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DDG PAUSE PART II
Save The Dates
White Party
Richard Etts Art Show
Ron deHarte for
City Council, District 3
Vol 26 Issue 201

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ADAMSARTEXPOSE’
REPORTER: Adam
EMAIL: adamsart@desertdailyguide.com
FROM MUD PIES TO BRONZE TO PAINTINGS OF MUSIC
Richard Etts has had previous shows of
his work locally and we are fortunate to
have a new show of some of his recent
large paintings which light up an area
with dancing shapes and happy colors.
Based on his biography, Richard
has had a diverse career in the arts
beginning with his early work as a child
in learning how to cast using a cowboy
and Indian casting kit as molds learning
how to mold design and duplicate from
liquid to solids. He began his career
in 1962 when he worked in New York
City and accepted various art-related
jobs which allowed him to experience
many aspects of the arts. When he
was 19 he moved to apprentice at
the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid,
Spain a landmark art gallery and
museum where he learned molding
and casting techniques. Back to New
York, he created showroom displays
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for DuPont in the Empire State Building
and also worked for Bloomingdale’s,
Macy’s, and window displays for Tiffany
& Co. Following those experiences, he
took commissioned projects for Allied
Chemical trade shows and window
displays for Smirnoff Vodka, Hanes
Hosiery, Max Factor and Elizabeth
Arden, Bulova Watch, Stern Brothers,
and Martex towels.
During the ‘60s and ‘70s, he owned a
successful design and manufacturing
business where he created a series
of unique lamps
crafted into hand
sculptures in
addition to other
home furnishings
that he designed
and were sold at
Bloomingdales.
Today these unique
sculptured lamps
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Vol 26 Issue 20
SUMMARY
08 ADAMSARTEXPOSE’
14 FEATURED BUSINESS
18 BAR|FOOD
22 COMMUNITY LISTINGS
20 MASSAGE
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After serving our community for eleven years, I’m excited to announce I am running
for the Palm Springs City Council, District 3 seat.
I care about our hometown’s vitality and livability. As a small business owner, gay,
Hispanic, father of two, I want to keep this city a great place to live, work, and visit.
I am running because I am a resident who cares about Palm Springs and believes
we can have safe streets, sound economic development, a robust tourism
economy, and accessible housing while being a leader in sustainability.
I am committed to working hard, having a voice at the table, and being an
effective council member for you. The next ten months will be a great opportunity
for you to learn more about me and for me to hear from you.
I am reaching out to you, my friends, neighbors, and community leaders, to ask for
your endorsement, financial support, and volunteer support.
Ron deHarte
The DDG is proud to endorse Ron deHarte!
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BUSINESS
DIRECTORY
FEATURED
BARS/DINING
AMP Sports Lounge Everyone is welcome
here at this local friendly bar in the heart
of Cathedral City plaza, A sports bar
with a twist featuring your favorite sports
and daily happy hour. All the big sports
games will be shown on seven huge TV
screens.
68-718 E Palm Canyon Dr #201,
Cathedral City, CA 92234
RIO AZUL MEXICAN Style Rest. & Bar
Best authentic Mexican style restaurant
in the valley. With patio and Bar. Home
of an original and distinct interpretation
of Mexican food & Longest running
Sunday Drag Brunch.(760) 992-5641 350
South Indian Cyn. PS
Runway Restaurant & Bar
The valleys premier arts and
entertainment. Featuring American
Casual Dining Drinks & Drag at CCBC
Resort Hotel.68300 Gay Resort Drive. CC
SUNSHINE CAFE Nearly as perfect as it
gets! Known as a local hole in the wall
with a funky vibe and fantastic food,
frequented by celebrities, politicians
36815 Cathedral Canyon CC
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RUNWAY RESTAURANT & BAR
The valleys premier arts and
entertainment. Featuring American
Casual Dining Drinks & Drag at CCBC
Resort Hotel.68300 Gay Resort Drive, CC
TOOL SHED LEVI/LEATHER In the Warm
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White Party Global Presents
‘White Party Palm Springs’
The Return Of The
Legendary Desert Dance
Music Festival
party in 1989. In 2014, Sanker was
honored with a star on The Palm Springs’
‘Walk of Stars,’ which recognizes notable
individuals who have contributed to the
cultural and or civic life of Palm Springs.
By Vic Gerami
One of the world’s biggest and longestrunning
queer dance music festivals,
the White Party (WP), is returning to
Palm Springs, CA. White Party Global
(WPG) announced that the WP will take
place from April 29 through May 1, 2022,
at the Hilton Palm Springs. Thousands
of revelers from around the world will
once again descend upon the desert
community for non-stop festivities.
