THE 5 BEST California Dert Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• THE BEST HOT SPRGS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HOT SPRGS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DERT HOT SPRGS
• CATHEDRAL CY WAS THE FIRST STOP FOR GAY BARS THE DERT
• THE 5 BEST PALM SPRGS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PALM SPRGS
• BT GAY BARS THE DERT
• ‘WE’RE STILL HERE’: HISTORIC GAY BARS PALM SPRGS SEE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
• THE BEST HOT SPRGS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS HOT SPRGS
• THE 5 BEST CALIFORNIA DERT GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CALIFORNIA DERT

THE BEST HOT SPRGS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HOT SPRGS

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WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. Palm Sprgs Gay Directory for the LGBT Traveler. 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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DERT HOT SPRGS

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! “This year, The Barracks bar is celebratg 30 years of operatn as the olst ntually operatg gay bar Cathedral Cy. A sprawlg warehoe plex, is LGBTQ+ famo for hostg the area’s largt gay Sunday Beer Bt, as well as host to many of the world’s most popular leather/kk events.

The first gay bars opened Cathedral Cy more than 50 years ago even before was rporated 1981. Use #ILoveGayPalmSprgs when you post your photos on socials! Gay Dert GuiThis is an imprsive rource of activi, events, and happengs all over Palm Sprgs.

A ol nightspot the ltle Arenas Road gay bar neighborhood.

CATHEDRAL CY WAS THE FIRST STOP FOR GAY BARS THE DERT

Happy Hour FrThis is a great list on Gay Dert Gui! Hunter’sThe self-proclaimed “center of gay nightlife” Palm Sprgs, Hunters hosts numero themed events throughout the week and late-night dancg on the weekends. Roost Lounge, TheGay bar and vio lounge Cathedral Cy.

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THE 5 BEST PALM SPRGS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PALM SPRGS

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BT GAY BARS THE DERT

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‘WE’RE STILL HERE’: HISTORIC GAY BARS PALM SPRGS SEE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Friday night was more chilled, but certaly had more gay clientele. Clothg optnal rorts ter to both gay and straight visors. Acrdg to Brad Fuhr, clothg-optnal rorts beme popular Palm Sprgs s ago, primarily among gay men.

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Fuhr, board member of the Dert Gay Tourism Guild, remends first-timers vis a rort for a tour before bookg. For Gays. Loted the heart of the gay-iendly Warm Sands neighborhood of Palm Sprgs, Inndulge offers the requise pool and 12-man Jacuzzi, open 24 hours a day.

THE BEST HOT SPRGS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS HOT SPRGS

Hip hotels, galleri, and eateri make Palm Sprgs a trip—and so do the playful flocks of gay men, lbians, and, of urse, CanadiansA gaggle of men and women, all clad women’s bikis, nighti, and joggg wear, dash across the street as passersby appears that serts are full of surpris, and my first eveng Palm Sprgs is no exceptn.

Wnsg the bar n—a marathon anized by the outrageo Hash Hoe Harriers—kicks off my weekend “Ameri’s Gay Oasis” tag isn’t hyperbole. Almost half of the clientele and staff every store and rtrant I vis along the ma road, Palm Canyon Drive, appear to be gay men.

Gay-iendly acmodatn abounds, as do multiday circu parti like the Whe ’s more than jt LGBT people who flock here.

THE 5 BEST CALIFORNIA DERT GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CALIFORNIA DERT

” Canadian expat Jean-Guy Lachance asks poolsi at his gay rort INNdulge. “By openg a gay rort Palm Sprgs, ” Lachance explas, “ was basilly unrstood that [beg clothg-optnal] was expected. (Neighbourg Cathedral Cy is where, Lachance explas, the gay muny first veloped.

Part of the Lazy Bear Weekend was held there this past November, and a few gay hotels and clubs, like fetish bar the Barracks, rema. She tells me that a Manoban woman opened the hotel, and that the current owners (a straight archect-and-artist uple) nverted to Miracle there aren’t any gay-exclive acmodatns the area, Tolento, herself an out lbian, not that there are several LGBT–n plac, such as the nearby Sagewater Spa and the Sacred Sands bed and breakfast Joshua Palm Sprgs, I leave the stylish Del Mars Hotel, a non-gay-specific place I chose for s proximy to downtown and s atomic-age dér. Behd Koffi ffee shop, I retreat om the heat by sippg on a lectable iced cholate mt tea the sha of a grassy urtyard, a gatherg spot for gay men and their ne lls when I pass a der lled Hamburger Mary’s.

Unfortunately, I fd the chicken lo me medcre and the rice on to Arenas Road after dner, I explore the clter of gay bars, fés, and stor such as Gay Mart (unrelated to the now-closed, same-named Vanuver store).

Yet I’m also remd of how recent ras here gave rise to greenery sproutg up along the roads, revealg what may be hidn—like the work of gays, lbians, and Canadians I disvered—at first glance. For more LGBT rmatn, vis the Dert Gay Tourism Guild Web se or the gay sectn of the Palm Sprgs Bure of Tourism. (Gee Wylol / For the Tim) Two of my iends have an ongog joke: If they’re the only ctomers a bar, that bar is now a gay same ethos n be applied sentially anywhere a cy as gay as Palm Sprgs: Any ffee shop or clothg store n be gay if someone queer lov, if you’re lookg for the bt queer-iendly thgs to do the place some ll the gayt town Ameri (when Palm Sprgs hered the natn’s first all-LGBT cy uncil, rints shgged), helps to ask the people who know the sert town’s LGBTQ+ muny timately.

For Brad Fuhr, the founr of Gay Dert Gui and owner of KGAY 106.

Durg the two s that he’s spent visg and livg Palm Sprgs, Fuhr has watched the lol gay scene evolve.

“For a long time, all the gay bars and lbian bars were Cathedral Cy, ” he said. ”Trixie Mattel, the skny legend who graced the “RuPl’s Drag Race” nway for two seasons, fell love wh Palm Sprgs all s gay glory the first time she vised. M., and was adult gay men like, midcentury clothg drkg and dancg, ” she said.