July 2020
Happy 4th! COVID edition LOCAL Bars | Lodging | Restaurants | Events | Classifieds | Business Listings | Massage | Maps Plus BUSINESS NEWS. Palm Springs oldest Gay and gay-friendly BUSINESS listings and Cultural Exhibit Part 3 NEVER AGAIN: WHAT YOU DO MATTERS The Campaign for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum What was it like to live as a young Jew in Berlin during the Nazi deportations? This exhibition details the life of Manfred Lewin, a young Jew who was active in one of Berlin’s Zionist youth groups until his deportation to and murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Manfred recorded these turbulent times in a small, hand-made book that he gave to his Jewish friend and gay companion, Gad Beck.
Happy 4th! COVID edition LOCAL Bars | Lodging | Restaurants | Events | Classifieds | Business Listings | Massage | Maps Plus BUSINESS NEWS. Palm Springs oldest Gay and gay-friendly BUSINESS listings and Cultural Exhibit Part 3 NEVER AGAIN: WHAT YOU DO MATTERS
The Campaign for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum What was it like to live as a young Jew in Berlin during the Nazi deportations? This exhibition details the life of Manfred Lewin, a young Jew who was active in one of Berlin’s Zionist youth groups until his deportation to and murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Manfred recorded these turbulent times in a small, hand-made book that he gave to his Jewish friend and gay companion, Gad Beck.
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PALM SPRINGS<br />
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House Extends PPP Application Deadline;<br />
On Tuesday evening, the Senate approved a<br />
bill by unanimous consent that would keep<br />
the program accepting applications until<br />
August 8th. Passing the bill by unanimous<br />
consent allowed the Senate to set aside<br />
procedural rules to speed up proceedings.<br />
On Wednesday evening, the House passed<br />
its extension, also unanimously. The<br />
measure will now go to President Trump<br />
for his signature.<br />
Under the program, the SBA had approved<br />
almost 4.9 million loans, totaling $520.6<br />
billion. Despite the program’s popularity,<br />
it had approximately $130 billion in<br />
unallocated funds when it shut down.<br />
With so much left in the program, some<br />
advisors question the point of providing an<br />
extension.<br />
The measure will now go to President<br />
Trump for his signature.<br />
BUSINESS NEWS<br />
More than 200,000 LGBT adults in<br />
California at high risk for COVID-19 illness.<br />
According to new research by Kathryn<br />
O’Neill, a policy analyst with the Williams<br />
Institute at the UCLA School of Law.<br />
Using data from the California Health<br />
Interview Survey, researchers examined the<br />
health and economic characteristics that<br />
may increase vulnerability to COVID-19<br />
for the nearly 1.7 million LGBT adults in<br />
California.<br />
Key Findings<br />
Demographics<br />
-California is home to nearly 1.7 million<br />
LGBT adults, including 1,646,000 lesbian,<br />
gay, and bisexual people of any gender<br />
identity and 109,000 transgender people of<br />
any sexual orientation.<br />
-The majority (92%) of LGBT adults in<br />
California live in urban areas.<br />
Health<br />
-361,000 LGBT adults in California have<br />
fair or poor health.<br />
-Many LGBT adults in the state have<br />
underlying medical conditions that elevate<br />
their risk of serious illness related to<br />
COVID-19:<br />
-216,000 have asthma<br />
-114,000 have diabetes<br />
81,000 have heart disease<br />
-At least 114,000 have HIV<br />
-134,000 LGBT adults in California do not<br />
have health insurance.<br />
-150,000 LGBT adults in California have<br />
delayed or foregone needed medical care<br />
because of cost, or lack of insurance.<br />
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RENT CONTROL<br />
Form a Tenants' Union!<br />
What is a Tenants' Union?<br />
Tenants' unions are building, neighborhood<br />
or city-based organizations made up of and<br />
led by renters themselves to fight for our<br />
collective interests and rights.<br />
that is powerful enough to win rent control<br />
for all and tenant and community control<br />
