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2023 TOP LGBTQIA+ EVENTS GAY PALM SPRGS AND THE COACHELLA VALLEY
Jt keep breath' and breathg and breath' and breath' and breath' and gays flockg to Ind, California won't be cked out cutoff jeans, floppy hats, tie dye and flower crowns this year. Ok, bis Gran, Coachella is pretty fuckg gay this year. As a gay man attendg the ftival, I knew I was supposed to be moved, but after the weekend's events, I was not sure what to make of the early January, as my ey snaked down the whe font of Coachella's hly announced 2019 lp, my heart-poundg excement soon halted to a pse.
"And whether was to fight the backlash and anti-LGBTQ narrative triggered by his past donatns or double down on his claimed "support [for] the rights of all people whout regard to sexual orientatn, " Anschutz donated $1 ln to the Elton John AIDS Foundatn this ntroversy, as my close iends were blastg my phone wh texts already planng our wild and grandse trek to Ind, Calif., April, I was tryg to sort out what would mean for me -- a gay man -- to jo on the attend the ftival, at first, felt sort of like sellg out my personal and polil beliefs. I was ready to blow the whistle on Coachella's blatant homophobic practic.
However, as a cisgenr, whe gay man, I found no such many atten, Coachella even seemed to provi a welg environment for exprsn. The abundance of rabow imagery rporated to the ftival -- cludg a massive spiralg rabow tower at s center -- add to the notn that Coachella was a place for packs of crop-topped "stagays" olicked around large numbers and jumped up excedly for Kacey Mgrav, I began to unrstand why Coachella had such a large LGBTQ followg. Feelg safe to hold a partner's hand or don a flashy outf is a privilege few queer people get to regularly experience, pecially outsi of hypersexualized spac like gay seemed that a certa openns pervad the ftival that enabled privileged ftivalgoers to transcend societal limatns.