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Port Huron Statement Part I

WHERE DID YOU

COME FROM?

EVRYONE IS FROM

ELESEWHERE!

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COVER

This may be the last

summer with peace

and stability in the

world. We are facing

an uncertain future.

Climate change is

coming as are political

changes. Californians

are, by accident or

design, the beacon

of the great gift or as

Benjamin Franklin

said "A republic, if

you can keep it". The

Constitution may not

play as they say in

Peoria but it's alive

and well here. I am not

worried about us, we

have been blessed with

entitlements, resources

and strong minded

people of all colors,

leanings and pronouns.

We are often called

libers, San Franciscans

or the left, but we also

have the right and

independents.

And we do not let

any group define us,

show intolerance or

otherwise unfairly act

against us. Fairness and

transparency is our

guide posts in all we do.

It allows this magazine

to run, gay bars to

operate and police to

call. But we may need

to help others.

God help us if we let

Benjamin Franklin

down!

10 QUESTIONS

WITH VIC

Vic Gerami is a

journalist and media

contributor

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Volume 25, Issue 03

July 17 - July 23, 2019

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16 Local Bars

29 Business Dir.

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24 AdamsArtExpose’

34 Adrian’s Picks

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SIGNATURE DATES

SPECIAL ELECTION City of Cathedral City, CA -

Municipal Government

Nomination Period for District 1 City Council

Seat Nomination Period for candidates will

close on May 30, 2019.

Prime Timers Mixer & Food Drive

Monday, August 5th | 4:30 to 7:00 PM

Hunters 302 East Arenas Road

Palm Springs, CA 92262

Come and join our special mixer gathering

where we are asking our members to support

The Community Food Bank

INSIDER GUIDE

BEST BET: LATE NIGHT BAR AND

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Meet at the bar, sleep at the hotel!

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COMMUNITY FOOD BANK at the Center

(760-416-7790)

SCOTT HINES MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC at the

CENTER (760-416-7899)

SAVE THE DATE:

July 18th – Legal Consultations (by

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July 20th – Own Your Future – Preparing Your

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August 16th-18th – Authentic Dating –

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Get together at The Barracks

BEST BET: GAY THEME NIGHTS at the

Tool Shed Bar and The Barracks.

BEST BET: Best bottomless

Champagne Breakfast starter at

Pinocchio's of the Desert

BEST BET: EVERY DAY Breakfast, Lunch,

and Dinner

at Sunshine Cafe in Cathedral City.

BEST FREE BET: THURSDAYS NIGHTS AT

THE MUSEUM

Lectures, conversations, collections and

more! Thursday Nights feature a series

of events and activities, as well as free

museum admission from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00

p.m., thanks to funding from the City

of Palm Springs Public Arts Commission.

BEST FREE BET: Village-fest Street

Festival Thursday night street fair featuring

arts, crafts, food, and entertainment! Its

also fun to watch the gay community as you

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community. Downtown, Thursdays, 6pm-

10pm

BEST BETS: July 27 Still can't get

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Celebration: Starring Marc Martel at The

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Bars & Restaurants

FEATURED

Pinocchio In the Desert

Palm Springs breakfast and

lunch bistro restaurant with a

warm and welcoming, lively

fun European Atmosphere.

134 East Tahquitz Canyon

Way, PS

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

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South Indian Cyn, PS,

Eagle 501 Bar(Opening Soon)

LEVI/LEATHER bar in the

heart of Arenas, Palm Springs

301 E Arenas Rd , 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, word

of mouth visitors from around

the world. 36815 Cathedral

Canyon Dr. CC

(760) 328-1415 6:00 am

The Barracks

LEVI/LEATHER No matter

your fetish, if you’re in the

mood for some great cruising

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Tool Shed

LEVI/LEATHER In the Warm

Sands District in central Palm

Springs.

600 E Sunny Dunes Rd , PS

(760) 320-3299

10:00 am – 2:00 am

Tryst Bar and Lounge

Eclectic mix of straight and

gays of all ages, AMI Video

Jukebox - Pool -Darts- Air

Hockey - Giant Jenga.

