Palm Sprgs: The Largt LGBTQ Communy the Country |

Contents:

• WHY PALM SPRGS IS THE GAYT TOWN AMERI
• IN GAY-IENDLY PALM SPRGS, AMERI'S FIRST ALL-LGBT ERNMENT IS NO SURPRISE
• WHY PALM SPRGS IS THE GAYT TOWN AMERI
• WHY EVERY GAY MAN SHOULD VIS PALM SPRGS AT LEAST ONCE HIS LIFEJAMIE TABBERER·FOLLOW6 M READ·JUL 30, 2019--LISTENSHAREHOW A CY OF 48,000 BEME ONE OF THE WORLD’S FOREMOST GAY HOTSPOTS — WH AN ALL-LGBTI CY UNCIL TO BOOTEARLY EVENG, AND THE STILL-BLISTERG HEAT OF PALM SPRGS, CALIFORNIA NSPIR WH THE OLG BLUE OF AN OUTDOOR SWIMMG POOL. I NSIR DOWNG MY MARTI, RIPPG OFF MY DNER WEAR AND DIVG .AN OLR GAY GENTLEMAN WH THE RIGHT IA WALKG TOWARDS ME, PALM OUTSTRETCHED, SG WILY.HE WEARS NOT A STCH OF CLOTHG, SAVE FOR SOME ELABORATE-LOOKG, VIGOROLY-BOBBG GENAL JEWELLERY.PHOTO: ESPE RORTI AM, OF URSE, UNFAZED. I’M STAYG AT THE CLOTHG-OPTNAL, MEN-ONLY ESPE RORT PALM SPRGS [ABOVE], WHERE I’VE QUICKLY GOTTEN ED TO NUDY. INED, ANY EMBARRASSMENT ABOUT MY OWN BIRTHDAY SU EVAPORATED SHORTLY AFTER I ARRIVED.WHILE TRYG TO TAN MY BACKSI, I CREPT FURTHER AND FURTHER UP MY SUN LOUNGER TO FOLLOW THE RAYS AND PE THE SHA (I WAS TOO LAZY TO GET UP AND MOVE ). EVENTUALLY, TIPPED, AND WH LEGS AKIMBO, I FELL OFF ONT OF THE CUTE UPLE ACROSS THE POOL I’D BEEN TRYG TO IMPRS. THROUGH STIFLED LGHTER, THEY ASKED IF I WAS OK.ULTIMATELY, I HAD TO LGH MYSELF. BEE THIS SERT OASIS, YOUR WORRI DISAPPEAR.PHOTO: PIXABAYGAY DISNEYLANDPALM SPRGS IS HARDLY ALONE BEG A BUCKET LIST STATN FOR GAY MEN. BUT LOOK AT S SPIRUAL S: BERL’S HOME TO 3.7M, LONDON TO 8.1M, NEW YORK CY TO 8.5M… PALM SPRGS, MEANWHILE, IS HOME TO JT 47,689. THERE ARE TOWNS MY NATIVE ENGLAND WH MORE PEOPLE I’VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF. SERLY, I’VE LOOKED THEM UP.SO WHAT IS , EXACTLY, THAT MAK PALM SPRGS SO SPECIAL — FOR GAY MEN, AND FOR EVERYONE? FOR STARTERS, ’S THE IENDLY LOLS: I’VE NEVER SENSED SO MANY NON-HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE ONE PLACE BEFORE.THE SIGN NEAR THE PALM SPRGS VISOR CENTER | PHOTO: IT’S ENPSULATED BY THE CY’S ALL-LGBTI DEMOCRAT CY UNCIL, PRISED OF THREE GAY MEN, A TRANS WOMAN AND A BI WOMAN. BUT TO BE PLETELY HONT, WAS GAY MEN SPECIFILLY I SAW EVERYWHERE I LOOKED, OM BARTENRS TO BUILRS TO BS OWNERS. (FOR EXAMPLE, THE LOVELY GUYS WHO N THE GEO JAPANE HOME GOODS RETAIL STORE, WABI SABI JAPAN LIVG).MEANWHILE THERE’S AN ABUNDANCE OF GAY BARS. THEY ALL HAVE A FLASHY, OLD-FASHNED FEEL (HIPSTER DIVE BARS ARE, FOR ONCE, SHORT SUPPLY). MOST BOAST THROWBACK SOUNDTRACKS AND CHILLED OUTDOOR SPAC. THEY’RE SPREAD ACROSS THE CY, AND YET ARE GENERALLY WH WALKG DISTANCE OF EACH OTHER.ONE BIG GAYBORHOODE ARENAS ROAD IS THE CLOST THG TO A STRIP, AND BUZZ WH PLAYFUL GAY ENERGY — KARAOKE, DRAG SHOWS, SHOW TUN — AND IS HOME TO, AMONG OTHERS, STREET BAR, SRE THE GAME BAR, CHILL BAR PALM SPRGS, QUADZ PALM SPRGS, SPURLE THE VIO BAR, HUNTERS NIGHTCLUB, AND, ADORABLY, A SORT OF BEAR-SUPERMARKET LLED BEAR WEAR ETC.THE SANTIAGO RORT | PHOTO: SANTIAGO RORTTHEN THERE’S THE SHEER NUMBER OF ACMODATN OPTNS FOR GAY MEN. I WAS GIVEN TOURS OF CLOTHG-OPTNAL RORTS EL MIRASOL VILLAS, THE TRIANGLE INN PALM SPRGS, SANTIAGO PALM SPRGS [ABOVE], TORTUGA DEL SOL, MOST A STONE’S THROW OM EACH OTHER. EACH