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Palm Springs Pride organizers select Palm Springs resident and pop artist Trevor Wayne, the poster artist for the 2023 Greater Palm Springs Pride Festival and Parade. Happy Father's Day to all the daddies in your life, and happy middle of Pride month. The week more Palm Springs hotspots and events. Community Heroes #2: George Zander
Palm Springs Pride organizers select Palm Springs resident and pop artist Trevor Wayne, the poster artist for the 2023 Greater Palm Springs Pride Festival and Parade. Happy Father's Day to all the daddies in your life, and happy middle of Pride month. The week more Palm Springs hotspots and events. Community
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Father’s Day is Sunday,<br />
<strong>June</strong> 18, 2023!<br />
Father’s Day is not just your<br />
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Today we choose how to<br />
celebrate and honor the<br />
people who have embraced<br />
the essential role of fathers Day.<br />
Today, we thank those fathers<br />
and father figures (by relation or<br />
chosen family) for the sacrifices<br />
they make, for embracing the<br />
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PRIDE ARTISTS AND OTHERS WHO<br />
HAVE BROUGHT IT FORWARD<br />
organizations. President Bill Clinton<br />
officially designated <strong>June</strong> as Pride<br />
Month in 2000. Palm Springs celebrates<br />
PRIDE locally during the first week of<br />
November.<br />
PRIDE came out of gay rights<br />
movements going back to the early<br />
1900s. Gay and Lesbian people were<br />
discriminated against throughout history.<br />
Movements for gay rights came to a<br />
head with the Stonewall Riots in <strong>June</strong><br />
1969 in New York City.<br />
Pride Month is a nationally recognized<br />
celebration of the contributions of<br />
the LGBTQ community and related<br />
Artists from all mediums have always<br />
been at the forefront of gay rights. The<br />
artist Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow<br />
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2023 Greater<br />
Palm Springs<br />
Pride Poster<br />
and Artist<br />
Announced<br />
<strong>June</strong> 12, 2023, Palm Springs, CA - - Palm Springs Pride<br />
organizers announced today that Palm Springs resident and<br />
pop artist Trevor Wayne is the poster artist for the 2023 Greater<br />
Palm Springs Pride Festival and Parade. The commemorative<br />
Pride celebration poster features Wayne’s iconic artwork.<br />
“I am thrilled and honored to be chosen to do the art for Palm<br />
Springs Pride this year! I was asked to do this before the theme<br />
was selected - to which I never would say no, but I could not<br />
have been happier once I found out the theme! On the heels<br />
of last year’s “Say Gay” theme, I’m happy Pride is taking on<br />
this issue. I have so many friends who are professional drag<br />
queens, and I want to show my support.<br />
Palm Springs is one of the few LGBTQ safe havens these days;<br />
I decided I wanted something that said “This way” and “We<br />
welcome you,” so I thought about using a roadside as if the<br />
viewer is on a journey and looking for a place that would<br />
accept them for who they are. Next, I wanted to create more<br />
of an icon for drag. Drag is so diverse. I felt portraying images<br />
of actual queens would only work by excluding so many types.<br />
I think of lipstick and high heels as drag symbols. So I made the<br />
image of the hand holding lipstick coming out of a high heel.<br />
Initially, I thought of the hand being a protest fist. While we<br />
must stand up and fight for our rights, I decided on something<br />
more positive. I thought of Mother Teresa. She famously would<br />
not attend anti-war demonstrations but would participate in<br />
pro-peace rallies. I chose Lady Liberty for the hand, focusing<br />
on hope and liberty for all.<br />
Palm Springs Pride president and CEO Ron deHarte said,<br />
“Trevor’s commemorative poster ‘Drag Now. Drag Forever.’<br />
highlights the theme and calls on the community to unite and<br />
support the drag community and fight anti-LGBTQ+ bills that<br />
threaten the freedom and equality of all.”<br />
Trevor uses iconic imagery portrayed with just a little twisted<br />
