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August 

PALM SPRINGS 

& COACHELLA VALLEY 

DOCUMENTING GAY HISTORY SINCE 1994 

LONNIE JOSEPH HOLT 

1952 - MAY 12 2020. 

NAYA MARIE RIVERA 

1987 – JULY 8, 2020) 

IS TRUMP KILLING US? 157K DEATHS IN 2020 IN 

JUST 8 MONTHS 

ALSO INSIDE 

Also: United States Holocaust Memorial 

Museum Exhibit "Gay Boys in love" 

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Life Remembered... 

Lonnie Joseph Holt 1952 - May 12 2020. 

Image: Dale Jag 

Story page 26 

Naya Marie Rivera (1987 – July 8, 2020) 

Image: vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, 

England 

Naya Rivera used the last of her strength to save 

her 4-year-old son before she died, Ventura 

County Sheriff Bill Ayub said Monday. The 

actress is best known for her role as Santana 

Lopez on the Fox show "Glee," Rivera was a 

proud ally for the LGBTQ community, and in 

her 2016 memoir Sorry Not Sorry, she candidly 

shared her personal mental health journey, 

including overcoming an eating disorder as a 

teen. 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Exhibit "Gay Boys in love" 

Story on page 14 

Is TRUMP killing us? 

From Republican Herman Cain to my friend 

and mentor Charlie Sharples former and first 

Executive Director of the Palm Springs DBA 

founded in part by the DDG are counted among 

the 157k+ deaths from COVID -19death to 

covid numbers. Many are claiming Trumps 

lack of pandemic response as a primary reason. 

Coupled with the president to deny funding of 

the people asked to stay home. 

Further more, In contrast to different nations, 

the U.S. has failed to introduce any national 

procedure on COVID-19 testing, now the 

nation presently leads the world both in 

affirmed coronavirus continued on page 18 



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CITY OF PALM SPRINGS 

LOCAL EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTARY ORDER 

ORDERING RESTAURANTS, BARS, WINERIES AND 

BREWERIES TO CLOSE BY 12:00AM (MIDNIGHT) 

July 29, 2020 

WHEREAS, on March 14, 2020, pursuant 

to the City of Palm Springs Municipal Code 

section 

2.20.050(a)(1), the City Manager, acting as 

the Director of Emergency Services, declared 

the existence of a local emergency within 

the City of Palm Springs, due to the threat 

presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, 

which declaration was subsequently ratified by 

the 

Palm Springs City Council on March 19, 2020; 

and 

WHEREAS, on March 19, 2020, the 

Governor of the State of California ordered all 

individuals living in the State of California to 

stay home or at their place of residence, except 

as need to maintain continuity of operations 

of the federal critical infrastructure sectors, as 

described in said order; and 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Palm Springs 

Municipal Code section 2.20.050(a)(6), 

the Director of Emergency Services is 

empowered to make and issue rules and 

regulations on matters reasonably related 

to the protection of life and property 

as affected by such emergency; provided, 

however, such rules and regulations must be 

confirmed at the earliest racticable 

time by the City Council; and 

WHEREAS, the Director of Emergency 

Services is authorized to revise his 

emergency declaration and related orders, as 

the situation evolves. 

BUSINESS NEWS 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY 

DECLARED AND ORDERED, that: 

1. Effective at noon on Friday, July 31, 2020, 

to the extent allowed to be operating 

pursuant to state, county and local orders, 

all restaurants, bars, wineries, 

distilleries and breweries shall thereafter be 

closed from 12:00 a.m. (midnight) until 5:00 

a.m. every day. Only staff needed to close, 

open or clean shall be in the facility between 

the hours of 12:00 a.m. (midnight) and 5:00 

a.m. This order does not apply to drivethrough 

or pick 

up operations. 

IT IS FURTHER DECLARED AND 

ORDERED, that pursuant to Palm Springs 

Municipal Code sections 1.06.040 and 

2.20.100 and City Council Resolution 24738, 

dated March 19, 2020, the City may impose 

administrative fines for violations of this 

order. The citing officer shall be entitled to 

exercise his/her discretion in determining the 

amount of any such fine, having taken into 

consideration the severity of the violation. In 

addition, continued violations of this order 

by any business may result in the closure of any 

facility, or revocation of any 

applicable permit/certificate, including the 

establishment's City business license. 

