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MAY 15TH - MAY 21ST, 2019 THE ULTIMATE QUEER GUIDE

Coverage of Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast with over 1200 in attendance! Tool Shed Mr leather 2020 contest and registration deadlines Daddy camping and Cumunion at CCBBC Resort Hotel, Gay karaoke and the world famous Sunday beer bust at the Barracks a boat load of gay fun you can have with you pants on or off!

Coverage of Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast with over 1200 in attendance! Tool Shed Mr leather 2020 contest and registration deadlines Daddy camping and Cumunion at CCBBC Resort Hotel, Gay karaoke and the world famous Sunday beer bust at the Barracks a boat load of gay fun you can have with you pants on or off!

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Photo Credit: Adam Bouska and Jason King show and upcoming projects.<br />

Queer Eye ran for five successful seasons.<br />

It’s hard to believe that it’s been sixteen years How do you reflect on the show and that era?<br />

since I first met Jai Rodriguez in the patio of<br />

since closed ‘Here Lounge’, a gay bar in West It’s weird to think we ran for five seasons as we<br />

Hollywood in 2003. ‘Queer Eye for the Straight worked for almost three years straight. There<br />

Guy’ had not aired yet, but the ‘Fab 5’ was in were rarely large breaks (if any). To be honest,<br />

LA promoting it, a couple of weeks before its I rarely remember how many. I know they<br />

premiere date. Carson Kressley, the most shortened our order the finale season so they<br />

boisterous of the five, said hi then introduced could cancel us at exactly episode 100 so they<br />

me to his four co-hosts. Within a few short could sell it for syndication. The experience for<br />

months, the show was a huge hit, including me was most people’s college years. I’m closer<br />

its youngest cast member, Jai Rodriguez, the in age to the new cast and I often think about<br />

‘Culture Guy’, who was already known from the what it would have been like to do the show<br />

Broadway musical, ‘Rent.’<br />

in my thirties. For me there is an undeniable<br />

Since, Jai has built on the success of Queer bond within the five of us. The magic began<br />

Eye and gone on to star in films, television, there. On a broader scale I’m honored to be<br />

and theater, as well as foster his recording a part of LGBTQ+ history with Queer Eye as<br />

career. Among other things, he currently the first all gay cast in network history. I’m<br />

co-hosts Channel Q’s ‘The Morning Beat with humbled many people felt safe to come out due<br />

Jai & Mikalah’, so I caught up with him just to our show and many other people got to get<br />

before Pride Month to reminisce about his to know five, queer men they may not have had<br />

accomplishments, discuss his current hit the chance to experience in their real life. I<br />

continued on page 24<br />

Never Stale! The Only Gay Guide For The Palm Springs area that covers THIS WEEK. 13

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