60 First Class Flowers Elbow and Heritage Drive SW• (403) 255-2239 Inside Corner of Blackfoot Trail & 34th Avenue SE• (403) 241-8550 Jane Doe Marketplace & Cafe 50 See our ad on page 8 311 17 Avenue SW • (403) 245-5263 Calgary’s Only Marketplace featuring Women Entrepreneurs. Coffee Shop too!

La Fleur 41 See our ad on page 9 #103 - 100 7th Avenue SW (403) 266-1707 Florist Shop Lammle’s Western Wear Chinook Centre •(403) 255-5292 Crowfoot Crossing •(403) 547-9808 Deerfoot Mall •(403) 275-6877 Market Mall •(403) 247-9224 Marlborough •(403) 273-2233 Stephen Avenue Walk •(403) 266-5226 Westhills Town Centre •(403) 249-2822 Leather and Lace 2020 32nd Avenue NE • (403) 291-4060 The art of romance

Lorne Doucette /CIR Realtors See our ad on page 13 (403) 461-9195 http://www.lornedoucette.com Marcy Calberry /CIR Realtors See our ad on page 25 (403) 291-4440 or (866) 859-4440 MFM Communications See our ad on page 43 (403) 543-6970 http://www.mfmcommunications.com Web site hosting and development. Computer Hardware and Software.

More Better Buses (403) 651-1692 Providing unique, comfortable & affordable transportation. Charter us for: High School Graduations, Senior Groups, Pub Crawls and Sporting Events Priape Calgary 16 See our ad on page 16 1322 - 17 Ave SW • (403) 215-1800 http://www.priape.com Clothing and accessories. Adult toys, leather wear, movies and magazines. Gifts.

Rev. Nadene Rogers See our ad on page 12 (403) 247-0602 http://www.weddingsmyway.com Marriage Commissioner

Reymark See our ad on page 53 Able Craftsman, Your home renovation specialist (403) 478-2411 • reymark@telus.net R. Cobalt 45 See our ad on page 9 735 12th Avenue SW • (403) 228-7822 Hair & Aesthetics Sol Sourced Weddings See our ad on page 60 (403) 270-9480 http://www.solsourcedweddings.com Wedding Commissioner Z-Group Voice over IP (VOIP) phone service and long distance (403) 770-1940

Community Groups and Organizations

Aids Calgary 2 200, 1509 Centre St South • (403) 508-2500 http://www.aidscalgary.org 2007 AIDS Walk for Life Sunday, September 23, 2007 at Eau Claire Apollo Calgary Friends in Sports http://www.apollocalgary.com Apollo Friends In Sports is a volunteer-operated, non-profit organization serving primarily members

of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered communities but open to members of all communities. We currently have more than 400 members and are growing fast! The primary focus of Apollo is to provide our membership with well organized and fun sporting events and other activities to allow them to participate and interact in a positive social framework.

Absolutely Smashing! Badminton- Winter Event Curling- Winter Event Squash - Winter Event Volleyball.- Winter Event Rainbow Riders Bowling League - Let’s 10 Pin Bowlerama, 2916 5 Avenue NE, Wednesday’s at 6:30pm. Season is from September to April. League fees are $15.00 per Night. Shoe rental is $2.00 Outdoor Pursuits - In attempting to meet our members requests for diverse sporting activities we have formed the Apollo Outdoor Pursuits League!

If it’s done outdoors we do it! (and occasionally we venture indoors too). This summer we will be hiking, biking, rock climbing, rafting and a whole bunch more. If you’re interested in any of these or something else completely, get in touch with us. Tired of playing alone outdoors? Well this is a GREAT opportunity to participate in events you enjoy doing with other interested members of the community. To be added to the distribution list for regular updates please email outdoorpursuits@ apollocalgary.com.

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Golf - Contact golf@apollocalgary.com, Or by phone 276-8094 Lawn Bowling - For more information, please contact Chris or Phil at lawnbowling@ apollocalgary.com.

Slow Pitch - Friday Nights - Slo Pitch League, Co-Ed * Rec * Drop-In, Every Friday at 7:00pm - starts May 11, 2007 (tentative – based on weather), West Hillhurst Community Centre, 18 Street & 5 Avenue NW (East Field) Yoga - Winter Event.

ARGRA – Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association Hotline: (403) 541-8140 http://www.argra.org See our ad on page 2 Thursday, June 28th (8pm) Prairie Fire Warm-Up Money Pennies Eatery & Bar (1742 – 10th Ave SW) (9pm) Wet Jockey Contest Calgary Eagle (424A 8th Ave SE) Friday, June 29th (6pm-9pm) Contestants & Grand Entry Registration Valley View Hall, Symon’s Valley Ranch (Lower Level) (8pm) Friday Night Cabaret Presented by ARGRA & Stuart Aikins Casting Inc. 8pm Rooster in a Hen House, 9pm Emerson Drive

5:00pm at Tomkins Park (17th Ave, 8th Street), Join us at Tomkins Park for the 4th Annual Donnie Peters Memorial Cut-a-Thon! Get your hair cut to help fundraise for the Positive Living Lunch program at AIDS Calgary. Entertainment for the whole family, including DJs, Prizes, and more! Haircuts: $20 for Adults, $10 for Children, $20 for Pets

Calgary Networking Club (CNC) is back.... after a 5 year hiatus, CNC is meeting again in Calgary on the first Thursday of every month. The networking meetings are open to all individuals who would like to promote their businesses or who would like to meet new people - no business affiliation is necessary.

Between Men and Between Men Online (403) 234-8973 http://www.glcsa.org/ Peer support, sexual health education for gay or bisexual men, as well as those who may be uncertain or questioning their sexuality. Discussions range from personal relationship or life issues, to sexual health and well-being.

CNC is for members of the LGBTQ community to make new friends or business contacts. This group is not age or gender specific.

Come listen to our monthly guest speaker, have a snack, and enjoy talking with some new people.

Admission to the meeting is $5, or a yearly subscription pass can be bought for $25 (a 28% savings). If you have a GLCSA membership take an additional $5 off your yearly subscription cost.

GLCSA memberships will also be available at the meeting for $10. (Call GLCSA for details on membership benefits).

For more information contact GLCSA at (403) 2348973....or just drop in on the meeting.

Calgary Networking Club (CNC) is a Gay & Lesbian Community Services Association (GLCSA) event.

Food and venue sponsored by Money Pennies Bar and Eatery.

Meetings at GLCSA Tuesdays 7:00pm to 9:00pm Calgary Big men and Admirers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ CalgaryAlbertaBigmenClub/ A group for gay and bisexual men only. Interested parties are welcome to join our VIRTUAL Group in Alberta to: Ease Friendly meetings between big guys and those who love them, organize different social activities, and market a positive image of big men.

Hope to See you soon...

Big men’s and Admirers Sunday Brunch @ 11am.

Mother Tuckers ,345 10th Ave S.W., Calgary. A social outing for bigger guys and those who enjoy their company AND its a FOOD DRIVE, so bring something that is non perishable so we can help out the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank! RSVP before November 10th to bigpaul41@yahoo.com

Saturday, June 30th (8am-10am) Pancake Breakfast (9am) Contestants Meeting First time competitors must attend.

(10am) Roping Events (12pm) Grand Entry & Rodeo Events (6:30pm) Dinner Doors at 5 pm and tickets must be purchased in advance.

(9pm-2am) Bud Light Barn Burner Dance

Calgary Frontrunners Running Club When: 9 am on Saturdays, Where: Update! Coffee Junkies -795 1 Avenue SW (no longer meeting at Eau Claire Y) What: Walkers and Runners between 5 km – 15 km from sub 5 min/km pace to 10 min/km pace.

Who: All are welcome - Typically about 15-20 men and women depending on the weather conditions Contact: E-mail calgaryfrontrunners@shaw.ca or call Tim at (403) 660-6125

Saturday, July 1st (8am-10am) Pancake Breakfast (10am) Roping Events (12pm) Grand Entry & Rodeo Events (5pm) Doors open at the Driftwood Hall (8pm-2am) Awards Ceremony and Money Pennies Happy Trails Dance

Calgary Gay Fathers calgaryfathers@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/calgaryfathers

Monday, July 2nd (5pm) ARGRA’s Official Survivor Party Money Pennies Eatery & Bar (1742 – 10th Ave SW) (10pm) The Last Stand Calgary Eagle (424A 8th Ave SE) Artists for the Quality of Life (403) 890-1261 http://www.afqol.com A Tribute to StoneWall - Thurs. Jun 28th, 2007 at The Twisted Element (1006 11th Ave SW) Hosted

by Entertainer 15 Mz. Toni!

Cut-a-Thon - Mon. September 3rd 10:00am to 18

Peer support group for gay, bisexual and questioning fathers. Meeting twice a month Calgary Humane Society See our ad on page 47 (403) 250-4455 http://www.calgaryhumane.ca Animal Adoptions and for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Calgary Men’s Chorus (403) 262-6295 http://www.calgarymenschorus.org Rehearsals are held from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Old Y Centre for Community Organizations, located at 223 12 Avenue SW. Calgary Networking Club November 2, 5:00-7:00pm At Money Pennies (upstairs) 1742 - 10 Ave SW

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Calgary Sexual Health Centre 304, 301 14th Street NW (403) 283-5580 http://www.calgarysexualhealth.ca Calgary Sexual Health Centre is a pro-choice organization that believes all people have the right and ability to make their own choices regarding their sexual and reproductive health. Calgary Sexual Health Centre started as a volunteer based, grassroots organization and has been providing comprehensive sexuality education and counselling programs to the Calgary community since 1972. In the early 70’s, CBCA’s work focused on improving access to birth control and increasing support for women facing unplanned pregnancies. Since that time Calgary Sexual Health Centre has evolved to include a range of services to ensure that individuals are able to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive well being. Our programs promote sexuality as a normal, positive and healthy part of life to be valued and respected. Currently the Calgary Sexual Health Centre offers education and youth peer education programs, counselling and groups for women who are questioning their sexual orientation.

RU a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirited or queer youth, ages 17-24? RU interested in helping make Calgary a safer place for people of diverse sexual orientation? If UR, we are looking for dynamic volunteers for our Anti-Homophobia Program.

This program is intended to raise awareness and understanding among students about the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirited, transgendered, queer and questioning youth. If you are interesting in sharing your experiences with other youth, and are available days, please call us at 283-5580 and ask for an Educator or contact pkrause@cbca.ab.ca..

Deer Park United Church and Wholeness Centre 77 Deerpoint Road SE - (403) 278-8263 http://www.dpuc.ca Worship Time - 10:00am Sundays Different Strokes http://www.differentstrokescalgary.org Swim Club.

Check website for current schedule Did You Say Bike?

YOU TOO CAN PEDAL YOUR ASS OFF! Riders Wanted - experience or no!

Come ride your bike with us and make new friends, learn how to maintain your wheels, maybe even learn a few tricks, and best of all get fit!

Everyone welcome!

The Windmill at Eau Claire, 12 until 3-ish. Tasty snacks and refreshments later on.

For more info on a great motivational experience, E-mail us at ridingincalgaryrocks@hotmail.com Don’t Buy In Project http://www.dontbuyin.ca This Calgary Police Service Initiative aims to encourage youth to working towards an inclusive environment in which diversity is embraced in their schools and community.

Fake Mustache Calgary’s ONLY Drag King Show Soda Lounge: 211 - 12th Ave S.W. (403) 923-3953 http://www.miscyouth.com calgaryfakemustache@hotmail.com A benefit show for the Miscellaneous Youth Network, Fake Mustache is guaranteed to please! Come see our boys strut their stuff at Soda, the first Thursday of every month. $5 cover. $2 cover under 18.

Advance tickets available at Barbies Shop.

All Ages show starts at 7:30. 18+ show starts at 10:15.

Gay Prairie Alumni http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gayprairiealumni/ This group is for all gay/lesbian/transgendered alumni of Prairie Bible Institute and/or Prairie High School in Three Hills, Alberta. It’s purpose is twofold: First, social -- to renew old friendships and make new ones. Second -- to talk about our common experiences as gay people at a fundamentalist school. Any other questions, please feel free to ask.

Girl Friends http://members.shaw.ca/girlfriends Girlsgo Productions (403) 510-2502 http://www.girlsgo.ca Event production and promotion in Alberta for women. Check online for fun things to do!

Camping with GIRLSGO - Two opportunities to escape to a private, group campsite with other Women. August 24nd to 26th & September 7th to 9th

GLASS, Gay & Lesbian Association of Students and Staff 279R Student Union Club Spaces University of Calgary http://www.ucalgary.ca/~glass (403) 220-6394 GLCSA - Gay And Lesbian Community Services Association 1 #4, 1230A 17th Avenue SW (403) 234-8973 http://www.glcsa.org Peer Support and Crisis Line - Front-line help service for GLBT individuals and their family and friends, or anyone questioning their sexuality. Please click here for further information on our Peer Support Program.

24-Hour Info Line - Calgary’s resource directory for information, events, business referrals, organizations and support for the GLBT community.

Library - A great selection of resource books, fiction, non-fiction, videos and everything in between, all with a queer perspective.

Drop-In Center - A safe and supportive environment for one-to-one peer counseling for many issues surrounding family, coming out, homosexuality, loneliness and other issues.

Unity Pages - A service directory of GLBT or GLBTfriendly businesses, organizations, and services within Calgary.

Heading Out (403) 234-8973 http://www.glcsa.org/ Peer group for men who are looking for an alternative social activity to the bar. Activities vary and are fun and entertaining. The group meets the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month from 7 pm to 9 pm.

HIV Peer Support Group (403) 230-5832 hivpeergroup@yahoo.ca Illusions Calgary (403) 234-8973 http://www.glcsa.org Social group for Calgary and area transgender community members (cross dressers, transvestites, drag kings and queens). Illusions provides a safe, discrete and welcoming atmosphere, in which transgendered people can meet others of like mind.

Illusions offers discretion, acceptance, compassion and a safe place to express your gender. Crossdressing is the purpose of the group, but is not mandatory.

Inside Out (403) 234-8973 http://www.glcsa.org Peer-facilitated youth group for GLBTQ ages 15-25.

