Abby Tickell came out after a lifetime in the closet. Now, she's found a community of people just like her in Calgary’s Rainbow Elders.
| One woman's trans awakening—at age 66 | | Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is doing everything in her power to escalate the culture war in her province. This fall, she plans to introduce sweeping, polarizing policy changes affecting transgender and non-binary youth, imposing limits on gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy for teens. She spelled them all out earlier this year in an extraordinarily detailed seven-minute video. One trans Calgarian woman, Abby Tickell, has been watching the battle over trans issues from a unique vantage point. For Maclean’s, she describes what it was like coming out late in life. Her experience sounds a bit like the TV show Transparent: “At the age of 66, I came out to my wife. We’d been married for about 18 years, and she had no idea that I was trans—that’s how well I’d hidden it.” Tickell marvels at the joy she finds in a proud community of trans seniors and compares her experience to what Alberta youth are facing today: “When I came out at 66, I was financially independent with kids and grandkids. Many young people don’t have those financial and social supports. I see queer and trans kids today as trailblazers.” —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief | | | | |
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| | | HABITAT | | A Lakeside Vintage Wonderland | | Owner and vintage retailer Mitzi Shields fills her idyllic B.C. cottage with secondhand treasures. Her Shuswap Lake cabin doubles as a showroom for her Etsy store, decorated with items like 1960s tubular chairs bought for $10 each and a collection of glass genie bottles from Italy. | | |
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| | | A SOULFUL REVELATION | | | | R&B singer-songwriter Charlotte Day Wilson had a pinch-me moment in 2019, when HBO’s Euphoria played her soulful track “Work” over a pivotal moment, and then again last fall, when rock icon Patti Smith covered the song on a Berlin stage. Wilson is on a roll: she just released the gut-punch breakup lament “I Don’t Love You,” also the first single on her upcoming sophomore album, Cyan Blue. A 14-date North American tour begins in Seattle then hits Vancouver, weaves through the U.S. and circles back to Montreal and Toronto, where Wilson used to pay the bills as a butcher-shop dishwasher and church janitor before making it big. | | |
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