of our housing and land.<br />
Why form a Tenants Union? - Because you<br />
can win!<br />
(Organizing committee with the Concord<br />
Tenants Union)<br />
Building-based tenants unions are generally<br />
made up of tenants who live in the<br />
same building and/or have the same landlord.<br />
Neighborhood and city-based tenant<br />
unions are networks of tenants who often<br />
have similar issues and stand in solidarity<br />
with each other, but may live in different<br />
buildings or have different landlords.<br />
Everyone is talking about passing rent<br />
control and eviction protections, but where<br />
do you start? How do we build enough<br />
power to stay in our homes, communities<br />
and thrive?! We do this by organizing. We<br />
must organize because overcoming fear and<br />
isolation is impossible to do on our own.<br />
We organize because we seek to transform<br />
people's fear and isolation into dignity and<br />
solidarity both in your home, community<br />
and on a statewide level. Organizing isn’t<br />
just sending out an email or creating a social<br />
media page, although those will likely<br />
be steps that you take. The organization of<br />
tenant unions are the building blocks to<br />
our translocal, statewide, and international<br />
Tenants Together/Homes For All tenant<br />
unions share a common vision and principles<br />
(see bottom), and unite with other<br />
tenant unions across our cities, states and<br />
country to build a movement of millions<br />
movement.<br />
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CULTURAL EXHIBIT<br />
The DDG has obtained exclusive rights to reprint Do You Remember, When<br />
from Permissions Team Office of General Counsel<br />
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<br />
www.ushmm.org<br />
NEVER AGAIN: WHAT YOU DO MATTERS<br />
The Campaign for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<br />
What was it like to live as a young Jew in Berlin during the Nazi deportations? This<br />
exhibition details the life of Manfred Lewin, a young Jew who was active in one of<br />
Berlin’s Zionist youth groups until his deportation to and murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau.<br />
Manfred recorded these turbulent times in a small, hand-made book that he gave to his<br />
Jewish friend and gay companion, Gad Beck. Mr. Beck, a Holocaust survivor who again<br />
lives in Berlin, donated the booklet to the Museum in December 1999. The exhibition<br />
centers around the 17-page artifact, which illustrates the daily life of the two friends, their<br />
youth group, and the culture in which they lived.<br />
To understand why Manfred Lewin, a young Jew in Nazi Berlin, wrote this book in 1941<br />
for his friend Gad Beck—to understand why Gad, 19 and Jewish, risked his life attempting<br />
to save Manfred from deportation—read these words from the play that brought them<br />
together. German writer Friedrich von Schiller’s Don Carlos: No Matter what you plan on<br />
doing, will you promise to undertake no act without your friend? Will you make me this<br />
promise? Friendship, valor, and the fight for freedom were the ideals of this 18th-century<br />
German drama. In 1941, Gad and Manfred played the starring roles in their Jewish youth<br />
group’s reading of the play.<br />
Special thanks to Gad Beck and Jizchak Schwersenz.<br />
Thanks to Carol Brown Janeway for her translation of the German text, and to the Zemer<br />
Chai Choir for the performance of the song “Ba'a menucha layageya.”<br />
Thanks also to:<br />
Beate Kosmala, Zentrum für Antisemitismus-Forschung Berlin<br />
Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag<br />
Friedrich Veitl, Metropol Verlag, Wichern Verlag<br />
Christine Zahn, Jüdisches Museum Berlin<br />
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Manfred Lewin was born on September 8,<br />
1922, in Berlin where he lived with his parents<br />
and four siblings in the predominantly Jewish<br />
section of the city. The family lived in poverty<br />
in three little rooms not far from the Beck<br />
house at Dragoner Strasse 43. Manfred’s<br />
father was a barber and his mother Jenny, a<br />
former secretary, took care of the family. She<br />