The group aims to let youth know they are not alone, and to connect them with their peers. Every Monday, 7 pm to 9pm at GLCSA. It is a funky and safe environment with a variety of resources and activities.

ISCCA – Imperial Sovereign Court of the Chinook Arch http://www.iscca.ca Twisted Lounge Open Shows - Every Wednesday at The Twisted Element Lounge (1006 11th Ave SW), Doors open at 9pm, show starts 9:30pm Backlot BBQ’s - Every Friday, The Backlot (209 - 10th Ave SW)Starting in June Texas Lounge Shooters - Every Saturday, 8pmMidnight at The Texas Lounge (308 - 17th Ave SW) Integrity Calgary http://members.aol.com/DWFrancis/integrity.html A transdenominational Christian fellowship under the auspices of the Anglican Church, for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and our friends. We have for the moment stopped our monthly Eucharist on the second Sunday of the month at 7:00pm in St. Stephen’s Anglican Church (1121- 14 Avenue S.W.): NO SERVICES TILL PRIDE St. Stephen’s Anglican Church is a very welcoming community that you may consider going to, they worship every Sunday morning at 8:00 am (traditional prayer book service) and the contemporary worship service at 10:30 am.

Rainbow Community Church of Calgary meets at Hill Hurst United Church off (Kensington Close NW).

They’re a GLBTQ etc. church (and straight folks are welcome too!) that seeks to provide tools for the spiritual journey thorough developing a supportive community. They are an interdenominational church in the Christian traditions with an evangelical and open flavour. Sundays at 4 PM. Pre-service prayer gathering at 3:30.

Knox United Church 506 - 4th Street S.W. • (403) 269-8382 http://www.knoxunited.ab.ca/ Knox United Church is an all-inclusive church located in downtown Calgary. A variety of facility rentals are also available for meetings, events and concerts.

Worship Services Wednesdays - Communion Service 12:10 pm Sundays - 11:00 a.m. September to June Sundays - 10:30 a.m. in summer July and August.

New Directions (403) 234-8973 or glcsa@glcsa.org http://www.glcsa.org/ Drop in peer-support group to provide support and resources for individuals who identify as transsexual or inter-sexed. The group meets every 3rd Friday of the month from 7 pm to 9 pm at GLCSA. If you are transsexual, or know of someone who is, please contact our office for information and assistance. You are not alone! There is support!

PFLAG Calgary (403) 234-0445 ext 801

Positive Space Committee at Mount Royal College 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW Phone: 403-440-6383 Web: www.mtroyal.ca/positivespace Email: stavcer@mtroyal.ca The Positive Space Committee at Mount Royal College works to raise awareness and challenge the patterns of silence that continue to marginalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gendered, two-spirited and queer (LGBTTQ) individuals.

Pride Calgary (403) 262-3410 http://www.pridecalgary.ca See our ad on page 34 Pride Tribal Awards - July 21st, 2007 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Location: The Auburn Saloon 163 115 9 Avenue SE, First annual Pride Tribal awards, celebrating the acheivements of many and recognition of those who made the difference this year in the Pride Festival. Come celebrate and see who wins the Catagories for Best Floats, Walking Group, Best Business and Non Profit Organizaiton during the 2007 Pride Parade. See who wins Best Tribal Awards in the Community. Performances by local artists! Enjoy some great Food and drinks at the Auburn Saloon!

Pride Rainbow Project prp@planet-save.com http://www.priderainbowproject.com The Pride Rainbow Project was started in Fall 2003 by 4 youth of the Unitarian Church of Calgary.

The Pride Rainbow Project is a project designed to show support for same-sex marriage in Canada and elsewhere. It is a fabric rainbow banner approximately 5 feet wide, and the goal is to make it 3.2km (2 miles) long, in order to break the world record (set by a group in Florida at 1.25 miles)!

It contains the 6 colours of the pride flag: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple. The project is youth run, but anyone can help!.

Primetimers Calgary E-mail: primetimerscalgary@gmail.com http://www.primetimerscalgary.com Prime Timers Calgary is designed to foster social interaction for its members through a variety of social, educational and recreational activities. It is open to all gay and bisexual men of any age and respects whatever degree of anonymity that each member desires.

Rainbow Community Church See our ad on page 37 Hillhurst United Church 1227 Kensington Close N.W. Website: http://www.rainbowcommunitychurch.ca E-mail: roneberly@shaw.ca The Rainbow Community Church is an all-inclusive church. Everyone is welcome (and we mean it!).

Services are held every Sunday afternoon at 4:00 PM. Rocky Mountain Bears http://www.rockymountainbears.com

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Safety Under The Rainbow

http://www.thesharpfoundation.com

http://www.safetyrainbow.ca

Annual General Meeting, July 17, 2007, 5:30 pm at the Kahanoff Centre.

Mission: To raise awareness and understanding of same-sex domestic violence and homophobic youth bullying.

Project Areas: Partnerships – Create partnerships with like-minded groups. Organize a meeting to discuss a provincewide cross-sector entity addressing domestic violence and homophobic bullying.

Training - Develop and pilot training modules that address GLBTT domestic violence and homophobic youth bullying. See the website or contact the office for information on the next training session.

Research – Conduct an enviro-scan of services and support available to GLBTT family violence and abuse victims.

Directory – Publish a province-wide directory of services and supports addressing same-sex domestic violence and homophobic bullying.

Survey – Conduct a survey on how same-sex domestic violence and homophobic bullying affects GLBTT individuals. Contact the office if you would be willing to fill out this survey.

Sharp Foundation Phone: (403) 272-2912 E-mail: sharpfoundation@nucleus.com

Travel Masters - Need a vacation?, Ed Smith at Travel Masters has agreed to donate 25% of his profit from WestJet bookings to The SHARP Foundation. So before you plan your next trip with WestJet, email Ed at TravelMasters SHEQ Soulful Healing Ego Quest (403) 234-8973 or glcsa@glcsa.org http://www.glcsa.org/ A workshop for women that want to be themselves in a supportive, safe environment. It is a chance to grow and share their experiences related to women’s sexuality. Runs for a ten week period on Thursdays at 7pm. Call Trudy or Krista at 5857437. To participate, please call the exclusive SHEQ line at 585-7437 (you may leave a voice message for Trudy or Krista) or leave your name and a contact time/number with the Gay & Lesbian Community Services Association at 234-8973.

Speak Sebastian http://www.cjsw.com Radio Show – Every first & third Wednesday from 9-10pm. Radio for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans gender and kink community. Listen on CJSW FM 90.9.

Urban Sex http://www.cjsw.com

Radio Show – Every second & forth Wednesday from 9-10pm. Focus on sexuality; gay bisexual lesbian trans gendered and straight issues here in Calgary and around the web. Listen on CJSW FM 90.9.

Western Leather Federation Coffee Night – Wed, 8:30pm. At the Calgary Eagle.

Womynspace (403) 234-8973 or womynspace@glcsa.org http://www.glcsa.org/ Peer social/support group for women providing an evening of fun, bonding, discussion and activities.

Meets every first and third Friday 7pm to 9pm at GLCSA. Vigor Calgary (403) 255-7004 http://www.vigorcalgary.ca/ Violence in Gay Male Relationships (VIGOR) is a committee of professionals dedicated to increasing the awareness of gay men’s domestic violence and the services available to them.

“Yeah... What She Said!”

Every Monday evening from 8:30-9:00pm CJSW 90.9 FM yeahwhatshesaid@gmail.com Youth 4 Youth (403) 283-5880 http://www.youth4youth.com YouthSafe http://www.youthsafe.net Alberta’s website for youth with sex-and-gender differences. Youthsafe.net lists the resources, information and services to help youth find safe and caring spaces in Alberta.

Restaurants

Calgary Eagle Inc. 4 See our ad on page 27 424a - 8 Ave SE • (403) 263-5847 Open Tues-Sun 4pm-close http://www.calgaryeagle.com Jane Doe Marketplace & Cafe 50 See our ad on page 8 311 17 Avenue SW • (403) 245-5263 Calgary’s Only Marketplace featuring Women Entrepreneurs. Coffee Shop too!

Money-Pennies 9 See our ad on page 19 and 55 1742 - 10 Ave SW • (403) 263-7411

Theatre and Art Alberta Ballet http://www.albertaballet.com

OTHELLO - October 25 - 27, 2007 in Calgary NUTCRACKER - December 19 - 23, 2007 in Calgary DANGEROUS LIAISONS - February 7 - 9, 2008 in Calgary MOZART’S REQUIEM - March 27 - 29, 2008 in Calgary GISELLE - September 13 - 15, 2007 in Calgary

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ATP, Alberta Theatre Projects 36 Phone: (403) 294-7402 http://www.ATPlive.com AXIS Contemporary Art 107, 100 – 7 Ave. SW • (403) 262-3356 rob@axisart.ca Monday to Friday: 10am to 6pm Saturday: 10am to 5:30pm Sunday: 11am to 3pm First Thursdays (the First Thursday of each month): 10am to 8pm Broadway Across Canada http://www.broadwayacrosscanada.ca Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra http://www.cpo-live.com • (403) 571-0849 Fairytales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival http://www.fairytalesfilmfest.com See our ad on page 30 Looks Could Kill Art Boutique Art Central, lower level #11, 100 7th Ave SW • (403) 264-7576 One Yellow Rabbit 35 Big Secret Theatre – EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts • (403) 299-8888 http://www.oyr.org QUAB Gallery Inc. 43 212, 100th 7th Avenue SW • (403) 261-2855 http://www.quab.ca Pumphouse Theatre 37 2140 Pumphouse Avenue SW • (403) 263-0079 http://www.pumphousetheatres.ca Skew Gallery 1615 10th Avenue SW • (403) 244-4445 http://www.skewgallery.com Stagewest 727 42 Avenue SE • (403) 243-6642 http://www.stagewestcalgary.com A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, by Dean Regan, July 5 – September 9, 2007 Although she will never be replaced, “A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, by Dean Regan” is a tribute to her spirit and a celebration of the music of her life.

One of the all time legends of country music, Patsy Cline impressed everyone the moment they heard her. Ironically, her music talent was never really rewarded until “Walkin After Midnight”, which was recorded 10 years after she began singing professionally, which set her on the road to the acclaim she deserved. Then came “I Fall to Pieces”, “Crazy”, “She’s Got You”, Leavin on Your Mind”, “Sweet Dreams”, and Faded Love”. Patsy Cline died in a plane crash on March 5, 1963. Her enduring musical legacy is witnessed by the fact that she is the number one jukebox play in the world. On August 3rd, she was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Stride Gallery 47 1004 MacLeod Trail SE • (403) 262-8507 http://www.stride.ab.ca

Theatre Junction http://www.theatrejunction.com

Steamers 10 9668 Jasper Avenue • (780) 422-2581

Truck Gallery 46 815 1st Street SW (Basement) • (403) 261-7702 http://www.truck.com

Steamworks 11 11745 Jasper Ave• (780) 451-5554 http://www.buddysniteclub.ca/

Vertigo Mystery Theatre 34 161, 115 – 9 Ave SE • (403) 221-3708 http://www.vertigomysterytheatre.com

Businesses

Edmonton Listings Bars and Clubs

Boots & Saddles 5 10242 106th St • (780)423-5014

B & D Emporium 13 New City Compound, 10081 Jasper Avenue http://www.bdemporiumedmonton.com Cruiseline See our ad on page 72 (780) 413-7122 trial code 3500 http://www.cruiseline.ca Phone chat room & talking classifieds for 18+

Buddy’s Nite Club 6 11725 Jasper Ave • (780) 488-6636

Pride Construction (780) 239-9197 Construction and Renovations

Prism Bar & Grill 8 10524 101st St • (780) 990-0038 http://www.prismbar.ca

Community Groups and Organizations

The Roost 9 10345 104th St • (780) 426-3150 http://www.theroostniteclub.com Woody’s 12 11725 Jasper Ave • (780) 488-6557

Bathhouse and Sauna’s Down Under Baths 7 12224 Jasper Ave •(780) 482-7960 http://www.gayedmonton.com/ See our ad on page 9

Buck Naked Boys Club (Edmonton) Naturism club for men.

Meets the second Saturday of each month.

(780) 471-6993 http://www.bucknakedboys.ca Our club has been meeting continuously for over 10 years. The similar club in Calgary ceased to exist several years ago. Naturism is being social while everyone is naked, and it does not include sexual activity. Therefore participants do not need to be gay, only male, but almost all participants over the years do self-describe as being gay or bisexual.

Camp fYrefly See our ad on page 20 7-104 Department of Educational Policy Studies Faculty of Education, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5 http://www.fyrefly.ualberta.ca Edmonton Pride Week Society http://www.prideedmonton.org See our ad on page 23 ERBA - Edmonton Rainbow Business Association #3379, 11215 Jasper Avenue • (780) 49154458 http://www.edmontonrba.org Our primary focus is the provision of networking opportunities for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) owned or operated and GLBT-friendly businesses in the Edmonton region.

Membership is open to all kinds of entrepreneurs, from tradespeople to professionals to commission salespeople.

The Edmonton Rainbow Business Association After Business Mixers. Held on the second Wednesday of every month 5:30 – 7:30 pm Edmonton STD 4 11111 Jasper Ave Edmonton Vocal Minority http://www.evmchoir.com Phone: 780-479-2038 Free To Be volleyball Amiskiwcy Academy, 101 Airport Rd. (near the downtown airport) Every Wednesday and Thursday night, 8pm-10pm

Welcome GLBT players!

Wednesday night recreational level: All players and skill levels welcome. Contact Marc for more information: padremark@hotmail.com, Tel: (780) 445-0365.

Thursday night intermediate level: Coaching and drills provided. Contact Alex for more information: flipside@telus.net, Tel: (780) 424-9984. (Please note that there is limited space on the intermediate night) HIV Network Of Edmonton Society 3 11456 Jasper Ave http://www.hivedmonton.com AIDS Walk for Life 2007 (September 23rd, 2007) - The 16th Annual AIDS Walk for Life will take place Sunday September 23rd, 2007 at Edmonton City Hall! Remember how fun the last one was – the sunshine, the prizes, the food, the entertainment… and more!? Or if you’re new to town and didn’t have the chance to join us – this is your chance to join one of the most easy ways to show your support, help out a great cause, meet new friends, and do something healthy for yourself! It’s a 5km walk around the heart of downtown, and everyone is welcome – even pets!

Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wild Rose http://www.gayedmonton.org Living Positive (Edmonton Persons Living with HIV Society) 2 (780) 488-5768 http://www.edmlivingpositive.ca Providing confidential one-on-one peer support for

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infected or affected individuals…. Internet support peersupport@edmlivingpositive.ca Northern Chaps http://www.northernchaps.com Northern Chaps is Edmonton’s original leather, latex, fetish, uniform club. We have been in existence officially since 1987 but have been in existence originally around 1982 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Everyone is welcome to join or attend events Northern Chaps is a social group existing for the purpose of providing a safe, accepting social climate to people interested in the leather/fetish/uniform lifestyle.

Northern Chaps believes that people should be free to express their individuality and to exercise personal lifestyle choices without social constraint, to the extent that they do not interfere with the freedoms of others.

In particular, Northern Chaps defends and pursues this belief on behalf of gay men and lesbian women who, through positive alternative lifestyles, seek to explore the boundaries of their sexuality, including the use of certain associated dress, signs and symbols, and safe, sane and consensual behaviors.

Pride Centre of Edmonton 1 95A St. and 111 Ave. • (780) 488-3234 - Bears Movie Night Bears club of Edmonton meets the last Sunday of the month for movies 1- 6 pm in the TV room at the Pride Centre of Edmonton 95A St. and 111 Ave. Ph: (780) 488-3234 - Trans Education/Support Group Support and education for all transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, two-spirited and questioning individuals meets 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month, 2-4 pm at the Pride Centre of Edmonton 95A St. and 111 Ave. Ph: (780) 488-3234 - Sunday Night Mens Discussion Group Mens social and discussion group meets every Sunday @ 7 pm at the Pride Centre of Edmonton 95A St. and 111 Ave. Ph: 488-3234, Contact: Rob Wells - robwells780@hotmail.com - Saturday Movie Night Weekly movie nights, with themed movies and discussion afterwards at the Pride Centre of Edmonton 95A St. and 111 Ave. Ph: (780) 4883234. from 2:00 to 5:00 - The HIV Positive Gay Men’s Group Drop in caring circle every Thursday, 1-4 pm @ 79 pm in main area, at the Pride Centre of Edmonton 95A St. and 111 Ave. Ph: (780) 488-3234 Facilitator: Mark, HIV Outreach The HIV positive Gay Men’s Group is a place for gay men to come and share their feelings on how it is affecting their personal lives. This is a personal private time for them to express how it has changed their outlook on life. As well to support and help each other dealing with being HIV positive.

Whatever is said in the room stays within the room.

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- Youth Understanding Youth Youth support and social group meets every Saturday from 7 to 9 pm at the Pride Centre of Edmonton 95A St. and 111 Ave. Ph: (780) 4883234 Contact: yuy@shaw.ca (www.members. shaw.ca/yuy ) - Womonspace 1st Sunday of every month from 10 am to 1 pm at the Pride Centre of Edmonton 95A St. and 111 Ave. Ph:488-3234 Contact Womonspace for details http://www.gaycanada.com/womonspace/ July 21 - Annual Carol Cattell, Classic Golf Tournament at Country Nine Golf Course, Bashaw – Camping Thursday Thru Sunday.

- Prime Timers Monthly Member Meetings at the Pride Centre of Edmonton 95A St. and 111 Ave. Ph:488-3234 - Suit Up and Show Up Big Book Study Saturdays at 12 noon. At Pride Centre - Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Cocaine Anonymous meeting Thursdays 7-8pm CA Hotline 425-2715 - Youth Drop-in Every Wednesday at 5:00pm Open to all youth 25 years and under Contact brendan@pridecentreofedmonton.org or call 488-3234 for more info.

- Men’s HIV Support Group Will be meeting on each second Monday of the month. At the Pride Center, Edmonton Starting in April, from 7pm to 9pm.

- Parents Rock the World Workshops PFLAG Canada: Edmonton Chapter - Workshop Series Tuesdays (Feb 7, March 7, April 4, May 2, June 6), Pride Centre (95A St. and 111 Ave.) 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Ph: (780) 488-3234 A series of workshops for Parents of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning children.

Each session will feature a 30 – 45 minute topic specific presentation, followed by a group discussion. Social time for sharing and networking will follow at the end of each session. Call the Pride Centre to register or for more details.

- GLBT Seniors Drop IN Every Thursday Pride Centre (95A St. and 111 Ave.), 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm The Pride Centre is thrilled to introduce a new program serving our GLBT seniors. Hosted by Jeff Bovee, contact the Centre at 488-3234 for more info.

Team Edmonton Soccer - will be on the South field of the Oliver School every Thursday from 7 - 9pm. 10227 -118 Street. (weather permitting) For more information contact soccer@teamedmonton.ca

Theatre and Art Alberta Ballet http://www.albertaballet.com

OTHELLO - November 2 - 3, 2007 in Edmonton NUTCRACKER - December 14 - 16, 2007 in Edmonton DANGEROUS LIAISONS - February 15 - 16, 2008

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in Edmonton MOZART’S REQUIEM - April 4 - 5, 2008 in Edmonton GISELLE - September 18 - 19, 2007 in Edmonton Broadway Across Canada http://www.broadwayacrosscanada.ca July 17 - 22, 2007 - Mamma Mia!, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! Over 20 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make MAMMA MIA! The ultimate feel-good show! Writer Catherine Johnson’s sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings 3 men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The storytelling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone’s having the time of their lives! With more productions playing internationally than any other musical, MAMMA MIA! Is the World’s No.1 Show

Lethbridge Listings GALA/LA - Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Lethbridge and Area (403) 308-2893 (live on Mon. and Wed. evenings until 11 p.m.) http://www.newgaylethbridge.ca Monthly dances (Sept.-May) start Sept. 16 at Croatian hall Call for directions, or for information on P-Flag, campus groups and monthly pot-luck dinners

Red Deer Listings Affirm Composed of LGBTQ people, their friends, family and allies. No religious affiliation necessary.

Activities include support, faith and social justice discussions, film nights, and potlucks! Affirm meets the second Tuesday of the month at 7PM at Sunnybrook United Church, (403) 347-6073.

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Community Groups and Organizations Alberta Transgender Support and Activities Group http://www.albertatrans.org A nexus for transgendered persons, regardless of where they may be on the continuum.

Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition / Coalition santé arc-en-ciel Canada P.O. Box / C.P. 3043 Saskatoon SK Canada S7K 3S9 306-955-5135 toll -free / sans frais 1-800-955-5129 fax/ télécopieur 306-955-5132 http://www.rainbowhealth.ca http://www.santearc-en-ciel.ca Egale Canada #310, 396 Cooper Ottawa, ON K2P 2H7 1-888-204-7777 toll free Stephen Lock – Regional Co-Director (Male) Prairies/NWT/Nunavut (403) 708-5302 cell phone http://www.egale.ca stephenlock@egale.ca Egale Canada is the national advocacy and lobby organization for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, trans-identified people and our families.

Membership fees are pay-what-you-can, although pre-authorized monthly donors are encouraged (and get a free Egale Canada t-shirt). Egale has several committees that meet by teleconference on a regular basis; membership on these is national with members from every region of Canada.

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The Calgary Fringe Festival Calgary Goes to the Fringe of Artistry

Preview|Theatre

By Jason Clevett

For more than 50 years, Fringe Festivals from around the world have generated atmospheres of spontaneity, collaboration and risk-taking.

This type of festival has been standard for years in many Canadian cities, including Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and Edmonton which hosts the second largest Festival in the world drawing 800,000 people. It was only in 2006 that Calgary finally had a fringe to call its own.

The Calgary Fringe Festival runs August 10th to 19th, in the heart of Calgary’s Downtown Core. Venues include the Big Secret Theatre, Motel and the lobby of Theatre Calgary in the Epcor Centre for Performing Arts, The Royal Canadian Legion #1, Municipal Plaza, The Alexandra Centre Society as well as exhibits in the Devonian Gardens.

Fringe Festivals are known for bringing untapped artistry to the forefront. Performances range from mainstream to obscure and there is something for everyone to enjoy throughout the events. Comedy, drama, art, and busking will make downtown Calgary buzz.

Tickets for all Fringe Festival events go on sale July 13th. GayCalgary and Edmonton magazine is proud to be a sponsor of the 2007 Fringe Festival. Look for a detailed view of the shows and events in the August 2007 issue.

The Calgary Fringe Festival August 10th to 19th, 2007 www.calgaryfringe.com

This non-juried, uncensored artistic event will feature raw and innovative local, national, and international theatrical productions alongside street performers, international film presentations, food and arts & crafts vendors, visual art displays, music, outdoor stage events - and much more! For its second year, the Calgary Fringe will host a combination of local, national, and international productions (36 altogether) for a total of 180 performances over the 10 days. Fringe Buttons are $5.00 and are required with tickets to attend the shows.

In addition to theatre, the festival will also be presenting professional street performers as well as vendors, a youth performance circus, an international film festival and special events. The Calgary Fringe Festival abides by the rules of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals in that 100% of ticket revenue is returned directly to the artists.

The festival’s mission statement is as follows: “The Calgary Fringe Festival strives to support artists of all disciplines by offering opportunities that offer a hand up and not a hand out. We strive to offer Calgarians an opportunity to build community through the arts. The Calgary Fringe Festival is responsive to the needs of a diverse population environment in which it resides. It is a welcoming community where values of equality, nondiscrimination and tolerance of diversity are appreciated and actively promoted. The Calgary Fringe seeks to achieve this end by offering the community inclusive and accessible arts programming that stress a broad-based, interdisciplinary approach to the arts, by fostering an environment of artistic freedom and expression.”

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Q Scopes

“Practice economy, Gemini!”

By GayCalgary Staff Mercury is in Cancer turning direct, offering an opportunity to apologize for emotional outbursts and correct all the problems that erupted while he was retrograde. If you don’t know where to start, try the kitchen.

ARIES (March 20 - April 19): Get to the root of recent household messes. If you own, fix plumbing, electricity, or whatever. If you rent, make a list for the landlord. Call family members and resolve misunderstandings.

At least have a nice chat with Mom. TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): Mend fences with neighbors, and call or write to your siblings. It’s an excellent time to sign up for classes in any basic skills or techniques that have interested you, especially if they touch on domestic arts or community-building.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Think about your patterns in impulse spending. Everyone does it, but now is your time to look at your own financial strengths and weaknesses, to get those books better organized, and to practice better economy.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22): It’s OK - you can finally clean up the confusion and chaos that seem to have taken over in recent weeks. Look for long-latent, underlying problems at the root of those troubles.

LEO (July 23 - August 22): Worries and fears that have been aggravating you lately now seem like ridiculous shadows. But they’ll be back to haunt you again if you don’t take a look at them and their roots. A meditative retreat should help.

Lifestyle | Astrology SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21): All those reasons that kept you from taking classes, traveling, or otherwise expanding your world and your mind have fallen away. At least reconsider those opportunities and look at ways to get over the obstacles.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 - December 20): Sex may be more trouble than it’s worth, but has that ever stopped you? You may have slowed down lately, but recent problems and odd shifts of desire can now be re-examined to achieve greater understanding and pleasure. Talking about those issues will help!

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 19): You can finally clear up problems that have been brewing with your partner. That “seems-you-can’t-say-anything-right” period is over. Sing out, Louise, and let your baby hear what you have to say! Your listening skills are also suddenly improving.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18):Been delaying trips to the doctor or the gym? That’s probably been a good instinct, but get your tush back into action! See the doctor first for any problems with or advice about exercising. Discuss nutrition, too! And then renew your health regimen.

PISCES (February 19 - March 19): Your creative block is finally over! Drag out the canvases, manuscripts, and instruments. If your muse needs to be fed, get to the kitchen and dig out some long-neglected recipes. A small dinner party will help get your juices flowing, too.

VIRGO (August 23 - September 22): Give your friends a chance to apologize and correct recent disappointments. Or maybe you should be the one patching things up. You can only take responsibility for yourself; still, shouldering more than your share of the blame could go a long way toward fixing things.

LIBRA (September 23 - October 22): Recent misunderstandings may have you hiding out from your boss, landlord, or other authority figures, and/or undermining your own authority. Now is the time to clean up the lines of command and get your career back on track.

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Adult Film Review

Tagteam, H2O, Mirage, Line-up

By Jerome Voltero “Mirage” by Raging Stallion Studios, Courtesy of Priape The movie starts out as a bunch of grave robbers enter the Necropolis of Sethmosis in El Fasal, upper Egypt. They are searching for a particular statue, and as they light candles to try and locate it, they notice (with some mirth) a wall with an ancient painting depicting a large number of men with giant, erect penises.

Porn star Hussein, who is wearing nothing but a loin cloth, comes across some hieroglyphics. He gets very excited, sending the rest of the men in a flurry of activity to find “the statue”. There is a golden statue of a Sphinx right in the middle of the room, and one guy goes so far as to tip it to look underneath. Jeez guys, I can tell you it’s not very likely you’ll find a statue underneath another statue!!

Finally one guy finds the artefact, and all flock to him. Hussein snatches it away from his underling, but as the others clutch after him one catches his loin cloth and leaves him standing buck naked in front of them all. The statue has mystical powers however, as all of the men around him disrobe and start going down on his manhood. Soon an orgy of 8 guys is going in full force. Most of them are smooth with tattoos, but they have their two hairy-chested ones (Hussein and Steve Cruz), and two token black guys.

All in all, the film is quite reminiscent of the popular porno “Arabesque” – in fact, it probably has a significant overlap of actors. With such an extensive cast, “Mirage” comes as a two disc set to accommodate a larger helping of scenes than your average porno. My hope is that they didn’t actually film this in an authentic Egyptian necropolis. Otherwise I’d fear they might unleash the Mummy’s Curse – a plague of horniness on the world! Har har.

