When I started Gay Desert Guide, the Desert Business Association was one of the first organizations I partnered with. As one of the nation’s oldest LGBTQ+ chambers of commerce, DBA …
Activism Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Movies Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of May 5, 2025
Activism Events Gay Pride Local Business Movies TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Apr 14, 2025
X (Twitter) first flexed its anti-LGBTQ muscles on July 4th. That’s the day when @GayDesertGuide and hundreds of @ILoveGay profiles were canceled by Musk’s minions. When our partners at Pink …
Activism Charities Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide Weekend: Apr 11-13, 2025
Shelter in Place! That will be the mantra for some of our locals over the next three weekends as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and its country-bumpkin cousin, …
Activism Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Nightlife TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Apr 7, 2025
A bit dog-eared and slightly faded, I have a memento of a Pride mixer from 2018 when D.E.I. was a thing. US bank was holding a DBA mixer at its …
Activism Charities Events Fitness LGBTQ Local Business Movies Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Apr 4-6, 2025
We got up close and personal with two people this week who are very different parts of the front lines. The amazing stamina of Sen. Cory Booker put a lump …
Activism Charities Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Mar 31, 2025
David Hockney’s exhibit Perspective Should Be Reversed, has one final day at the Palm Springs Art Museum. I’m a bit embarrassed to say that this will be the first and …
Activism Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide Weekend: Mar 28-30, 2025
Then they came for me… The poem, “First They Came”, from German German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, is a powerful indictment of those who stood by and did nothing as the Nazis systematically …
Charities Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Nightlife TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Mar 17, 2025
My heart sank when I glanced at Sunday’s Desert Sun obituaries and saw the face and name of a man you are likely familiar with if you listen to KGAY. …
Activism Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Mar 14-16, 2025
Green Day will be performing at Coachella Music and Arts Festival this April, and I can’t wait to hear how lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong changes the band’s lyrics to …
Activism Charities Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local BusinessGay Desert Guide: Week of Mar 10, 2025
At Sunnylands Center & Gardens rises a pyramid on the great lawn. It’s been in place for a few weeks, but is now revealed as part of Desert X, the …