often had to find other sources of food to<br />
supplement the family’s insufficient Jewish<br />
food ration cards.<br />
Gad Beck was born on June 30, 1923, together<br />
with his twin sister Miriam. Gad’s mother<br />
Hedwig came from a Protestant family, but<br />
converted to Judaism before the marriage<br />
with Heinrich Beck in 1920. The children<br />
were raised according to Jewish traditions,<br />
supported by the Christian relatives. In<br />
1934 Gad changed to the Jewish school<br />
in the Grosse Hamburger Strasse. In 1939<br />
his parents were forced to move into the<br />
predominantly Jewish section of Berlin. They<br />
could no longer afford the school fees; Gad<br />
started to work as an apprentice.<br />
Book Translation: Do you remember, when<br />
Cover to the small, hand-made book that Manfred<br />
Lewin gave to his Jewish friend and gay companion,<br />
Gad Beck<br />
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CULTURAL EXHIBIT<br />
PART<br />
THREE<br />
Reprint by permission by Office of General<br />
Counsel<br />
United States Holocaust<br />
Memorial Museum<br />
all right reserved.<br />
www.ushmm.org<br />
United States<br />
Holocaust Memorial Museum<br />
Interview with Gad Beck<br />
February 16, 1996<br />
RG-50.030*0361<br />
PREFACE<br />
The following oral history testimony is the<br />
result of a videotaped interview with Gad<br />
Beck. The reader should bear in mind that<br />
this is a verbatim transcript of spoken,<br />
rather than written prose.<br />
GAD BECK<br />
February 16, 1996<br />
Q: Maybe we can simply start by you saying<br />
who you are and where you were born.<br />
A: Klaus, I’ll do that. My name is Gad<br />
(Gerhard) Beck. I was born as Gerhard<br />
Beck. I was born in Berlin, 1923 _ on June<br />
30, in the middle of the year in to so-called<br />
“Barn Quarters,” the ghettos. We'll come<br />
back to that later.<br />
Q: And were your parents also born in<br />
Berlin?<br />
A: No, much, much nicer! My father is<br />
Viennese and even one of the Jewish<br />
Viennese that is actually Galician. Their<br />
love grew bigger and stronger and when the<br />
war ended, they decided to get married and<br />
there it began.<br />
Q: And was it a Jewish wedding or a<br />
Christian wedding?<br />
A: Ah, that's a very nice question [laughs].<br />
Of course, you can have a wedding without<br />
either one. No, according to Austrian law,<br />
he was Austrian. According to Austrian law,<br />
both people must have the same belief and<br />
she immediately said she would convert.<br />
Her Christian family was very skeptical,<br />
except for her mom, the old mother, she<br />
said, “Child, it doesn't matter. If you take on<br />
a belief and profess yourself to it, then you<br />
have to live according to it. Then you<br />
are Jewish, girl!” And so they were married,<br />
and in a very religious synagogue in Berlin,<br />
in the Adass (ph) Israel, because the other<br />
Rabbi, who would have married them, had<br />
gone on vacation. So the colleague, the<br />
very religious one, arranged the marriage<br />
certificate, how it was done then in the<br />
Jewish religion, and of course they couldn't<br />
read it; the writing was very small and it<br />
was also partly in Hebrew, I believe, and<br />
they both signed it, agreeing that their<br />
children, should there be any, would be<br />
raised religiously, conservatively, until their<br />
thirteenth birthday. With kosher food and<br />
all that, and all that. They signed that. 1920.<br />
Next Part...<br />
Manfred Lewin<br />
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AdamsArtExpose’ ART<br />
THE ART OF FILLING GAY TIME DURING THE EPIDEMIC<br />
The conflicting reports coming from<br />
the White House and medical experts<br />
continue to leave us in limbo regarding<br />
reliable information on this Pandemic.<br />
Sheltering in place can get to be<br />
extremely boring but necessary for not<br />
those of us not employed in one of the<br />
essential services. Being exposed to the<br />
virus and exposing others if you may<br />
have it and not realize that you do is<br />
not a risk worth taking.<br />
Finding interesting and productive<br />
activities to occupy shelter in place time<br />
can be tedious. For those interested<br />