Everyone is Welcome at Tryst

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Palm Springs, CA

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AJ Sports

Roost

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Playoffs Sports Bar

Palm Springs

Toucan’s

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Oscar’s

Chill bar

Hunters

Stacy’s

BlackBook

QUADZ

RetroRoom Lounge

Phoenix

Charlie's

Dick's Cabaret

Kobalt Bar

Pat O's

Stacy's

Inland Empire

The Menagerie

VIP

Alibi East

Hook-Up

340 Restaurant & Nightclub

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Mixer & Food Drive

Monday, August 5th | 4:30 to 7:00 PM

Come and join our special mixer gathering where we are

asking our members to support The Community Food Bank @

The Center currently in need of the following items:

Cereals (All sizes)

Breakfast items (oatmeal, bars)

Nutritional or Protein shakes

Crackers & Chips

Dry beans (1 lbs. bags)

Pasta

Canned meat

Baking products

The Community Food Bank @ The Center is a flagship initiative

that provides nutritional choices, including fresh produce,

baked goods, meat, canned goods, dairy and more to lowincome

Riverside County residents in need of food assistance

Where:

302 East Arenas Road

Palm Springs, CA 92262

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Port Huron Statement Part I

Fair Use copyright (c) 1993 by the Author or by

Viet Nam Generation, Inc., all rights reserved.

a 1962 political manifesto of the American

student activist movement Students for a

Democratic Society (SDS)

Introduction: Agenda for a Generation

We are people of this generation, bred in

at least modest comfort, housed now in

universities, looking uncomfortably to the

world we inherit.

When we were kids the United States was

the wealthiest and strongest country in the

world; the only one with the atom bomb, the

least scarred by modern war, an initiator of

the United Nations that we thought would

distribute Western influence throughout

the world. Freedom and equality for each

individual, government of, by, and for the

people--these American values we found god,

principles by which we could live as men.

Many of us began maturing in complacency.

encounter and resolution.

While these and other problems either directly

oppressed us or rankled our consciences and

became our own subjective concerns, we began

to see complicated and disturbing paradoxes in

our surrounding America. The declaration "all

men are created equal..." rang hollow before

the facts of Negro life in the South and the big

cities of the North. The proclaimed peaceful

intentions of the United States contradicted its

economic and military investments in the Cold

War status quo.

We witnessed, and continue to witness, other

paradoxes. With nuclear energy whole cities

can easily be powered, yet the dominant

nation-states seem more likely to unleash

destruction greater than that incurred in all

wars of human history. Although our own

technology is destroying old and creating new

forms of social organization, men still tolerate

meaningless work and idleness. While twothirds

of mankind suffers under nourishment,

our own upper classes revel amidst superfluous

abundance. Although world population is

expected to double in forty years, the nations

still tolerate anarchy as a major principle

of international conduct and uncontrolled

exploitation governs the sapping of the

earth's physical resources. Although mankind

desperately needs revolutionary leadership,

America rests in national stalemate, its goals

ambiguous and tradition-bound instead of

informed and clear, its democratic system

apathetic and manipulated rather than "of, by,

and for the people."

As we grew, however, our comfort was

penetrated by events too troubling to dismiss.

First, the permeating and victimizing fact

of human degradation, symbolized by the

Southern struggle against racial bigotry,

compelled most of us from silence to activism.

Second, the enclosing fact of the Cold War,

symbolized by the presence of the Bomb,

brought awareness that we ourselves, and our

friends, and millions of abstract "others" we

knew more directly because of our common

peril, might die at any time. We might

Not only did tarnish appear on our image

deliberately ignore, or avoid, or fail to feel all of American virtue, not only did disillusion

other human problems, but not these two, for occur when the hypocrisy of American ideals

these were too immediate and crushing in their was discovered, but we began to sense that

impact, too challenging in the demand that what we had originally seen as the American

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Age was actually the decline of an

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era. The worldwide outbreak of revolution

against colonialism and imperialism, the

entrenchment of totalitarian states, the menace

of war, overpopulation, international disorder,

supertechnology--these trends were testing the

tenacity of our own commitment to democracy

and freedom and our abilities to visualize their

application to a world in upheaval.

seem to have weakened the case for further

change.

Some would have us believe that Americans

feel contentment amidst prosperity--but might

it not better be called a glaze above deeply felt

anxieties about their role in the new world?