“Line-Up” by Mustang, Courtesy of Priape Oh dear lord, is no premise too cheesy for a porno these days? The main character of this movie is a “cock clairvoyant” – he can see a man’s sexual past by sucking on his cock. He uses this unlikely gift to help catch sex criminals.

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Review | Adult Male There, I said it, can we get on to the good parts now?

So they have a line-up of guys, one of whom engaged in a sexual assault in the last 24 hours, and it’s up to our main character Frank Towers (played by Kristian Alvarez) to find out who. The suspects are Troy Brewer, a sexy looking bear with a shaved head, a beard, and an eyebrow ring; Dak Ramsey, a muscular and tattooed pocket-gay; and Dean Campbell, an average guy whose five-o-clock shadow and mean-look just scream “rapist”.

As Alvarez sucks on Brewer’s cock, he sees that he is only guilty of screwing around with another guy in the back room of a bar. Naturally we get to see this incident in full detail. As Alvarez moves on to Ramsey, Campbell starts to shift uncomfortably. Ramsey has a much more interesting sexual history in a dungeon, with a guy in a cage. He is not being held against his will, which we see as they move on to the sling.

Nothing illegal here…only kinky.

At this point we know it has to be Campbell by a process of elimination, however, why waste an opportunity. As I predicted, Campbell is the guilty one. Does that make me psychic too? No, just a predictor of the obvious. We see that Campbell is in fact guilty of two charges of “breaking and entering”…though it left me wondering whether it is still a crime if the other guy enjoyed it.

Mission accomplished, but the movie doesn’t stop there.

There’s one last surprise scene that you have to see!

“Barebacking Tagteam” by PornTeam.com, Courtesy of Adult Depot Oi vey, not a subtle title this one. You know, the main excuses that I hear guys use for throwing caution to the wind is that a condom takes away from the feeling of sex, or that it doesn’t fit some of the really hung guys. Okay, those are valid complaints but, next time you should try using a female condom in your partner’s ass.

Maybe that’s a better compromise – you won’t feel constricted and you won’t risk catching something nasty.

Anyway, if you have epilepsy I recommend you not watch the opening sequence to this DVD – the strobing nearly made me have a seizure. But hey, the guys in this film are very sexy, so it’s all good!

The film is definitely a departure from the mainstream pornos – I would say it’s amateur-ish. It is set up to look like

a professional porno, but the shaky camera and editing are a giveaway that this company is fairly low budget. But new blood isn’t a bad thing, especially when it’s filling a nice cock!

In the first scene, muscle jock Tyler Reed plays around with a cute bear cub known only as Justin. Reed has a good sized dick on him, and Justin takes a good 15 minutes to suck on it before they get down to the dirty business. Reed plows Justin into the pillow for a while before he blows his load.

Not to worry, because cute otter Bobby Drake tags in, and Justin with a load still on board is eager to keep the torch burning. Keep watching, there’s plenty more action to come!

“H2O” by TitanMen.com, Courtesy of Adult Depot Francois Sagat…hot, but seen him before. Steve Cruz… cute, but still seen him before.

Rocky Torrez? WOOF, he’s a new one!

Imagine being alone in your house one rainy night with nothing better to do than watch a porno and play with yourself.

Well…not too hard to imagine maybe, but I’m saying this because that’s how this porno starts. Suddenly we enter a surreal world of fantasy, where the actors on the television come to life.

The scenes are shot against a pitch-black background, while the men are lit with an eerie combination of orange and blue light. They stand on a square of floor that looks like part of a wooden deck; water falls down on them from the oblivion above, giving their skin a shiny wet quality as droplets run down their bodies. It is artistic and extremely erotic, reminiscent of the way the whole world seems to fall away from around you when you are lust-locked.

I feel a bit sorry for Rocky Torrez in the first scene though – he is the odd man out for most of it, until Sagat dons a condom and lets him sit on it. It is pretty short lived as Torrez blows his load quite promptly, but at least he has their attention now; Sagat and Cruz both take advantage of the muscle stud right through to the next scene. Frickin’ hot if you ask me!!

In the next scene, all of a sudden the guy that was watching the porno is watching himself playing around in the shower with another guy. Oh wait…my mistake, Victor Banda and Damien cross look almost identical to me. But more sexy scenes to come, and eventually porn-guy doesn’t find himself so alone in his house anymore.

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Q Puzzle “Togged Out”

Fun | Crosswords

By GayCalgary Staff

CLUE: a crossword featuring a quip about drag Across 1 Materials for Paul Cadmus etchings 6 Gus Van Sant’s Good ___ Hunting 10 Gay ___ Sutra 14 The African Queen costar, informally 15 Morales of Resurrection Blvd.

16 Pindaric poems 17 Cammermeyer portrayer 18 Whitman’s “When Lilacs ___ in the Dooryard Bloom’d” 19 Overture to a split end?

20 Start of a quip 23 Idle Hands actor Green 24 Amy of the Indigo Girls 25 Street associated with Harvey Milk 28 Ball or chase balls 30 Ann Bannon’s ___ Girl Out 33 Painting and such, to da Vinci 34 Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, e.g.

35 Golden Girl McClanahan 36 More of the quip

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40 C. Marlowe’s tongue 41 Whoopi, in The Lion King 42 Sometime Capote associate Chaplin 43 Frequent Rock Hudson co-star Doris 44 Musical critics were torn about?

45 Teatime treats for Alan Cumming 47 Suffix with vigor 48 He shot off at the O.K. Corral 49 End of quip 56 South Park composer Shaiman 57 Oldest of the Brady kids 58 Negation of “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” 60 Tales of the City’s Madrigal 61 Put in a position?

62 Former defense gp.

63 Stag party?

64 Retreat for D.H. Lawrence 65 Screwed up

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2 One way to be out 3 Composer Stravinsky 4 You may flirt with it 5 Pete of folk 6 Like the Ladies of Llangollen 7 Voyeur’s confession 8 S/M unit 9 Like lovers of Sontag 10 David once of the NFL 11 Second fruit eater 12 High place with a flat top 13 The A of ILGA 21 Simpson trial judge Lance 22 Pester, as Albert to Armand 25 Sounded like Scarecrow’s foe 26 Spartacus venue 27 Overly theatrical 28 Ready for bed 29 Greek queen of heaven 30 Hunter that comes out at night 31 My Favorite Wife co-star Irene

32 Painter of ballerinas 34 Where to find hot buns 37 Small bush 38 Common sense that Homer lacked 39 Sheryl Swoopes, for one 45 Saint, in Rio 46 Line of Todd Oldham clothing?

47 Charlize Theron’s Monster award 48 Rims 49 In ___ rush 50 Nathan of The Producers 51 River of Wilde’s land 52 Diva’s piece 53 Charles Laughton played this emperor 54 A stone’s throw away 55 Jodie Foster’s Little Man ___ 59 Poet McKuen Answer key is on page 70

Taking Pride Opinion

By Mercedes Allen

“’Step right up, ladies and gentlemen,’ called out the sideshow barker. ‘See a three-legged man, frog boy, people tattooed from head to toe, and lizard man with his forked tongue!’”

So begins the advertising blurb for the Michiganbased Kresge Art Museum’s exhibit, “Circus: The Art of the Strange and Curious,” which goes on to remind us that “tattooing has become quite common, and labelling people as fat or giants or dwarfs is no longer acceptable.”

However, taking issue with people who still defy gender norms often is, so it has caused some furore that the exhibit finds Alice Domurat Dreger, intersex activist and author, giving a lecture on “Disorders of Sexual Development” in a circus sideshow environment, to be followed by a showing of the 1939 Tod Browning film, “Freaks.”

As an aside, DSD itself is a term which is highly contested.

In the transgender world, taking pride is not an easy thing at the best of times, especially when words like “freaks” or “strange” are bandied about. Sitting in on the average transsexual support group meeting will often result in the overhearing of people saying that they were born with a “deformity,” references to unwanted gonads as “tumours.”

Recent discoveries such as the genetic research at UCLA found that up to 54 genes organize the male and female brains differently, and go on to apply positive hypotheses to transgendered identities. There is other biological research into Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, which are often thought to interfere with infant development between the times that mental and physical genders are determined, in utero. This research has many in the community on the edge of their seats, waiting for anything at all that might confirm that there is a biological origin to many trans conditions, rather than leaving us wondering if these things are simply character flaws.

My own experience was about the same as many others: doing everything possible to try to hide who I was, afraid someone might detect that I was different, until finally the acting threatened to consume me.

It doesn’t help that there is such a wide diversity in the trans continuum. People who fall at one end of the spectrum are sometimes afraid of, or dislike those at another. The “transgender” umbrella covers a wide range of folks who might never wish to be so associated – many of the aforementioned intersex community, for example, shudder at being called “transgendered,” including some of those who share the defining struggle with gender

identity. Many in the cross-dressing community balk at the association as well, feeling that the issues pressed by the trans community don’t apply to them. Meanwhile transsexuals at the opposite end sometimes characterize the cross-dresser’s experience as being somehow “less real”, leaving a sizeable contingent of CDs who feel a need to transition but are held back by life circumstances (health, family, etc.) feeling all that much more isolated. And in any of the various transgender factions, there will be some who are uneasy with associations with the larger GLB community, for any number of reasons; although I should hope that most would be able to at least learn to respect others in the alternative rainbow, having faced many of the same shared dilemmas of coming out, homophobia, questioned rights and freedoms, ingrained needs that we can’t explain, and more.

Worse yet, the “benchmark” of the transgender community seems to be one of blending in, such as the post-op ideal of living “stealth” after surgery. We also see the cross-dresser’s aim of integrating different gender expressions into life in different measures while keeping the rest hidden, though preferably with the understanding of a spouse. Sometimes this isn’t possible. Any of these points are invisible accomplishments. Don’t get me wrong – not everyone is an activist, nor should they be required to be. After everything that trans-people stand to lose in their various treks, there is certainly an entitlement to slip into the quiet, happy life if they so need.

For myself, my sense of pride created an unexpected twist in my journey when I made a recent decision to do what many transsexuals can’t bear to do: to keep that one “defining” organ. That is, “defining” by the standards of current society, which enforces binary gender right down to one’s driver’s license solely on the basis of that one piece of flesh. In that weighty moment, I simultaneously realized that gender is not achieved by the flick of a scalpel, and that somewhere along the way I had become significantly proud of the journey I had made – that last remnant had become a sort of badge of honour. But as with anything trans, my journey is not someone else’s journey, and this is hardly an accomplishment that others would want to take pride in. For others, the grief will not end until the offending organ is removed – that it is something as integral to them as living outwardly as female is to me.

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concept as a kind of exorcism of that drives you toward self-effacement. Of course, it is not so cathartic when coming from someone like Dreger, who is not intersexed however altruistic her motivations may have been. On the transsexual side of the continuum, transition is an entire process of reclaiming pride. It is a process of turning those things that we can’t stand to look at in the mirror – the receding hairline, the flat chest, the unwanted genitalia (or their opposites, in the case of transmen), into something that we can be comfortable with, and later proud of. And it’s about meeting those things that we can’t change halfway, and making peace with them.

However, there is an inherent problem with transgender pride in that most of its forms are necessarily invisible; that we must suffer our victories in silence.

That is changing with some in the community, particularly younger transfolk who prefer to challenge the gender norms, and be “out there”. “To stealth or not to stealth” is now a question. Consequently, the fate of the transgender cause may perhaps reside not in the hands of its pioneers, but in a generation who only remember “The Flintstones” as being a brand of chewable vitamins.

I think the key often rests not in living outwardly (although the courage of those who do so is to be admired) so much as not being afraid to remember where we come from. Being transgendered can be an arduous trek, but it is one of finding a comfortable place for ourselves in the world, not a process of trading one mask for another.

The transman who can fondly recount how he’d sewn his own grad dress has “arrived.” The person who lives in constant fear of another past or a differently-gendered “self” catching up with them probably has not.

When providing advice to new people who come out in the transgender community - who are often dealing with concerns about how they present themselves to the rest of the world - I’ve often said that attitude is paramount.

If they can walk into a room and feel like they have every right to be there and essentially “belong” there, their attitude will convince everyone else of that fact. It is an act of pride that gives us our first accomplishments, and it is a realization of pride that provides our crucial victories.

We have no unconscionable contracts with the “freakshow” of other peoples’ minds that binds us to the whole “strange” concept. The first step toward finding pride is in taking it.

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Western Canadian Pride Campout 2007 The Largest Gay Campout in the West

By GayCalgary.com Staff

Community|Spotlight

“There are no such things as adults. There are just children in older bodies.”

The Western Canadian Pride Campout can be summed up in three words: FUN! FUN! FUN! It’s the largest and fastest growing gay campout in the west. Their success stems directly from the great people who join them every year on the August long weekend.

Their purpose is to provide you with the best gay campout possible and to reward you for your courage in walking the journey you have all chosen to take.

This year they have changed their venue to accommodate their growth. They will be hosting this year’s function at Watipi Lodge, centrally located between Edmonton and Calgary (just 5 minutes north of Blackfalds).

The campout is open to all who are gay or gay friendly, including their straight friends and families. Come with an open mind, and they will fill your heart.

The WCPC has become a tradition for those who have attended in the past. For many people, it is the highlight of their year, and with a $100.00 gate pass it’s the best bang for your buck! Enjoy 4 days of camping, dance admissions, steak dinner and a few other surprises that they have planned.

This year’s theme is “Welcome to Ozland!” - it’s like a fairy tale gone wild! Experience the bizarre, laugh at the craziness and pit your creativity against other tribes to win BIG prizes. And for those of you wondering about the games this year, yes mud wrestling will be back along with some new wet and wild additions. Some of their prizes include: Best decorated campsite ($500.00), best team costumes ($300.00), and most outlandish costume ($100.00).

They are there to help you have fun again, to go out and play with them, and to create, celebrate, relax and care for each other for just four days. If they can do that, and provide you with memories that make you chuckle long after you return to your lives, then they have done their duty.

If you are free on August long weekend why not head out there!

