Queer Life: June 2005

A Canadian queer media contact list

last updated June 30, 2005

Want to pitch your story to the GLBT media? Have an event that the community needs to know about? Pining to reconnect with the neighbourgood in which you used to live? I've collected a contact list of queer Canadian media, print and online. Add or change details (or gawd forbid, delete a defunct publication) by e-mailing me.

I'm also creating a separate list of GLBT community television and radio shows across this large country, so please help me with a quick note about whatever shows you know of!

And hey, no favorites -- these aren't listed in any particular order.

ATLANTIC

Wayves (based in Halifax)
Monthly except February
Editor is n/a, run by a collective at submissions@wayves.ca
Wayves, PO Box 34090, Scotia Square, Halifax, NS, B3J 3S1
(902) 463-0942 (ad sales)

QUEBEC

No More Potlucks/Mangeuse de pantoufle (Montreal)
Online only, bilingual
For general information e-mail info@nomorepotlucks.org

Fugues (en francais)
Monthly, minimum of 45,000 copies
Editorial director Yves Lafontaine at yveslafontaine@fugues.com
Les editions Nitram Inc., 1212 rue Saint-Hubert, Montreal, QC, H2L 3Y7
(514) 848-1854, fax (514) 845-7645
These folks also publish a type of gay yellow pages, in English and en francais.

RG (en francais)
Monthly, 11,000 copies
Editor Alain Bouchard at alainb@rgmag.com
general info@rgmag.com
Les editions HMX Inc., C.P. 915, succ. C, Montreal, H2L 4V2
(514) 523-9463

To Be (Montreal, also distributed in Ottawa)
Monthly
Editor Jarmila Dokladalova at jarmila@tobegroup.ca
To Be Publications, Inc., C.P. 632, Succ. C, Montreal, QC, H2L 4L5
(514) 598-8188

ONTARIO

To Be (Ottawa, also distributed in Montreal)
Monthly
Editor Jarmila Dokladalova at jarmila@tobegroup.ca
To Be Publications, Inc., 207 Bank St., P.O. Box 255, Ottawa, ON, K2P 2N2
(613) 236-8888

Fab (Toronto, some national distribution as well)
Biweekly
Editor Mitchel Raphael at editor@fabmagazine.com
No Fear Publishing, Ltd., 511 Church St, Suite 200, Toronto M4Y 2C9
(416) 925-5221

abOUT (Western New York and Southern Ontario)
Monthly (except January and July)
Editor Duane Booth at editorial@aboutmag.com Four Q Publishing, LLC, 214 Wellesley St. E., Suite 314, Toronto M4X 1G2
(416) 964-1432

Xtra (Toronto)
Biweekly
Editor Paul Gallant at paul.gallant@xtra.ca
Pink Triangle Press, 491 Church St., Suite 200, Toronto M4Y 2C6
(416) 925-6665

Capital Xtra (Ottawa)
Monthly
Editor Gareth Kirkby at gareth.kirkby@capital.xtra.ca
Pink Triangle Press, 251 Bank Street, Suite 503, Ottawa K2P 1X3
(613) 237-7133

Gay Guide Toronto
online only, daily
Editor Shaun Proulx at editor@gayguidetoronto.com
40 Alexander St., Suite 409, Toronto, M4Y 1B5
(416) 975-5361

The Inside Story (West Toronto only)
Online only
Editor Don Quixote at gaywest_toronto@yahoo.ca
The Inside Story, 562 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON, M6K 2A9
(416) 533-6428

MANITOBA

Swerve (Winnipeg)
Monthly, 5,500 copies
Editor Richard F.J. Wood at swervemedia@mts.net
Swerve Media Inc., Suite 200 - 63 Albert St., Winnipeg, MB, R3B 1G4
(204) 942-4599

SASKATCHEWAN

Perceptions (Saskatoon)
No online presence, so no URL!
E-mail perceptions@shaw.ca
Perceptions, P.O. Box 8581, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 6K7
(306) 665-1280 fax only

Perceptions (Saskatoon)
No online presence, so no URL!
E-mail perceptions@shaw.ca
Perceptions, P.O. Box 8581, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 6K7
(306) 665-1280 fax only

Sensible Shoes News (Regina)
11 issues a year (July-August joint issue), no website
Editorial collective at sensibleshoes@writeme.com
P.O. Box 3693, Regina, SK, S4P 3N8
(306) 775-0169 (Wanda)