And if these anxieties produce a developed

indifference to human affairs, do they not as

well produce a yearning to believe that there

is an alternative to the present, that something

can be done to change circumstances in the

school, the workplaces, the bureaucracies,

the government? It is to this latter yearning,

at once the spark and engine of change, that

we direct our present appeal. The search for

truly democratic alternatives to the present,

and a commitment to social experimentation

with them, is a worthy and fulfilling human

enterprise, one which moves us and, we hope,

others today. On such a basis do we offer this

document of our convictions and analysis: as

an effort in understanding and changing the

conditions of humanity in the late twentieth

century, an effort rooted in the ancient, still

unfulfilled conception of man attaining

determining influence over his circumstances

of life.

Our work is guided by the sense that we

may be the last generation in the experiment

with living. But we are a minority--the vast

majority of our people regard the temporary

equilibriums of our society and world as

eternally functional parts. In this is perhaps the

outstanding paradox; we ourselves are imbued

with urgency, yet the message of our society is

that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Beneath the reassuring tones of the politicians,

beneath the common opinion that America

will "muddle through," beneath the stagnation

of those who have closed their minds to the

future, is the pervading feeling that there

simply are no alternatives, that our times have

witnessed the exhaustion not only of Utopias,

but of any new departures as well. Feeling

the press of complexity upon the emptiness

of life, people are fearful of the thought that

at any moment things might be thrust out of

control. They fear change itself, since change

Tom Hayden December 11, 1939 – October 23,

might smash whatever invisible framework

2016

seems to hold back chaos for them now. For Anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual

most Americans, all crusades are suspect,

activist in the 1960s, authoring the Port Huron

threatening. The fact that each individual

Statement and standing trial in the Chicago

sees apathy in his fellows perpetuates the

Seven case.

common reluctance to organize for change.

The dominant institutions are complex enough "Freedom Rider" Freedom Riders were civil

to blunt the minds of their potential critics, rights activists who rode interstate buses into

and entrenched enough to swiftly dissipate the segregated southern United States in 1961

or entirely repel the energies of protest and and subsequent years to challenge the nonenforcement

of the United States Supreme

reform, thus limiting human expectancies.

Then, too, we are a materially improved

Cour t decision to desegregate public buses

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PRESS RELEASE

Desert Stonewall Democrats, the

only chartered LGBTQ Democratic

Club in the Coachella Valley, held

a public forum designed to feature

the Democratic Candidates running

for election in the newly created

Palm Springs City

Council District Elections. Over

100 people attended the forum,

which was held Tuesday, July 16th

at Mizell Senior Center. Prior to the

forum each candidate was asked to

complete a questionnaire regarding

their background and views on

issues and were interviewed by the

members of Stonewalls Political

Action Committee.

At the forum each candidate was

given time for an opening and

closing statement about their

candidacy. The audience then

submitted questions that gave each

candidate an opportunity to express

their views on a wide variety of

issues from homelessness to vacation

rentals to dealing with the closures

on Indian Canyon caused by the

weather. The audience was able to

gauge the depth of the knowledge

of the candidates and evaluate their

varying views on how to solve some

of the complex issues facing the City

of Palm Springs.

Immediately following the candidate

presentations, the members of Desert

Stonewall Democrats in attendance

were asked to vote by ballot on

the Political Action Committee

endorsement slate. A 60% vote was

required for endorsement.

We are pleased to announce that

80% of the membership voted for

the following endorsements:

District 1: Dual Endorsement – Les

Young and Grace Garner

District 2: Dennis Woods

District 3: Geoff Kors

Receiving an endorsement from

the members of Desert Stonewall

Democrats has traditionally included

support in the form of financial

contribution to each candidate,

campaign volunteer assistance from

the membership, and mail pieces to

Democratic voters. “We are anxious

to offer our support and expertise to

this outstanding group of endorsed

candidates who have expressed an

incredible understanding of the

issues facing the City

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VA DOCTORS CREDIT REP. RAUL RUIZ

FOR FIRING OF LOMA LINDA HOSPITAL

DIRECTOR

By Tom Swann Hernandez

Officially she resigned. On the record she was

ready to stop working for the U.S. Department

of Veterans Affairs. However VA doctors at

the hospital in Loma Linda California who

spoke on the condition of anonymity told me

this matter. Ruiz spoke to the hospital director

who defended herself by saying the VA staff at

Loma Linda was not working as hard as they

should be working. Ruiz looked into the matter

and found that statement was untrue. The VA

hospital staff told Ruiz the director was solely

responsible for the cutback in services. Ruiz

somehow had the director put into a position

that she either resign or be fired. We do not

know what channels at the VA Ruiz used

but we assume he spoke to the VA Secretary

or someone high up at the Department of

Veterans Affairs. Doctors say a new director

who they describe as “Asian-American” is

restoring the cutbacks in services to veterans.

