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 Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Movies Protests Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: May 2-4, 2025
One hundred Trump days has seemed like 100 years IRL. We’ve been watching this slow motion trainwreck play out in ways that has changed America not for the better and …
Communication Community Conversations Gay Pride LGBTQ Movies Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of Apr 28, 2025
“Meet the Palm Springs Radio Station Mixing Pleasure and Politics”, the Fodor’s headline reads. This article published over the weekend has quite the different tone from the one appearing in …
Activism Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of Apr 21, 2025
Conclave, the movie, will play out in real life soon following the death of Pope Francis overnight in Rome. While the Catholic church has been decried for its policies over …
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 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 …
Activism Communication Entertainment Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of Mar 24, 2025
While it’s a honor to be honored, it’s a little tough to think of myself as an “LGBTQ+ elder pioneer”. That’s the official designation of my S.A.G.E. award being given …