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COVER 

By Vic Gerami 

Photo Credit: Michael Simon 

With various ‘firsts’ in her already impressive 

career, the Emmy-nominated actress, documentary 

film producer and prominent equal rights 

advocate, Laverne Cox, continues to make history 

in her career and significant strides in her activism. 

Debuting on the scene in the groundbreaking role 

of Sophia Burset, in the critically acclaimed Netflix 

original series “Orange is The New Black,” Laverne 

is the first trans woman of color to have a leading 

role on a mainstream scripted television show. 

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Services include individual and group 

sessions for children and adults. 

Specializing in the treatment of: 

•Depression 

•Anxiety/Stress 

•Trauma 

Also, offering Mindfulness groups, 

a very effective method to increase 

mood and concentration, and reduce 

depression and anxiety symptoms. Six 

session groups starting soon. 

Sliding scale fee discounts available. 

Mark Charles, PhD. Licensed 

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Private practice located in 

Cathedral City, CA. 

I try to focus on helping clients rediscover their strengths rather than 

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INSIDER GUIDE 

BEST BET: KARAOKE AT THE BARRACKS 

THURSDAYS 

BEST BET: LATE NIGHT BAR AND 

RESTAURANT RUNWAY RESTAURANT MEET 

Meet at the bar, sleep at the hotel! 

BEST BET: GAY SUNDAY BEVERAGE BUST 

Get together at The Barracks 

BEST BET: GAY THEME NIGHTS at the Tool 

Shed Bar and The Barracks. 

BEST BET: GAY BINGO OH 69 at the Tool 

Shed Bar Wed. & Sat. 12pm - 3pm 

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 BET: GAY MOVIES gay, cult and 

pop movies at the Palm Springs Cultural 

Center for schedule of events visit 

palmspringsculturalcenter.org. 

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 

walk down Arenas Rd, the heart of the gay 

community. Downtown, Thursdays, 6pm- 

10pm 

Westfield Palm Desert 72-840 CA-111, Palm 

Desert,First Saturday of every month for 

Coachella Valley Makers Market, featuring 

local art, handcrafted goods, independent 

brands and live music. 

Certified Farmers Market: Palm Springs 

(Indoor) 

Sat, 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM 

Pavilion, 402 S Pavilion Way 

Palm Springs, CA 

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(760-416-7790) 

COMMUNITY FOOD BANK at the Center 

(760-416-7790 

SCOTT HINES MENTAL HEALTH 

CLINIC at the CENTER (760-416-7899) 

1301 North Palm Canyon Drive, Suite 301, 

Palm Springs, CA 92262 

SAVE THE DATE: 

Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group – First 

Wednesday of the Month 

November 20th – Demystifying the HPV 

Virus 

November 27th - CENTER SOCIAL – Chill 

Bar 

December 2nd – Wreath Auction - 

Eight4Nine Restaurant and Lounge 

December 4th – Paws and Claws Winter 

Social – Eight4Nine Restaurant and Lounge 


PRIDE 

3rd Annual Desert Hot Springs Pride 

Festival on November 16 at Cabot's Pueblo 

Also DHS Pride Bingo Night the 3rd Monday 

of each month (next is October 21) at 

Trunks Bar in Cathedral City. p.m. 

The Palm Springs 23rd Annual Palm 

Springs Veterans Day Parade is Monday, 

November 11 at 3:30 p.m. in downtown Palm 

Springs. The parade begins at Ramon 

Road and Palm Canyon Drive and heads 

northbound and concludes with a postparade 

patriotic concert and fireworks at 

the intersection of Amado Road and Palm 

Canyon Drive. 

Palm springs honored LGBTQ veterans for 

20th anniversary of gaining approval to 

march in the Palm springs Veterans day 

parade Wednesday November 6, 2019 

For more information AMVETS POST 66 

Tom Swann Hernandez Founder and Post 

Commander (760) 324-5670 

AMVETS also run a free shuttle for 

veterans to receive treatment t at LOMO 

LINDA every one is welcome. AMVETS 

Express free bus service to Loma Linda 

VA(909) 735-5065 

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY 

Friday, November 8th from 5-10pm at The Palm Springs Cultural - Camelot Theatres with a 

Pre-screening VIP cocktail reception with our special guests in the upstairs lounge when The 

Filmmakers' Gallery proudly presents..."Palm Springs Pride Month Double Feature: Homewrecker 

& Strapped!" with Special Guests! 