‘It is an honor to continue White Party
Palm Springs for my dear friend Jeffrey,’
said White Party Global Executive
Producer Chris Diamond. ‘As we move
forward with his vision of inclusion,
diversity, and decadence, we are
truly excited to once again showcase
new dance music trends, global DJs,
recording artists, state-of-the-art sound
& visuals – and most importantly our
returning guests… beautiful men from all
over the world.’
Jeffrey Sanker, who founded the White
Party, died May 28, 2021 after a battle
with cancer. Sanker started the circuit
The three-day party is jam-packed with
all types of events.
SOAKED! will feature poolside
dancing, state of the art sound,
video, go-go guys, and a line-up
of world-famous DJs, including Orel
Sabag (Israel), Isis (Mexico) and Bruno
Knauer (Brazil), and Arno Diem (France).
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SUNDAYS AT 10 AM
3601 E. Mesquite Ave, Palm Springs
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760.327.3802
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WORSHIP WITH US ONLINE
SUNDAYS AT 10 AM
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Mark your calendars to attend these
very special Desert Hot Springs LGBTQ+
events (ALL ARE WELCOME*):
FEBRUARY 12 @ 12:00 P.M - DiversityDHS
ANNUAL PLANNING RETREAT - Your ideas
matter in designing the 2022 Desert Hot
Springs Pride Festival. We’ll first gather
at Mission Springs Park, 14510 Palm
Drive (one block behind Agua Soleil
Spa Resort Hotel at Park Lane 92240)
to decide if we move the festival here
or keep it at Cabot’s Pueblo Museum
parking lot. Then we resume our
planning retreat at the nearby Desert
Hot Springs Library at around 12:30 p.m.
Please review the attached agenda
and join us with your ideas. Bring family
and friends. Everyone is welcome.
FEBRUARY 13 @ 3:00 P.M. - SUPERBOWL
TEA SOCIAL - Let’s have fun cheering on
our favorite football team in this year’s
top gridiron game alongside friends.
Admission is free. Drinks and food are
available for purchase. Raffle prizes are
also available. The fun will be at the
outdoor patio of Dillon’s Burgers & Beers
Restaurant in DHS. See the attached
flyer for all the super-packed details.
Bring family and friends.
MARCH 5 @ 6:00 P.M. - LGBTQ+ TOWN
HALL WITH DESERT HOT SPRINGS POLICE
CHIEF JIM HENSON(92240).
Looking forward to seeing you at each
of the events. TELL A FRIEND / BRING A
FRIEND.
DiversityDHS/Your LGBTQ+ Connection in
Desert Hot Springs
email: DiversityDHS@roadrunner.com
Zoom Mass every Saturday at 430.
Call or 442-282-8333 or visit stgilesaltadena.org for more details.
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BUSINESS Directory
BAR| FOOD | RESORTS
Cathedral City
BARS|FOOD
The Barracks
Runway
Sunshine Cafe
AMP Sports Lounge
Roost
Trunks
Studio One 11
Desert Hot Springs
BARS|FOOD
Playoffs Sports Bar
Resorts
CCBC
Triangle Inn
Bearfoot Inn
All Worlds Resort
Desert Paradise
Resort
LA DOLCE VITA
RESORT & SPA
THE HACIENDA AT
WARM SANDS
Shopping
Q trading
Gear
Palm Springs
BARS|FOOD Off Ramp Leathers
Eagle 501 LOCAL Bar EVENTSGay Mart
Rio MASKS Azul MAY BE REQUIRED
Tool Shed
Did We Miss
Toucan’s
Streetbar You?
Oscar’s
Let us know
Chill bar
Hunters FREE LISTING!
Stacy’s
October
BlackBook For all Gay and Gay
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QUADZ friendly Bars Resorts
RetroRoom
and Lodging
Oct.28-31 PALM SPRINGS LEATHER PRIDE
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SPECIAL and ONGOING EVENTS
Upcoming Art
Show Richard Etts
Stephen Baumbach
Gallery located at the
Backstreet Art District
on 4116 Mathew Dr.
Palm Springs just off
of Highway 111. The
opening for the show
is on March 2 from 5 to
8 PM. See page 8 for
details..
Thursday nights VILLAGEFEST takes place
in downtown Palm Springs on Palm
Canyon Drive every.
villagefest.org
Guided Nature Walks
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
Check schedule. pstramway.com
FRIENDS OF THE DESERT
MOUNTAINS celebrate Friends’
champions and accomplishments
November 10th services hikes various
events check schedule
desertmountains.org
GENERAL SERVICES
Red’s Hauling. We remove trash and
unwanted items. Garage clean outs.
