Pride Month officially starts this Monday, June 1st. After our #Marilyn100 weekend, I have both a sense of civic pride and renewed sense of how important LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations continue to be. …
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I’ve been on vacation the past week celebrating a friend’s birthday on a cruise. We started in Athens and had a couple of days to tour. Like any good tourist, …
Activism Charities Events Gay Pride Health LGBTQ Movies Pool Party TheatreGay Desert Guide for Memorial Day Weekend : May 22-25, 2026
Number one on our hit parade this weekend is the “Pool Party for a Cause” benefitting the Palm Springs Animal Shelter. Just a few weeks ago, George Sinatra did a …
Activism Charities Entertainment Health LGBTQ Pool Party TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of May 18, 2026
Is Long Beach Pride’s cancellation a precursor to what’s to come? Has the Trump administration won? Let’s hope not. And I don’t mean to ring the death knell to LGBTQ+ …
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awoke from a nightmare this morning where I took a stand with my family and decided to become estranged. I announced that I would no longer come home to visit …
Activism Charities Communication Entertainment Health LGBTQ Movies TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of May 11, 2026
The controversy surrounding a recent incident at Tool Shed with Honey Davenport has laid bare the cumulative weight of being a Black gay man in a city that markets itself …
Activism Entertainment LGBTQ Local Business Movies Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: May 8-10, 2026
The Late Show has been an institution since Stephen Colbert took the reins from David Letterman in 2015. In July 2025, CBS announced it would be retiring the Late Show …
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Vacations are starting already and kids of all ages are thinking about their summer break. I am just returning from an amazing Brandg Vacations expedition cruise to the Caribbean. It’s …
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May Day! May Day! May Day! The international voice radio distress call is used by aviation, maritime and for general emergencies. But it’s also the day when workers across the …
Activism Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Movies TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Apr 27, 2026
We’re getting to that place in the calendar when “final” or “last of the year” is in the description of events on our Gay Desert Guide calendar. Yes, we’ve mostly …