"HOMEWRECKER"-What happens when you invite a young scheming "homewrecker" into your 

home? 'STRAPPED"-A routine trick at a man's apartment propels a cynical hustler into a series of 

strange and life-changing encounters 

Bars & Restaurants 

Sunshine Cafe 

More Gay & Gay Friendly 

Nearly as perfect as it gets! Bars and Restaurants. 

FEATURED 

Known as a local hole in the Cathedral City 

wall with a funky vibe and AJ Sports 

Pinocchio In the Desert fantastic food, frequented by Roost 

Palm Springs breakfast and celebrities, politicians, word Trunks 

lunch bistro restaurant with a of mouth visitors from around Studio One 11 

warm and welcoming, lively the world. 36815 Cathedral Desert Hot Springs 

fun European Atmosphere. Canyon Dr. CC 

Playoffs Sports Bar 

134 East Tahquitz Canyon (760) 328-1415 6:00 am 

Palm Springs 

Way, PS 

The Barracks 

Toucan’s 

Rio Azul - Mexican Style Rest. LEVI/LEATHER No matter Streetbar 

& Bar 

your fetish, if you’re in the Oscar’s 

Best authentic Mexican mood for some great cruising Chill bar 

style restaurant in the valley. or just listening to some sexy Hunters 

With patio and Bar. Home music while you have a cigar Stacy’s 

of an original and distinct and conversation at the largest BlackBook 

interpretation of Mexican food patio bar in the desert. QUADZ 

.Longest running Sunday Drag 67625 E. Palm Canyon Dr. CC RetroRoom Lounge 

Brunch.(760) 992-5641 350 Tool Shed 

Phoenix 

South Indian Cyn, PS, 

LEVI/LEATHER In the Warm Charlie's 

Eagle 501 Bar 

Sands District in central Palm Dick's Cabaret 

LEVI/LEATHER bar in the Springs. 

Kobalt Bar 

heart of Arenas, Palm Springs 600 E Sunny Dunes Rd , PS Pat O's 

301 E Arenas Rd , PS 

(760) 320-3299 

Stacy's 

Runway Restaurant & Bar 10:00 am – 2:00 am 

Inland Empire 

The valleys premier arts and Tryst Bar and Lounge 

The Menagerie 

entertainment. Featuring Eclectic mix of straight and VIP 

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Laverne has earned numerous honors and 

award nominations for her work and advocacy, 

from being featured on the cover of TIME 

Magazine, to an Emmy nomination for 

“Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy 

Series,” to a SAG Award for “Outstanding 

Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy 

Series.” 

An advocate with an empowering message of 

moving beyond gender expectations to live 

more authentically, she was also named as one 

of Glamour magazine’s 2014 Women of the 

Year, one of The Grio’s 100 Most Influential 

African Americans, one of the Top 50 Trans 

Icons by the Huffington Post, and honored 

with the Courage Award from the Anti- 

Violence Project, and the Reader’s Choice 

Award from “Out” Magazine, among other 

accolades. 

Recently, Laverne has partnered with the 

BAND-AID® Brand, Johnson & Johnson, and 

(RED) to #BandTogether in the fight against 

HIV/AIDS. Every purchase of (BAND-AID®) 

RED bandages is enough to provide a day’s 

worth of life-saving medication to someone 

living with HIV. 

LC: Oh wow! It depends on the day. Today, 

oh my God! I guess I don’t think about this 

much. I like to call myself an artist, there was a 

moment I went to the Alabama School of Fine 

Arts in Birmingham, Alabama, and I started 

studying dance when I was in 3rd grade, but I 

didn’t study ballet until high school, so when 

I auditioned for the Alabama School of Fine 

Arts, I needed to get a scholarship and I didn’t 

think I would be able to get the scholarship 

if I hadn’t ever studied ballet before. Because, 

it was a ballet only dance program, so I had 

been writing a lot, and so I submitted myself 

as a creative writing major, and got in, and got 

a scholarship, and the very first piece I wrote 

at the Alabama School of Fine Arts had the 

recurring line, “I would like to call 

myself an artist”, and I think that has been 

the through line of my life, that at every point 

when I feel a drift or unsure, uncertain of 

myself for my direction, something artistic gets 

me back on track, - and even now, at this point 

in my life, I am so blessed, this year has been 

so transitional in so many ways with orange 

ending. I started the year feeling like this is 

a transitional year, I don’t know where I am 

transitioning to and where I am at now, is the 

art. 