Western Canadian Pride Campout August 3rd – 6th, 2007 Wapiti Lodge, AB Tickets: $100 advance, $120 at the gate 1-877-429-9272 wcpc@telus.net

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Caught in a Sugar Rush Review | TV

By Allison Brodowski

There are some things that no one can do like the Brits. Being shockingly blunt about gay life in Britain is one of them, especially when they pick up a camera and a time slot on OUTtv. From Bad Girls, to the original Queer as Folk, the British seem to have the proverbial balls to be as queer, brash and rude as necessary to satisfy their audience. This is quickly becoming the case with the OUTtv drama Sugar ‘Rush’.

This comedy, centered around the seaside town of Brighton, involves the growing up and misadventures of 17 year old Kim (Olivia Hallinan) as she takes her first steps into the lesbian world. Her first crush and partner in crime for a brief time, Sugar, is a best friend and a bad influence. She is introduced to us in this second season of the show, across a visiting table in prison where she has landed after the extensive joy ride the two girls finished out the previous season with.

Meanwhile Kim is finding her home life equally stifling.

Her parents are in the midst of attempting to reconcile their broken relationship for the sake of the kids, after there mother’s recent infidelity through sex therapy.

Kim’s parents are a strange and extremely polarized couple who obviously love each other despite how dysfunctional they are. Kim’s mother Stella (Sara Stewart) acts more like a 17 year old girl than her daughter, constantly talking about the failures in her married sex life, pressuring Nathan (Richard Lumsden) Kim’s father to the point of impotency due to extreme performance anxiety.

At one point in the season Stella slips two Viagra tablets into her husband drink in order to finally take what she wants, which betrays her limits and willingness to be manipulative. Nathan maintains a soft and meek existence under all this pressure, and yet his relationship with his daughter seems the strongest of any in the house. They have an understanding that is more helpful than that of Stella’s blunt remarks.

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words without question or hesitation, which in the clichés of gay cinema is rarely the case. Kim’s collection of sex toys are treated with the same attitude as is the discovery of her and a lover in mid role-play when Stella and Nathan return unexpectedly. Their daughter is happy and figuring things out, and it’s just part of everyday life.

Kim’s dating life is something altogether different. It is handled with the bluntness and glamour of club life, the likes of which one hasn’t seen in lesbian driven shows in any regularity.

Kim moves through girls by chance and coincidence, stumbling through the awkwardness of dating and playing hard to get. All the while she takes Sugar’s terrible advice from their weekly prison visits, and finds herself in deeper trouble each time. The sweetness of a first love and the manipulation to achieve relationships (presumably gained from her mother’s influence) leads to ridiculous plans of grandeur. Here the show maintains the idealism of being 17 and in love…or lining up for love.

The show isn’t shy about drinking or recreational drug use. The sex however is disappointing, employing the ever dreaded panning shot in moments that have the viewer very much paying attention to the screen. Ironically enough Kim’s dysfunctional, sex–therapy-going parents receive more attention to well documented sex scenes than the main character.

Sugar Rush manages to save itself with its exceptional wit in times of awkwardness. Coupled with the absurd backdrop of a family often more juvenile than their daughter, the emphasis on Kim’s experience growing up takes the viewer on an exploration of a much more than two-dimensional character. Sugar rush is an excellent import for those who are struggling to find themselves in the adult world, while still maintaining a sense of humor.

Sugar Rush on OUTtv 10:30pm EST, 7:30pm PST http://www.outtv.ca

Music Review

Coffee Break, GayDays, One Mighty Weekend

By Rob Diaz-Marino

Review | Music

“Coffee Break” by Sandra Clemons Sandra is a Calgarian singer/songwriter whose name preceded her as we met her for the first time at the Auburn Saloon during the Pride Kick-Off Party last month. She describes her music as “an eclectic mix of folk, pop, and jazz sounds” that delivers a feeling of intimacy - like being out with a group of friends.

Sandra got into music very early in her life, and eventually found the Guitar to be her instrument of choice.

She played for six years with a band called Riddler’s Reason, which released a CD in 1999 and disbanded in 2002. Right now she performs independently, stating, “I’m at a point now where I want to get so good that other musicians want to play with me.”

I found the music very pleasant and laid back. “Just a Little” won me over for its lyrics and melody. “Coffee” makes a cute comparison between a lover and coffee, and “Café Au Lait” is a reprise of the same song with a light trot for a beat. Look for the hilarious bonus track hidden at the end of “Café Au Lait” – it cuts in after 2 minutes of silence.

Track List: 1) Just a Little 2) Coffee 3) Give it to Me 4) Risk it for Love 5) Lola 6) Smile on Your Face 7) Public Place 8) Just Because 9) Johnny 10) Café Au Lait “Coffee Break” is currently available through Sandra herself, so visit www.sandraclemons.com for information about her upcoming shows, and E-mail her for more information.

“GayDays – Vol. 4” by DJ Randy Bettis, Centaur Music GayDays started in 1991 as a single day for the GLBT community and friends in Orlando. Participants wear red and are encouraged to be seen. Local businesses, from Disney World to area bars and restaurants open their hearts and minds specifically to the gay community. Dance parties, swim and cruise events, park visits and nightly bar specials make this event a major destination for the summer.

“My goal was an uplifting tea dance vibe,” says Bettis. “A CD that would give each listener a dance-music experience that would reflect the fun nature of the Gay Days weekend.”

As I began listening to the album, it initially didn’t seem too promising, however the final four songs really brought it back in my good books. “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Different Kind of Love Song” are catchy dance remixes of the well known songs by the same titles. Naturally they kept Cher in the latter, but the vocalist in the former was different from the version that I’m familiar with.

I couldn’t stop listening to the quirky “Turn it Up”; the raucous harmonica, twangy banjo, and bubble-popping sounds made for a playful and truly unique adaptation of country into dance. “You’ll Always Have Me” was a more conventional dance favorite with sweet female vocals, moving lyrics and rich melody.

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Buy a copy of “Party Groove: GayDays - Volume 4” at any Priape store in Canada, or online at www.priape. com and www.queeropolis.com, and www.centaurmusic. com.

“One Mighty Weekend – Vol. 2” by DJ Roland Belmares, Centaur Music I recall that Volume 1 of this series was a big-time favorite of mine, and this latest release didn’t let me down! Although the music is more or less that same dance style as GayDays, it is perhaps DJ Roland Belmares song selection that I found more palatable.

One Mighty Weekend is another Orlando based event – a series of pool parties and world class dance events hosted at Disney’s MGM Studios. Los Angeles based Belmares spun his tunes at One Mighty Party, the event marking the culmination of the weekend.

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“Free” appeared on GayDays Vol. 2 last year, I much preferred this newer version.

Another hard-hitter was the moving “Can’t Keep It a Secret”, where the lyrics say “Don’t try to hide your sorrow, let it out… Cause you’re going to feel something.

It might as well be a feeling that’ll set you free…” The melody conveys a sense of turmoil before bursting into a chorus of hope and strength. I can tell you for certain that this song will still be on my favorites play list when the next volume of One Mighty Weekend is undoubtedly released next year.

Track List: 1) Shame, Shame, Shame 2) Free 3) I Want You 4) Some Girls 5) Can’t Keep It a Secret 6) Live, Luv, Dance 7) Step Into the Light 8) I Can’t Wait 9) You Won’t Ever Leave 10) Gone Buy a copy of “Party Groove: One Mighty Weekend Volume 2” at any Priape store in Canada, or online at www.priape.com and www.queeropolis.com, and www. centaurmusic.com.

Afraid…of what?

By IMU.URME The media and politicians dutifully detail to us our worrisome world through electioneering, newscasts and afternoon editions. Apparently, we ‘should’ be freaked out by super-flues, edgy about extremism, and generally hot-and-bothered about a myriad of other fearful things.

Just like anger and the ‘misused shoulds’ discussed in previous columns, fear is one of the primary destroyers of happiness. It has much in common with anger as a form of suffering – both fear and anger can render happiness and calm thought impossible. Whether or not we choose to accept the standing invitation to hysteria, it seems useful to discuss fear’s nature and how we can lessen its negative effects.

Fear is an emotional response to the perceived risk of either losing something we desire, or of gaining something that repulses us. It makes it onto a short list of universal sufferings – common to both humankind and other more basic animal species. Many life forms can fear pain – and even the loss of life itself – by perceiving the possibility of events such as physical attack. For example, we’ve all heard that rescued dogs who’ve suffered abuse at the hands of a man early in their lives are likely to be more fearful (at the very least) of all men for the rest of their days. Staying with this example, a well-meaning man who offers gentle words and a handful of treats to that rescued dog may afterward feel the need to make sure all of his fingers are in place! The man may, for a time, come to fear the dog, just as the dog has learned to fear men.

But there’s a major difference between the rescued dog’s fear of the well-meaning man, and the man’s fear of the dog. The dog is reacting with fear based upon a past experience that it may not even remember. The dog probably cannot ponder the past reasons for its present fear. The dog simply reacts based on fear.

It’s different for the man. Being born into the life of a human being is an extremely fortunate thing. The man is almost certainly capable of making sense of the rescued dog’s hostility.

Why? Because virtually all we human beings are capable of harnessing our intelligence – through skillfulness and effort – to essentially choose how we view the world, and how we see our place in that world. The man either knows as a fact (or simply senses) that the rescued dog was previously abused, and was afraid, and that the dog was responding in one of the few ways that dogs know how to respond to fear. The man can actually visualize a puppy suffering a brutal beating. The man can understand the causes of the dog’s fear and consciously choose – first and foremost – to have even more love and compassion for the dog. Choosing love and compassion instead of fear will greatly lessen the fear itself. This is the amazing ability unique to humankind.

Like all great strengths, the potential of our mental faculties can – if neglected – become a happiness-destroying weakness.

Again, let’s consider animals. To my knowledge, other animal species cannot be persuaded to fear a thing that they have

Life|Advice never experienced first-hand. We human beings, conversely, are fully equipped to be enslaved by fears of imaginary things that we have never experienced, and in fact may never experience. This makes us vulnerable to panic-peddling by inept or unprincipled leaders in all fields. A fearful society is much more willing to believe what it is told, to follow orders, and to be distracted from truly pressing issues. Incitement to fear is easier to pull off than inspiring people toward an intelligent course of action.

To be truly free, we must be the masters of our own minds.

It’s in our nature to initially react with fear to things that we are ignorant of, or don’t understand clearly. But remaining trapped in fear of the unknown brings an unnecessary loss of happiness. If a mouthpiece on television infers that – if we’re wise – we ‘should’ be afraid of these people, we owe it to ourselves to investigate ‘the latest bogeyman’. You don’t need a Ph.D. to purge ignorance. A Canadian high school diploma will do just fine. Read a book, look it up on the internet, change the news channel, or simply consider the connotations of the fear-peddler’s chosen phrasing. Take a look at these two examples of connotations in the “news”. Decide which phrase makes your heart beat faster: “fanatical insurgents”, or ”devout, historically wronged and highly committed citizen-soldiers”? Are rent controls ”a scheme that will distort the free market” or are they ”a necessary step to partially restrain the greed of some at the expense of the many”?

Collect a wide variety of perspectives, even though that’s more difficult to do these days. Often, this fact-finding activity gets us thinking calmly which, in turn, lessens any fear.

Sometimes, you may discover that “the facts” are just opinions that attract disagreement from truly qualified experts. Other times there may be a credible danger, but effective solutions rarely come in the form of the childish ‘decisive action’ that the fear-peddlers are trying to sell. Fake fear subjected to self-education and knowledge, fizzles out like a fire in the rain.

Still having trouble extinguishing fear? Then try to accept it!

Yes, choose to patiently accept the presence of this temporary suffering. Like childhood fears, adult fears weaken with time if we stop energizing them. A rescued dog may have little choice, but we humans do. I plan on going to all of the barbecues, ball games and dinner parties that I get invited to this summer, but I’ll do my best to decline any standing invitation to hysteria.

And I’ll still offer to share food with any dog that I meet! I hope that you do the same because I am you, and you are me!

“Imu.urme” has studied and practiced Buddhism for over ten years – first here in Canada and later during five years of travel in Mexico and throughout East Asia. Having returned to Canada early in 2006, he wishes to share some Buddhist principles that may offer some useful philosophical tools for living in a busy world. No matter what the spiritual tradition of readers, this writing is offered without motive – other than love and compassion for all others. Questions or comments are most welcome: imu. urme@gmail.com.

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Bruce La Bruce Origins of a Filmmaker

By Rob Diaz-Marino Last year at the Fairy Tales Film Festival, Bruce La Bruce’s outrageous film “Raspberry Reich” received rave reviews. This style of over-the-top political pornography was reincarnated in a lesbian theme this year in his short “Give Piece of Ass a Chance”.

Bruce spoke at a discussion panel during this year’s Fairy Tales week, about his artistic influences and where he is heading. He started off talking about his roots, and how the rural culture that he grew up with frowned upon sexual expression amongst gays.

“It’s something that builds up inside of you, and it can be very cancerous if you aren’t able to express yourself and you have to bottle everything up like that. …I think my work has always sprung from that kind of reality - a fight against that kind of oppressive background.”

Classed as a “sissy”, Bruce relied on his wit to get him through childhood. Later in his life, he moved to Toronto to pursue a career in Film School.

“I wanted to become a film academic because, as a ‘sissy’ I though filmmaking was too complicated; it was too technical and I didn’t think I could ever do it. So I got a Master’s degree in Film Theory. But I started hanging out downtown in Toronto in the punk scene in the 80’s and a lot of people were working in Super-8 film. Super-8 was a real revelation for me because it was such an easy media and something anyone could do...so there weren’t so many technical issues to deal with.

“In terms of the kind of films I started making, I started with experimental short films with gay content. In the punk scene, that turned out to be kind of a subversive thing to do, which my friends and I didn’t quite expect. We turned to the punk scene as an alternative to the established gay scene. Even in the mid 80’s we found that the gay scene was becoming increasingly assimilationist and kind of mainstream. We turned to punk because we thought it was more interesting aesthetically and politically, and it has a real vibrancy as a political movement. ...We found out that there was a lot of homophobia in the punk movement, which really surprised us. So my friends and I acted out very violently against that - (we made our films) very extreme, angry and homosexually explicit to try and shock these punks into the realization that even though they were involved in a politically radical movement, they were still conventional when it came to alternative sexuality and homosexuality. That’s how I got into making pornographic work, it was what I considered a political act to show these supposedly radical punks that they weren’t as politically radical as they thought they were.”

