The Gay Agenda - Vis Palm Sprgs

Contents:

• THE GAY AGENDA
• GAY BARS GREATER PALM SPRGS
• GAY RORTS
• A HAWT GAY PALM SPRGS SUMMER
• PALM SPRGS GAY PRI 2023
• GAY RORT ROUNDUP
• PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE

THE GAY AGENDA

Book your gaytn to Greater Palm Sprgs around one of our many annual LGBTQ+ events.

And Cema Diverse, an LGBTQ+ film ftival that shows the bt gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr film, is a mt for movie lovers. 3-Day Gay Palm Sprgs Weekend.

GAY BARS GREATER PALM SPRGS

The followg COOLendar (that’s like a regular lendar, but way oler) lays out the perfect 3-gay weekend for you, your squad, and anyone willg to take a walk on the wow si….

Hunters is the great spot to kick off your gay Palm Sprgs weekend. If you want to eat like the te gay in you are, take a page out of Barbra’s songbook and head on over to The Tropile. Their ubiquo rabow flags beckon you to a gay funrland of hearty food and the aforementned mimosas (all you n drk champagne!

GAY RORTS

Luckily, Blackbook is nveniently loted on the same block as Chill and they offer the hight-end food the gay-bar universe. Serly, their Nashville Hot Chicken will make you thk you’ve simply died and gone to Tennsee… only way gayer. While the breers are packg up and llg a weekend, gays are jt gettg started.

It’s an afternoon blast of dis nce where we n get flirty and funky wh other members of the vibrant gay Palm Sprgs muny.

If you’re visg our homo hometown on a long weekend, or if you jt happen to have Monday off, good for you!

A HAWT GAY PALM SPRGS SUMMER

There are so many other gay-tastic activi that you really mt fd time to experience. Time to start at the GAYgng and do all over. (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 bar.The 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 .Still, 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 106.5 FM, curatg the bt of LGBTQ culture Palm Sprgs is his full-time gig. 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.

It was lerally the ’90s when the bars started croppg up here.”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.“Not to be rctive, but I remember gog out at like, 2 p.m., and was adult gay men like, midcentury clothg drkg and dancg,” she said. (You n watch the entire renovatn procs on their show, streamg on HBO Max.) This means that they pe to the sert as often as possible to shop, drk and relax.Between Fuhr’s expertise, Trixie’s mment to athetics and spicy margaras, and my own gay agenda, I’ve assembled this nonprehensive list of lol queer spots.

PALM SPRGS GAY PRI 2023

Some are LGBTQ-owned, some draw queer crowds, and some are gay the same way that iced ffee and walkg fast are gay: They’re gay if we believe they’re gay. No matchg plac!Try changg or rettg your filtersShowg  PlacePlac Stay at the maximalist haven that is the Trixie Motel Riversi Hotel There are plenty of gay plac to stay Palm Sprgs, cludg the clothg-optnal ns that draw men om near and far and the lol Margaraville that hosts the lbian mec known as the Dah Shore Weekend.But the Trixie Motel is a bright pk bean, filled wh mpy, lorful wallpaper and imag of Trixie drsed up as lol ins — cludg a photo of Trixie as Marilyn Monroe that hangs above one lucky toilet.Each of the motel’s seven rooms has a different theme, rangg om a Yeehaw Cowgirl sue to an tergalactic Atomic Bombshell room. Read AllRead Ls More Info Grab a spicy margara and a hot chicken sandwich at Blackbook Riversi Bar Blackbook, loted on Palm Sprgs’ popular gay strip known as the Arenas District, is one of Trixie Mattel’s favore plac to eat while she’s town.“They have a food menu that is accintally, secretly so f— good,” Trixie said.

GAY RORT ROUNDUP

“I mean, ’s a gay bar, but whenever I’m there now, people are eatg — ’s like they accintally beme a rtrant bee their food is so good.”The LGBTQ-owned bar stays open until 1 a.m. “Bee, you know, gays are walkg up and down the street.” Read AllRead Ls More Info See some great drag at Touns Tiki Lounge Palm Sprgs Bar The night that my partner and I stopped by Touns, there were not one, not two, but five separate bachelorette parti the dience. It’s a b strange to wonr if you’re the only gay uple a drag bar, but sometim that’s how the okie cmbl.“Touns is wonrful if you want to see some great drag,” says Trixie Mattel — a high pliment om someone who once ripped out piec of her wig to w a lip sync on the “RuPl’s Drag Race” mastage.And ’s te: Asi om beg one of the straighter plac that I vised Palm Sprgs, Touns was an absolute rt.

(A send lotn is g to Market Market.)My partner and I walked out of here wh a se of Drag Queen Seltzer, a bar of dark cholate, a lip balm and a bottle of Kylie Mogue’s hard-to-fd rosé — tly, what’s gayer than that?

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