I interviewed Laverne at West Hollywood 

Andaz Hotel’s red suite. She exuded 

confidence, friendliness and authenticity, and 

that made the interview even more special. She 

made me feel very comfortable, so we chatted 

for about an hour and took pictures together. 

She is beautiful but modest, on top of her game 

but in gratitude and glowing with star power. 

Where I am at now is like I have always gone 

to acting classes or singing voice lessons or 

dance classes, and just being in process, it is 

the process of getting better that I feel most 

connected to myself, as in a voice lesson 

yesterday, and I was like yeah this is right. And 

communicated with my acting coach, I had 

some stuff coming up, but it’s not even about 

the job, it’s about refining my process as an 

artist - so that it really goes back to the craft. I 

remember, it’s a long answer, I remember one 

VG: My first one I ask everyone, it’s the same, 

and you can interpret it as you wish. Modesty 

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‘The View’ and Lady Gaga was on with Tony 

Bennet, and you know she was singing with 

Tony Bennett faze and it was probably a year 

into me being famous and I think it was end 

of 2014, and I asked her, as I asked so many 

people, I was like, you know I am kind of 

famous now, how do you deal? And she is like, 

it is about coming back to your craft, always 

about coming back to the craft. And you see 

her doing that, and that feels like the truth to 

me, as I navigate multiple aspects of the brand 

that I have, that is about me being an artist in 

the work of sussing out a character, of making 

artistic choices that will get me better. Long 

Answer. 

VG: You seem to be on top of the world, with 

your career, coming off Orange in The New 

Black, all your other projects, a film coming 

up, covers of Cosmo, Time and British Vogue. 

LC: The interesting thing about perception is 

that it is complicated. This means, you said, 

that it seems like I am on top of the world 

and there are so many things that are quite 

wonderful about my life and my work, so many 

dreams have come true. I am really living the 

dream in so many ways. But at the moment, 

I mean I am being quite honest, I broke up 

with my boyfriend, or he broke up with me, I 

should say at the end of June. We were dating 

for almost 2 years, and I was madly in love, and 

I am still heartbroken. So, my career is kind of 

wonderful right now in so many ways, but I am 

also heartbroken, so it is complicated. So, yes, 

I am living a dream that a lot of people I think 

would like to live. 

VG: Well you just humanized it. Because the 

public seems the outside for the most part 

but might not realize that you have your own 

challenges. 

LC: It almost feels like this, you know I had a 

moment, especially after my Emmy (award) 

nomination, I was like, I have an Emmy 

nomination and then the British Vogue came 

out, and it was my first vogue cover. And I am 

like I am on the cover of vogue and this Emmy 

nomination and I am like heartbroken. I end 

up waking up crying, you now, because I miss 

him, I mean I miss us. I think it is for the best, 

you know the spiritual part of me knows that 

things happen for a reason and there is a plan 

bigger than my understanding. But the grief 

process is the grief process, you know that 

when you have been in a relationship with 

someone for 2 years and have healed so much 

trauma and shame in that relationship and all 

of a sudden, it’s over, it’s devastating. So yeah! 

It just sobers the whole experience of what it 

means to be on top of the world. 

VG: Your immense success is notable and 

impressive, but it’s even more significant 

when one factors in that you are a 

transgender woman of color. How would you 

reflect on your career when noting all the 

glass ceilings that you have broken? 

