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 Events Gay Pride LGBTQ TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Jun 9, 2025
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 …
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 …
Activism Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Nightlife TheatreGay Desert Guide Weekend: May 9-11, 2025
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters. That’s the way to describe Thursday’s Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast held annually to celebrate the life of the first openly gay elected official in California. …
Activism Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Movies Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide: Week of May 5, 2025
When I started Gay Desert Guide, the Desert Business Association was one of the first organizations I partnered with. As one of the nation’s oldest LGBTQ+ chambers of commerce, DBA …
Activism Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Movies Protests Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: May 2-4, 2025
One hundred Trump days has seemed like 100 years IRL. We’ve been watching this slow motion trainwreck play out in ways that has changed America not for the better and …