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 Charities Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide Weekend: Apr 11-13, 2025
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 …
Activism Charities Events Fitness Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide Weekend: Mar 7-9, 2025
A little comic relief courtesy of our savior, Randy Rainbow, has come our way. And it couldn’t come at a better time. “Defying Democracy” is an epic work by Randy, …
Activism Boycot Communication Events LGBTQ Local Business Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Feb 28-Mar 2, 2025
HATE EMBOLDENED is the cover story in the March issue of the Coachella Valley Independent. In it, Publisher Jimmy Boegle’s team outlines a spate of incidents that have bedeviled our …