As a result staff morale at Loma Linda VA

hospital has returned to normal.

this week that Rep. Raul Ruiz had the hospital

director fired because he determined she was

incompetent.

These VA doctors tell the story in this manner.

The hospital director began a large cutback in

services to veterans. Veterans complained to

the office of Rep. Raul Ruiz. One of the most

outspoken critics of the hospital administration

the past few months was AMVETS Post 66

First Vice Commander Chad Shipley. Shipley

accused the hospital administration of saying

falsehoods about their actions to reduce his

services. The VA hospital is not located in

Rep. Raul Ruiz’s 36th Congressional District.

However Rep. Ruiz veteran constituents are

served at that hospital on a regular basis. Rep.

Ruiz took the time to research and investigates

I do not believe Rep. Ruiz is going to write a

press release on this subject. And I doubt if his

staff will offer any quotes to the news media.

But VA doctors insist the director was “fired by

Ruiz because she was incompetent.”

This demonstrates that Rep. Raul Ruiz is the

“real deal” and the “genuine McCoy.” He is

a full-time Member of Congress who meets

with his constituents, listens to their concerns,

researches and investigates, asks tough

questions and then makes bold decisions that

improve the quality of life of his constituents.

Ruiz replaced former Rep. Mary Bono--

Mack in the 2012 election. Elections have

consequences. Bono-Mack would never have

had the courage to take this bold action. For

example Bono-Mack originally replaced her

late husband Sonny on the House Armed

Services Committee and the sub-committee on

military personnel. This means it was her subcommittee

that voted that active duty military

who became infected with HIV could not

re-enlist in the continued on page 26

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AdamsArtExpose’ ART

The Northeastern Native American

Tribes encompass an area reaching

from Main to Wisconsin on the north

to as far south as South Carolina and

over to Illinois. The women of these

Tribes made clothing, basketry, and

many tools. They also planted and cared

for most of the agricultural crops and

typically caught or harvested most of the

food used by a Tribal group. Men built

houses, hunted and fished and made

most of the tools used for this. They

also participated in warring and holding

councils.

AdamsArtExpose’

NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS -

NORTHEASTERN TRIBAL EXAMPLES

which were used in cold weather and

made from leather. The clothing wasn't

runway styling but made for utilitarian

use and efficient in design for everyday

purposes. Moccasins were worn by

both men and women which were also

made from leather and frequently had

designs with beading sewn into them.

When European explorers came to this

geographic region they found that there

were belonging groups in this area. They

associated with linguistic groups from

the Algonquian, Iroquoian o Siouan

language groups.

The clothing fashions of the Northeastern

Tribes were similar within most of the

Tribes. For men, clothing consisted of

a breechcloth consisting of a strip of

leather drawn between the legs and held

in place by a belt at the waist. Kind of an

early form of the athletic supporter only

probably more prone to chafing. For

running through forests and weeds they

also had leggings which were like two

tubes of leather covering the legs and also The primary sport of the Northeastern

attached at the waist belt. For women Tribes was the game of Lacosse played by

they a skirt also with leggings and a most of the Tribes.

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It consisting of a stick with a net or pocket

type of device which was used to catch a

softball made of deerskin. The rules of

the game varied from Tribe to Tribe and

by geographic area. The game was later

adopted and modified by the Europeans

and is now played as a college competitive

sport.

Questions, comments, suggestions,

contact - adamsartexpose@gmail.com or

adamsartexpose@desertdailyguide.com

The materials used for the creation of arts

and crafts of the Northeastern Tribes was

primarily organic found materials such as

corn husks, hide, clay, shells, stone, and

bone. After the arrival of the Europeans,

they included glass, cloth, and metal into

their arts. In following articles there will

be descriptions of the arts of Tribes of

other geographic areas primarily in the

U.S. which will compare the designs and

materials used by these Tribes.

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military. Her sub-committee was in charge of

the ban on open LGBTQ in the military.