in the arts, both local and national<br />
galleries are going online to give<br />
virtual tours of current exhibitions and<br />
background information on the artists.<br />
Regarding specific gay interest, areas<br />
ASK ANY BUDDY is a virtual photo<br />
album that as put together fragments<br />
from over 125 movies creating a wide<br />
variety of rare footage from the 60s,<br />
70s, and 80s. It is a compilation of<br />
film shots of dozens of legendary, but<br />
real cruising areas, and general social<br />
spaces, that have since disappeared. It<br />
is humorous and sexy documentation<br />
of gay life following the Stonewall Riots<br />
at least how it is depicted in the moves.<br />
https://www.youtube.com/<br />
watch?v=IWGHcIlulzO&t=12s<br />
An informative and insightful video<br />
about the PEIR KIDS, a group of gay/<br />
black/&trans homeless youth that hang<br />
out at Christopher Street Pier in New<br />
York City. Rated as the best and most<br />
informative about the issues that gay<br />
black and trans youth face.<br />
https://www.youtube.<br />
com/watach?v=5YL1-<br />
Fmy3SA&feature=youtu.be<br />
Considering more contemporary<br />
and international films about gay<br />
life, "Queer Japan" looks at the<br />
LGBTQ community in that country<br />
in Tokyo and other cities in Japan. It<br />
demonstrates that gay liberation has<br />
become more global than what might<br />
be current thinking. This film shows<br />
how everyday people are daring to live<br />
their lives and defy the norms of gender<br />
and sexual identity in unconventional<br />
ways. One of the artists featured is<br />
the most influential manga artist,<br />
Gengoroh Tagame, who has created<br />
numerous explicitly erotic drawings<br />
and paintings of gay life in Japan. This<br />
engrossing documentary is directed by,<br />
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AdamsArtExpose’
Graham Kolbeins, Produced by HiromiIida<br />
and Co-written by Anne Ishii. has English<br />
subtitles.<br />
This film can be viewed free through IMBd<br />
TV.<br />
These are a few alternative ways to pass<br />
time getting through the pandemic. Enjoy,<br />
stay well and share other ideas you have for<br />
sheltering in place.<br />
Questions, comments, suggestions,<br />
contact - adamsartexpose@gmail.com or<br />
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BUSINESS NEWS<br />
Trump administration moves to repeal<br />
transgender protections in homeless<br />
shelters<br />
The Department of Housing and Urban<br />
Development plans to move forward with<br />
a measure that would permit federally<br />
funded homeless shelters to house<br />
transgender clients according to their sex<br />
assigned at birth.<br />
The HUD proposal would reverse a 2016<br />
measure implemented under the Obama<br />
administration that built on provisions<br />
enacted four years earlier.<br />
A report in April from the Williams<br />
Institute, a pro-LGBTQ think tank at<br />
UCLA, listed 1 in 5 homeless young people<br />
identify as LGBTQ. The study also revealed<br />
that about a third of trans and nonbinary<br />
people have lacked stable housing at some<br />
point.<br />
Another survey of trans people who have<br />
experienced homelessness, published<br />
in 2015 by the National Center for<br />
Transgender Equality, found that 70<br />
percent had experienced some form of<br />
discrimination, harassment or violence<br />
when trying to find safe shelter. Twenty-six<br />
percent said they had avoided seeking out<br />
services for fear of discrimination.<br />
Running to be first openly gay Black men<br />
in Congress<br />
Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones, both<br />
Democrats, are leading in their primary<br />
races in New York’s 15th and 17th<br />
Congressional districts, respectively.<br />
Nn MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mondaire<br />
Jones and Ritchie Torres, candidates for<br />
the Democratic nomination in New York’s<br />
17th and 15th Congressional districts,<br />
respectively, spoke about their historic runs<br />
for office.<br />
The candidates said the COVID-19<br />
pandemic has taken a toll on their counties,<br />
which were heavily affected by the first<br />