ALBERTA

GayCalgary.com
The magazine is monthly; separate online presence, as well
No editor's name provided; email magazine@gaycalgary.com
GayCalgary.com, Suite 100, 215 14th Avenue S.W., Calgary, AB, T2R 0M2
(403) 543-6960

Times 10 (Edmonton)
Online only, claims 1.4 million readers
Editor Dennis Cambly at dcambly@times10.org
The Times .10 Publications Society, 10175 114 St., #402, Edmonton AB, T5K 2L4
(780) 415-5616

The Gala Occasion (Lethbridge)
8 times a year, 250 copies
Dave Mabell at dmabell@telusplanet.net
Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Lethbridge and Area, 1229 41 Ave. N., Lethbridge, AB, T1H 6A4
(403) 320-6303

Womonspace (Edmonton)
11 times a year (July-August joint issue), 200 copies
Editor Jeanne Wood (until the fall, when there'll be a changeover) at womonspace@hotmail.com
Box 128, Main PO, Edmonton, AB, T5J 3K4
(780) 482-1794

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Xtra West (Vancouver)
Biweekly
Editor: Robin Perelle at XWeditor@xtra.ca
Pink Triangle Press, 1033 Davie St., Suite 501, Vancouver, B.C., V6E 1M7
(604) 684-9696

Magazine Ninety-Nine (Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco)
Monthly
Editor LoAnn Halden at loannhalden@magazine99.com
Purnell Publications Inc., P.O. Box 32000, Bellingham, WA, 98228-4000
(206) 529-4257

NATIONAL

Outlooks (head office in Calgary)
Monthly
Associate editor David Crosson at editor@outlooks.ca
Box 439, Suite 100, 1039 17th Avenue S.W., Calgary, AB, T2T 0B2
(403) 228-1157

The Fence (bi women's 'zine based in Toronto)
Twice a year
Editor Cheryl Dobinson at cjdobins@yorku.ca
Cheryl Dobinson, #705-88 Isabella St., Toronto, ON, M4Y 1N5
No telephone number provided

365gay.com, a news and features website with head office in Toronto. This publication has a continent-wide content and readership. Very little local content (no listings, for example).
Online only, updates three times daily
Letters can be sent to editor@365gay.com

Alterheros (Montreal)
Online only. In English and en francais, a volunteer-run youth site
Editor is at info@alterheros.com
7171 Jean-Milot, Montreal, QC, H1M 3K4
(514) 583-4666 (administration only)

Gaiety Magazine (Toronto)
Frequency is to come.
Editor is at gaiety@bellnet.ca
438 Parliament Stret, Unit 1, Toronto, ON, M5A 3A2
(416) 944-2963

TRADE: Queer Things (Toronto)
Quarterly, up to 500 copies
Publisher Jon Pressick at jon@tradequeerthings.com
#505 - 135 Bleecker Street, Toronto, ON, M4X 1X2
(416) 323-9830

YGA Magazine
Bimonthly, 15,000 copies
Editor Mike Glatze at mail@ygamag.com.
YGA Magazine, 3107 Isleville Street, Halifax, NS, B3K 3X9
(902) 430-6069

QUEER NOTES

Canada has one queer syndicated column, "Three Dollar Bill," written by Montreal-based Richard Burnett (home base is alt weekly Hour). The column also runs in alt publications Current (Newfoundland), Here (St. John, Moncton and Fredericton), Vue Weekly (Edmonton), and the queer The Gazette (in Tampa Bay in the U.S.).

Gilles Marchildon, the executive director of the lobby group Egale Canada, also has a column appearing in the Winnipeg's alt Uptown, and in the queer pubs To Be,  Fugues (in French), Wayves, and Perceptions.

For those thinking of starting up a queer media outlet, you might want to consider advertising (depending on the scope of your endeavour). The New Jersey-based Rivendell Media represents almost all print media outlets in Canada and the United States on the national advertising sales front. (Rivendell pays me to publish a newsletter; that conflict doesn't change the fact that it really is the most important GLBT media ad sales company on the continent.)

What's that, you said? A queer media newsletter? Rivendell publishes Press Pass Q (which I edit at time of writing). Press Pass Q is an online trade publication for those in the GLBT media. It's free to subscribe.

RIP

Recently defunct Canadian publications

Fresh (Edmonton)
Launched in October 2004, now "on hiatus."

Desire Magazine
Launched a mini issue in March 2004. A publisher's note dated April 2005 said the magazine had ceased publication.