As the last beats pulsed through the speakers at Reforma’s nightclub on Sept. 28, The Dinah’s 34th year ended — and with it, an era under founder Mariah Hanson. The fête, a music festival for LGBTQ+ women, began in 1991, hosted in tandem with the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner’s Circle women’s golf tournament.
Michelin-recognized dining, modernist architecture, storied Hollywood hideaways … People don’t visit Palm Springs for drab, that’s for sure. But they do visit for drag. And that upscale sense of spectacle Palm Springs is famous for informs many LGBTQ+-owned spaces in...
The Dinah’s touch on Palm Springs — a town where it’s estimated around half of the population identifies as LGBTQ+ — runs deep. Known around the world as the largest music festival/pool party for lesbians and queer women, The Dinah, founded in 1991 by Mariah Hanson,...
Cathedral City’s LGBT+ Days festival returns for a weekend packed with live entertainment, activities, and a strong sense of community. Now in its ninth year, the event kicks off with the raising of the pride flag at City Hall. “We were the first city in the valley to...
As Palm Springs Leather Pride approaches, we spoke to Durk Dehner, who co-founded the Tom of Finland Foundation with artist Tom Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland). Known for his bold, hyper-masculine depictions of men, Tom’s work is immediately recognizable and...
Come as you are to Arenas Road, the official gay district of downtown Palm Springs, where locally owned eateries, clubs, and bars celebrate Pride daily. The city’s first gay bar, Streetbar, opened in 1991. Over time, the LGBTQ+ neighborhood sprouted up around it and...
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Palm Springs residents who explored the 200 and 300 blocks of Arenas Road in the late 1980s would have experienced a vastly different street from what is now the nexus of the LGBTQ+ mecca.At that time, desert dwellers frequented a hub of small businesses — from...
Palm Springs added a dash of mid-mod whimsy to this wedding.PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL SEGALParker Palm Springs provided a whimsical, mid-mod backdrop for Angela and Julie’s happily ever after — a long twime coming after a two-year engagement and 13 years...
A friend who recently passed away and couldn’t attend their wedding gave Nicholas and Stephen this advice a week before they walked down the aisle: “As the officiant pronounces you married, and you’re face to face with your friends and family for the...
Tommi Rose has been entertaining audiences in Greater Palm Springs since 2002. Look for Tommi on Toucan's float at Sunday's Greater Palm Springs Pride parade.PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY TOMMI ROSEThe night began at a bar on July 3rd in Daytona Beach. But when...
Bob the Drag Queen comes to Greater Palm Springs Pride for a Nov. 5 show at Hotel Zoso.PHOTOGRAPHY BY JACOB RITTSAfter being crowned the popular winner of season eight of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bob the Drag Queen has conquered all they survey.Since the...
PHOTOGRAPH BY ALBERT ANGELOTrick or Treating at I Heart Mac & Cheese: Oct. 31Each child will receive one free cookie during candy trick or treating. No purchase necessary, 190 S. Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs. iheartmacandcheese.comPalm Springs...
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY TOM OF FINLANDTouko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, was the influential Finnish artist whose groundbreaking drawings — rendered from the 1940s until he died in 1991 — captured virile men in acts of homoerotic desire. In...
6–7:30 p.m., Nov. 1George Zander Candlelight Vigil and MarchStarts at Hotel Zoso, 150 S. Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springspspride.orgReflect, remember, and stand up against hate and violence around the world. We will honor the memory of all victims of...
Joshua Tree artist Patrick Hasson stands in front of The Rainbow House, which he created during the pandemic and is available for vacation stays.PHOTOGRAPH BY SANDRA GOODIN/COURTESY PATRICK HASSONShow your pride and make your stay in Greater Palm...
Peter Laska and Jared Hemming enjoy Pride in the Pines a year ago when the inaugural event drew more than 800 people.PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY PRIDE IN THE PINESWhile the emphasis is on celebration for the second annual Pride Under the Pines on Oct. 1, there...
Taylor Dayne headlines the entertainment at The Dinah, the largest lesbian festival in the country, set for Sept. 21-25, at Margaritaville Resort Palm Springs.PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER BARATTaylor Dayne burst onto the music scene in 1987 with her first hit...
In order to create the atmosphere he wanted in Brotherly Lies, director Mark Schwab used very little lighting. The film is set at a house in northern California.PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY BROTHERLY LIESWhen it came to his own films, Mark Schwab stuck to being...
Splashes of vibrant colors bring Marconi Calindas' artwork to life, varying from pop icons to triumphs of the human spirit.PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY MARCONI CALINDASMarconi Calindas has turned his passion as an artist into a way to advocate for causes he...
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUMTransforming the Palm Springs Art Museum into a thumping queer soirée to celebrate Greater Palm Springs Pride 2021 was an inspired new touch that we look forward to attending again this year — and it let the...
Kate Hudson on Music, “Song Sung Blue,” and Life in Palm Desert