In November 1999 Bono-Mack was scheduled

to speak before the Riverside County Veterans

Advisory Committee at the former Rock

Garden Café in Palm Springs. Former County

Veterans Services Officer Bili Densmore

invited me to attend as President of the Palm

Springs Gay Veterans. Some of our members

like Daryl James, Fred Bilodeau and Charlie

Sharples attended. When Densmore told the

staff of Rep. Bono-Mack that gay veterans

were planning to attend the breakfast meeting

her Public Affairs Officer (Frank Cullen)

came to the meeting and said Bono-Mack

had mysteriously suddenly been called back

to Washington DC. As a result Bono-Mack

was the only Riverside County Member of

Congress or state legislator that never spoke

before the veteran’s advisory committee whose

members are appointed by the County Board

of Supervisors. Bono-Mack requested that

she be reassigned off of the Armed Services

Committee to the Energy Committee.

There are many other such stories about Bono-

Mack that can be shared at another time. Her

record on gays in the military was both positive

and negative. In the final vote to repeal “Don’t

Ask, Don’t Tell” Bono-Mack voted with the

Democrats to repeal that policy.

The former hospital director met with me in

person and did in fact provide me with some

assistance at the hospital. Rep. Ruiz did not

give me permission to share this story about

his superb work for veterans. However VA

hospital staff are very grateful to him and

they have asked me to share this story not to

embarrass the former hospital director (whose

name we are not mentioning). Instead they

want to make sure the veterans in his district

know that he accomplished something very

important that helps the hospital staff serve

our veterans. So AMVETS Post 66 salutes

Rep. Raul Ruiz and we still wish to present him

with an award plaque that we had to cancel on

Memorial Day 2017 due to my sickness.

And we also want to alert Ruiz staff that

World War II Navy veteran Daryl James

(who appeared as an endorser of Ruiz on TV

commercials in his 2012 election campaign)

is in serious poor health. The former hospital

director that was fired cut back the aid and

assist services that the VA headquarters

promised to provide Daryl. We request that

the staff of Rep. Ruiz contact the new hospital

director and ask him to expedite restoring the

promised aid and assist services to Daryl who

is 93 years old and lives alone in Palm Springs.

We trust Rep. Ruiz will help Daryl prolong his

life.

Regular contributer Thomas A. Swann

A Vietnam era veteran who served in

the United States Marine Corps; founder

of AMVETS Post 66, District 9 AMVETS

Commander; member of The American

Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the

Disabled American Veterans; the Blind

Veterans of America, founding Chairman of

the California Democratic Party's Veterans

Caucus, Past President of Palm Springs Gay

Veterans, member of the California State

Democratic Party's Central Committee.

A local champion of veterans rights, workers

rights, civil rights, sexual orientation/

identity rights, AIDS awareness, and Health

Maintenance Organization accountability.

Tom Swann - Proud Gay Veteran and Author

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

DID YOU KNOW, Palm Springs is

only 90 minutes to the ocean!

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

LGBT AND LGBT FRIENDLY

RESORTS PALM SPRINGS STYLE

CCBC Resort 760 324-1350 See page 2

68-300 Gay Resort Drive

CCBC is the largest clothing optional Gay

men’s resort in Southern California.

Located just a few minutes from downtown

Palm Springs, Our 3.5 acre fantasy

playground is perfect for weekend getaways

and extended stays.

ccbcresorthotel.com

Chaps Inn 760 327-8222 See page 18

Don’t stay where the boys are ….. stay

where the men are! Swim in or laze by

the heated salt water pool, enjoy the spa,

cool misting system and steam room! Play

in the outdoor sling or Saint Andrew’s

cross. Chaps Inn is a clothing optional 10

room resort owned and operated by two

British transplants and life partners, Stuart

and Ian. chapsinn.com

TRIANGLE INN 760-322-7993

555 E. San Lorenzo Rd

92264 Palm Springs CA

Romantic and relaxing or fun and frisky. At

the Triangle Inn Palm Springs, the choice

is yours. This award-winning, and historic

Palm Springs Resort is a feast for all your

senses, with a special flair for Southern

(California) hospitality. triangle-inn.com

INNdulge 760 327 1408 See page 9.

601 S Grenfall Rd, Palm Springs

Considered one of the best gay hotels

and gay resorts in Palm Springs Located

in the heart of warm sands area and

walking distance to Sunny Dunes gay

bars and shopping and down town.