IT IS FURTHER DECLARED AND 

ORDERED, this order is a temporary 

emergency measure, 

which is effective at noon on Friday, July 

31, 2020 and shall remain in effect unless 

and until modified or superseded by the 

Director of Emergency Services, City Council 

or any county, state or federal order or 

declaration. 


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CULTURAL EXHIBIT 

The DDG has obtained exclusive rights to reprint Do You Remember, When 

from Permissions Team Office of General Counsel 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

www.ushmm.org 

NEVER AGAIN: WHAT YOU DO MATTERS 

The Campaign for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

What was it like to live as a young Jew in Berlin during the Nazi deportations? This 

exhibition details the life of Manfred Lewin, a young Jew who was active in one of 

Berlin’s Zionist youth groups until his deportation to and murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau. 

Manfred recorded these turbulent times in a small, hand-made book that he gave to his 

Jewish friend and gay companion, Gad Beck. Mr. Beck, a Holocaust survivor who again 

lives in Berlin, donated the booklet to the Museum in December 1999. The exhibition 

centers around the 17-page artifact, which illustrates the daily life of the two friends, their 

youth group, and the culture in which they lived. 

To understand why Manfred Lewin, a young Jew in Nazi Berlin, wrote this book in 1941 

for his friend Gad Beck—to understand why Gad, 19 and Jewish, risked his life attempting 

to save Manfred from deportation—read these words from the play that brought them 

together. German writer Friedrich von Schiller’s Don Carlos: No Matter what you plan on 

doing, will you promise to undertake no act without your friend? Will you make me this 

promise? Friendship, valor, and the fight for freedom were the ideals of this 18th-century 

German drama. In 1941, Gad and Manfred played the starring roles in their Jewish youth 

group’s reading of the play. 

Special thanks to Gad Beck and Jizchak Schwersenz. 

Thanks to Carol Brown Janeway for her translation of the German text, and to the Zemer 

Chai Choir for the performance of the song “Ba'a menucha layageya.” 

Thanks also to: 

Beate Kosmala, Zentrum für Antisemitismus-Forschung Berlin 

Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag 

Friedrich Veitl, Metropol Verlag, Wichern Verlag 

Christine Zahn, Jüdisches Museum Berlin 


Manfred Lewin was born on September 8, 

1922, in Berlin where he lived with his parents 

and four siblings in the predominantly Jewish 

section of the city. The family lived in poverty 

in three little rooms not far from the Beck 

house at Dragoner Strasse 43. Manfred’s 

father was a barber and his mother Jenny, a 

former secretary, took care of the family. She 

often had to find other sources of food to 

supplement the family’s insufficient Jewish 

food ration cards. 

Gad Beck was born on June 30, 1923, together 

with his twin sister Miriam. Gad’s mother 

Hedwig came from a Protestant family, but 

converted to Judaism before the marriage 

with Heinrich Beck in 1920. The children 

were raised according to Jewish traditions, 

supported by the Christian relatives. In 

1934 Gad changed to the Jewish school 

in the Grosse Hamburger Strasse. In 1939 

his parents were forced to move into the 

predominantly Jewish section of Berlin. They 

could no longer afford the school fees; Gad 

started to work as an apprentice. 

Book Translation: Do you remember, when 

Cover to the small, hand-made book that Manfred 

Lewin gave to his Jewish friend and gay companion, 

Gad Beck 

Exhibit continues on page 19 


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cases and passings. Now we discover the 

truth they had one and it was scrapped. 

Specialists had been building up a testing 

plan since the infection's beginnings — 

and afterward rejected it totally once it 

showed up the infection was to a great 

extent hitting Democratic states, one such 

specialist revealed to Vanity Fair. 

In spite of his absence of logical or 

administrative experience, President 

Trump's child in-law and senior guide 

Jared Kushner assumed responsibility for 

the testing plan and stacked a group with 

"financiers and extremely rich people," 

Vanity Fair composes. Be that as it may, 

symptomatic testing specialists were in the 

long run brought in, and the group made 

an arrangement to handle testing gracefully 

deficiencies and postponements in detailing 

results. 

"The arrangement, however flawed, was a 

beginning stage," Vanity Fair continues, 

and "would have placed us in an on a 

very basic level better place" today, one 

individual who chipped away at it said. 

