What was your favorite “No Kings Day” protest sign? I’d see one, snap a photo and think it was brilliant. Then another would pop up. And so it went here …
Activism Charities Communication Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Jun 16, 2025
Activism Events Gay Pride LGBTQ TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Jun 9, 2025
FreedomFest showed up on the Gay Desert Guide calendar, the work of my editorial team. I know most everything coming to town well in advance and we are always vigilant …
Activism Entertainment LGBTQ Nightlife Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Jun 6-8, 2025
Waterbeds were a thing in the 1970s. We saw footage of Palm Springs first “gay” hotel, An Old Friend, at last week’s LGBTQ+ History and Archives home movies night. There …
Activism Charities LGBTQ Movies Protests Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Week of Jun 2, 2025
What were Pride parades like in the 1970s just after Stonewall? Pat Rocco documented them on film and later, video, in archives that live today due to the efforts of …
Charities LGBTQ Local Business Restaurants Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: May 30-Jun 1, 2025
Pee-wee Herman — aka Paul Reubens — was going into the closet about the time that I was coming out. Pee-wee as Himself, an HBO Original two-part documentary debuted last Friday …
Activism Entertainment Gay Pride LGBTQ Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of May 26, 2025
And the hits just keep on comin’! That’s a phrase used by radio stations like KGAY in days gone by to promote the music we play. But today, the hits …
Activism Communication Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide for Memorial Day Weekend: May 23-26, 2025
Giving seems to be in our LGBTQ DNA. The practice of helping others — whether financially, socially or in volunteerism — is something we just do, most of the time …
Activism Communication LGBTQ Local Business Movies Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of May 19, 2025
At 10:49 AM, sitting in my office, I heard a massive boom. My Saturday morning — and weekend was turned upside down as was that of our entire community. My …
Activism Charities Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: May 16-18, 2025
Shann Carr made me cry this morning. And it wasn’t because she was promoting burials for Kasey at Wiefels Mortuary either. When KGAY started in 2019, Shann and John Taylor …
Activism Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of May 12, 2025
Whether it’s social security, the arts, veterans benefits, SCORE, trans rights in the military, homeless services, women’s reproductive rights, the park service — it’s a time of alarm. For many …