HAS S OWN CHARACTER, BUT ALL SHARE THE SAME RELAXED AND IENDLY VIBE. I ALSO ASKED EACH OWNER IF THEY GET ON WH THEIR NEIGHBOURS, AND WAS EASILY NVCED TO THE AFFIRMATIVE.HOWEVER, ESPE WAS MY BASE THROUGHOUT MY STAY. I’LL REMEMBER FOR S UNFSY YET STYLISH APPEARANCE, S SPAC, IMPECBLY CLEAN ROOMS, THE EXTENSIVE NTENTAL BREAKFAST AND THE LOVELY, EFFIVE STAFF.JOSHUA TREE NATNAL PARK | PHOTO: PIXABAYWHERE SNOW-PPED MOUNTAS MEET SERTOF URSE, THERE’S MORE TO PALM SPRG THAN THE QUEER SCENE. COCK RG ASI, THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT OF MY TRIP WAS WHEN STARTED SNOWG. LET ME EXPLA.PALM SPRGS — AND CRADLG , COACHELLA VALLEY — ENJOY/ENDURE SERT HEAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, REACHG HIGHS OF 47°C JULY. AS SUCH, GREATER PALM SPRGS PRI TAK PLACE THE OLER MONTH OF NOVEMBER, MAKG ONE OF THE LATT THE US. (THIS YEAR, TAK PLACE OM 1–4).PALM SPRGS AERIAL TRAMWAY | PHOTO: THE SUN WAS OUT FORCE WHEN WE VISED MAY. BUT SLE THE SHEER CLIFFS OF CHO CANYON, ABOARD THE PALM SPRGS AERIAL TRAMWAY, THE LARGT ROTATG TRAMR THE WORLD, AND YOU’LL TYPILLY FD TEMPERATUR 30–40 GRE OLER.AFTER CLIMBG 8,516 FT 10 MUT, MY TRAVEL PANNS AND I FOUND OURSELV ENVELOPED A SNOWY, MISTY, ALPE HTERLAND, UNREGNIZABLE OM THE SUN-SRCHED BBLE BELOW. IT WAS SO MISTY, FACT, THAT WE DIDN’T SEE ANY MOUNTA GOATS. SAD FACE. BUT DURG KR NDNS, YOU MIGHT HAVE MORE LUCK WHILE EXPLORG THE 50 OF HIKG TRAILS.JOSHUA TREE NATNAL PARK | PHOTO: PIXABAYPERHAPS MY FAVORE THG ABOUT PALM SPRGS IS THE NTRAST BETWEEN CY AND LANDSPE. IT HAS THE CHIC FISH OF A LARGE, SMOPOLAN CY, WHILE ALSO BOASTG THE LAID BACK VIB OF A BEACHSI TOWN. BUT TTH, ULDN’T BE FURTHER OM EHER.IT’S A TY, PREC GEM, EXPLIBLY HIDN AMONG OF GGED TERRA. A DRIVE/HIKE AROUND THE BEGUILG JOSHUA TREE NATNAL PARK [ABOVE] IS ABSOLUTELY SENTIAL; THE FLSTON-QUE GIANT BOULRS REALLY DO LOOK ANIMATED.THE HOE OF TOMORROW | PHOTO: JAMIE TABBERERSTAR-STUDD CYDUE TO S CLOSE PROXIMY TO LA (LS THAN TWO HOURS BY R, PENDG ON THE CY OF ANGELS’ HELLISH TRAFFIC), PALM SPRGS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HAVEN FOR HOLLYWOOD STARS. ESPECIALLY THE GOLN AGE, WHEN THEY WERE NTRACTUALLY OBLIGED TO STAY WH A CERTA RADI OF THEIR STUD.FRANK SATRA, MARILYN MONROE AND ELVIS ARE THREE OF THE MOST FAMO FORMER RINTS. THE DAYS, ’S NOT UNMON TO SEE THE LIK OF LEONARDO DICAPR WATERG THE GARN OF HIS VATN HOME HERE.PIAZZA LIBERACE | PHOTO: VIS PALM SPRGSWE SAW THE NOT-SO-HUMBLE ABOS OF ALL THE AFOREMENTNED ON THE PALM SPRGS CELEBRY TOUR. THEY’RE GENERALLY LOW-LEVEL MIDCENTURY MASTERPIEC — PECIALLY ELVIS’S INIC HOE OF TOMORROW — THAT ARE TYPIL OF THE CY’S BENT TOWARDS MORNIST ARCHECTURE. HOWEVER, WE WERE MOST EXCED TO SEE PIAZZA LIBERACE, THE SURPRISGLY MOST DIGS OF THE LATE, GREAT GAY POSER LIBERACE [ABOVE].(BY THE WAY, OUR CELEBRY HOM TOUR GUI WAS A GAY MAN. AS WAS THE GUI WHO TOOK ON OUR DERT ADVENTUR JEEP TOUR, THE MYSTIL INDIAN CANYONS, WHERE HE TGHT ABOUT ANCIENT ROCK FORMATNS AND SAVED ME OM STUMBLG ON A GIANT RATTLNAKE. THIS REALLY HAPPENED.)DAT FOR YOUR DIARY
• PALM SPRGS RANKS AS NO. 1 GAY FRIENDLY CY
• DO PALM SPRGS NEED A LUXURY GAY RETIREMENT COMMUNY? THIS DEVELOPER THKS SO
• A GAY GUI TO PALM SPRGS - BARS, HOTELS, HISTORY & EVENTS