Be that as it may, it we all heard the 

opposition from the head of the White 

House, as Trump apparently stressed high 

test numbers would hurt the economy and 

his re-appointment possibilities. What's 

more, and most shockingly, one individual 

from the group recommended there was 

no reason for revealing the arrangement 

on the grounds that the infection appeared 

to hit blue voters, a specialist disclosed 

to Vanity Fair. "The Republican accepted 

that since it would have been consigned to 

Democratic states, that they could accuse 

those governors, and that would be a 

compelling political methodology," as had 

been reported. 

The entirety of that may prove why Kushner 

was so cheerful only a couple of months 

prior." remarked Kathryn Krawczyk. 

SO Is TRUMP killing us? 

While Trump cannot fully be held 

responsible for Americans who have died 

from COVID-19, there’s little doubt that 

his catastrophic response to the pandemic 

contributed to the still-rising death toll. 

And it seems clear massive deaths on his 

watch happened, and he does not seem to 

place any priority on ours lives or economy. 

Please note some businesses may be 

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to spikes of Covid virus. Please note places 

or events may be modified or unavailable, 

have limited capacity and will be subject 

to limited availability or even closure, 

and admission and offerings are not 

guaranteed due to COVID-19 

Covid 19 Update 

California City, County and state are the 

main sources for information. Given the 

politicized nature of the CDC and the FDA 

we have reluctantly removed them from 

our list of references and wish them well. 


CULTURAL EXHIBIT Continued from page 15 

PART 

FOUR 

Reprint by permission by Office of General 

Counsel 

United States Holocaust 

Memorial Museum 

all right reserved. 

www.ushmm.org 

Translation: Oh, we made fun of him when 

he was hanging there tied to that tree, but I 

felt differently... 

as Manfred illustrated here). Even these 

interludes soon ceased. Time became 

scarce. After March 1941, all Jews over the 

age of 14 were ordered to do forced labor 

for German companies. 

SAFE PLACES 

Manfred took this photo below on the roof 

of Artillerie Strasse 14, where the Jewish 

school was relocated after the building 

at Choriner Strasse 74 was damaged by a 

bomb. Gad remembers: “We had packed 

food, sleeping bags, a guitar. It was the only 

alternative we had to a 'field trip,' since we 

were no longer allowed to go on outings 

of Berlin.” He also remembers that he and 

Manfred fell in love during this outing. 

From left to right: Lotte Kaiser (who led the 

group), Schlomo Levin (Manfred’s brother), 

Jizchak Schwersenz (director of the Jewish 

School, with Gad in the foreground). 

The story of Gad and Manfred 

Despite the increasingly restrictive anti- 

Jewish laws, Gad and Manfred’s youth 

group continued to meet in safe places in 

the homes of individual members or once 

on the roof of the Jewish school. They also 

played in remote wooded places on the 

outskirts of Berlin, where they enjoyed 

scout games such as hide-and-seek or 

tying someone to a tree (in this case, Gad, 


Working in the visual arts was a goal I 

held from elementary school. I grew up 

on a farm in the Mid-west and attended 

a one-room school until the middle 

school years. The teacher encouraged 

my drawing and various attempts at 

painting during those formative years. 

The farm provided the earliest models 

in the form of animals to sketch and 

draw. Horses were the most intriguing 

with their grace of movement. During 

middle school was given a course from 

Art Instruction, a mail-in, which now 

would be considered an online course 

AdamsArtExpose’ 

section of the course was Charles Schulz 

who at the time was just starting to gain 

recognition as the creator of the Peanuts 

cartoon strip. Here is wishing I had 

saved the corrected drawings that Schulz 

had evaluated with his redlining and 

signature. It would have historical value 

now. Working with the figure drawing 

aspect of this course I became engrossed 

in studying and reproducing the human 

figure in my art. 