LC: I think we have to because there is a 

case going to the Supreme Court, where the 

question is just titled “seven cover the LGBTQ+ 

community” a woman, a Trans woman named 

Amy Stevens, who was fired from her job for 

being transgender. Her employer concedes that 

is why he fired her, and the Supreme Court 

may decide that is legal to do. We have to keep 

talking about it because transgender people are 

banned from serving openly in the military, 

we have to keep talking about it, because 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

November 6, 2019 

10 Questions with Vic Named Finalist 

among Prestigious List of Writers Vying for 

Los Angeles Press Club’s Coveted National 

Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award 

Just three years in syndication, Vic Gerami’s 

fast-growing column, 10 Questions 

with Vic, which interviews of top celebrities, 

politicos and public figures as well 

as hot, new up-and-comers, is already 

competing alongside legendary writers 

with household names, including Variety’s 

Michael Schneider and Kareem Abdul Jabbar 

writing for The Hollywood Reporter. 

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Press 

Club has announced that journalist and 

columnist Vic Gerami is a finalist competing 

for the organization’s 12th annual 

National Arts & Entertainment Journalism 

Awards (NAEJA). The awards recognize 

journalistic excellence, career achievements 

and contributions to society. 


countries. Gerami’s fellow finalists include 

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writing for The Hollywood 

Reporter, Brett Callwood from LA 

Weekly, David Jerome from the Orange 

County Register and Michael Schneider at 

Variety. 

A noted columnist, Gerami is also a journalist 

and media contributor who is also 

publisher and editor of The Blunt Post. 

Breaking out on his own and expanding 

his skills to include authoring a regular 

column and publishing his own successful 

news site, Gerami is quickly gaining a 

reputation as one of Southern California’s 

hardest-working media professionals. 

Today reaching national international audiences, 

Gerami first built a foundation of 

knowledge and skills by learning the media 

industry during his years at Frontiers Magazine, 

followed by positions at LA Weekly 

and Voice Media Group. This is Gerami’s 

second time being selected as a finalist 

in the Los Angeles Press Club’s Arts and 

Entertainment Awards “Columnist” category, 

having first made the final round of 

consideration in 2017. 

Finalists were announced after judges 

nationwide pored over more than 900 

entries. Gerami is a finalist for his internationally 

syndicated celebrity Q&A column, 

‘10 Questions with Vic,’ anchored in its 

home port publication, The Blunt Post and 

11 news and entertainment outlets in 4 

“I feel incredibly fortunate to be included 

in the Los Angeles Press Club’s National 

Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards,” 

Gerami said. “It’s an honor that I never 

expected.” 

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The Wall Street Journal featured Gerami 

as a “leading gay activist” in its landmark 

2009 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, later Gerami went on to 

serve as a Planning Committee member 

for the historic Resist March in 2017. Vic 

Gerami is also a founding board member 

of Equality Armenia. 

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. 

Vic Gerami is a contributor to the Windy 

City Times, Montrose Star, DC Life Magazine, 

Out & About Nashville, Q Virginia, 

GNI MAG, QNotes, GoWeHo, Asbarez, 

California Courier, Desert Daily Guide, 

Armenian Weekly, GED, The Pride LA, IN 

Magazine, OUT Traveler and The Advocate 

Magazine among others. 

“I’m genuinely humbled and consider it a 

win just to be named a finalist among my 

esteemed colleagues who are also finalists,” 

Gerami said. “Looking at my fellow 

finalists, I’m completely in awe of them 

as a group. But I’m overwhelmed by their 

individual talents as writers, interviewers 

and all-around storytellers. To see my work 

even mentioned alongside these journalism 

and media professionals is an honor I’ll 

always remember.” 

NAEJA SPECIAL HONOREES for 2019 

Tarana Burke - Impact Award for Influential 

Contributions to Culture and Society 

Danny Trejo - Visionary Award for 

Humanitarian Work 

Ben Mankiewicz - Luminary Award for 

Career Achievement 

Quentin Tarantino - Distinguished Storyteller 

Award for Excellence in Storytelling 

Outside of Journalism 

Ann-Margret - Legend Award for Lifetime 

Achievement and Contributions to Society 

The winners will be honored and awarded 

their trophies at the historic Biltmore 

Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, 

December 1, 2019. 


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administration wants to discriminate against 

us in homeless shelters and in health care. We 

have to keep talking about it because trans 

people are being murdered in record numbers 

and 78% of trans youth are bullied in schools., 

that is why we have to keep talking about it. 

