Les Michaels and Joslyn Center in Palm Desert are bringing high quality, professional entertainment to the 180 seat Arthur Newman Theatre.
Best of all, ticket prices are only $10 - cash at the door!
Upcoming shows include -
LIVE IT UP! Final show this weekend!
2pm Matinee Sunday July 25th
It's like GLEE, but live! 11 cast members and big dance numbers!
The Kathy Holly Champagne Cabaret Show / Live cabaret musical comedy concert
Arthur Newman Theatre At The Joslyn Center
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 7 PM Reservations: 760-325-2731 $10 cash at the door
The Peggy Judy & Perry Lambert Surprise Reunion Show / Live cabaret musical comedy concert
Arthur Newman Theatre At The Joslyn Center
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 7 PM Reservations: 760-325-2731 $10 cash at the door
Norman Lasiter / Live cabaret music concert with piano accompaniment
Arthur Newman Theatre At The Joslyn Center Theater
Saturday, August 7, 2010 - Show time: 7 PM Reservations: 760-325-2731
$10 cash at the door or on line at Brown Paper Tickets #120779
Joslyn Center Theater 73-750 Catalina Way Palm Desert, CA. 92260
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If you’ve never been to Palm Springs, California, now’s the time to discover America’s Great Gay Oasis! Long a favorite for Winter getaways, Palm Springs is fast becoming a Summer hot spot as well. Why? The answer is simple. Summer Deals and Summer Splash!
2010 marks the third year for Summer Splash! - the Palm Springs Summer Promotion sponsored by the Desert Gay Tourism Guild. The number of participating businesses is greater than ever before, and the line-up of special events and special offers is both vibrant and varied.
Discover amazing hotels deals (Like INNdulge 2nd Night Free !), special discounts from retailers and restaurants, savings on movies, Summer events and local attractions. There are even special airline discounts from American Airlines, Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air and Westjet, and a great rental car offer from Enterprise Rent-A-Car!
New for Summer Splash! this year is the SPLASH PASS - a wallet-sized discount card that gets you special savings at area restaurants, retailers and other businesses, and discounted admission to many area attractions and special events. It’s the perfect addition to Summer Splash! The best part? The SPLASH PASS is absolutely FREE to everyone - valley visitors and residents alike!
Sound like fun? It is!
The party starts on June 1st, 2010, and continues all the way through September 30th, 2010.
Don’t miss it!
To find out more, visit Palm Springs Summer Splash , or go to Palm Springs Gay Info
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Tony Awards
preparations begin a week early in the Desert this year when, Broadway star and Tony Nominated Actress Sally Mayes (SHE LOVES ME and CLOSER THAN EVER) performs live in concert celebrating music from the Great White Way. Mingle with a crowd of Broadway veterans, local Celebrities and enjoy the incredible Sally Mayes whom The New York Times hails "A singer of incandescent ebullience, deliciously saucy!"
The Broadway Concert includes highlights from Sally's leading roles on Broadway and a special preview for THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY: Ira Without George which is a concert evening hosted by Rex Reed featuring a cast that includes Sally Mayes, Polly Bergen, Tom Wopat and several other high quality talents. In the audience mix and mingle with Broadway veterans and Tony Nominee's and Winners from previous years such as Kaye Ballard, Donna Theadore, David Zippel and many more!
SALLY MAYES: The Broadway Concert
will take place on Sunday, June 6th at 4:00pm
in the Arthur Newman Theatre at
The Joslyn Center (73-750 Catalina Way Palm Desert, CA).
Tickets to attend the event in Palm Desert are $75.00* for VIP seating, $25 General Admission and a special Joslyn Center rate of $18.00 for 65+ and members of the Center.
*VIP tickets include premium table seating, private pre-show champagne party and an autographed copy of Sally Mayes latest solo CD in addition to the performance. A portion of proceeds from VIP tickets benefit The Joslyn Center.
For tickets to attend Sunday, June 6th call 800-838-3006 or visit Brown Paper Tickets .
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Happenings in January:
January 5-18 - Palm Springs International Film Festival
Palm Springs Film Fest
January 9-10 - Palm Springs Winter Softball Classic
Palm Springs Winter Classic
January 15 - Michael Feinstein and Cheyenne Jackson at The McCallum Theater
McCallum Theatre
January 15 - Lionel Richie at Fantasy Springs Casino
Fantasy Springs
January 15-17 - National Gay Pilots Association Winter Warm-Up
Gay Pilots
January 22-24 - STOMP at The McCallum Theater
McCallum Theatre
January 23 - Harry Connick Jr. at Fantasy Springs Casino
Fantasy Springs
January 29-31 - An Evening with Lily Tomlin at the McCallum Theater
McCallum Theatre
DEAL OF THE MONTH!~STAY WITH INNdulge
JANUARY SPECIAL: Wednesday Night FREE!
Wednesday Night is FREE during the month of January at
INNdulge Palm Springs! Minimum two night stay.
Better yet, Stay Seven Nights, and Get Two Free! Both
Wednesday Night and your Seventh Night are FREE !