During my undergraduate years in 

college, I was initially introduced to 

drawing directly from models. One of 

the professors who instructed drawing 

in commercial art. The advertising was George Duerer whose ancestor, 

for these courses was prevalent in he informed the class, was Albrecht 

magazines. The ad was usually a 2 Duerer one of the most famous of 

by with a profile of a face with the the German Renaissance art period. 

headline "Draw Me". I actually entered Professor Duerer's philosophy included 

this contest several times as a 12-yearold. 

the teaching of the necessity to develop 

Winning the total course was not the ability to see objects and figures 

in the cards, however, I received an intensely. His early assignments during 

honorable mention with a discount on a semester was to spend about 6 weeks 

the total course, the balance was paid drawing a still-life arrangement that 

by my parents. It was a comprehensive was displayed in the studio using the 

course in art including the basics of same arrangement for the entire 6 week 

line, shading, proportion, composition, time. This method forced students to 

design, etc.... Of the various aspects of become intimately involved in looking, 

the course drawing the human figure seeing, and transposing the subject in 

in proportional anatomy using photos a personal way. The daily drawing of 

to work from and also cartoon figure a still-life of wine bottles and a violin 

drawing. The instructor of the cartoon started to become challenging in finding 


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new details each time it was drawn. After 

working with this assignment we were 

introduced to the live human model from 

which we would draw in 2-hour sessions of 

one pose. Contours and perspective were 

quite different on a live person as opposed 

to inanimate objects. 

Following a degree in art education and 

history, my early years were primarily in 

teaching art and eventually educational 

administration. During this time I had 

the good fortune of meeting Ed Jagman a 

professional artist in Denver, Colorado. Ed 

was a superb watercolor landscape artist. 

He told me that he was always wanting to 

get more involved in drawing and painting 

the human figure. He knew of the work I 

had done with the human figure especially 

the male nude. He asked if I would be 

interested in collaborating with him in 

establishing a class in figure drawing or 

life drawing with the classes to be held in 

his north Denver home and studio. This 

became an opportunity for me to use my 

teaching ability along with the opportunity 

to work with the students in drawing from 

live models. We held two, three hours 

sessions weekly. During the 3 years plus 

we worked together on this project I was 

able to increase my time at drawing the 

male nude an at the same time providing 

some instruction tips to those who had less 

experience in life drawing. An interesting 

side-line of the experience was one of the 

participants who joined the life drawing 

Continued from page 22 



group was the costume director of the 

Perry Mason show which was filmed in 

Denver at that time. He was the nephew 

of the actor who played Paul Drake the 

detective on the show. 

models who were photographed by Biron 

the exotic male photographer from San 

Fransisco. This sculpture was auctioned 

at the Tool Shed "Art for Aids" auction 4 

years ago. 

From that time to the present, I continued 

to be involved in drawing and painting 

the male figure. While in Denver I read 

an article in Artists magazine about 

Willa Shalit who was working with the 

technique of lifecasting at the College 

of Santa Fe in New Mexico. I visited 

her to learn more about lifecasting. 

Willa is the daughter of Eugene Sahlit 

previously the movie reviewer for NBC. 

As a result of her father's celebrity, she 

received commissions to do face casts and 

body casts of a number of well-known 

celebrities, including Richard Nixon, 

Ronald Reagan, Ted Turner, and body 

casts of athletes such as Muhammid 

Ali and ballerina, Atalia Makavora. 

Lifecasting involved putting a substance 

on the face or body of the person made 

from algae that which dentists use to 

make casts for dentures. From this 

experience, lifecasting became a new 

interest. I went back to Denver and 

practiced body casting with Ed on a few 

models from our life drawing group. 

After moving to Palm Springs my work 

has continued to develop figure and 

portrait drawing and paintings with some 

lifecasting. I completed life casts of two 

This is an expose' of myself as the 

writer of AdamsArtExpose' of which I 

have written for the past several years 

in the Desert Daily Guide. I also plan 

to show examples of my current work 

in upcoming issues of the Daily guide 

from which originals and/or prints will 

be available to purchase of watercolor, 

acrylic, and drawings. Currently, I am 

working on male figures participating in 

yoga exercises in the nude. I have also a 

series of wrestlers and dancers. 

I invite you to enjoy my personal art with 

some brief commentary on the subjects 

and to continue reading and responding 

to future articles on local and regional 

art and artists in AdamsArtExpose' 

hopefully finding an entertaining and/or 

informative outlet while we work through 

these stressful times of the Corona virus. 

In this article are works including a selfportrait 

completed a few years ago, a 

drawing of a model from the years with 

Ed Jagman in Denver, and an example of 

a current watercolor figure in a yoga pose. 

Thank you, Perry Butler 



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www.catcitypsc.com . 760-878-7102. 

