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EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS YUC VALLEY
(David Gee Zimmerman) “We’ve met so many queer folks sce we’ve moved to the sert, cludg the owners of the Statn, the Bety Bubble, Geo and Gypsum and Joshua Tree Blanket Company,” says Williamson, 36, who wrote and starred the Silver Lake-based gay soap opera “EastSirs,” which Halbach, 42, -starred and -executive produced.
TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY
It’s fely a huge change om when we first started g out here 10 years ago.” Unlike the famo gay wboy song “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other,” ’s no secret that Palm Sprgs has long been a popular statn for the LGBTQ muny. “Today there is a very vibrant and visible gay muny here,” says Dave McAdam, founr and -owner of Homtead Morn short-term rentals, who moved om San Francis to the high sert 2003.
Comg om those two very gay-welg muni, I felt some real trepidatn about what a gay man might fd the high sert — pecially some of the more nservative muni here,” McAdam adds. When gay, ge-masked untry-wtern sger Orville Peck performed at Pappy and Harriet’s April, the Statn owners Glen Steigelman and Steve Halterman outfted Big Josh, the 21-foot-tall fiberglass wboy outsi their Joshua Tree gift shop, a pk ged mask to match the untry crooner’s tramark disguise. Could two gay cy slickers survive on a dirt road a sert town jt a few doors down om an alpa farm?
(Shafik Wahhab) (Shafik Wahhab) “The prev owner did the hard work of makg the home livable and fortable, and we me and ma gay,” says Williamson, who is currently postproductn on “Unnventnal,” a televisn project he created and stars , shot Joshua Tree and Palm Sprgs. To make the hoe a home, or what they are llg their “homo homtead,” the uple spent $50,000 on upgras cludg a remol of the two bathrooms and the creatn of outdoor livg spac that overlook the property’s Joshua tre and cholla ct (there is also a yote n at the rear of the property ltered wh bon).