Not a year goes by that the Red Dress/Dress Red Party helps me to make new “best friends”. And in talking to The Center’s staff at Wednesday’s Center Social that we sponsored, the same …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Jan 24-26, 2025

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Jan 13, 2025
The “Best of Fest” at the Palm Springs International Film Festival is both a marathon and a sprint. You could spend all day today viewing the top films of the …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Jan 6, 2025
Queer, starring Daniel Craig, will debut Monday at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The movie parallel’s what we see all too often here in the the valley – those May-December …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Jan 3-5, 2025
We named her “Daisy”, an adorable Jack Russell Terrier puppy that I procured as a surprise Christmas present for my then partner, Tom, in 2006. Daisy had a famous mom …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Dec 30, 2024
Trepidation is “a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen.” And 2025 will bring plenty of that! But before we turn the page on 2024, I wanted …

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: Palm Springs Pride Weekend Nov 1-3, 2024
Election Day can’t come soon enough! As we fret and stew over ads so vile that Fox had to air a disclaimer and campaign rhetoric that makes us afraid for …

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 Weekend: Sep 27-29, 2024
It’s been 55 years since the Stonewall uprising and many of the people who were there are no longer with ‘here’. We lost another one this week when Drag Performer …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Sep 20-22, 2024
The birthday greetings started Wednesday when I stepped on my bathroom scales. After it calculated my weight (which I’m not happy about), the LED display wished me HBD — even …