Idyllwild Guest House 

Escape desert temperatures for cool 

breezes. Visit Idyllwild Guest House 

for spectacular sunsets and beautiful 

mornings. Relaxing private location 

with hot tub and clothing optional sundecks. 

Idyllwildgayguesthouse.com 

Mark Lonsbury 760-406-9699 

MATRIMONY SPIRITUALITY 

Bloom In the Desert Ministries 

760 327-3802 

St. Giles 442-282-8333 

Idyllwild Nature Center The center provides 

an array of environmental education 

programs, guided tours, and field study. 

trips. 951-659-3850 

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MOVING HERE? 

Starland Community Desert retreat 

Gas 800-427-2200 

STARLANDCOMMUNITY.ORG 

Water 760-323-4971 

Electric 800-990-7788 

Help Verified 2020 

Trash 800-973-3873 

Recycling 760-327-1351 

AMVETS Express free bus service to Loma 

Free Trolley Buzz 760 260-8104 

Linda VA(909) 735-5065 

GROUPS/ORG/HELP 

CDC 

LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER 

If you or someone you know may be 

760-416-7790 www.thecenterps.org contemplating suicide, call the National 

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 800- Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273- 

227-2345 

8255 or text HOME to 741741 to reach the 

AMVETS: 760-324-5670 

Crisis Text Line. In emergencies, call 911, 

BLOOM IN THE DESERT MINISTRIES: or seek care from a local hospital or mental 

760-327-3802 

health provider. 

Coachella Valley Sexual Assault Services Riverside County Department of Public 

Rape Crisis Center (760) 568-9071 

Social Services: Kinship Warmline 

Democrats of the Desert 

Phone: (800) 303-0001 For grand parents 

desertdemocrats.org 

raising grand children 

DESERT LEGAL AID: 760-832-9770 ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project 212-549- 

DESERT STONEWALL DEMOCRATS: 2500 

www.desert-stonewall.org 

Adult Protective Services 

DESERT WINDS 760 776-2700 

Hotline 800 491-7123 

FRONTRUNNERS psfr.org 

The (FCC) reserved the 211 dialing code for 

GAY ARTISTS - 760 835-0727 

community information and services. 

Gay Book Club of PS—write to bookclubofps@yahoo.com 

800 243-7692 

Gay Men’s Health Crisis Hotline 

Transgender community transcc.org 

American Association of Poison Control 

PALM SPRINGS GAY MEN’S CHORUS Centers (800) 222-1222 

760-219-2077 

Rape, Sexual Assault, Abuse, and Incest 

PALM SPRINGS LEATHER ORDER OF National Network (RAINN) 

THE DESERT 760 272-5553 

(800) 656-HOPE 

PALM SPRINGS PRIDE pspride.org 

Prime Timers of the Desert 760-424-8014. 

Don't blow up your weekend! 

NATURIST DAY PASSES 

BEFORE YOU DIG...Call 811 at least a few 

Gay Men CCBC Resort 

days before you start any digging project. 

Family DeAnza Springs Resort Jacumba, 

befor you DIY or hire a professional. 

CA, Living Waters, Desert Sun Resort 

CALL TO ADD YOUR LISTING TODAY 

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888 743-3349

Lonnie Joseph Holt 

passed on May 12 2020. 

He was a longtime Desert resident 

after moving from Los Angeles in the 

early 1990s. 

Lonnie was instrumental with the 

Grand Opening of the Tool Shed in 

Palm Springs and was a bartender 

there for many years . 

Born on October 1st 1952 to Joseph and 

Marjorie Holt in Marion Ohio at Marion 

General Hospital . He is survived by his 

brother and sister in Ohio. Both Mother 

and Father as well as his brother 

Gerald are deceased . 


Remembering Lonnie is to know The Tool 

shed has a legacy of great owners and 

bartenders! While it thrives in the capable 

hands of Rob Cole, we also remember the 

past owners. 

Sean Newman's laughing as he carved a 

gay bar into LGBT warm sands area. or the 

brilliant establishment of the back lot parties 

by Chris Reese Today the new owner Rob 

Cole enhanced it with chart topping singers 

and live entertainment. 

Tool shed's Sean 

Newman and 

Lonnie image by 

Dale Jag of 

dalejag.com 

PAST IMAGES FROM THE DDG VAULT 

BY WILL PAIGE

DDG SUMMER 2020 August

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