Spotlight | Film intended, his passion to express this political message led him in that direction. Even so, professional pornographers have labeled him as something as a misfit for breaking into their industry in such an unconventional way.

“We were really making a kind of pornography but it was all in the service of art and as a political statement, we didn’t consider ourselves pornographers per se. When I made my first feature-length film, ‘No Skin Off My Ass’, ...I got my boyfriend at the time to shave his head and act like a skinhead, and we shot ourselves having sex. We were quite naïve about it, because we had no idea about the real porn world and how porn is actually made. We were actually very embarrassed about what we were doing. I only expected it to be shown in underground clubs or alternative art galleries, but my producer blew it up to 16 millimeter and put it on the film festival circuit...so I was showing my butt and having sex all over the world.

“As soon as you do that, there’s a certain stigma attached. You open yourself up to all sorts of moral judgment - you’re almost entering the realm of the sex trade worker in a way, because you’re really laying your sexuality out there for people to see, and people are paying money to see you having sex.

“Because of my work, I gained the reputation of a pornographer and everyone referred to me as one, so therefore I decided to start being a pornographer. So my last two films were made under the auspices of actual legitimate porn. I worked with experienced porn actors, and then I really learned what the porn industry really is about. It’s a very conventional medium... there’s a certain formula that you follow, but I tried to work within those conventions and twist them. I would also make a soft-core narrative art-film version that I was more interested in, and then make the hardcore version which we marketed separately under a separate title within the porn industry proper.”

Bruce will begin editing his latest movie this summer, which he recently finished filming in Berlin. It is a political gay Zombie movie – a genre where plenty of gross-outs are expected (such as the “gut fucking” scene that Bruce mentioned, to the chagrin of the audience). He expects to release it early next year, and no doubt we will see it at Fairy Tales 2008!

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Fundraising Photos ISCCA Investitures - Calgary Photos by Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz Marino of GayCalgary.com Magazine

Pride Mayor’s Brunch - Edmonton

Talent Show & Silent Auction at Jane Doe’s Marketplace - Calgary

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ISCCA Barbecue at the Backlot - Calgary

Uncover the Cure - Calgary

Womonspace Pride Dance - Edmonton

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Queer Eye - Calgary & Edmonton Community Events this Month - Part 1 Photos by Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino of GayCalgary.com Magazine

Mr. & Ms. Edmonton Leather Competition

Northern Chaps Leather Cocktails at the Roost Edmonton

Northern Chaps Victory Party at Boots - Edmonton

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Calgary Men’s Chorus - Come to the Music Concert - Calgary

Fake Mustache Drag King Contest - Calgary

Fake Mustache Drag Show at Money Pennies - Calgary

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Calgary Men’s Chorus at Twisted Element - Calgary

Drag Shows at Buddys - Edmonton

Drag Shows at Twisted Element - Calgary

Drag Shows at the Roost - Edmonton

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Letters to the Editor Letters

By Contributors and Staff Dear GayCalgary, Everyone at Fairytales wanted to send you a special word of thanks for your sponsorship and assistance with OutFest and Fairytales Film Festival. We really appreciate the great coverage you gave OutFest and the film festival and the diligence with which you recorded both events.

Putting on a community event always depends upon the support of the sponsors, and the support that GayCalgary. com has given us this year and every year has been indispensable. The dedication that Steve and Rob have shown to the community and Fairytales in particular has been exemplary. Thank You!

The Northern Chaps Executive really pulled together and we had an event to be proud of. I am looking forward to getting to at least 10 cities this year and putting myself to work.

A personal thank you to those who mentored me, supported me, pushed me and kicked my ass when I needed it.

In Love and Leather, Lorelei Storm Ms Edmonton Leather 2007 ~ Mama’s Canadian Lady

On behalf of the board of Fairytales Presentation Society, Gordon Sombrowski, President

Dear GayCalgary and Edmonton, The weekend contest for Mr & Ms Edmonton Leather is complete. I am honored to be Ms. Edmonton Leather 2007, and Ken Lalonde is Mr. Edmonton Leather 2007.

Our judges had a very difficult job with 4 very diverse contestants. The volunteers were exceptional going from position to position. It was so nice to see the support from our sister city Calgary, delegates from other cities, and well wishes from those unable to attend.

The contestants banded together and helped each other through all the work, helping each other with fantasies, and I even got the male contest Matt to help get my corset done up. A great time was had by all. It was truly an honor to work with Ken, Matt and Darby through this event.

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The Calgary Stampede The Greatest Outdoor Show for 2007

By Jason Clevett

Community |Spotlight

This year the Calgary Stampede teams up with Wrangler to kick off Stampede in a very special way. The 30-hour Wrangler Tough Enough To Wear Pink campaign celebrates and supports the tens of thousands of volunteers across Canada involved in breast cancer fundraising efforts.

The event kicks off on Thursday, July 5th with the 4pm official ribbon-cutting and concludes at the Friday, July 6th opening ceremonies of the evening grandstand show with a cheque presentation to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. The Stampede “Sneak-a-Peek” evening’s $3 admission will be 100% donated to the Foundation. All rodeo performers on July 6th will wear pink and there will be exclusive pink merchandise for sale.

“The Stampede is tremendously proud to help raise awareness and funds for a cause that has touched the lives of so many families,” said George Brookman, president and chairman of the Calgary Stampede. “The Calgary Stampede is a celebration of community involvement, so it makes sense that we both honour the commitment of thousands of volunteers across Canada involved in working towards creating a future without breast cancer and help raise money for this important cause.”

If knowing that your gate admission is going to charity isn’t enough to bring you out July 5th, then the knowledge that GayCalgary & Edmonton’s March 2007 covergirl, Calgary’s own Jann Arden is performing on the Coca Cola stage may entice you. Seeing Jann Arden for $3 – as someone who has seen Ms. Arden 7 times, including her recent stop at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, I can assure you that you can’t beat that deal.

Arden is kicking off one of the most stacked concert line ups in recent Stampede history. The Coke Stage alone over the course of the ten days will see Canadian rock bands Finger 11, Three Days Grace, Sloan, Keisha Chante; US bands Hinder, Good Charlotte, Blue October and Live; as well as the legendary Tom Cochrane. Nashville North features Beverly Mahood, Prairie Oyster, Aaron Pritchett, Trooper, Emerson Drive, Marty Stuart and Johnny Reid.

This year also marks the return of huge acts at the Saddledome. Once a Stampede tradition, this year features four huge musical acts playing at the Dome, with gate admission included in the ticket price. Country music acts Big & Rich and Reba play July 13th and 14th while Canadian icons the Tragically Hip close out Stampede on July 15th. For the first time since 1993 Bon Jovi hits the Saddledome July 11th – but if you don’t already have tickets you are probably out of luck, the show sold out in 8 minutes back in April.

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highlight for thrillseekers this year featuring a total of 35 rides, including 2 new ones. The swing tower sends you soaring 110 feet in the air while the zipper returns – a flashback to youthful stampedes gone by. Rides on the main Midway include Mega Drop, Scorpion, Twister, Pharaoh’s Fury, Video Fun House, Spinning Coaster and Planet Rock & Roll.

And what would Stampede be without food? You could go to the Stampede grounds every single day of the 10 total and still not try everything. Traditional favorites like corn dogs, mini donuts and Alberta beef on a bun will be abundant, but one new and interesting idea is deep fried coca cola.

Yes, you heard that right. Deep fried coke batter drizzled with Coke fountain syrup and topped with whipped cream, cinnamon, sugar and a cherry. You don’t need rides to get a buzz if you try this.

This year also marks a record for prizes in the legendary Stampede lotteries. Valued at more than 1.6 million dollars, there are over $500,000 in Kinsmen cars, $300,000 from the Lions club and the Rotary Dream Home valued at over $800,000. According to Marilyn Sellar, chair of the Calgary Stampede lotteries committee, more then 1.2 million dollars has been distributed to southern Alberta charities through these service club partners in the past year.

From Weadickville to the Indian Village, Superdogs to the Bell X tent, and the famous Grandstand show and Fireworks, the Calgary Stampede continues to be Western Canada’s biggest party. For ten days it is going to be hot guys and girls in denim… and depending on the weather, little else.

2007 is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular years in the long history of the Calgary Stampede. Don’t miss out.

The Calgary Stampede July 5th – 15th, 2007 www.calgarystampede.com

Lashes for Life

Posh Fundraiser to Raise the Roof

By Christopher Garvey

A new fundraising event is in the works, and it is not only going to raise the roof, but also to raise the bar in terms of the quality to expect from such gala affairs. Lashes for Life is the invention of Edmonton drag queens Shiwana Millionaire and Simone DuVall. With the help of sponsors HIV Edmonton, Century Casino, and GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine, the two hope to raise awareness and simultaneously offer an entire evening of entertainment - as only a host of queens could offer. The night will entail cocktails, a five-course dinner theatre, and various other festivities. It will prove to be the most posh drag fundraiser the city of Edmonton has seen!

Shiwana Millionaire needs no introduction in most cities across Canada, as she has spent years performing at various venues in major centres. Interestingly, she also has brought the big city drag act to smaller towns, and will again soon. Lashes for Life is the kick-off to a five day tour of fundraising through Alberta, with shows planned in Jasper, Hinton, Banff, and Calgary. The need for HIV awareness in smaller locales is not lost on this attentive performer, and by reaching out to relatively isolated, and often over-looked communities, she has shown a true spirit of compassion.

Community |Spotlight Talent virtually oozes from Shiwana’s pores, also due to years of dance training and professional choreographing. Her stage acts reflect this honed skill - Shiwana’s dancing is the envy of any queen who sees her, and the energy she brings to her stage is quickly reflected by her audience. Her performance at Lashes for Life will inevitably showcase the same fantastic pizzazz.

Lashes for Life is being held Saturday, July 7, at the Century Casino, at 13103 Fort Road, Edmonton. Cocktails and a silent auction start at 5pm and a cabaret dinner begins at 7pm. Tickets for the fundraiser cost $50 and may be purchased at the casino, in advance or at the door.

Lashes for Life Saturday July 7th At the Century Casino

Shiwana cherishes performance. “I want this tour,” she explains, “to show people how passionate I am to perform, and how important it is for me to reach people in the audience.” Shiwana prides herself on being approachable, and on nights she performs can always be found in the midst of the action before and after her numbers are done.

“Some drag queens show up, do their number, and leave. I’m not like that,” she comments. With a contagious joie de vivre and legendary legs (this queen does backflips, IN HEELS!), Shiwana Millionaire has people laughing and adoring her from the moment she steps into a venue. And although her songs are performed on stage, the true entertainment lasts as long as she’s around. gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #45, July 2007

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Is Gay Becoming Too Straight?

By Kevin Alderson, Ph.D., R. Psych.

I want to thank Paul Christopher for providing me the idea for this month’s Queer Quest.

My caveat to this month’s column is that it is an opinion piece, and it is not based on my typical practice of providing the best up-to-date published research that addresses the issue at hand.

Instead, I write this month from my own observations of late – observations that engender a reflective pause. Our Canadian gay world is changing, and changing quickly I might add.

As I write this late at night, hours before my column is due, I am vaguely reminded of the many nights in the past when I ambitiously attempted my “best work” on an essay that was due several hours later. This time I have a good excuse – I just got back from Gay Pride in Toronto a few minutes ago. In fact, the past five weeks has been a flurry of travel, beginning in Vancouver (late May) and followed

by Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto in June. Two destinations have been about presenting at conferences, and two others have simply been part of my process as I prepare psychologically to begin a one-year sabbatical from the university. Please don’t think this means a vacation with pay – I have a book to write, several journal articles to author, my own research to conduct, and a half dozen graduate students to supervise. I’m not complaining, but trying to get my head around all of this nonetheless.

So what is changing? Let’s begin with home base – Calgary and Edmonton. I like to dance, and my last several visits to Twisted Element, the Roost, and even Buddies has made me ponder if these are still rightfully viewed as “gay bars” (I mean gay here in the inclusive sense of all queer individuals, male and female). I love heterosexual individuals, and God knows, we had better because they are the majority whether we like it or not. Our bars have become filled with heterosexual men and women, and although I don’t have a problem with that on the surface, I become less sure as I look deeper. The dynamics of gay establishments change when the number of heterosexual patrons nearly equal that of the queer clientele. Business is business, and I don’t blame bar owners for admitting anybody as a customer. These are times of human rights, and everyone ought to have equal opportunity and access to services. I have myself fought for this on several fronts.

Problem is, Twisted Element has become our only dance bar in Calgary, and if fewer queer individuals frequent it, it too may become largely another heterosexual bar. As I think about equality, I think it would be equally just if straight bars were as accommodating of queer folk as they are of their heterosexual clientele. That is clearly not so.

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Queer Quest You will find few examples in Calgary of gay men holding hands in a straight bar, kissing, dancing together, playfully making out, and being themselves (tell me this isn’t so in the straight bars you are attending right now, and I will gladly commend these bars in my next column and mention their names).

Gay men in Calgary don’t even hold hands together while walking down the street despite how deeply in love they are! I believe in equality – full equality. If we are going to develop a mosaic philosophy, then it must apply to everyone.

The last time I was at Buddies on a Friday night, I realized that the common adage, “Buddies on Fridays, the Roost on Saturdays” no longer applied. I didn’t have to line up at 10 pm either anymore. The young straight girls had found another hangout there too. I love them, they love me, but where do I go to dance without them? I can’t dance in their bars with gay abandon.