2009 Greater Palm Springs Pride Festival
Saturday & Sunday Nov. 7-8, 2009
10AM - 8PM Sat., 10AM - 6PM Sun.
Palm Springs Baseball Stadium
2009 Greater Palm Springs Pride Parade
Sunday Nov. 8, 2009
10AM - Steps off at Alejo Road moving south down historic Palm Canyon Drive to Ramon Road










These women are savvy, goal-oriented and aware. The delegates who become part of the Miss Universe Organization display those characteristics in their everyday lives, both as individuals, who compete with hope of advancing their careers, personal and humanitarian goals, and as women who see to improve the lives of others.(missusa.com)
"It's her religious beliefs which prompted her to say 'I don't believe in same-sex marriages.' So she was espousing her beliefs," and could sue for a violation of Title VII, which forbids discrimination on the basis of religion.
Can I have a Double-Mocha fat-free....and a big KISS??
This one-day event coincides with "Tax Day" to highlight the fact that “LGBT couples have yet to be granted the same rights to file our taxes jointly on a Federal level, and we can still be fired for being openly gay in the workplace. That’s why you’re encouraged to be seen on Tax Day, April 15, 2009, spreading your love with a KISS!”
Same Sex Kiss Day calls for couples to go to a neighborhood Starbucks coffee shop and during one (or all, if you wish) of four designated times throughout the day, exchange a kiss with your same sex partner or friend. The set times are at 7:15 am, 12:15 pm, 5:15 pm, and 8:15 pm.
Why Starbucks? Well according to the Same Sex Kiss Day site, “Starbucks has been committed to LGBT rights since the beginning of time offering domestic partnership insurance, quoting gay artists on their coffee cups, and funding our gay pride parades.”
Hallmark HAS NOT created a card for this yet.
3 HUGE Parties take over
Palm Springs in just a couple weeks!
For the girls, 2 sets of parties - GIRL BAR does 19th Annual DINAH SHORE WEEK April 1-5th as well as CLUB SKIRTS THE DINAH! Sunrise to sunset, non-stop events geared towards the lesbian community.
and for the boys - the 20th Annual WHITE PARTY PALM SPINGS April 10 - 13th. Lady Gaga headlines this Easter Weekend party. One of the crown jewels of the circuit party scene!
Grab your cape and spring into action, beginning at 9pm and continuing until 5am. The time has come to join forces for the most incredible gathering the world has ever seen.
Inside the Palm Springs Convention Center, heroes from all over the universe will converge for the biggest and most anticipated event of the weekend!
Headlining DJs Tony Moran (NYC), Manny Lehman (LA) and Ana Paula (Brazil) deliver the surge of musical excitement as men of steel, boys of wonder and all sorts of amazing avengers invade the dance floor.
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The recession has hit the housing market hard, including planned communities for retirees.
That is no less true when it comes to housing for GLBT seniors.
Across the country, planned communities for retiring gays and lesbians have been on the drawing board, but have had a hard time getting underway.
One such project, undertaken by RainbowVision California LLC, has suffered a setback with the land intended for a planned retirement community catering to the silver GLBT set reverting to a lender for the project.
The lender, Senior Housing Partners III, retook the land in a foreclosure auction, reported the Palm Springs newspaper The Desert Sun in a Dec. 17 article.
The planned community had enjoyed promotion by tennis star Billie Jean King, the article said, but the economic realities of the situation forced the project to stall.
The article quoted RainbowVision president Joy Silver, who said, "The only thing stopping us is the economy--the fact that banks have not been in a position to make construction loans.
"We plan to move forward as soon as the economy allows."
RainbowVision has already laid claim to the nation’s first GLBT retirement community, which is up and running in Santa Fe, NM.
Other retirement communities for older gays and lesbians have followed suit, such as The Palms of Manasota in Florida, and Birds of a Feather in Pecos, NM.
But the delay in the construction of the Palm Springs community is also not unique: the development of Boston’s LGBT retirement project Stonewall Communities was put on hold earlier this year.
The new community in Palm Springs was designed to include nearly 200 units, along with community amenities such as a nightclub, pool, spa, club house, and café, as well as athletic facilities.
The company hopes that once the economy recovers, RainbowVision will be able to buy the land back once again and proceed with construction.
Meantime, some of the seniors interested in the Palm Springs community have decided to relocate to Santa Fe instead, to the already-operating GLBT retirement community there.
"The GLBT retirement community model works; we know it," said Silver of the Santa Fe location.
"We’re seeing a rise in occupancy there."
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366 N. La Cienega Blvd. Los AngelesThe Ian Harvie Show is a comedy/talk show at Largo at the Coronet Theater Wednesday, December 10th at 8pm.
This benefit to fight on in the aftermath of the passage of shameful Proposition 8 is a night of comedy, with talented gay comics, including host Ian Harvie, Ant, Alec Mapa, Erin Foley, Jorja Fox and Margaret Cho, Leslie Jordan, and Music by Jon Brion.
This will be a panel discussion with all of the guests about their best/worst/funniest holiday moments and traditions. to benefit Equality California.
