Now we are squarely in the holiday season! The big box stores put up Christmas decorations well before Halloween on Arenas. And that’s just too early, IMHO. Did this super-early …
Gay Desert Guide Thanksgiving Weekend: Nov 28-Dec 1, 2024
Gay Desert Guide: Week of Nov 25, 2024
Bragging rights are defined as “the opportunity to speak proudly because you have done something impressive”. So today our rights are front and center as KGAY and KMEE land top …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of Nov 18, 2024
Today’s front page headlines confirm the tumultuous Trump times we’re living in. LA Times: “Trump poses Threat to California’s Transgender protections, experts say” and The Desert Sun splashes on Page …
Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Nov 15-17, 2024
Gay Men of Palm Springs is an influential voice through their social media page on Facebook. It boasts over 15,000 members and is curated with love by Raymond Lafleur. I …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of Nov 11, 2024
ANeeded Distraction. Sunday’s taping of “LIVE with Kelly and Mark“, arranged by Visit Greater Palm Springs, was a much needed break from the news cycle I’ve been experiencing since election night. …
Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Nov 8-10, 2024
“The light of America’s promise will always shine bright”. Kamala Harris’ words to us in her concession speech Wednesday help take the sting away just a bit. We are in …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of Nov 4, 2024
Be You was the theme for Palm Springs Pride this year – and it lived up to its theme. I love the free expression of gender identity, kinks, fetishes and …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of Oct 28, 2024
Marriage Equality is back on the ballot. This time it should be an easy layup for enshrining the repeal of Prop 8 into our state constitution. That’s unlike the 2008 …
Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Oct 25-27, 2024
Blanche DuBois’ famous line in Tennessee Williams play, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” resonates as I get ready to depart Japan for Palm Springs. “I have always depended on the kindness …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of Oct 21, 2024
And so it begins! “Season” as we call it. And the Gay Desert Guide events calendar is chocked full of things to do from now until the cows come home. …