sense of humor to warp what otherwise could be dark images<br />
into fun, playful art intended to make people smile. As a child,<br />
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the art Trevor saw on merchandise, such as backpacks, mugs, and stationery,<br />
heavily influenced him, and he does not discount the role it plays on everyday<br />
items to bring joy.<br />
The art on merchandise and his love of drawing Saturday morning cartoons led<br />
him to a career in art. Trevor sells merchandise of his art to stores across the county.<br />
Most notably, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art store, which houses the most<br />
extensive collection aside from Trevor’s store, the Trevor Wayne store located at 901<br />
N Palm Canyon Drive, in Palm Springs, California, where he resides.<br />
Palm Springs Pride Week, presented by the City of Palm Springs, is the largest<br />
annual event in Palm Springs. It’s also the largest multi-day gathering of LGBTQ+<br />
people in the Coachella Valley.<br />
A traditional slate of Pride events to celebrate the power and resiliency of<br />
the LGBTQ+ community is scheduled for the 37th annual LGBTQ+ celebration<br />
on November 3 – 5. The Pride Parade and Festival will return to downtown<br />
Palm Springs, featuring multiple stages of live entertainment and an exhibitor<br />
marketplace.<br />
The Palm Springs Pride commemorative poster and merchandise will be available<br />
soon at the Trevor Wayne Store and Destination PSP. Pride Week activities can be<br />
found online at pspride.org.<br />
ABOUT GREATER PALM SPRINGS PRIDE<br />
Greater Palm Springs Pride (www.pspride.org) is a nonprofit community<br />
enhancement organization established to promote public education and<br />
awareness of individual rights and civil liberties of the LGBTQ+ community. Palm<br />
Springs Pride has tirelessly advocated for equality and diversity since the first<br />
Coachella Valley Pride event in 1986.<br />
The 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization brings together the skills, talents, and vision<br />
of our diverse community through its programs, including the Harvey Milk Diversity<br />
Breakfast, Pride Honors Awards, the Cesar Chavez Breakfast, and the Pride Parade,<br />
Pride Festival, BIG Gay BBQ and the downtown Arenas District Block Party.<br />
For more information about Greater Palm Springs Pride, visit www.pspride.org.<br />
Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/palmsprings.pride.<br />
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Paris is Burning<br />
In Debut Single, “Movie Star”<br />
By Skip Sheffield<br />
“Fame was once achieved by<br />
only a select few on the silver<br />
screen,” Paris King reflects<br />
from her London home. “Then<br />
came the age of sex tapes on<br />
camcorders when hot babes<br />
could become instant celebs.<br />
Now with everyone filming<br />
24/7 and releasing content on<br />
social platforms, we can all be<br />
famous! It’s simply about<br />
finding your own way to<br />
shine.”<br />
The celebrated UK club kid<br />
and drag queen sings about it<br />
in “Movie Star,” her new song<br />
that encourages listeners to<br />
live life authentically and<br />
unapologetically - the way<br />
Paris King does! With its<br />
wicked beat, synth vocals, and<br />
high energy pop sound, the<br />
feel-good track is a reminder<br />
that we are all the stars of<br />
own life movie.<br />
photo by Dawn Marie Jones of @stoyanovjones<br />
Paris King’s “Movie Star” is being<br />
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Los Angeles<br />
PARENT, COMMUNITY LEADER, AND BUSINESS OWNER SAM KBUSHYAN<br />
ENTERS RACE TO REPRESENT LOS ANGELES COUNCIL DISTRICT 2<br />
Local Non-Profit Board Member and State Commissioner launches campaign with support from over 200 individual campaign<br />
contributors.<br />
North Hollywood, CA – Today, business owner and California State Commissioner Sam Kbushyan announced his campaign for Los<br />
Angeles City Council to replace Council President Paul Krekorian, who cannot seek another term due to term limits. Sam begins the<br />
campaign having raised $150,000.00 from 230 small business owners and neighborhood leaders.<br />
Sam started his career organizing In Home Supportive Services employees who are represented by SEIU Local 2015. Sam now owns<br />