VG: So, when one doesn’t even know you are a 

trans and assesses your career, it’s like wow. 

But when we factor that in, it’s incredible. So, 

how do you reflect on that? 

LC: I just think it feels like a miracle, it feels like 

a miracle, and I think because I have always 

dreamed of having this kind of career, but I 

never saw someone openly trans have this 

kind of career before me. That I am wondering 

if I was crazy, wondering if it was actually 

even possible right before I moved towards 

this black, I was going to stop acting and go 

to graduate school and get a job. It feels just 

remarkable, but it also, what I am very clear 

about is that I believe this happened to me 

when it happened to me because I was ready 

to be of service and I could be of service - and 

I have tried to take care of myself and not have 

my whole life to be of service, and to you know, 

to feel up my cup first, and have the overflow 

be for everyone else. 

of my work as an advocate, particularly, when 

it comes to violence against trans people, I feel 

like I have been talking about that for years 

and years and it keeps getting worse, and I am 

like what can we do? With this partnership 

with Band Aid and RED, there is something we 

can do to end HIV and AIDS - and we can just 

buy this, and this one box can contribute and 

make possible for a day’s worth of life saving 

medication for someone living with HIV in 

Sub-Saharan Africa. We can actually end AIDS 

and HIV in our lifetime. It is possible. There is 

no reason why people should be dying of HIV 

and AIDS still in 2019. So that piece of getting 

to be service, I believe, I really believe in my 

spirit, that its partly why I have been given the 

opportunities by the world, by the universe, 

by those I partner with, so I can be of service. 

And I think that is why, I know that is why I 

get to enjoy this wonderful life. 

VG: In addition to your remarkable 

achievements as an actress, you are often 

esteemed as the pinnacle of success in the 

Trans, non-binary, gender not conforming 

communities. How does that part feel? Is it too 

much pressure to live up to that? 

LC: As things shift for me, and I rethink the 

advocacy work that I am doing and where 

But I think it’s really about being of service I want to focus my energy, and there is so 

and that is why I partnered with Band Aid and much work that needs to be done, I get guilty, 

RED on this incredible campaign that is really I feel like I can’t be everywhere and I can’t do 

about continuing the work RED has been doing everything. It’s just not possible and continue 

since 2006 of making sure that folks in Sub- to try to build a career as an artist, it’s not 

Saharan Africa have access to medication to possible. And so, where I am at now, I just saw 

prevent the spread of HIV, medication to keep my dear friend, Angelica Ross on women on 

their viral load un-detectible if they are HIV the conversation on her network. And she just 

positive, to keep mothers from transmitting the was so brilliant in the way in which she had 

virus to their babies if they are HIV positive, the conversation, with the black women in 

condoms, all the incredible work that RED has the black community about trans lives. I was 

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I mean I could cry, I was so inspired

and moved by everything that she said. And 

she said it so much better, and I was like oh 

this is wonderful, Angelica got that, she’s got 

it and I don’t have to do that. And then I saw 

India Morse’s insanely moving speech at the 

Fashion Media Awards a few weeks ago and 

she wore these beautiful earrings that had a 

picture of a different Trans woman who had 

been murdered this year. And she made this 

incredibly moving speech that was just dead 

on, and smart, and nuanced, and I was like, 

and I should use ‘they’ pronouns because India 

identifies as non-binary. So, India was just so 

brilliant, and I was like Oh yes, India’s got this, 

I don’t have to do that. I see my trans siblings 

out there with platforms as big as mine doing 

the work. 

And then I see fans on the ground doing grassroot 

activism and handling that so beautifully, 

and so I want to lift up that work when I can, 

but then I am like OK, I don’t have to bear 

the weight of all this. And I never had to, but 

when there were fewer of us with this level of 

visibility, it was a different kind of weight. And 

so I don’t know if the weight is lighter, the load 

is lighter, but I just feel so lifted up by other 

trans folks, who because of visionaries and 

gate keepers that they have these wonderful 

platforms as well and are even more articulate 

than I am on some of these issues. I mean Janet 

Mock, Oh God! How can I forget Janet Mock. 

VG: Thank you for that. Let’s switch topics and 

talk about your film, ‘Jolt,’ that you just shot. 