Amenities include free wifi, daily

continental breakfast, evening social

hour, complimentary local gym access,

air conditioning, on-site guest laundry,

outdoor misters and assistance with

restaurant and activity bookings

inndulge.com

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BUSINESS SERVICES

ATTRACTIONS/ENTERTAINMENT

Cabot’s Pueblo Museum 760-329-7610

McCallum Adobe 760-323-8297

Ruddy’s General Store Museum 760-327-2156

Indian Canyons 760-323-6018

Palm Springs Aerial Tram 760-325-1449

Palm Springs Air Museum 760-778-6262

Palm Springs Art Museum 760-325-7186

Sunnylands 760-328-2829

Patton Memorial Museum 760-227-3483

Joshua Tree National park 760-367-5500

ADULT BOOK STORE

*Hidden Joy 760 328-1694

ADULT FETISH AND TOYS

*Gear Leather & Fetish 760 322-3363

*Hidden Joy 760 328-1694

ART GALLERY

Sebastian’s Gallery Appraisals - Antiques Fine

Art - Estate sales and liquidation

69930 Hwy 111 Rancho Mirage . Nudes | Art

760-202-0582

ATTORNEYS

*Joseph Rhea legal criminal law human rights

760 322-3001

BARBER SHOPS

Tim Piper 760 218 0806

180 E. Andreas at North Palm cyn.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

CONCRETE

GYMS

*WorkOUT Gym 760 325-4600

GENERAL SERVICES

Patriot Services

LIC General Contactor

Handyman | Flooring | SHOWERS

PLUMBING | ELECTICAL

760-327-9619

Hauling

Red’s Hauling. We remove trash and unwanted

items. Garage clean outs. Call Red at

760-288-6956

SHOPPING

LEATHER GEAR TOYS

*Gear Leather and Fetish 760-322-3363

gearleather.com 650 E. Sunny Dunes

Computer Service

CONCIERGE-STYLE COMPUTER

SUPPORT I AM NOT MAC-PHOBIC!

Desktops, laptops, Internet/wireless connectivity,

virus remediation. Catering to locals &

resort/out-of-town guests. Reasonable rates

Call Ed Lefkowitz sunnyDconsulting (760)

483-3115. sunnydconsulting.com

Leather Repair

Off Ramp Leathers 760-778-2798

www.offrampleathers.com New and used

leather and fetish/BSDM gear. Alterations

and repairs from saddle-patching your

well-loved Levis to refurbishing your prized

leathers. Or get measured for a new custom

leather outfit handmade by Paul. Great

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selection of consignment items. 650 E.

Sunny Dunes Rd., Unit 3, Palm Springs,

CA 92264

PAINTERS

MATRIMONY SPIRITUALITY

Bloom In the Desert Ministries

760 327-3802

REAL ESTATE

*Berrington Properties 760 408-4102

TRAVEL

Idyllwild

LIVING FREEANIMAL SANCTUARY

Living Free rescues dogs & cats from public

shelters. We're a no-kill nonprofit - with

spay/neuter, pet adoptions, animal welfare.

Tax-deductable Visitors Welcome! OPEN

DAILY 11:00am to 4:00pm CLOSED

WEDNESDAYS. We are NOT licensed to

take animals from the public and rescue

from local shelters only.

54250 KEEN CAMP ROAD MOUNTAIN

CENTER, CA 92561

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

Idyllwild Attractions

Idyllwild Nature Center The center provides

an array of environmental education

programs, guided tours, and field study

trips. 25225 CA-243, Idyllwild, CA 92549,

Phone: 951-659-3850

Idyllwild Park is a popular park measuring

a little over two hundred acres for hiking

rock and rustic camping.

MOVING HERE?

Gas 800-427-2200

Water 760-323-4971

Electric 800-990-7788

Trash 800-973-3873

Recycling 760-327-1351

Free Trolley Buzz

760 260-8104

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GROUPS/ORG/HELP

LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE

DESERT 1301 North Palm Canyon, 3rd

Floor PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262

760-416-7790 www.thecenterps.org

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 800-

227-2345

AMVETS: 760-324-5670

BLOOM IN THE DESERT MINISTRIES:

760-327-3802

Coachella Valley Sexual Assault Services

Rape Crisis Center (760) 568-9071

DEMOCRATS OF THE DESERT

desertdemocrats.org

democratsofthedesert@gmail.com

DESERT LEGAL AID: 760-832-9770

DESERT STONEWALL DEMOCRATS:

www.desert-stonewall.org

DESERT WINDS 760 776-2700

FRONTRUNNERS psfr.org

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 Springs Resort Jacumba,

CA, Living Waters, Desert Sun Resort

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

CALL TO ADD YOUR LISTING TODAY

888 743-3349

SERVICES

Verified June 2019

Got kids? Feed ‘em free! Summer meal

programs open to all kids 18 and under

Texting "FOOD" to 877-877 will give you a

nearby location where free meals are available

for children during the summer.

