Poet John Rondel posted a masterpiece to start June Pride month. It was shared on “the Facebook” by my mom via a long time family friend and former clergyman Mike …
Gay Desert Guide Weekend: June 9-11, 2023
Gay Desert Guide: Week of June 5, 2023
Pride Month good news starts off our week! Seems that Gay Days at Walt Disney World had a record-breaking robust attendance over the weekend! “Rainbow-hued merchandise designed by Disney — …
Gay Desert Guide for Memorial Day Weekend: May 26-29, 2023
By all means we should have a nice, relaxing long holiday weekend to celebrate the beginning of summer. Boyz Night Out is back, pool parties abound, and the grill is …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of May 22, 2023
Even us dyed-in-the wool hard-core locals need to get out of the summer heat for a bit. I just made my plans for Gay Wine Weekend in July. We’ve been …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of May 15, 2023
It was the summer of 1973 and I boarded my first airplane flight ever to attend Michigan Technological institute’s summer camp for geeky kids like myself. I was “into” electronics, …
Gay Desert Guide Weekend: May 12-14, 2023
White Party grew out of an idea by the late Jeffrey Sanker to have a carefree 1989 Easter weekend here with his friends after a devastating decade of the AIDS …
Gay Desert Guide Weekend: May 5-7, 2023
“It’s … with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today during a news conference from Geneva. While the …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of May 1, 2023
Drag Isn’t Dangerous. True is that! The well-named benefit live telethon will hit home the point that this anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is held by a minority of people. But those loud …
Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Apr. 28-30, 2023
I serve on the LGBTQ+ Archives of the Desert board and you may have seen our projects to preserve the history of our community around Palm Springs Pride or the recent …
Gay Desert Guide: Week of Apr. 24, 2023
Coachella provides hope that – as Whitney Houston once sang – “children are our future”. Concert goers of all ages tramped around the polo grounds, but it’s a young person’s …