Tell me about that 

LC: Oh My Gosh! Jolt is an action-comedy 

starring Kate Beckinsale, who I just adore, and 

I have been a fan of hers for years, and they 

were like you want to do a movie with Kate 

Beckinsale and Bobby Cannavale, and I was 

like YEAH! You sort of say yes even before you 

read the script, because it’s a dream for me to 

work with an actress of that caliber, I mean that 

is the company I would like to be keeping. So, 

Jolt is about, I forget what’s been in the press, 

so I am trying to like sort of not give things 

away and just sort of talk, you know talk press 

release about the film. This is a woman who 

sort of has impulse control and the therapist 

has given her this suit, when she feels a 

murderous urge, she presses the button and it 

kind of gives her an electric jolt. And she has 

trouble meeting men, and she meets a guy and 

then he ends up dead. So, it becomes her trying 

to figure out who killed him and my character, 

I play this police detective while I think she 

killed him. And so, it’s just a wonderful road 

that we had a blast shooting, I had a blast 

shooting in London and then Bulgaria, never 

been to Bulgaria before. We were in Sofia, 

Bulgaria, running around and I got to chase 

Kate Beckinsale around. 

VG: How is it when a fan recognizes you in 

public? 

LC: It depends on a lot of things; it depends 

on if I am in the space to receive it. I think I 

have gone very careful about where I go now, 

because I have been in situations often with 

fans, where I was not in the place to receive 

the love that they wanted to give me. Because I 

have been distracted or just wanting to sort of 

not be on. I just wanted to go about my daily 

life as a normal person, whatever that means 

and so I think it depends if I am in the space 

where I can receive it and I try not to be out in 

the world now that can’t receive it which is a 

weird thing, honestly. 


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AdamsArtExpose’ 

JAMES HAGERTY - HWY 62 OPEN STUDIO - MULTI-TALENTED ARTIST, AUTHOR, MUSICIAN 

Driving up the gravel Valley View Road 

just off Highway 62 on the East Side of 

Morongo we turn left on Aspen Drive 

for about a quarter-mile and come to a 

green sign that reads Hagerty. We turn 

into a drive in front of an architecturally 

styled ranch house with an adjoining 

structure with a cupola in the middle. 

This is overlooking a panoramic view to 

the South encompassing Morongo and 

the mountainous basin it sets in. 

Wednesday at the Mizell Center in Palm 

Springs. 

AdamsArtExpose’ ART 

Jim Hagerty comes to the front door 

to greet us with his little dog with 

unusual multi-colored grey markings. 

Mr. Hagerty has lived here for 20 years 

having previously lived on a ranch in 

Mecca. Inside his house, we find a 

virtual gallery of his artworks. He is 

creatively multi-talented. His home/ 

studio was open to art enthusiasts the 

first October weekend of the Hwy 62 

Open Studio Art Tours. His paintings 

adorn the walls of almost every room 

and his sculptures are interspersed 

throughout. In his living room music 

studio we find an electronic keyboard 

and a grand piano. He says his first 

artistic venture and staple of his creativity 

is music, beginning as a youngster and 

into high school years where he formed a 

dance band. He now plays weekly every 

He has also been a sculptor creating 

assemblages of metal parts and pieces of 

old farm implements and other objects 

which are welded together into abstract 

constructions some of which are painted 

in bright colors and others that are left 

in the natural patina of the steel and iron 

they are made from. His sculptures leave 

open for interpretation by the viewer 


if they would like to ascribe a specific 

description or enjoy the cleverly arranged 

shapes as an abstract assemblage of 

3-dimensional .design. He is not creating 

sculpture now as a result of some visual 

problems which may have been aggravated 

by the welding process of the sculptures he 

has done. 

Questions, comments, suggestions - 

contact - adamsartexpose@gmail.com or 

adamsartexpose@desertdailyguide.com 

Mr. Hagerty states that his inspiration 

for painting came from artists such as 

Milton Avery and Henri Matisse. Many 

of his paintings are figurative with the 

figure.s anatomy constructed of geometric 

shapes. He has completed figure and face 

portraits of people he knows and of his own 

imagination. The primary medium he uses 

is acrylic. The influence of the artist's Avery 

and Matisse are evident in his work of 

which he has developed his personal style 

that is uniquely Hagerty. 