It’s not just Edmonton and Calgary. It is happening across Canada (at least at the places I have been to). The Odyssey bar in Vancouver had its share of heterosexual patrons, my favourite club in Montreal (i.e., Unity II) felt like a sock hop from the 1970s with more young heterosexual women present than you’d find at a high school dance. The energy of the bar had changed, and I sadly left after one drink. My visit to the all-male Le Stud bar felt more inviting than usual as I watched hot shirtless men on the dance floor gyrate to retro music. Nonetheless, I heard through the news that a woman had been recently refused service there, so she launched a complaint to the provincial human rights commission. Le Stud may soon need to be renamed Le Stud et Les Femmes.

Toronto pride was besieged by far more straight spectators and bar patrons than I ever recall in the past too.

The parade boasted an estimated one million spectators [1] with an economic benefit to the city of an estimated 99.1 million dollars! [2] No wonder I saw a float for the Evil Dead Musical (I remember the Evil Dead as one of the most horrific horror movies I ever saw – does it have a gay theme?) and several floats for the various banks who want to cater to us. The mayor of Toronto participated in the parade (this didn’t happen before ex-mayor Mel Lastman set the trend, by the way, and he feared a backlash) and so did several other high profile people.

Should we be celebrating, or should we be recoiling with how mainstream gay culture is becoming? Are we losing our culture?

When I co-authored a book about same-sex marriage in 2004, [3] I never dreamed for a moment that it might contribute to the demise of gay culture. I don’t believe it has by the way, but when combined with Internet dating services, chat lines, and telepersonals, I do wonder if the combined effect has been a negative one for the community.

I often commented in media interviews that marriage is not for everyone: for those who want to get married, however, they should have that choice. Without question, this has been a good initiative for those who have met that special someone and who want the security/stability on several fronts that marriage provides. Nonetheless, does that mean that we should give up our culture to simply become part of the heterosexual majority? Nonsense! Our culture, like that of French Canada, is distinct, and it needs to be protected. Our culture is now protected by law (ultimately, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is mostly responsible for this) – now we are the ones who must protect it from erosion.

If a sizeable number of queer individuals are not frequenting the venues that we already have, I can’t imagine how business people would want to invest in creating additional queer establishments. Queer individuals cannot complain about the lack of gay dance bars in Calgary or their lack of visibility if they are unwilling to become active members of the community. Either we support gay businesses or we let them become largely straight establishments – if neither happens, say goodbye to yet another gay business. If gay men are not walking in Calgary or Edmonton holding hands, how will we ever normalize this to others who can easily deny that which they never witness?

The fight for same-sex marriage was the fight by several individuals who wanted to make a difference, some largely because they wanted to create a different social landscape for the next generation.

In conclusion, I believe we are seeing the temporary erosion of gay culture, and I believe it is occurring largely because of integration with the straight world in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. In Calgary and Edmonton, however, I believe it is occurring largely because of apathy and the desire to withdraw further from visibility. We can change that – the question is, “Will we?”

Dr. Alderson is an associate professor of counselling psychology at the University of Calgary who specializes in gay and lesbian studies.

He also maintains a private practice. He can be contacted by confidential email at alderson@ucalgary.ca, or by confidential voice mail at 605-5234.

References: 1) Trevisan, M. (2007, June 25). Downtown soaked with pride. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 25, 2007 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/ LAC.20070625.PRIDE25/TPStory/National 2) A10.

Doolittle, R. (2007, June 25). A city painted with pride. Toronto Star, p.

3) Lahey, K. A., & Alderson, K. (2004). Same-sex marriage: The personal and the political. Toronto: Insomniac Press.

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Letter from the Publisher, Continued from page 8 the community could take this advice, not talk about gay politics – or more specifically gay bar politics – then there wouldn’t be such big issues.

Most gay people lead their lives and work their jobs in the straight world. It’s not until they go out to the bar in the evening that they really get a chance to interact with their kin. I find it baffling how, long after that night at the bar fades away, the conclusions drawn from drunken/doped-up logic still exert their influence. Or perhaps sheer embarrassment prevents a person from retracting outrageous and hurtful statements when sobriety returns their sensibility.

It’s bar banter, hearsay, drinking and drivelling – it’s not meant to be taken seriously, but some people do anyway.

When these ill-founded ideas go unchecked, they build up a grounding of hidden assumptions that must be uprooted before you can make that person believe anything truthful but to the contrary. Sadly, friendships can be built on nothing more than mutual hatred, and there are those who fancy themselves puppet-masters to harness that strong emotion.

But enough skirting around the issues…I’m sick of talking in general terms. Let me take the opportunity to address those individuals that started the whole thing of branding us the “Twisted” magazine in recent history: you are welcome to your own opinion, there’s nothing saying you have to like any particular bar or any particular magazine for that matter. We are not denying that you may have had a bad experience at said bar. We ourselves can recall at least one bad experience at any one of the gay bars here in Calgary – it happens sometimes. Steve was kicked out of Boyztown once for something he didn’t do, so we understand how a situation like that can cause a great deal of misplaced anger. But in the end we turned it into something positive: it freed us to go out and explore the rest of the community, and soon we started a magazine with the directive to include everyone – even Boyztown. Ironically, back then you called us the “Detour” magazine after we had only released our first issue, and you tried to tell people we were boycotting Boyztown.

We quickly shut you up in issue #2, with a cover article on Boyztown, but the “Detour Magazine” label still stuck for a while after that.

In your case though, having your own opinion is apparently not enough. You feel compelled to feed the people around you a bunch of bogus arguments to motivate them to serve your own vendetta, even if nothing bad was ever done specifically to them. We don’t think it is right to attack anyone that way, and in response we made sure that the evidence to prove you wrong has been appearing front and center in our magazine. Much to your delight, this made it seem like we were favoring Twisted, which led to all sorts of nifty rumours about how they supposedly own us, control what we publish etc. Well, I’m sorry to inform you that it is actually YOU who has been the catalyst behind this trend of “favouritism” you have observed. We only need to do rumor-busting in the actual magazine in cases where they are spreading so fast, or purveyors are becoming so vicious that we can’t resolve the situation off the record. So the more you spread your rumors, the more damage control we needed to do. Meanwhile we have sadly turned down many kind gestures from Twisted that could have helped us, knowing how you would have misconstrued it and had a heyday.

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and had really done nothing to deserve this, so I described repeatedly in the publisher’s column how I personally witnessed that this allegation was not true. When customers loyal to Boyztown and Pulse started plugging their toilets and pulling their fire alarm, making phoney claims to the AGLC and Police to disrupt their business, we knew there was some really deep-seated hatred out there for this bright shiny new bar. Back then had done nothing but open their doors. Last year you tried to convince the community not to go there on the premise that they were a twink bar, and so we published photos that showed a wide variety of their regulars, many aged 30 and up. You tried to push the theory that Twisted does nothing for the community, and so we published more photos of their fundraising events, and drew attention to the amounts they raised for Beswick House, donated to the ISCCA, Vagina Monologues, Calgary Men’s Chorus etc. But don’t forget that you were doing the same things to other bars before Twisted came along: • You tried to tell the community long ago that Detour, Texas Lounge and Goliaths were being torn down, and we proved you wrong by getting an official statement from Larry Ryder (the owner of the building) himself that this was not the case.

• You tried to write Money Pennies off as an unfriendly lesbian bar, but we wrote repeatedly in articles (out of our own experience) that they are in fact welcoming to everyone.

We had to fast-track the article on their ownership change as a preventative measure, seeing as your rumors were already starting to swell up saying they were becoming a straight bar.

• You tried to discourage people from going to the Eagle because of your criticisms that their intentional industrial look was because they were “too cheap to finish the floors”.

You are still trying to instil a sense of fear about “crack culde-sac”, even though we’ve written that the area has been majorly cleaned up for over 6 months now.

The Boulevard/Loft incident was a shining example of what happens when we DON’T keep the rumors in check.

Though they started off with good intentions, they ended up finding support by rousing more hatred for Twisted, despite our initial efforts to get the two to coexist peacefully. They boasted that they were going to put Twisted out of business, but with the 35-and-up crowd they were targeting it was more likely that the days of the Backlot and the Eagle would have been numbered. We received flack for any attempts that we made to verify their grandiose claims, many of which did turn out to be lies and exaggerations. In the end there was still too much doubt to publish an outright exposé; most of all we did not want to believe that a number of people we called friends were be doing this. We were relieved to find that even they were being misled, but calling them out on it would have only garnered more hatred toward us than anything. To make a long story short, the project failed, lots of supporters got burned and felt like fools, and it left a rift of unresolved hatred in the community that exists to this day. There was little we could do after the fact, other than write an article about how not to open a bar so that others didn’t fall into the same trap.

Make no mistake, Twisted has been an advertiser and a supporter, just like the Calgary Eagle, the Texas Lounge, the Backlot, and Money Pennies, and countless others beyond the bars. We owe a certain loyalty to each one of our advertisers because their money makes it possible for us to

operate, and support the community as we do. We know that this idea of calling us the “Twisted” magazine is a ploy that you trouble-makers invented to damage our credibility and enhance yours. By standing up for Twisted, we are now just as much in your crosshairs as they are. You want to make it seem like we are speaking out against your rumors not because they are wrong, but because we have some sleazy vested interest in quelling them. I’m very certain that you have already encouraged the people on your side to dismiss our magazine on this premise, or at least made them hypersensitive to anything mentioned about Twisted so that they see it through glasses of sopping cynicism. This makes certain that they will not be exposed to anything that will change their mind about the conclusions you drew for them.

In that respect, perhaps I’m wasting my breath on a weak hope that someone might shove this article in your face.

employee, let your customers have their fun. Check your emotional baggage at the door once and for all, and put an end to the monthly bar-war drama!!

If you are reading this and you want us to stop being the “Twisted” magazine, then for fuck sake, cut the subversive mind-games and finally deal with your real issues here.

We’re a magazine, not a babysitting service or a body for mediation; we’re sick of the shit you keep throwing in the gears to sabotage this community, because most times we are the only ones in a position to clean it up before the machine breaks down. Twisted is a gay club. They’re here to provide a social space and make a buck, just like every other bar in the city. You and I have no idea the things they go through in a week for the volume of people they put through. The more mischief that guests – people like you - have tried to pull, the more defensive they’ve needed to get in order to protect the customers they do want to keep. If that means kicking out troublemakers who aren’t satisfied until they’ve ruined someone else’s night, then I whole-heartedly agree it is in their best interest as a bar to take a proactive stance against you. If they’ve gone overboard and truly done you wrong, then it’s your job to appeal to their reason when you explain why. But they wounded your pride, and instead you want to show them that they messed with the wrong person; that you may or may not have been pushing your luck is beside the point.

Whenever someone brings up this topic, especially when they worry that a child might pick up our magazine, I’m quick to remind them that there’s more offensive stuff available on the shelf at their local Safeway. It’s in reach of children too, the only difference is that it’s straight.

You don’t seem to realize that this inability to let go is damaging you as much as anyone else, because a person bent on revenge is not a happy person at all. Even if you achieve your goal, your anger will just pour into other aspects of your life. You will never be at peace until you let it go. For goodness sake, they are just a bar, it’s not like you are being denied entrance to a hospital!

Gay and Conservative?

Isn’t that an oxymoron? It’s funny, but in our search for new advertisers, a number of them have told us that our magazine isn’t conservative enough for them – that they are not homophobic, but they find certain gay subject matter “offensive”. You know, we could sell out on everything this magazine represents to get their advertising dollars…or we could keep going on the support of those who aren’t fooling themselves that they are gay friendly. I for one opt for staying gay.

So let me summarize here – straight parents are worried that a child might pick up our magazine because…their child may learn about the existence of an alternate sexuality at an early age? Which might mean they grow up with a balanced view of their own sexuality, and have a better understanding and acceptance for people that are gay? Or hmmm…your child picks up a copy of Maxim magazine at Safeway and learns that women should be treated as mindless sex objects. GASP, clearly we are a huge corruptor of young minds!

It’s not like we’re a recruitment pamphlet or anything. If you ask me, a child would probably find our magazine a little boring. We’re just about showcasing gay culture and providing a community resource. If that’s not conservative enough for some people, then we offer no apologies. If you’re worried about someone taking advantage of impressionable young minds, then you would do better to keep them away from people out to peddle their religion to those not old enough to understand its socio-economic implications.

We want to hear what YOU have to say about the topics in this article, and any other articles in our magazine. Visit the chat forums at www.gaycalgary.com and write your heart out! Or write us a letter to the publisher by E-mailing publisher@gaycalgary.com, and we may respond to it in the magazine!

I do commend the bars that still try to make everyone who walks through their doors feel unconditionally welcome, and do whatever they can to offer help and advice even in the face of your unpleasant behavior. I understand that bar staff and owners may feel guilty at the prospect of turning you away when you act out, because at one point the bar was the only place where gay people with problems could go to find someone who truly understands. But now we have dedicated GLBT counsellors, help lines, and support groups.

There are plenty listed in our magazine, for all ages.

This deep-seated anger in you is too strong to have been caused just by the actions of a gay bar. You obviously have other issues to work out, and it is important that you receive help away from all the alcohol and illicit substances that will only make you less capable of dealing with them. For god sake, these services are out there and many are free at that - SO USE THEM! If you are a bar patron, go out to the bars only when you are ready to have fun. If you are a bar gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #45, July 2007

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Boundaries To Equality The Le Stud Situation

By Stephen Lock

The ways of equality are not always as simple as they appear.

It would seem clear ”equality” includes equal access by all people to all places, as well as equal pay for equal work, not to be denied services, rights, and privileges afforded others in society simply because of ones own status (sex or gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, economic status, etc), and to be free to pursue a life of meaning and dignity.

Certainly as a civil libertarian and a GLBTQ activist I have spent years advocating for such equality. I don’t think any of us would question the idea that to deny an individual the same rights others enjoy is just plain wrong. Equality isn’t equality if it is applied to certain people in certain situations.

That seems pretty self-evident. However, life is never black and white; there are a lot of grey areas.

For instance, within the GLBTQ community there is, generally, a recognition that gay men and lesbians don’t always share the same space, or need to. The idea of womyn-only space is not new and the idea of such spaces came about in recognition that there are times when women need ‘safe space,’ a place to gather strength from each other without the interference or often overwhelming presence of men, be they heterosexual or homosexual.

