Theatre in the Coachella Valley is in full bloom this season! I’ve watched our theatre companies grow over the past decade – paralleling my time chronicling the goings-on for the LGBTQ+ …
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Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Jan 26-28, 2024
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Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Jan 19-21, 2024
Every time I drive to Acrisure Arena, I think about how we in Palm Springs proper narrowly escaped having the stadium downtown. The drive for me is a short 30 …
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Gay Desert Guide: Week of Oct. 23, 2023
High above the white picket fences, tall hedges and block walls lies the history of Palm Springs. That history is only revealed on a double decker bus tour (or illegal …
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Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Aug 11-13, 2023
There’s a romanticism about living abroad. And then there’s the practical side: Should things get really bad in the USA – say after the election – one may choose to …
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Gay Desert Guide: Week of Aug 7, 2023
Pride season is winding down with a last California hoorah this weekend in Laguna Beach. I recently got a first-hand tour of the area from a friend who recounted many …
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Gay Desert Guide: Week of July 24, 2023
Barbie the movie has so many Palm Springs angles. From Trixie Mattel showing us the ‘KGAY Retro Lunch” iterations of Barbie in “Decade of Dolls: The Eighties” to the set itself which …
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Gay Desert Guide: Week of June 19, 2023
Hecklina’s tribute over the weekend was a call to action to those she left behind. To quote Liza Minelli’s Cabaret: “What goods permittingSome prophet of doom?To wipe every smile awayLife …
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Gay Desert Guide Weekend: June 16-18, 2023
Florida’s draconian policies and laws are having an effect on travel and tourism in addition to the toll that they take on residents. Case in point: the IGLTA (International LGBTQ+ …
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Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Mar. 10-12, 2023
Coco Peru is one of the godmothers of drag, performing in movies such as “Trick”, with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles when I chaired the board, and in her …
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Gay Desert Guide: Week of Jan. 30, 2023
Jack-in-the-Box a sex club? That’s how I read the map put out by the City of Palm Springs after the council approved a new zoning area around Sunny Dunes and …