WHY PALM SPRGS IS THE GAYT TOWN AMERI

Dpe not beg at the top of md for my Instagram dience, ’s te – Palm Sprgs is one of the gayt ci the world, even wh ls than 50, 000 rints. Palm Sprgs’ gay muny has always been polilly active and LGBT members have nsistently been part of their lol ernment.

IN GAY-IENDLY PALM SPRGS, AMERI'S FIRST ALL-LGBT ERNMENT IS NO SURPRISE

”The stggle for gay and transgenr rights, other words, has so triumphed this wealthy sert oasis se ltle remarkable about electg three gay men, a transgenr woman and a bisexual woman, all Democrats, to s five-member uncil. Roy Moore, Alabama’s feated Senate ndidate, threatened to brg an atavistic view of homosexualy to Washgton Sprgs, a 47, 000-strong muny which boasts fe dg, galleri and mid-century archecture, feels like a parallel universe. Photograph: Rory Carroll/The GuardianOnce bt known as a sert hangout for Hollywood’s 1960s rat pack, Palm Sprgs is now arguably the gayt town is ranked first California and the third the US among ci wh the most same-sex upl per 1, 000 hoeholds, acrdg to cens data analysis by the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of vatners flocked here recent s bee was discreet – what happened Palm Sprgs stayed Palm Sprgs – and many end up stayg.

