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Gay History is Popular!

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Kevin Allen | Leave a comment

As Calgary gears up for Pride, local media has been lining up at the Gay History Project’s door this week to get the skinny on Calgary’s past relations with the gay community! Phew, I am getting interviewed out…

Next week keep your eyes out for a website refresh, as well as the launch of our Kickstarter campaign in support of the Calgary Gay History Book!

And if that was not enough, we now have a facebook page and twitter account – which go live now. If you want to potentially win a newly printed Calgary Gay History T-shirt, we will randomly give one to a new facebook follower and one to a new twitter follower (sign up by September 1st).

Finally, don’t forget the new Downtown Gay History Walk we are doing in partnership with Calgary Outlink, on August 27th at 7 PM. The post-walk reception hosted by Outlink will be in the lovely back patio of CommunityWise 223, 12 Ave. SW.

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New Gala, Next Walk & Queer Archive Donation

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Kevin Allen | Leave a comment

Calgary queer history readers and/or party aficionados might be interested in Third Street Theatre’s inaugural “Stars of the Stage & Screen” gala & costume party on Friday, June 27th at the Arrata Opera Centre at 8pm.

All money raised goes to the next production season of Third Street Theatre – Calgary’s only queer theatre company that challenges stereotypes and gives a voice to a marginalized LGBTQ community. Tickets and info: here.

We will be reprising our Beltline Gay History Walk on Saturday, July 26th from 7:00-8:30 PM as part of Historic Calgary Week. Come out to learn about meaningful spots in our communities history including the location of Calgary’s first gay bar, Club Carousel. The walk will start and finish at CommunityWise (the Old Y) at 223 12 Ave. SW. Usually we head to a Beltline Pub afterwards for more conviviality. Everyone is welcome!

Finally, I had lunch this week with an old colleague and friend of mine, Shelagh Anderson, the former publisher of QC Magazine, who now lives in Nova Scotia with her wife and daughter. She donated a complete collection of the Calgary based queer periodical which ran for about 3 years beginning in 1995 for the archives we are building. As a bonus: many of the covers are signed by the subjects of the cover story. Thank you Shelagh!