How to Navigate Palm Sprgs Gay Pri 2013

Contents:

• HOW TO NAVIGATE PALM SPRGS GAY PRI 2013
• GAY VS. STRAIGHT PLAYS OUT ON STREETS OF PALM SPRGS
• YOUR GUI TO EVERYTHG GAY PALM SPRGS

HOW TO NAVIGATE PALM SPRGS GAY PRI 2013

3 para culmat a full weekend of Palm Sprgs Gay Pri activi. Palm Sprgs celebrat Gay Pri weekend wh a full slate of activi startg Oct. Confirmed artists clu Irene Sorberg, the Gay Men’s Chos of Palm Sprgs and DJ Corey D spng a retro 80s mix.

Standg on Ceremony, The Gay Marriage Plays: 8 p. Ftival highlights clu: US Bank Stage, Amerin Exprs prents the Big Top Cabaret and Palm Sprgs Gay Roo Associatn Country Dance tent. The ftival will feature live performanc om queer electro-hop superstars Double Duchs, eclectic mil duo Hi-Fashn, new wave techno-pop band Berl featurg Terri Nunn, Ain-Amerin Jewish gay hip-hop artist Y-Love, and X Factor Atralia falist Max Leon.

Jo for a day of sunshe at the clothg optnal weekend pool party featurg live DJ’s, drag show and a nu ntt along wh a ee barbecue and no host cktails at the CCBC Rort, 68300 Gay Rort Drive, Cathedral Cy. Jo the star of Logo’s “Big Gay Sketch Show, ” DJ Jonny McGovern and his go-go boys for a night of after-hours dancg and good tim.

GAY VS. STRAIGHT PLAYS OUT ON STREETS OF PALM SPRGS

Rock Hudson and Gee NarWhy do so many gay and lbian travelers flock to Palm Sprgs?

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. 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.

YOUR GUI TO EVERYTHG GAY PALM SPRGS

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 .