”The cy manager, who is gay, timated that about half of the members of neighbourhood anisatns were, the mayor, said that for s he had led a “reful, closeted” life as a naval officer and so cherished the fact that Palm Sprgs accepted an all-LGBT ernment as no big al. There are valid qutns, and almost all n be answered by readg A Cy Com Out: How Celebri Ma Palm Sprgs a Gay and Lbian Paradise, David Wallace's timate and affable personable examatn of the sert town's gay archects, landspe signers and Hollywood producers who loved the same sex ntributed to Palm Sprgs's rise the early-to-mid Twentieth Century, was movie stars, then a new breed Amerin popular culture, who me to the sert to pe pryg ey provid the real thst for Palm Sprgs's boom.

Sce the 1920s, Palm Sprgs has been a playground for Hollywood--both straight and gay--and pe to the sert was fairly easy, rarely more than a two-hour drive on the two-lane blacktops or a ri on the (much missed) tras of the day.

WHY PALM SPRGS IS THE GAYT TOWN AMERI

Sce the film dtry has always had a relatively high percentage of homosexual talent by s very nature was evable that many of the new arrivals people were gay or lbian, and th by their very prence, they created both a uniquely hip image for the place and, spe ocsnal efforts of reactnary policians and monied terts, an environment of, a few words about the book. All this appli even more tensely the evolutn of Palm Sprgs to a world-famo gay and lbian paradise, bee many of the people who shaped the place -- even if only by their prence -- were, bee of their Hollywood nnectns, among the bt-known celebri the world their film star William HaPalm Sprgs's early days unfold a time when "gay" was somethg pletely different, and not somethg an uniated Amerin public associated wh Hollywood, where agents and publicists very much forced stars like Rock Hudson to marriag of nvenience.

If there existed a glass closet, was fogged, Wallace explas how public sndals, startg wh the gay-flavored ntroversy that brought down famo actor William Ha (pictured wh Ana Page, a woman he fely didn't sire), created Hollywood s and rerced the closet:In much of Ameri, the part that people ocsnally dismiss today as "fly-over" untry--plac like Wicha, Omaha, and other ci, towns, and wi plac the road where the only entertament may have been a weekend screeng of the latt movie--most people had never heard the word "homosexual. " And the term "gay" (rived om the French "gai" meang high-spired or merry) s homosexual meang didn't bee part of the vernacular until the late 1960s, although had been e as self-reference among homosexuals sce the 1920s. Those lns of ticket buyers Ameri and the rt of the world were the last people that the studs wanted to learn that the latt matee idol preferred men as sexual partners rather than women, and that the hottt leadg lady liked a major gay sndal explod.

In 1933 William Ha, a name unfaiar to most people the days but at that time one of the most popular actors the untry, was ught havg sex wh a man and was immediately was jt the latt of a growg list of Hollywood sndals, cludg the 1923 ath of another leadg man, Wallace Reid, by a dg overdose, the arrt and trials of Rose "Fatty" Arbuckle for brgg about the ath of a popular Hollywood starlet (he was acquted after three trials but his reer was ed), and the 1922 murr of William Dmond Taylor, a famo director mored to be havg a clanste gay relatnship wh his chffr as well as a straight relatnship wh Mary Mil Mter, one of the most famo silent dtry reacted by stallg a self-censor and then, 1934, a productn . Among the sualti of such censorship was the double was sleepg solo on the silver screen om then on for more than a generatn, and of urse any reference to homosexualy as well as the ridicule of relign was exprsly banned. Privacy, as was noted earlier, was provid by the ubiquo walls surroundg many of the muny's hom and rorts, yet the place was still close enough to the studs that a star uld show up for a movie or televisn productn ll a uple of for the publicly homophobic Liberace (who once sued a Brish newspaper for sayg he was gay while at the same time vortg wh bevi of young male beti behd the walls of a succsn of hom) and hundreds of closeted gay, lbian, and bisexual actors, actrs, and their iends, a trek to the sert was the ial solutn to havg your fame as well as enjoyg .

