It’s been difficult to watch the news since election day. You may be among the many I talk to who — like the proverbial wreck on the freeway — just …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Dec 2, 2024

Gay Desert Guide Thanksgiving Weekend: Nov 28-Dec 1, 2024
Now we are squarely in the holiday season! The big box stores put up Christmas decorations well before Halloween on Arenas. And that’s just too early, IMHO. Did this super-early …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Nov 22-24, 2024
Wicked and the on-sale for Coachella could have easily been included in our Top 3 on Gay Desert Guide. Both are all the buzz as we go into this weekend …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Nov 11, 2024
A Needed Distraction. Sunday’s taping of “LIVE with Kelly and Mark“, arranged by Visit Greater Palm Springs, was a much needed break from the news cycle I’ve been experiencing since election …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Oct 25-27, 2024
Blanche DuBois’ famous line in Tennessee Williams play, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” resonates as I get ready to depart Japan for Palm Springs. “I have always depended on the kindness …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Oct 21, 2024
And so it begins! “Season” as we call it. And the Gay Desert Guide events calendar is chocked full of things to do from now until the cows come home. …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Oct 18-20, 2024
Banned Book Week took place late last month, and many of the titles that the right vilifies are those by LGBTQ+ authors. That’s why this weekend’s Pride on the Page …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Oct 14, 2024
As Seen on TV. Those words emblazoned the Popeil Pocket Fisherman, Chia Pets and many more schlocky items from out youth. But now Greater Palm Springs is about to be …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Oct 7, 2024
Coming Out Day started in 1988, when I was not yet out of the closet myself at age 30. I didn’t know about such a day until many years later. …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Sep 30, 2024
On Friday, we memorialized William “Bijou” Perez and those who have gone before. Today we highlight those who make a difference in our community contemporaneously. They are the people who …