In addition to the visual art and musical 

creativity of James Hagerty, he has also 

demonstrated his creativity as an author. 

Some of the titles he has written include: 

"Nut Grass", "The High Priesthood of 

Being Gay", "Voices From the Tomb", and 

"Tainted Glass". These titles are available 

from Amazon and other booksellers. You 

may see more of Mr. Hagery's visual work 

on Facebook. He performs his musical 

talent on the piano every Wednesday at the 

Mizell Center in Palm Springs. He can be 

contacted at morongoman@gmail.com. We 

are very privileged to have James Hagerty 

with multiple artistic abilities living in this 

area for us to enjoy his work. 

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GAYDGETS & THREADS 

ADRIAN’S PICKS FOR THE MAN THAT 

NEEDS EVERYTHING. 

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and magazines as well as stocked in 

a handful of carefully selected online 

retailers and brick and mortar.. 

#2 Nike Air Force 1 NBA Low 

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IMAGE OF THE WEEK.... Adrian in San Jose Crunchyroll. 

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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I try to go out like incognito if I am not 

able to receive that energy. But if I am and I 

meet, let me think of the last interaction it 

was somewhere recently. I was out for lunch 

with a friend with some sort of business/ he 

is a friend, but we were talking business as 

well and someone came up and she was quite 

lovely, and I would say thank you so much. I 

was able to receive it, I was. So, when I meet 

people at meeting greets, I can look them in 

the eye and I can hear them when they talk to 

me about whatever it is they need to say - and 

I can be present for whatever they are saying. 

But being present sometimes means, if they are 

crying, I am crying with them, and it means 

that I might hear a story about them thinking 

about committing suicide and shooting, and 

then deciding not to because the saw me on 

television and that is really intense and that is a 

lot to kind of take in. 

VG: I have looked up at some of the charities 

and organizations that you have worked 

with. Just give me a few of the highlights, the 

ones that are close to your heart right now, 

obviously the Band-Aid RED campaign. 

LC: Yeah, so excited about this, just as I 

already said that it just feels like we can make 

a difference, and it’s just like wow – that feels 

like such a weird thing. I don’t know if I 

mentioned it, but we are doing #BandTogether, 

that when those go to CVS and buy their RED 

band aids, we are encouraging them to post 

photos of themselves on social media with 

their Band Aids with #BandTogether. And 

what I am doing, I hope they are okay with it, 

is encouraging people to have conversations 

with their followers, with their friends and 

family about what they know about HIV and 

AIDS, and there is still so much stigma and 

misconceptions about HIV and AIDS, and 

I think that needs to part of the process. So 

that all my friends who are living with HIV 

and AIDS don’t have to continually deal 

with stigma around it, like this is not a death 

sentence, like you are not going to transmit the 

virus. All these things, I feel that people should 

know, but they still don’t know and there is 

so much fear around … So, band together, 

#BandTogether. I’m super excited about that. 

VG: My last question is always this, tell me a 

secret, and make it a good one. 

LC: I have so few secrets now, I am just spilling 

all my tongue. Jee! Oh, my goodness, a secret 

I feel if I haven’t talked about it publicly, I 

probably can’t or won’t. Oh My Gosh, a secret. 

Actually, there is, this isn’t a secret but they 

wanted me to wear for the Savage and Fenty 

Fashion Show, they wanted me to have – I don’t 

own pink shoes and so like I brought my own 

shoes, because I wear a size 13, I have big ass 

feet: that’s not a secret. And so, they dyed a 

pair of my custom Kenneth Cole shoes that I 

had them in white, they dyed them pink and 

like put stones on them for the Savage and 

Fenty Show. That’s not a secret but I haven’t 

told anyone yet. You are the first person I am 

telling. 