WHY EVERY GAY MAN SHOULD VIS PALM SPRGS AT LEAST ONCE HIS LIFEJAMIE TABBERER·FOLLOW6 M READ·JUL 30, 2019--LISTENSHAREHOW A CY OF 48,000 BEME ONE OF THE WORLD’S FOREMOST GAY HOTSPOTS — WH AN ALL-LGBTI CY UNCIL TO BOOTEARLY EVENG, AND THE STILL-BLISTERG HEAT OF PALM SPRGS, CALIFORNIA NSPIR WH THE OLG BLUE OF AN OUTDOOR SWIMMG POOL. I NSIR DOWNG MY MARTI, RIPPG OFF MY DNER WEAR AND DIVG .AN OLR GAY GENTLEMAN WH THE RIGHT IA WALKG TOWARDS ME, PALM OUTSTRETCHED, SG WILY.HE WEARS NOT A STCH OF CLOTHG, SAVE FOR SOME ELABORATE-LOOKG, VIGOROLY-BOBBG GENAL JEWELLERY.PHOTO: ESPE RORTI AM, OF URSE, UNFAZED. I’M STAYG AT THE CLOTHG-OPTNAL, MEN-ONLY ESPE RORT PALM SPRGS [ABOVE], WHERE I’VE QUICKLY GOTTEN ED TO NUDY. INED, ANY EMBARRASSMENT ABOUT MY OWN BIRTHDAY SU EVAPORATED SHORTLY AFTER I ARRIVED.WHILE TRYG TO TAN MY BACKSI, I CREPT FURTHER AND FURTHER UP MY SUN LOUNGER TO FOLLOW THE RAYS AND PE THE SHA (I WAS TOO LAZY TO GET UP AND MOVE ). EVENTUALLY, TIPPED, AND WH LEGS AKIMBO, I FELL OFF ONT OF THE CUTE UPLE ACROSS THE POOL I’D BEEN TRYG TO IMPRS. THROUGH STIFLED LGHTER, THEY ASKED IF I WAS OK.ULTIMATELY, I HAD TO LGH MYSELF. BEE THIS SERT OASIS, YOUR WORRI DISAPPEAR.PHOTO: PIXABAYGAY DISNEYLANDPALM SPRGS IS HARDLY ALONE BEG A BUCKET LIST STATN FOR GAY MEN. BUT LOOK AT S SPIRUAL S: BERL’S HOME TO 3.7M, LONDON TO 8.1M, NEW YORK CY TO 8.5M… PALM SPRGS, MEANWHILE, IS HOME TO JT 47,689. THERE ARE TOWNS MY NATIVE ENGLAND WH MORE PEOPLE I’VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF. SERLY, I’VE LOOKED THEM UP.SO WHAT IS , EXACTLY, THAT MAK PALM SPRGS SO SPECIAL — FOR GAY MEN, AND FOR EVERYONE? FOR STARTERS, ’S THE IENDLY LOLS: I’VE NEVER SENSED SO MANY NON-HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE ONE PLACE BEFORE.THE SIGN NEAR THE PALM SPRGS VISOR CENTER | PHOTO: IT’S ENPSULATED BY THE CY’S ALL-LGBTI DEMOCRAT CY UNCIL, PRISED OF THREE GAY MEN, A TRANS WOMAN AND A BI WOMAN. BUT TO BE PLETELY HONT, WAS GAY MEN SPECIFILLY I SAW EVERYWHERE I LOOKED, OM BARTENRS TO BUILRS TO BS OWNERS. (FOR EXAMPLE, THE LOVELY GUYS WHO N THE GEO JAPANE HOME GOODS RETAIL STORE, WABI SABI JAPAN LIVG).MEANWHILE THERE’S AN ABUNDANCE OF GAY BARS. THEY ALL HAVE A FLASHY, OLD-FASHNED FEEL (HIPSTER DIVE BARS ARE, FOR ONCE, SHORT SUPPLY). MOST BOAST THROWBACK SOUNDTRACKS AND CHILLED OUTDOOR SPAC. THEY’RE SPREAD ACROSS THE CY, AND YET ARE GENERALLY WH WALKG DISTANCE OF EACH OTHER.ONE BIG GAYBORHOODE ARENAS ROAD IS THE CLOST THG TO A STRIP, AND BUZZ WH PLAYFUL GAY ENERGY — KARAOKE, DRAG SHOWS, SHOW TUN — AND IS HOME TO, AMONG OTHERS, STREET BAR, SRE THE GAME BAR, CHILL BAR PALM SPRGS, QUADZ PALM SPRGS, SPURLE THE VIO BAR, HUNTERS NIGHTCLUB, AND, ADORABLY, A SORT OF BEAR-SUPERMARKET LLED BEAR WEAR ETC.THE SANTIAGO RORT | PHOTO: SANTIAGO RORTTHEN THERE’S THE SHEER NUMBER OF ACMODATN OPTNS FOR GAY MEN. I WAS GIVEN TOURS OF CLOTHG-OPTNAL RORTS EL MIRASOL VILLAS, THE TRIANGLE INN PALM SPRGS, SANTIAGO PALM SPRGS [ABOVE], TORTUGA DEL SOL, MOST A STONE’S THROW OM EACH OTHER. EACH HAS S OWN CHARACTER, BUT