X is making a concerted, top-level effort to silence the LGBTQ+ community! That’s a strong statement, but ironically, on July 4th, hundreds of X accounts were suspended in one fell …
Activism Entertainment Gay Pride LGBTQ Movies Nightlife Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of Jul 8, 2024
Activism Communication Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Restaurants Things to DoGay Desert Guide for Independence Day Weekend: Jul 4-7, 2024
B-r-r-r-r! It was 40 degrees cooler at the San Diego oceanfront where I visited last evening for Marc Shaiman at the Rady Shell highlighting his movie and Broadway music. I …
Activism Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Restaurants Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Jun 28-30, 2024
I, like Jon Stewart, could only follow up the debate performances with “WTF!” There’s no spin that I have seen in the post-mortem of Thursday’s Presidential debate that can adequately …
Activism Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Nightlife Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Jun 21-23, 2024
As a board member of the LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert, we’ve been gathering remembrances and remnants of our past – from matchbooks to magazines – that relate …
Activism Charities Entertainment Events Gay Pride Health LGBTQ Local Business Movies Nightlife Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of Jun 17, 2024
Discothèque is French for a collection of records. It was co-opted and eventually shortened to “disco” by those of us in the gay and black communities in the 70s. How …
Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Jun 14-16, 2024
As June Pride month started, I wrote about my new favorite saying on a t-shirt I recently purchased: “Pride is a MARCH not a parade”. I received many positive comments …
Activism Charities Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Nightlife Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of Jun 10, 2024
Pride continues to be celebrated this June, but has been muted corporately after last year’s backlash against Target and Budweiser, among others. I was dismayed to read a Forbes article, …
Activism Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Jun 7-9, 2024
Scott Griffin and I were on the phone together Monday night just after the release of our “American Dream” HGTV segment on Facebook. We giggled like school girls as we …
Activism Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Nightlife Restaurants Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of Jun 3, 2024
Local Author Ray Smythe advertises his books on personal loss and grief on KGAY and KMEE. When I first met him, his unbridled enthusiasm for life was ever-present. He comes …
Activism Charities Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Nightlife Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: May 31-Jun 2, 2024
June is Pride month around the world. The history of commemorating this was born out of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York. The first Pride March took place on …