Almuerzo gratis para niños este verano. No

papeles necesarios. Llame 1-877-8-HAM-

BRE

For Cool Center info call: County of Riverside

Community Action Partnership 951-

955-4900 TTY: 951-955-5126

www.capriverside.org or loical City Hall.

ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project 212-549-

2500

The (FCC) reserved the 211 dialing code

for community information and referral

services. Types of Referrals Offered by with

information about and referrals to social

services for every day needs and in times of

crisis.

Dont blow up your weekend!

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

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Whether you are planning to do it yourself

or hire a professional.

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Sensual M4M Hair Cut

One on one hair cut and scalp massage,

very private in home studio, centrally

located in R. Mirage near Eisenhower

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patio w/ additional private rear entrance.

Mature, respectful community w/owners

onsite. $1125/monthly

Call Markus 760.902.8604

Trans Tuesdays

Programs and services @ The Center are

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If you're transgender, we've built

programming specifically for you. Every

Tuesday evening, come by The Center for

Trans Tuesdays. Please feel free to wear

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Speakers and other resources that will deal

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A social time for movies, games, activities

Two groups; MTF and FTM to discuss and celebrations.

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ADRIAN’S PICKS FOR THE MAN THAT

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#1 San Diego Comic Con

Toucan Funko Pop

#2 Batman80 SDCCbag POP

$15.00 SDCC X FUNKO BOOTH

#100 – WALL O’ TOUCANS

Funko has the hardest exclusives to

get at San Diego Comic-Con — but

they’re also some of the best, with

a huge array of licenses and cool

variants. In order to gain access to

the Funko Booth #5341, you will

need to gain access through the

Online Exclusives Portal, which is

now open.

New this year, they will also have a

second 30×10 SDCCxFunko Booth

#100 which will sell Funko and

Comic-Con merchandise exclusives.

This booth will ONLY be selling the

SDCC exclusive Toucan Pop! and

Pez, and the Batman with the Comic-

Con bag. The other booth – Booth

#5341 – will be home to all other

items.

win the lottery for both the SDCC x

Funko booth and the Funko booth.

#3 Hello Kitty Deluxe Gift Set

$30.00 Monogram International

Booth #3645

A great assortment of special Hello

Kitty merchandise. Includes: one

Hello Kitty 3D figural bag clip, a

3 pc enamel pin set, and a lanyard

with a red bow charm. The enamel

pin set is in a special coin purse

shaped packaging in reference to the

original 1974 Hello Kitty coin purse.

In celebration of the iconic kitty’s

45th anniversary of world-cuteness

domination!

#4 SDCC Conan FunkO's

$15.00 Funko Booth #5341

Bring home your favorite late-night

talk show host as a San Diego Comic-

Con exclusive FunkO’s featuring

Super Conan as the mini-mascot and

a shared GameStop exclusive 25th

Anniversary Conan O’Brien (fully

clad in Team Coco Orange).

If you want to gain access to ALL of

Funko’s exclusives, you will need to

IMAGE OF THE WEEK.... Adrian at the Anime Expo with a cosplayer

Adrian travels the globe looking for the coolest trends in fashion and toys.

If you would like to have your product featured in this column send a note

to: adrian@desertdailyguide.com

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and have all exhibited a positive

outlook for their future involvement

in its success.” stated Ginny Foat,

Political ActionCommittee Chair For

further information please contact:

Miguel Navarro – (760) 567-1266;

info@desert-stonewall.org

About Desert Stonewall Democrats

Desert Stonewall Democrats

achieved official recognition in

February 1999 as a chartered club

by the California Democratic Party

and immediately set to work to elect

LGBT and LGBT-friendly candidates

to local and State office.

Desert Stonewall Democrats is proud

to bear the name of the event that

sparked a revolution and strives

still today to achieve what those

rebellious Stonewall Inn patrons

fought for then - equal treatment

under the law.