coronavirus outbreak in the spring.<br />
In a 6-3 decision June 15, the nation’s<br />
highest court ruled that sexual orientation<br />
and gender identity are included within<br />
the parameters of Title VII of the Civil<br />
Rights Act of 1964. The federal statute<br />
prohibits employment discrimination<br />
based on race, color, religion, sex, and<br />
national origin.<br />
Writing for the majority, Justice Neil<br />
Gorsuch noted; “Today, we must<br />
decide whether an employer can fire<br />
someone simply for being homosexual<br />
or transgender. The answer is clear. An<br />
employer who fires an individual for being<br />
homosexual or transgender fires that<br />
person for traits or actions it would not<br />
have questioned in members of a different<br />
sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable<br />
role in the decision, exactly what Title VII<br />
forbids.”<br />
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INNdulge 760 327 1408<br />
601 S Grenfall Rd, Palm Springs<br />
Considered one of the best gay hotels<br />
and gay resorts in Palm Springs Located<br />
in the heart of warm sands area and<br />
walking distance to Sunny Dunes gay<br />
bars and shopping and down town.<br />
Amenities include free wifi, daily<br />
continental breakfast, evening social<br />
hour, complimentary local gym access,<br />
air conditioning, on-site guest laundry,<br />
outdoor misters and assistance with<br />
restaurant and activity bookings<br />
inndulge.com<br />
ATTRACTIONS/ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Cabot’s Pueblo Museum 760-329-7610<br />
McCallum Adobe 760-323-8297<br />
Indian Canyons 760-323-6018<br />
Palm Springs Aerial Tram 760-325-1449<br />
Palm Springs Air Museum 760-778-6262<br />
Palm Springs Art Museum 760-325-7186<br />
Sunnylands 760-328-2829<br />
Patton Memorial Museum 760-227-3483<br />
Joshua Tree National park 760-367-5500<br />
ADULT FETISH AND TOYS<br />
*Gear Leather & Fetish 760 322-3363<br />
ATTORNEYS<br />
*Joseph Rhea legal criminal law human<br />
rights 760 322-3001<br />
BUSINESS DIRECTORY<br />
CONCRETE<br />
GENERAL SERVICES<br />
Patriot Services<br />
LIC General Contactor<br />
Handyman | Flooring | SHOWERS<br />
PLUMBING | ELECTICAL<br />
760-327-9619<br />
Hauling<br />
Red’s Hauling. We remove trash and unwanted<br />
items. Garage clean outs. Call Red<br />
at<br />
760-288-6956<br />
SHOPPING<br />
LEATHER GEAR TOYS<br />
*Gear Leather and Fetish 760-322-3363<br />
gearleather.com 650 E. Sunny Dunes<br />
Leather Repair<br />
Off Ramp Leathers 760-778-2798<br />
www.offrampleathers.com New and used<br />
leather and fetish/BSDM gear. Alterations<br />
and repairs from saddle-patching or get<br />
measured for a new custom leather outfit<br />
handmade by Paul. Great selection of<br />
consignment items. 650 E. Sunny Dunes<br />
Rd., Unit 3, Palm Springs, CA 92264<br />
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PAINTERS<br />
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TRAVEL<br />
Idyllwild<br />
LIVING FREE ANIMAL SANCTUARY<br />
Living Free rescues dogs & cats from public<br />
shelters. We're a no-kill nonprofit - with<br />
spay/neuter, pet adoptions, animal welfare.<br />
Tax-deductable Visitors Welcome! OPEN<br />
DAILY 11:00am to 4:00pm CLOSED<br />
WEDNESDAYS. We are NOT licensed to<br />
take animals from the public and rescue<br />
from local shelters only.<br />
54250 KEEN CAMP ROAD MOUNTAIN<br />
CENTER, CA 92561<br />
Mental Health Services.<br />
Cat City Psychotherapy Corp. Mental<br />
Health Services. Individual & Group<br />
therapy. LGBT Affirming. Specializing in<br />
Depression, Anxiety & Trauma. Licensed<br />
Psychologist Mark Charles.<br />
catcitypsc@gmail.com.<br />
www.catcitypsc.com . 760-878-7102.<br />
Idyllwild Guest House<br />
Escape desert temperatures for cool<br />
breezes. Visit Idyllwild Guest House<br />
for spectacular sunsets and beautiful<br />
mornings. Relaxing private location<br />
with hot tub and clothing optional sundecks.<br />
Idyllwildgayguesthouse.com<br />
Mark Lonsbury 760-406-9699<br />
MATRIMONY SPIRITUALITY<br />
Bloom In the Desert Ministries<br />
760 327-3802<br />
St. Giles 442-282-8333<br />
Idyllwild Nature Center The center provides<br />
an array of environmental education<br />
