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: Week of Oct 21, 2024

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 …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Sep 27-29, 2024
It’s been 55 years since the Stonewall uprising and many of the people who were there are no longer with ‘here’. We lost another one this week when Drag Performer …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Sep 20-22, 2024
The birthday greetings started Wednesday when I stepped on my bathroom scales. After it calculated my weight (which I’m not happy about), the LED display wished me HBD — even …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Sep 6-8, 2024
#VisitHotterPalmSprings isn’t exactly a hashtag that we want to see shared on Instagram or TikTok. But the heat is a fact of life this summer and fall across the West, …

Gay Desert Guide Labor Day Weekend: Aug 30-Sep 2, 2024
Eleven is this week’s number. Today (Aug. 30th as I write this) is the 11th anniversary of GayDesertGuide.LGBT hitting the interwebs. I used the Wayback Machine to take a look at …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Aug 19, 2024
Marie Curie gave her life for science unwittingly by being exposed to high levels of radiation before knowing the consequences. In fact, her notebooks are so radioactive that they are …