Desert Stonewall Democrats thrives

and grows today, in our 20th

anniversary year, as an active and

influential voice in regional politics,

pursuing its mission of equality for

all people:

To advance equal rights for

all people, regardless of sexual

orientation or gender identity;

To support the Democratic Party and

Democratic candidates who support

our mission;

To educate the LGBTQ community

and people who are supportive of it

about the vast differences that exist

between the two major parties on the

issues of concern to our community;

To lead our party to improve its

record on issues of importance to

our community, and to work for

the nomination of Democratic

candidates from the local to national

level, including qualified openly

LGBTQ candidates who will be fully

supportive of our fight for equality;

To encourage our community to

support and vote for Democratic

candidates who are committed to

defeating homophobia and prejudice.

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2019 Comic-Con International: San Diego

July 18 -21 comic-con.org

Comic-Con’s Quick Guide publication takes

all of the most important information about

the show and puts it into one, full-color

publication that’s easy to read and carry.

This indispensible magazine features maps

of the Comic-Con layout at the Convention

Center—including the huge, foldout Exhibit

Hall map—and the "Comic-Con Campus"

map, featuring the official programming

rooms with CCI events. It also features the

entire Programming Schedule in an easyto-read,

daily grid format, and a complete

list of exhibitors, featuring booth numbers.

This year's Quick Guide features maps and

info on all of our programming areas, plus

a Restaurant Guide to downtown San Diego

and Gaslamp establishments!

The Quick Guide is given FREE to all

attendees (while supplies last), and is

available exclusively at the event. You can

find it at registration areas in the Sails

Pavilion upstairs and alongside our onsite

daily newsletter, Comic-Con Today, at

locations throughout the Convention

Center.

Pick up your copy—along with the Comic-

Con 2019 Souvenir Book and Events

Guide—in the Sails Pavilion, along with

your lanyard and bag!

Some Helpful Badge Information

Comic-Con 2019 Toucan Tips

Here’s some important information to help

you get into Comic-Con and pick up your

Bag, Books, and Lanyard (BBL)!

Badge Pick-Up

Picking up your badge onsite? You’ll need to

bring two things: your badge confirmation

and a valid photo ID. Bring both upstairs

to Registration Area in the Sails Pavilion at

the San Diego Convention Center to receive

your badge. Please visit www.comic-con.

org/cci/badge-pickup for hours.

Your badge confirmation should be in the

email account associated with your Comic-

Con Member ID.

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THE LAST WORD

IMIGRATION

VS. RACISM

When someone complains, it's a gift.

Let us be factual, immigration to the

United States is the international movement

of non-U.S. nationals in order to reside

permanently in the country. This is an

occupancy issue then and not one human

right should be abridged. Still, we must

remember that the white immigrants still

complained that the slaves below them were

too loud.

The gift helps to make things better.

We once called us the melting pot, where all

things merged. Today, we are more a tossed

salad but some still want it to be like "thye

old days", that somehow got enshrined in

our history books. Where perception ruled

like an invisible, but controlling hand. But

it was not true fore all. Many people are

told they have a lane. As the grandson of

an immigrant that came here, not knowing

our language at 14 and was detained alone

for at least 3 months, ended up owning one

of the largest walnut farms in California.

But corporations used the invisible hand to

shut her out and take her land. So you can

trust me, when people complain, it's usually

because they are denied something they

deserve.

counter to what is just, we bear the charge of

theft. Albeit a new idea, a better change and

a better world. You have stolen something of

value from anther person.

Racism is never a gift, it is criminal theft,

because if you value life, then its penalty

should be severe. But sometimes we feel

it's just a harmless thought or a minor

oversight. But it's not. It's like watching a

friend rob another. Silence = Complicity.

When you really listen, you're exchanging

great gifts.

This is a nation of laws, but really, there

are two major divisions, civil and criminal.

Often things can be both, like spanking

your child. Nearly all research suggests

that immigration to the United States is

beneficial to the U.S. economy. But we have

labeled it bad. "Why?" should be the bigger

question. If immigration created the greatest

nation on earth, won't making immigration

bad make our nation worse again?

When you act, you're are using that gift.

Today, we are faced the bigger question

justice asks. Is this fair? Civil and criminal

laws that are not fairly applied are not just

bad, they break many other laws. They

invite corruption, lawlessness and despair.

Racism allows some people to overlook

despair, as some seem more deserving then

others. As does all other forms of theft

because you now you are taking it without

consent.

Each gift has different values, but the same

worth.

Being PC or kinder and gentler is no excuse

When we act in a way that allows anything to ignore theft. It's like being gay, even if

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