ALL SHARE THE SAME RELAXED AND IENDLY VIBE. I ALSO ASKED EACH OWNER IF THEY GET ON WH THEIR NEIGHBOURS, AND WAS EASILY NVCED TO THE AFFIRMATIVE.HOWEVER, ESPE WAS MY BASE THROUGHOUT MY STAY. I’LL REMEMBER FOR S UNFSY YET STYLISH APPEARANCE, S SPAC, IMPECBLY CLEAN ROOMS, THE EXTENSIVE NTENTAL BREAKFAST AND THE LOVELY, EFFIVE STAFF.JOSHUA TREE NATNAL PARK | PHOTO: PIXABAYWHERE SNOW-PPED MOUNTAS MEET SERTOF URSE, THERE’S MORE TO PALM SPRG THAN THE QUEER SCENE. COCK RG ASI, THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT OF MY TRIP WAS WHEN STARTED SNOWG. LET ME EXPLA.PALM SPRGS — AND CRADLG , COACHELLA VALLEY — ENJOY/ENDURE SERT HEAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, REACHG HIGHS OF 47°C JULY. AS SUCH, GREATER PALM SPRGS PRI TAK PLACE THE OLER MONTH OF NOVEMBER, MAKG ONE OF THE LATT THE US. (THIS YEAR, TAK PLACE OM 1–4).PALM SPRGS AERIAL TRAMWAY | PHOTO: THE SUN WAS OUT FORCE WHEN WE VISED MAY. BUT SLE THE SHEER CLIFFS OF CHO CANYON, ABOARD THE PALM SPRGS AERIAL TRAMWAY, THE LARGT ROTATG TRAMR THE WORLD, AND YOU’LL TYPILLY FD TEMPERATUR 30–40 GRE OLER.AFTER CLIMBG 8,516 FT 10 MUT, MY TRAVEL PANNS AND I FOUND OURSELV ENVELOPED A SNOWY, MISTY, ALPE HTERLAND, UNREGNIZABLE OM THE SUN-SRCHED BBLE BELOW. IT WAS SO MISTY, FACT, THAT WE DIDN’T SEE ANY MOUNTA GOATS. SAD FACE. BUT DURG KR NDNS, YOU MIGHT HAVE MORE LUCK WHILE EXPLORG THE 50 OF HIKG TRAILS.JOSHUA TREE NATNAL PARK | PHOTO: PIXABAYPERHAPS MY FAVORE THG ABOUT PALM SPRGS IS THE NTRAST BETWEEN CY AND LANDSPE. IT HAS THE CHIC FISH OF A LARGE, SMOPOLAN CY, WHILE ALSO BOASTG THE LAID BACK VIB OF A BEACHSI TOWN. BUT TTH, ULDN’T BE FURTHER OM EHER.IT’S A TY, PREC GEM, EXPLIBLY HIDN AMONG OF GGED TERRA. A DRIVE/HIKE AROUND THE BEGUILG JOSHUA TREE NATNAL PARK [ABOVE] IS ABSOLUTELY SENTIAL; THE FLSTON-QUE GIANT BOULRS REALLY DO LOOK ANIMATED.THE HOE OF TOMORROW | PHOTO: JAMIE TABBERERSTAR-STUDD CYDUE TO S CLOSE PROXIMY TO LA (LS THAN TWO HOURS BY R, PENDG ON THE CY OF ANGELS’ HELLISH TRAFFIC), PALM SPRGS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HAVEN FOR HOLLYWOOD STARS. ESPECIALLY THE GOLN AGE, WHEN THEY WERE NTRACTUALLY OBLIGED TO STAY WH A CERTA RADI OF THEIR STUD.FRANK SATRA, MARILYN MONROE AND ELVIS ARE THREE OF THE MOST FAMO FORMER RINTS. THE DAYS, ’S NOT UNMON TO SEE THE LIK OF LEONARDO DICAPR WATERG THE GARN OF HIS VATN HOME HERE.PIAZZA LIBERACE | PHOTO: VIS PALM SPRGSWE SAW THE NOT-SO-HUMBLE ABOS OF ALL THE AFOREMENTNED ON THE PALM SPRGS CELEBRY TOUR. THEY’RE GENERALLY LOW-LEVEL MIDCENTURY MASTERPIEC — PECIALLY ELVIS’S INIC HOE OF TOMORROW — THAT ARE TYPIL OF THE CY’S BENT TOWARDS MORNIST ARCHECTURE. HOWEVER, WE WERE MOST EXCED TO SEE PIAZZA LIBERACE, THE SURPRISGLY MOST DIGS OF THE LATE, GREAT GAY POSER LIBERACE [ABOVE].(BY THE WAY, OUR CELEBRY HOM TOUR GUI WAS A GAY MAN. AS WAS THE GUI WHO TOOK ON OUR DERT ADVENTUR JEEP TOUR, THE MYSTIL INDIAN CANYONS, WHERE HE TGHT ABOUT ANCIENT ROCK FORMATNS AND SAVED ME OM STUMBLG ON A GIANT RATTLNAKE. THIS REALLY HAPPENED.)DAT FOR YOUR DIARY

