Why this gay uple om L.A. packed up and bought a home Yuc Valley.
Contents:
- TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS JOSHUA TREE
- THEY SWAPPED AN L.A. PAD FOR A JOSHUA TREE HOMTEAD — AND A GROWG GAY MUNY
- THE JOSHUA TREE PUBFLORENCEMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASCY GUIGAY MAPTHE JOSHUA TREE PUB
TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY
The Ty Pony Tavern don’t ll self a gay bar, but is the gayt bar California’s Yuc Valley. There’s a lot of homophobia and racism Yuc Valley small pockets.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS JOSHUA TREE
Jsi: My ltle here who is 13 jt me out as gay.
Why, as an almost-50-year-old gay man, did I choose to move out the middle of fuckg nowhere? For a queer visor to the sert, walkg through the door feels like stumblg upon a gay, matriarchal oasis.
” It’s such a wonrful, to this day we get letters the mail wh relig, anti-gay material. And si ’s packets sayg, “The gay man is the vil. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.
THEY SWAPPED AN L.A. PAD FOR A JOSHUA TREE HOMTEAD — AND A GROWG GAY MUNY
A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! (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.
” 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.
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“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).
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