programs, guided tours, and field study.<br />
trips. 951-659-3850<br />
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY<br />
MOVING HERE?<br />
Starland Community Desert retreat<br />
Gas 800-427-2200<br />
STARLANDCOMMUNITY.ORG<br />
Water 760-323-4971<br />
Electric 800-990-7788<br />
Help Verified <strong>2020</strong><br />
Trash 800-973-3873<br />
Recycling 760-327-1351<br />
AMVETS Express free bus service to Loma<br />
Free Trolley Buzz 760 260-8104<br />
Linda VA(909) 735-5065<br />
GROUPS/ORG/HELP<br />
CDC<br />
LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER<br />
If you or someone you know may be<br />
760-416-7790 www.thecenterps.org contemplating suicide, call the National<br />
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 800- Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-<br />
227-2345<br />
8255 or text HOME to 741741 to reach the<br />
AMVETS: 760-324-5670<br />
Crisis Text Line. In emergencies, call 911,<br />
BLOOM IN THE DESERT MINISTRIES: or seek care from a local hospital or mental<br />
760-327-3802<br />
health provider.<br />
Coachella Valley Sexual Assault Services Riverside County Department of Public<br />
Rape Crisis Center (760) 568-9071<br />
Social Services: Kinship Warmline<br />
Democrats of the Desert<br />
Phone: (800) 303-0001 For grand parents<br />
desertdemocrats.org<br />
raising grand children<br />
DESERT LEGAL AID: 760-832-9770 ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project 212-549-<br />
DESERT STONEWALL DEMOCRATS: 2500<br />
www.desert-stonewall.org<br />
Adult Protective Services<br />
DESERT WINDS 760 776-2700<br />
Hotline 800 491-7123<br />
FRONTRUNNERS psfr.org<br />
The (FCC) reserved the 211 dialing code for<br />
GAY ARTISTS - 760 835-0727<br />
community information and services.<br />
Gay Book Club of PS—write to bookclubofps@yahoo.com<br />
800 243-7692<br />
Gay Men’s Health Crisis Hotline<br />
Transgender community transcc.org<br />
American Association of Poison Control<br />
PALM SPRINGS GAY MEN’S CHORUS Centers (800) 222-1222<br />
760-219-2077<br />
Rape, Sexual Assault, Abuse, and Incest<br />
PALM SPRINGS LEATHER ORDER OF National Network (RAINN)<br />
THE DESERT 760 272-5553<br />
(800) 656-HOPE<br />
PALM SPRINGS PRIDE pspride.org<br />
Prime Timers of the Desert 760-424-8014.<br />
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days before you start any digging project.<br />
Family DeAnza Springs Resort Jacumba,<br />
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GAYDGETS & THREADS<br />
ADRIAN’S PICKS FOR THE MAN THAT<br />
NEEDS EVERYTHING.<br />
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#1 Batman Pride <strong>2020</strong><br />
Rainbow Pop!<br />
#2 Hello Kitty Pride <strong>2020</strong><br />
Rainbow Pop!<br />
#3 SpongeBob SquarePants<br />
Pride <strong>2020</strong> Rainbow Pop!<br />
$11.99 (Each)<br />
Entertainmentearth.com<br />
Funko Supports Pride!<br />
Our FUNKO PRIDE POP! collection<br />
is a celebration of inclusivity and<br />
acceptance. Funko supports the<br />
LGBTQ+ community and rejects<br />
intolerance and discrimination. At<br />
Funko, FUN is for EVERYONE! A<br />
donation from Funko has also been<br />
made to the It Gets Better Project, an<br />
organization that uplifts, empowers,<br />
and connects LGBTQ+ youth<br />
around the globe, in support of this<br />
program. The It Gets Better Project<br />
inspires people to share their stories<br />
and remind the next generation of<br />
LGBTQ+ youth that hope is out there,<br />
and it will get better.<br />
IMAGE OF THE WEEK.... Adrian at the Crunchyroll Expo San Jose<br />
Show your support and pride<br />
with these special edition rainbow<br />
collectibles: Pop! Batman, Pop! Hello<br />
Kitty, Pop! SpongeBob.<br />
We would like to thank our licensing<br />
partners, Nickelodeon-Viacom,<br />
Sanrio, and Warner Bros. Consumer<br />
Products on behalf of DC for their<br />
partnership and support in the<br />
development of the first Funko Pride<br />
collection.<br />
Adrian travels the globe looking for the coolest trends in fashion and toys.<br />
If you would like to have your product featured in this column send a note<br />
to: adrian@desertdailyguide.com<br />
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