Door proceeds go to EQ CA. Ticket Info: $30 Buy Tickets
Mario Lopez is going! See who else is going on Facebook!
On December 10, 2008 the gay community will take a historic stance against hatred by donating love to a variety of different causes.
On December 10, you are encouraged not to call in sick to work. You are encouraged to call in "gay"--and donate your time to service!
December 10, 2008 is International Human Rights Day.
Join us, and search or add to the list of human rights organizations that need our help RIGHT NOW.BUT I CAN'T CALL IN AT WORK ON 12/10 OR I'LL GET FIRED!
If you live in one of the 30 states where individuals can still be fired simply for being gay or lesbian, there are still plenty of ways that you can lend a hand and a voice in our fight for gay equality--without missing work. FIND OUT what actions you can take RIGHT NOW!
IN America, we are granted with FREEDOM OF SPEECH. We may not always agree with someone's views, but it is their choice to have their own opinion. Like it or not.
All the drama around Prop 8 in California has escalated, out of control.
A supporter of California's Proposition 8, fed up with what he believed was the gay community's and "liberal media's" refusal to accept the voters' verdict against same-sex marriage, fired off a letter to the editor.
"Please show respect for democracy," he wrote to the San Francisco Chronicle.
What he encountered instead was an utter lack of respect for free speech.Within hours, the intimidation game was on. Because his real name and city were listed -- a condition for publication of letters to The Chronicle -- opponents of Prop. 8 used Internet search engines to find the letter writer's small business, his Web site (which included the names of his children and dog), his phone number and his clients. And they posted that information in the "Comments" section of SFGate.com -- urging, in ugly language, retribution against the author's business and its identified clients.
We can not intimidate people that don't have the same beliefs as we do! We can try to educate them. And we try to move on, move forward, with positive iniatives. Step around the "haters" and don't spend your energy there.Papers have already been filed with the Supreme Courts in an attempt to overturn the YES ON 8. And this petition is being circulated by John Smithers, who I met thru the Human Rights Campaign Group on LinkedIn. And it is being sent to the President of the United States, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate. (President elect Obama has already stated he is FOR equal rights for gay couples under a civil partnership act).
So if you are a reader of this blog and support equality for gay people, please take 2 minutes and sign this petition!
If you REALLY want to help, there is second petition to repeal the Defense Against Marriage Act.
If you a blogger - please help spread the word and this link.
And if you are not in support of equal rights for gay people, you are probably heterosexual and have of all your rights! But hey, that's your choice, have a good day!
Derrick Sorles
Michael Snell
In just 2 short weeks,
Californians could help change history.
Watch HOPE Video.
What is Prop 8?Prop 8 would eliminate equal protections and put discrimination into the state constitution. Get the facts!
Why Vote No on Prop 8?Prop.8 is unfair, unnecessary and wrong. Find out why Californians are voting no on Prop 8!
Who Opposes Prop 8?
Nearly every major newspaper in California, and groups representing teachers, nurses, seniors, business and labor, oppose Proposition 8. Read the current list of opponents.
Facts v. Fiction
Neutral observers say the Prop. 8 campaign has been untruthful and grossly misleading. Find out more!
Our battle begun in 1969 - The Stonewall Riots. But Harvey Milk really helped bring gay rights to the forefront in the Seventies. Harvey Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Harvey Milk served almost eleven months as city supervisor and was responsible for passing a stringent gay rights ordinance in San Francisco. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned and wanted his job back.
Both Milk's election and the events following his assassination demonstrated the liberalization of the population and political conflicts between the city government and a conservative police force.
Watch the MILK movie Trailer!
In you live in California, make sure you get out and vote! Let your voice be heard!
This is an important election year for all of us!
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With year round sun, breath-taking mountain views and world-class shopping, Palm Springs has twice been voted the best gay destination. And we plan to cover and promote everything under the sun in this desert tropical oasis!
Let us be your guide to everything gay and gay-friendly in Palm Springs and also show you some things off the beaten path, that only the locals know about!
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Sunday October 26, 2008, Sam Harris is coming to town! It is a concert to benefit The Desert Aids Project and Shelter From The Storm.
The concert begins at 7:00 PM and tickets can be purchased by calling (760) 320-7488 ex: 266. For $50, a seat can be yours - with 100% of the proceeds going to the Desert Aids Project and Shelter From The Storm.
MyDesert reported, Most couples do dinner and movie to celebrate an anniversary. Not Mike Carson and Ron Steigerwalt.
The Palm Springs couple, who met in Golden Gate Park in 1978, married in San Diego on Aug. 10. On the 30th anniversary of their first meeting, the couple is throwing a party. A big party.
The couple paid to bring singer/actor Sam Harris to perform a benefit concert for Desert AIDS Project and Shelter from the Storm.
The Desert AIDS Project has serve people in the valley living with HIV and AIDS with medical care and social services since 1984.
Established in 1993, Shelter from the Storm is a domestic violence shelter that provides comprehensive services to battered women and children.
“We believe deeply in the missions of these two organizations. One provides assistance to people with HIV and the other support for battered women and children. Who wouldn’t want to help organizations like these?” Steigerwalt said in a statement.
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