Red 760-288-6956
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BUSINESS Directory
by trained hands. I am a Professional
Massage Therapist here offering
something therapeutic, restorative and
sensually tailored to your needs. I am
well trained and provide a session that
is unparalleled. Say hi and tell me how
I can make your body feel awesome!
The massage is done on a table. I see
people at my location.
I am off Ramon by Sunrise.
845-866-0498 Mark
Patriot Services LIC. General contractor
Handyman ELECTRICAL 760-327-9619
DAVE MAY CONCRETE
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS
Cabot’s Pueblo Museum
760-329-7610
McCallum Adobe 760-323-8297
Indian Canyons 760-323-6018
Palm Springs Aerial Tram
760-325-1449
Palm Springs Air Museum
760-778-6262
PATIOS | SIDEWALKS | DRIVEWAYS |KOOL DECKS
760-327-4849
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Palm Springs Art Museum
760-325-7186
Sunnylands
760-328-2829
Patton Memorial Museum 760-227-3483
Joshua Tree National park 760-367-5500
SHOPPING
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are part of the Smithsonian Institute’s
art collection In 1990 he received a
fellowship grant that allowed him to
begin working with a foundry to learn
bronze casting after which he created
several bronze sculptures.
During the recent years since moving
to Palm Springs Richard has been
working with acrylics and painting large
paintings of which he has shown at
several local galleries.
He is scheduled for an upcoming show
at the Stephen Baumbach Gallery
located at the Backstreet Art District on
4116 Mathew Dr. Palm Springs just off of
Highway 111. The opening for the show
is on March 2 from 5 to 8 PM. I
f you are worn down by the Covid
lockdowns and the bleakness of the
last two years this show will change
your demeanor. Richard’s paintings
are a delight for the eyes and a spiritlifting
aesthetic experience. The large
paintings some of which are displayed
in this article are composed of dancing
shapes that are inspired by music that
Richard is listening to while creating
them. The colors and the movement
of the shapes through the paintings
provide an elating feeling that the
sheer size of the painting allows you to
become a part of the creation. The
photos of the paintings in this article can
only provide a figment of what seeing
them in their original state will give you.
Also, see a photo of one of the bronze
sculptures in the show with a whimsical
subject of roller skates with a sea shell on
top.
Richard’s statement for the show sums
up what he intends for the works. “ My
entire life’s artistic endeavors have led
me to my current focus which is large
acrylic paintings on canvas that express
my energy, color sense of joy, inspired
by nature, music, architecture, and
fractal concepts.”
See you at the show.
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Gear Leather and Fetish 760-322-3363
We carry only the finest quality leather
and fetish goods, gym wear, toys and
furnishings, all designed to get you off
and make you look good while you’re
doing it. gearleather.com 650 E. Sunny
Dunes
Off Ramp Leathers 760-778-2798
offrampleathers.com New and used
leather and fetish/BSDM gear.
Alterations and repairs handmade item
by Paul. Great selection of consignment
items. 650 E. Sunny Dunes Rd., Unit 3,
Palm Springs, CA
GOT LUST?
AAP - Food Samaritans (760) 325-8481
Eisenhower HIV Clinic (760) 834-7930
DAP/ DOCK Clinic (760) 992-0492
Borrego Health (Stonewall Medical
Center) Cathedral City 760-507-3310
GROUPS/ORG/HELP
First State Monument
Dedicated
To LGBT who gave all!
LGBT Veterans Memorial
Desert Memorial Park,
Cathedral City, CA
Tom Swann Hernandez
AMVETS POST 66
tomswannhernandez
@earthlink.net
Vet Records https://vetrecs.archives.
gov/VeteranRequest/home.html for vet
or family or with written authorization.
San Diego VA Regional Office’s Virtual
VA Benefits Briefing
Explore and learn more about a variety
of VA benefits
Lgbt community center
760-416-7790 thecenterps.org
American cancer society
800-227-2345
https://tinyurl.com/ddggay
FREE COMMUNITY LISTINGS
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Amvets: Veterans club 760-324-5670
Coachella Valley sexual assault
(760) 568-9071
Desert Legal aid: 760-832-9770
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Friday night, a ‘Rio’ jungle themed
throw-down will kick off WPG weekend
with DJs Liza Rodriguez (Brazil) and Dani
Brasil (Brazil).
Saturday brings the weekend’s
most anticipated night as WPG
celebrates 30+ years with an ‘eternal’
themed WP spectacle. The 6-hour
superhero-themed party will feature
state-of-the-art staging, lighting, and
sound. Attendees are welcome to
wear the traditional white outfits or
dress as their favorite inter-dimensional
superhero character. DJ’s driving WP’s
main event are Rick Braile (Brazil), Chris
Turina (Chile), and Phil Romano (Italy).