and operates SKG which helps small businesses and nonprofits navigate government bureaucracy to deliver services to those in need.<br />
He currently serves on the boards of LA Community Alliance and the Immigrants Charitable Foundation. Sam and his wife Suzanna<br />
are raising their three children together in North Hollywood.<br />
Kbushyan, who recently served on Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s advisory transition team released the following statement:<br />
As a small business owner, a husband and father of three schoolchildren, and a lifelong community organizer, I am running for City<br />
Council to fight for the residents, business owners, and all stakeholders of LA’s District 2. For years, career politicians who are part of<br />
the establishment machine made promises at every election only to ignore the community. So, our challenges have gotten worse.<br />
It’s said that if nothing changes, nothing changes. District 2 needs a grassroots person representing the people and values of our<br />
district’s diverse neighborhoods. Politics are usual, and establishment politicians who want to represent the district in the interim in<br />
their long-term political ambitions have failed us. Unlike them, I’m not here to cater to the elite donors and special interests. I fight<br />
for our neighborhoods, homeowners, renters, and business owners. My focus is to restore trust in our government and hold City Hall<br />
accountable.”<br />
Council District 2 includes the Los Angeles neighborhoods of North Hollywood, Studio City, Sun Valley, Toluca Lake, Valley Glen, Valley<br />
Village, and Van Nuys.<br />
Council District 2 includes the Los Angeles neighborhoods of North Hollywood, Studio City, Sun Valley, Toluca Lake, Valley Glen, Valley<br />
Village, and Van Nuys.<br />
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One SIDE!<br />
A federal indictment against<br />
former President Donald Trump,<br />
unsealed on Friday, Trump faces<br />
37 counts related to sensitive<br />
documents recovered at his Mara-Lago<br />
residence in Florida after<br />
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Suicide!<br />
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Ask Yourself,<br />
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“President Trump violated no laws and is being held to a<br />
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Vice Presidents,” the Trump campaign wrote.<br />
PROVE THE LIE<br />
No president or former president has never been charged<br />
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CHANGE THE FACTS OF THE LIE<br />
No president can be charged ever in office, but The<br />
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Deep thinking?<br />
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On at least two occasions after leaving office,<br />
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Trump showed a writer, a publisher and two staff<br />
members a “plan of attack” that he said had been<br />
prepared for him by the U.S. military, the charges<br />
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Crime Slays in Peckham Mix<br />
A New Gay Comedy Series<br />
By Jim Connors<br />
In Peckham Mix, Josh (played<br />
by George Turner), struggles<br />
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after being dumped by his<br />
boyfriend. He moves into a flat<br />
on Weston Street in Peckham,<br />
with colorful new roommates,<br />
Rex (Kane Surry) and Connor<br />
(Janak Nirmal), who<br />
mysteriously leave the house<br />
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into his roommates’<br />
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lead him to potentially deadly<br />
consequences.<br />
“Like Josh, I have navigated<br />
through breakups and have<br />
had my share of horrible flat mates,” George<br />
Turner laughs. “I have also experienced<br />
having the rug pulled out from underneath<br />
me, hitting rock bottom and being forced to<br />
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Looking back, I have found that it is through<br />
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Josh (George Turner), Rex (Kane Surry) and Connor (Janak Nirmal) star in the gay comedy series, Peckham Mix<br />
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HAPPY JUNETEENTH<br />
The Smithsonian National Museum of African<br />
