“Meet the Palm Springs Radio Station Mixing Pleasure and Politics”, the Fodor’s headline reads. This article published over the weekend has quite the different tone from the one appearing in …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Apr 28, 2025

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Apr 21, 2025
Conclave, the movie, will play out in real life soon following the death of Pope Francis overnight in Rome. While the Catholic church has been decried for its policies over …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Apr 18-20, 2025
Saint or sinner? This Sunday you pick your side in a variety of ways in #ILoveGayPalmSprings. On the “saint” side is traditional Christian Easter and the end of Passover on …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Apr 4-6, 2025
We got up close and personal with two people this week who are very different parts of the front lines. The amazing stamina of Sen. Cory Booker put a lump …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Mar 24, 2025
While it’s a honor to be honored, it’s a little tough to think of myself as an “LGBTQ+ elder pioneer”. That’s the official designation of my S.A.G.E. award being given …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Mar 14-16, 2025
Green Day will be performing at Coachella Music and Arts Festival this April, and I can’t wait to hear how lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong changes the band’s lyrics to …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Feb 28-Mar 2, 2025
HATE EMBOLDENED is the cover story in the March issue of the Coachella Valley Independent. In it, Publisher Jimmy Boegle’s team outlines a spate of incidents that have bedeviled our …

Gay Desert Guide: Week of Feb 24, 2025
To b(oycott), or not to b(oycott), that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Feb 14-16, 2025
Modernism and McCarthyism ran parallel paths in the 50s. Today one thrives while the other is history repeating itself. We celebrate Modernism Week starting this Valentine’s Day as a new …

Gay Desert Guide Weekend: Feb 7-9, 2025
Let’s face it: The news goes from bad to worse. And while many of the draconian efforts of the new administration will eventually be stopped, that’s not much solace. I’ve …