On Sunday, it’s time for the worldfamous
‘T-Dance.’ ‘Big Top Circus’
starts in the afternoon and continues
into the night as the sun sets behind the
spectacular mountains of Palm Spring.
Warm breezes and hot dancing bodies
fill the outdoor dance floor with music by
international DJs Ben Bakson (Germany)
and Dan Slater (Australia). The night
culminates with a climactic firework and
video display in a tribute to the WP’s gay
party impresario Jeffrey Sanker.
The weekend culminates in a highenergy
closing party with ‘Afterlife’ on
Sunday night. DJs Joe Gauthreaux (New
Orleans) and Mauro Mozart (Brazil) will
provide the night’s beats.
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Information on the host hotel, weekend
pass pricing, and event details can
be found at WhitePartyGlobal.com.
(All tickets purchased pre-pandemic will
be honored for Palm Springs White Party
2022 and 2023).
Additional special guests will be unveiled
within the coming months. To be kept up
to date on the latest announcements
and new musical guests, please visit the
WPG website, and follow them on social
via Instagram and Facebook.
About Palm Springs
Palm Springs and its neighboring town,
Cathedral City, with consistently brilliant
sunshine, offer very laid back and
relaxed lifestyles, only two hours from Los
Angeles.
Palm Springs’ genesis and prominence
can be attributed to Hollywood. In the
1910s, studios discovered the wonders
of location shooting in Palm Springs with
vacant land, mountains, and boulders
for westerns and sand dunes for films
about the Arabian desert. With the
emergence of the studio system when
stars were not allowed to be any farther
from Los Angeles than within a two-hour
drive, in case the studios needed them,
movie stars made Palm Springs their
weekend retreat of choice.
The town’s LGBTQ population is now
estimated at more than 51 percent, the
highest per capita gay population in the
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US, if not the world. The desert getaway
achieved a measure of fame in 2018
when voters elected the nation’s first city
council consisting entirely of members of
the LGBTQ community.
BIO: Vic Gerami
Vic Gerami is an award-winning
journalist and the editor + publisher
of The Blunt Post. Gerami is also the
host and co-producer of the national
headline news + politics program, THE
BLUNT POST with VIC on KPFK 90.7
FM (Pacifica Network).
The Wall Street Journal featured
Gerami as a “leading gay activist” in its
landmark 2008 coverage of opposition
to Proposition 8, the ballot measure
that for years denied same-sex couples
in California the freedom to marry. In
addition to his years of volunteer work
as a leading advocate for marriage
equality, Gerami served as a Planning
Committee member for the historic
Resist March in 2017.
In 2015, Gerami was referenced in
the landmark Supreme Court civil
rights case, Obergefell v. Hodges, in
which the Court held in a 5–4 decision
that the fundamental right to marry is
guaranteed to same-sex couples by
both the Due Process and the Equal
Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States
Constitution.
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BUSINESS
Directory
Stonewall democrats:
desert-stonewall.Org
Desert winds freedom band
760 776-2700
-Gay artists -760 835 0727
-Gay book club of ps—write to
Bookclubofps@yahoo.Com
-Transgender Community
Transcc.Org
Palm Springs Gay
Men’s Chorus 760-219-2077
Palm Springs Leather Order of the Desert
760 272-5553
Palm Springs Pride
Pspride.Org
Prime Timers of the Desert
760-424-8014.
NATURIST DAY PASSES
Gay Men CCBC Resort
Family DeAnza Desert Sun Resort
Starland Community Desert retreat
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Important Announcement
Unfortunately, COVID has once again reared it’s ugly head and one of our lead actors
of “The Drag” has tested positive. He is doing well with it but of course can not resume
rehearsals until he receives a negative test result.
The good news is that we caught this very early, cancelled rehearsals for several days, had
everyone tested and the rest of the cast has received a NEGATIVE diagnosis.
That said, we are safely resuming rehearsals with the remaining company but have lost
several days of work in the process so we are forced to push opening weekend back to
February 23rd.
However, there are options for you.
In place of “The Drag” dates that we have cancelled we will be presenting “Electricity”
before they leave the Valley, head to New York, and begin their run Off-Broadway.
Current Ticket holders to the Opening Weekend of “The Drag’ have the option of seeing
“Electricity” on their original date, exchange their date to the following week for “The
Drag”, Exchange their dates for any other mainStage production at the Desert Rose, or
receive a refund.
We truly appreciate your understanding and patience as we maneuver through this crazy
time in all of our lives but as we always say,
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
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