Conversely, I have long advocated that gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), perhaps even heterosexual men, likewise need men-only space. To be honest, I do see a difference between the needs of gay and MSM men for such space, and the needs of heterosexual men.

As men sexually, physically, emotionally, and mentally attracted to each other in a predominately heterosexual society, it is my belief we need spaces where we can ‘recharge’ and connect with men like ourselves; to leave the dominant culture, and all its pressures and demands, for awhile.

Bathhouses and other gay sex environments afford that. So do certain bars, especially in the larger metropolitan areas.

Le Stud in Montreal’s Gay Village is one such place. It was created to cater to a specific ‘type’ of male. In short, it is a gay men-only space, although not a private club. It is a gay men’s bar that markets itself as a ‘hot cruise bar’ and tends to attract those men interested in Leather/Levi, bears, and other heavily masculine-identified gay men. On any given Saturday night the place is packed with men and the sexual energy is palatable. It is meant to be.

Le Stud is a long-time fixture in the Gay Village. The name alone indicates this is not your corner GLBTQ pub catering to anyone who has the price of a beer. There are plenty of those in any city and certainly in Montreal’s St. Catherine’s Street Gay Village. Le Stud is unique.

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Politics When Audrey Vachon decided to have a drink with her father one afternoon earlier this summer, the pair wandered down to the Village, which was near her father’s office. They chose to have their quiet drink with each other on the patio of Le Stud. The waiter informed them, or rather informed Monsieur Vachon, the establishment was men-only and Ms. Vachon would have to leave.

Ms. Vachon and her father left. Ms. Vachon was later quoted as saying she was “…shocked. I was embarrassed, I was humiliated. I felt guilty that I’d even gone there, like I’d done something wrong.” She has initiated a provincial human rights complaint against the bar.

The situation is problematic. Setting aside the apparent rudeness of the waiter for not addressing Ms. Vachon directly, various other issues are raised by this incident.

Does an establishment, like Le Stud, have the right – legal or ethical – to refuse service to somebody because of their gender? In doing so, is it not analogous to refusing service to a person of colour, for instance, because the bar in question is a skinhead bar? Okay, not the best analogy since Ms. Vachon wasn’t in any danger from the male patrons of Le Stud, unlike a person of colour might be upon entering a skinhead bar, but hopefully the reader will take my point….

The Quebec human rights code is very clear and Le Stud does not have a legal right to refuse service to Ms. Vachon because of her sex. Whether they have an ethical (dare one say moral) right to do so is the source of the debate.

Montreal lawyer Julius Grey, a Charter expert and veteran on discrimination and civil rights cases, was quoted by the Globe and Mail as saying the incident clearly violates Sections 10 and 12 of the Quebec Charter. Nevertheless, he considers the case “borderline.”

“The bar’s refusal in no way affected the girl’s [sic] dignity or devalues her as a person. It doesn’t seriously affect her status in society, whereas gays face constant discrimination,” he said. “Equality is a guiding principle and not a straightjacket.”

Similar to other minority communities, the GLBTQ community is acutely aware of discrimination and the effects of privilege. As a community, we have struggled for many years to enshrine equality protections so that we too might live open and legitimate lives. But does equality mean everyone is to be treated the same, regardless of specific characteristics? As a gay man, I fully expect not to be denied access solely because ‘gays aren’t welcome.’ At the same time, however, I resist the tendency towards assimilation into dominant (i.e. heterosexual) culture; I recognize the uniqueness I possess by being a gay man and the uniqueness of my culture (gay, queer) and choose to celebrate that.

At what point does ‘equality’ cease and ‘assimilation’ begin? Turning this around somewhat, when does allowing heterosexual couples into gay clubs become a problem for our community? Do we not, have a right, if you will, to our own spaces? Is it okay that scores of queers be kept waiting outside our own establishments, as few as they are, because only a certain number of people can be inside a club at any given time? For each heterosexual who made it inside, one of us must wait outside. And how does one ‘check’ for orientation?

Ms. Vachon could easily have chosen any number of places in the Village to have that drink with dad. Certainly most of the bars in the district, even all the other bars except for Le Stud and possibly The Garage down under Le Parking Club, allow for a gender mix with no problem at all.

Even at that, The Garage is men-only only on weekends. Le Stud, then, is the only bar in the Village that is exclusively geared to men.

I leave the reader with a question to ponder: At what point do we, as a minority, and as a sexual minority, cease to have the right to self-define, to define our own space, and to have that right respected?

Stephen Lock is a long time gay activist and free lance writer in Alberta. He is the former Secretary and co-director for Egale Canada in the Prairies/NWT/Nunavut Region, a founding member of the Sexuality and Gender Diversity Advisory Committee (aka Police Liaison Committee), and was the producer and host of a semi-monthly GLBTQ radio show, Speak Sebastian, for 14 years on CJSW FM 90.9 (currently on hiatus). He lives in Calgary with his partner of 26 years and their ‘fur child’, Joey, a Bishon-Cavalier Spaniel cross.

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Press Releases Review |Business

By GayCalgary.com Staff BASH’d Goes on Tour Edmonton - June 23rd, 2007 BASH’d is a story told by two gay hip hop artists who chronicle the tale of a pair of lovers; one of whom is bashed, prompting the other to take revenge.

Fuelled by the recent streak of gay bashings that happened during Premier Ralph Klein’s refusal to legalize gay marriage in Alberta, one of the lovers decides to reverse the “discrimination” and go out and bash innocent heterosexuals.

BASH’d received four nominations for the prestigious Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, recognizing excellence in the Edmonton Theatre Community. The awards ceremony will take place on June 25th. BASH’d was nominated for: -

Outstanding Outstanding Outstanding Outstanding

Production of a Musical New Play Independent Production Score of a Play or Musical

The BASH’d boys were recognized by Edmonton’s Pride Awards Committee at the launch of Edmonton’s 2007 Pride Week festivities. They received a Certificate of Achievement for their contribution to Edmonton’s LGBT communities.

BASH’d Tour Fundraiser and CD Release Gig June 28, 29 and 30th, 8 pm

BASH’d explodes assumptions about distinct categories of race, gender and sexual orientation, while exploring the discrimination and oppression on both sides of the coin, as we all try to co-exist in a free and equal society.

FEMINEM and T-BAG are taking BASH’d on the road!

This summer the show will hit the Toronto Fringe, the Winnipeg Fringe and the New York Fringe. The boys are sharing their homo hip hop with the world!

Come check out BASH’d before the boys leave town for the fringe circuit! gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #45, July 2007

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The Roost Nite Club, Edmonton Tickets $15, CDs $10 Tickets available at the door or at TIX on the Square www.tixonthesquare.com or (708) 420-1757

Group Web ID contributes actively to the development of the LGBT community.

Priape and Group Web ID Join Forces

After months of negotiations, Bernard Rousseau, President and Co-Founder of Priape, spoke enthusiastically of the terms of this new venture. “With this agreement, Priape is partnering with a well-established, internationally focused LGBT company. This partnership will also help strengthen Priape’s position as Canada’s premiere gay store.” Mr. Rousseau added that Group Web ID’s major investment in Priape will also enhance his company’s ability to plan for the future. “We are now entering into a new era that will not only allow Priape to be better at what it does today, but it will also provide us with the muscle we need to expand our business activities outside of Canada, in particular in the US. At the same time, we are securing our employees’ future and maintaining our commitment to the community we serve.”

Montreal - June 21, 2007 Priape and Group Web ID announced today that they have recently signed an agreement to join forces in a promising new joint venture, which will allow both companies to enhance their position in the Canadian and International LGBT marketplace.

Priape is Canada’s premiere gay store and has been, for over 30 years, a pillar in building the LGBT community. This agreement allows it to join forces with one of the leading LGBT Internet businesses.

Founded in 1999, Group Web ID is a leading LGBT company that operates several Internet sites worldwide.

Its web-based activities have since grown exponentially.

Its more popular sites today include Gay411.com (also know as Menonline.com) and Bear411.com. In Canada, Gay411.com has attracted over 27,000 members, making it Canada’s leading Gay chat site. Combined, Gay411. com and Bear411.com reach in excess of 160,000 members worldwide.

It’s Vice-President, Mr. Arnaud, is an active member of the local community; he is particularly involved with the Quebec Gay Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Rousseau remains at the helm of Priape, while two long serving employees, Denis Ayotte and Denis Leblanc, both become shareholders and vice-presidents of the company.

Speaking on behalf of Group Web ID, the company’s Vice-President and a committed member of the LGBT community, Thierry Arnaud, emphasized that this partnership creates new business opportunities for both companies and the broader LGBT business community.

“Priape and Web ID can now focus on expanding the range of services that they both offer. They can also help each other gain access to one another’s niche markets, and strengthen their respective brand names.

Mr. Arnaud added that this joint venture provides a unique opportunity to reinforce the vital role that Priape has played over the years in supporting the development of the LGBT community. “Priape is a model company that has proven itself to be a committed ally in helping the community grow, both in Montreal and across Canada. We are honoured to have the opportunity to partner with such a forward-thinking gay business and to support its ongoing commitment towards Gay and Lesbian groups and causes.”

Bump! Triple-Play TORONTO – June 22, 2007 Bump! The world’s most watched gay and lesbian travel series co-produced

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acquired Boston-based international gay travel magazine, The Guide. For more than 20 years, The Guide has delivered an edgy mix of travel, entertainment and current affairs, distinguishing the monthly publication as one of the most recognized and widely read US gay publications. Bump will now have increased exposure and cross-promotional opportunities across Pink Triangle Press’ media properties, reaching more than half a million people in Canada, the U.S. and several international markets.

with new producer Rowan Nielsen, a seasoned producer of lifestyle programming, whose most recent credits include Life Network’s “Renovate My Wardrobe” and CTV Travel’s luxury travel show “Living the Life.”

• Spain’s ONO cable company has acquired the series for its VOD service. Bump’s current roster of international networks will also pick up the third season including here! TV (U.S.A.), EGO (Israel), Pink TV (France & Belgium), and OUTtv (Canada), which plans to debut the new season in October.

• Europe’s ohm:tv Mobile will launch mobisodes of Bump this month, to be available on their Mango TV channel in Austria. Mango TV launched in August 2005 in Austria with Hutchison 3G, as the first GLBT mobile channel pioneering the idea of a lifestyle, gay-friendly 24hour mobile TV station.

Pink Triangle Press, co-producer of Bump, recently

Hosts Shannon McDonough and Charlie David are back for Season Three, beginning shooting in Denver, Portland, Calgary (featuring the gay rodeo), Vancouver, Seattle, and Chicago. The series then shifts focus to international destinations, with the crew heading to Italy, followed by a swing down the Danube River, with episodes planned for Vienna, Prague and Budapest. The remaining episodes of the 3rd season are slated for filming in Australia, South America, Scandinavia and Europe.

The show’s website www. bumptv.com includes streaming video clips from selected episodes, behindthe-scenes postcards from Shannon and Charlie and practical travel information. The site is a gay travelers’ companion to all of the Bump episodes, and includes tips on unique things to see, places to eat, shop and have fun as well as links to gay and gay– friendly attractions, events and accommodations. The website we be continually upgraded and expanded as new Season III episodes go to air on OUTtv. gaycalgary and edmonton magazine #45, July 2007

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Queen Street Desperados Andy Fabo at Skew Gallery

By Rob Diaz-Marino

Review | Art

Skew Gallery is hosting an exhibit from June 28th to August 4th that focuses on identity – particularly the gay identity of the exhibit creator Andy Fabo.

Fabo was born and educated in Calgary Alberta. He currently lives and works in Toronto, where he first became recognized as a painter associated with ChromaZone, a highly influential collective that spearheaded Toronto’s figurative painting movement in the early eighties. Since this time, Andy Fabo’s work has explored issues of personal identity and how this relates to a broader social context.

The exhibit entitled “Queen Street Desperados” draws upon Andy Fabo’s experience and the rich history of infamous personalities from Toronto’s Queen Street art scene. His art is a meditative, interpretive series of diptychs combining digital prints and silk-screen paintings. Fabo’s immersed relationship with this community is witnessed through photographed casual moments between friends and his apparent reverence for each individual. His juxtaposition of digital prints and silk screen-paintings feature abstracted spotlights, which underline the performative nature of identity. The artist

employs expressive hand gestures and mark-making to provide a heightened sense of the individual.

Throughout a career spanning nearly three decades, Andy Fabo’s work has been exhibited extensively in Canada and abroad. In the mid-eighties he lived in New York where he was awarded the Canada Council residency at P.S.1. In 2005 Fabo’s work was surveyed in a solo exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art. The art of Andy Fabo can be found in prestigious collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canada Council Art Bank and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Skew Gallery Presents Andy Fabo’s “Queen Street Desperados” June 28th – August 4th 1615 10th Avenue SW (Calgary) (403) 244-4445 www.skewgallery.com

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Queer Eye - Calgary & Edmonton Community Events this Month - Part 2 Photos by Steve Polyak and Rob Diaz-Marino of GayCalgary.com Magazine

Boots Customer Appreciation - Edmonton

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Calgary Eagle Leather Boy Competition

Money Pennies Farewell Party - Calgary

Money Pennies Welcome Party - Calgary

RBC Meeting at Money Pennies - Calgary

Pride Exhibit Launch at QUAB Gallery and La Fleur - Calgary

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Pride Calgary Kickoff Party at the Auburn

Pride Calgary Military Ball at the Eagle

Pride Calgary Pride Parade

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Pride Calgary BBQ at the Backlot

Pride Calgary Street Festival

Pride Calgary Pride Dance

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Edmonton Pride Awards Ceremony

Edmonton Pride Family Brunch at Pride Center

Edmonton Pride Parade

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Edmonton Pride Softball Game

Edmonton Pride Street Festival

Edmonton Pride Dance

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Post Pride Party at the Backlot - Calgary

Post Pride Party at Money Pennies - Calgary

Post Pride Party at Twisted Element - Calgary Post Pride Party at the Calgary Eagle

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Pink Party at Buddys - Edmonton

Green with Envy Party at New City - Edmonton

Sexy Shorts Grand Finale at Twisted Element - Calgary

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