Key Wt, Tel Aviv, and Mykonos might have the beach but wh over 40% of the permanent populatn intifyg as part of the LGBTQ+ muny, is fair to say that Palm Sprgs is one of the gayt plac on Earth.

A haven for all those who love love and want to jt be themselv, ’s no wonr Palm Sprgs is such a popular gay place to live. Palm Sprgs has the hight per pa gay populatn the cy vers approximately 94 square are more than 50, 000 pools the Sprgs is home to more than 100 golf Sprgs has one of the greatt meral water aquifers the world. The gay Chamber of Commerce, the Dert Bs Associatn is a work of gay and gay-iendly bs that offer a variety of rourc to the muny.

A fixture of the gay scene around Palm Sprgs, ’s a great place to hang out and grab some drks before headg out for a night and do both great snack food or more fillg optns.

PALM SPRGS RANKS AS NO. 1 GAY FRIENDLY CY

The are jt a few of the reasons why this dty ltle outpost at the base of the San Jacto Mountas has bee one of the most famo statns the world for gays and lbians. Wh a long-nng history of acceptance (the first all-gay cy uncil), ntu to flourish as the muny grows steadily each year. Though the cy may be a gay mec today, for many years a nservative “old guard” led this rort town, sistg the pleasure pursus of “alternative liftyl” (as they were once lled) stay hidn out of sight.