For more information about Laverne Cox, 

please visit LaverneCox.com 

Vic Gerami is journalist, media contributor and 

the Editor & Publisher of The Blunt Post. and 

a finalist for LA Press Club’s National Arts & 

Entertainment Journalism Award. 

vic@thebluntpost.com 


The strange life of the the Kewpie doll from 

a brand of dolls and figurines that became 

Kewpie Mayo 

The Kewpie doll was conceived as comic 

strip characters by cartoonist Rose 

O'Neill. The illustrated cartoons, gained 

popularity after the publication of O'Neill's 

comic strips in 1909. The characters 

were then produced as bisque dolls in 

Waltershausen, Germany, beginning in 

1912, and became extremely popular in the 

early 20th century. 

But Kewpie is also a brand of mayo, not 

a style. Toichiro Nakashima founded the 

Japanese Nakishamato Corporation in 

1918 The company has began marketing 

mayonnaise with the name Kewpie, which 

originated from the popular doll created by 

illustrator and artist, Rosie O’Neill. 

Kewpie’s popularity in Japan can’t be 

overemphasized. Mayo is used on many 

different food products in Japan and they 

are many serious competitions that involves 

this condiment. 

A 10-inch Kewpie with a bisque head, 

composition body, and glass eyes today is 

worth $6,500 

Celluloid is one of the first synthetic plastics 

ever created. 

Synthetic plastic. Celluloid, the first 

synthetic plastic material, developed in 

the 1860s and 1870s from a homogeneous 

colloidal dispersion of nitrocellulose and 

camphor. 

Original German-made bisque Kewpie, circa 

1912 

"Do good deeds in a funny way. The world 

needs to laugh or at least smile more than 

it does." 

-Rose O’Neill 

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~Emerald City Comic Con (Seattle, WA) 

March 12 – 15, 2020 Registration Soon 

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THE LAST WORD 

America cant seem to get to freedom 

As I sit here thinking about the many 

Veteran's Day Parades and the platitude for 

my service, I remember the many Veterans 

Days that had passed before me. I think 

we service members straight and LGBT, 

deployed or not, trained in combat or not, 

all contributed to the freedoms we enjoy. 

been allowed to speak for their cause often 

develop a sense of moral superiority and 

that all others should have no say. 

When you bully and threaten and 

intimidate others deemed not worthy, then 

Houston, we have a problem. 

The end of the Civil War, President 

Abraham Lincoln remarked, brought to 

America "a new birth of freedom." And 

we began the nation's efforts to come to 

terms with the destruction of slavery and to 

define a new meaning of freedom. 

This year I plan to take a seat and watch 

the parade from the stands. I remember 

in the 60's my dad won a medal of valor. 

He survived a WW2 explosion of enemy 

ordinance, he was always in the parade and 

Today, we are still faced with deciding 

when he came past, he would go into the 

the true meaning of freedom. This has 

crowd and lift up my brothers and sisters 

remained a bitter failure of this society to 

and say "Look at all the people that honor 

learn. If we want a better tomorrow, we 

us, we have an obligation to be better to 

need to start actions with integrity. 

honor this appreciation". Then Vietnam 

happened and the world seemed to go Adam Schiff now holds all the cards for the 

to shit. By the time I joined the military, next phase of the birth of freedom, one that 

the world had done many flips. My dad includes for the first time in our nation, 

was nearly the only person on our block accountability. We can not expect laws to 

to fly a flag all year. Even in the snow. repair our broken and battered institutions 

So I get respect for the country and I see if we don't accept accountability. All the 

when others are being disrespectful, and people that became before us that fought 

I will say something. Today we live in a our mighty battles or insignificant political 

world that is seen as aggressive. While wars are now counting on us alone to right 

protest is patriotic, being a bully is not. this ship. We are counting on this historic 

When people think their cause trumps congress. So it will be Adam Schiff, a 

others' rights and causes the suppression Democrat Senator from the great state of 

of other peoples opinions, no matter how California that now decides the fate of our 

important the cause is to you, if the actions nation. One that is the product of social 

you take and the careless way you do it equality so long ignored, that the value of 

causes damage to others your, cause looks all men are measured simply because many 

bad. If you are talking about lifting some made up yard sticks of aggression, color 

people up while stomping on others, then or sexual characteristics. But not for their 

you are expressing what it would be like honor or service. Until we address that, I 

if 42 your cause IF YOU was LIKE elected. US, PLEASE Those LIKE that US have ON FACEBOOK: expect DESERTDAILYGUIDE 

the great debate to continue.

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