So how did a dty ltle outpost at the base of the San Jacto Mountas bee an ternatnally known statn for gays and lbians? In his book, A Cy Com Out: How Celebri Ma Palm Sprgs a Gay & Lbian Paradise, thor David Wallace tri to separate fact om fictn. A longtime rint of both New York and Los Angel, he now ris Palm Sprgs, teachg memoir wrg and givg lectur on gay and lbian history at the LGBT Communy Center of the Dert.

Even as gay liberatn entered the mastream, the mayor and cy uncil sisted that gay bars and clubs terg to “those people” be relegated to unrporated areas south of town toward Cathedral Cy.

DO PALM SPRGS NEED A LUXURY GAY RETIREMENT COMMUNY? THIS DEVELOPER THKS SO

He was known lolly for his generosy, and also for his sexual proclivi — an open secret he went so far to fend that he sued a Brish tabloid that claimed he was gay (and he won! How a cy of 48, 000 beme one of the world’s foremost gay hotspots — wh an all-LGBTI cy uncil to bootEarly eveng, and the still-blisterg heat of Palm Sprgs, California nspir wh the olg blue of an outdoor swimmg pool. I nsir downg my Marti, rippg off my dner wear and divg olr gay gentleman wh the right ia walkg towards me, palm outstretched, sg wears not a stch of clothg, save for some elaborate-lookg, vigoroly-bobbg genal Espe RortI am, of urse, unfazed.

A GAY GUI TO PALM SPRGS - BARS, HOTELS, HISTORY & EVENTS

Bee this sert oasis, your worri PixabayGay DisneylandPalm Sprgs is hardly alone beg a bucket list statn for gay men. For starters, ’s the iendly lols: I’ve never sensed so many non-heterosexual people one place sign near the Palm Sprgs Visor Center | Photo: ’s enpsulated by the cy’s all-LGBTI Democrat cy uncil, prised of three gay men, a trans woman and a bi woman. But to be pletely hont, was gay men specifilly I saw everywhere I looked, om bartenrs to builrs to bs owners.

They’re spread across the cy, and yet are generally wh walkg distance of each big gayborhoodE Arenas Road is the clost thg to a strip, and buzz wh playful gay energy — karaoke, drag shows, show tun — and is home to, among others, Street Bar, Sre the Game Bar, Chill Bar Palm Sprgs, QUADZ Palm Sprgs, Spurle The Vio Bar, Hunters Nightclub, and, adorably, a sort of bear-supermarket lled Bear Wear Santiago Rort | Photo: Santiago RortThen there’s the sheer number of acmodatn optns for gay men.

However, we were most exced to see Piazza Liberace, the surprisgly most digs of the late, great gay poser Liberace [above].

We didn’t thk that any town uld have as many, or more, gay guys per pa and be as gay iendly as San Francis was. We never expected to have found such a warm and welg gay muny here and we’re so happy we took that leap of fah back 2012.

The gay real tate experts at have timate knowledge of Palm Sprgs, the many unique neighborhoods and muni, and the surroundg areas like Cathedral Cy, Palm Dert, Dert Hot Sprgs and more. 1 gay iendly cy the untry – ahead of San Francis – by, a ee nsumer tool to fd the bt cred rds, cd rat, savgs, checkg acunts, scholarships, and airl.

The muny has a “thrivg year-round LGBT culture for rints” and the Palm Sprgs Pri Ftival is both popular and honors the history of the gay rights movement, acrdg to NerdWallet. Other ci on the list, which was created by AARP Travel Center and Expedia, clu well-known, gay-iendly plac like Provcetown, Mass. Others clud many of the town’s notor pastim that have helped turn to a gay mec, like s pool parti, drag shows, mid-century shoppg and spectacular scenery.

“Not only was the natn’s first cy to elect an all-LGBT cy uncil, but also has untls gay attractns, acmodatns, and rourc. “Whether you are gay, straight, young — or young at heart, ’s a well-known fact there tly is no place else like Palm Sprgs when to special events that appeal to everyone, year-round sunshe and the relaxed California sert vibe that so many lookg for an easier liftyle crave. (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.