American History & Culture invites us to join<br />
the museum’s <strong>June</strong>teenth celebration – during<br />
the entire month of <strong>June</strong> – and embrace the<br />
rich history of Freedom Day each week.<br />
Hosted at nmaahc.si.edu/juneteenth<br />
“The people of Texas are informed that in<br />
accordance with a Proclamation from the<br />
Executive of the United States, all slaves are<br />
free. This involves an absolute equality of rights<br />
and rights of property between former masters<br />
and slaves, and the connection heretofore<br />
existing between them becomes that between<br />
employer and hired laborer.”<br />
Gordon Granger<br />
Union General, <strong>June</strong> 19, 1865<br />
this monumental event remains largely unknown<br />
to most Americans.<br />
On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January<br />
1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took<br />
place. On that night, enslaved and free African<br />
Americans gathered in churches and private<br />
homes all across the country awaiting news that<br />
the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect.<br />
At the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered<br />
as all enslaved people in Confederate States were<br />
declared legally free. Union soldiers, many of<br />
whom were black, marched onto plantations and<br />
across cities in the south reading small copies<br />
of the Emancipation Proclamation spreading<br />
the news of freedom in Confederate States.<br />
Only through the Thirteenth Amendment did<br />
emancipation end slavery throughout the United<br />
States.<br />
TODAY<br />
Emancipation Day celebration, <strong>June</strong> 19, 1900 held in “East Woods” on<br />
East 24th Street in Austin. Credit: Austin History Center.<br />
However the Emancipation Proclamation was<br />
made effective in 1863. It took the 2,000 Union<br />
troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. April 9,<br />
1865.<br />
<strong>June</strong>teenth marks our country’s second<br />
independence day. Although it has long<br />
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California Legislature. The interim report<br />
surveys the ongoing and compounding harms<br />
experienced by African Americans as a result<br />
of slavery and its lingering effects on American<br />
society today. The interim report also includes a<br />
set of preliminary recommendations for policies<br />
that the California Legislature could adopt to<br />
remedy those harms. A final report will be issued<br />
before July 1, 2023.<br />
See the reports:<br />
oag.ca.gov<br />
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BUSINESS<br />
Prime Timers of the <strong>Desert</strong><br />
info@ptod.us<br />
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS<br />
Thursday nights VILLAGEFEST takes place<br />
in downtown Palm Springs on Palm<br />
Canyon Drive every. villagefest.org<br />
<strong>June</strong> through September from 7:00 p.m.<br />
until 10 p.m.<br />
Cabot’s Pueblo Museum<br />
760-329-7610<br />
McCallum Adobe 760-323-8297<br />
Indian Canyons 760-323-6018<br />
Palm Springs Aerial Tram<br />
760-325-1449<br />
Palm Springs Air Museum<br />
760-778-6262<br />
Palm Springs Art Museum<br />
760-325-7186<br />
Sunnylands<br />
760-328-2829<br />
Patton Memorial Museum 760-227-3483<br />
Joshua Tree National park 760-367-5500<br />
Directory<br />
FREE COMMUNITY LISTINGS<br />
AAP - Food Samaritans (760) 325-8481<br />
Eisenhower HIV Clinic (760) 834-7930<br />
DAP/ DOCK Clinic (760) 992-0492<br />
Borrego Health (Stonewall Medical<br />
Center) Cathedral City 760-507-3310<br />
Veterans Records https://vetrecs.<br />
archives.gov/VeteranRequest/home.<br />
html for vet or family or with written<br />
authorization.<br />
Lgbt community center<br />
760-4<strong>16</strong>-7790 thecenterps.org<br />
American cancer society<br />
800-227-2345<br />
Coachella Valley sexual assault<br />
(760) 568-9071<br />
<strong>Desert</strong> Legal aid: 760-832-9770<br />
Stonewall democrats:<br />
desert-stonewall.org<br />
<strong>Desert</strong> winds freedom band<br />
760 776-2700Gay artists -760 835 0727<br />
Transgender Community Transcc.org<br />
Palm Springs Gay<br />
Men’s Chorus 760-219-2077<br />
Palm Springs Leather Order of the <strong>Desert</strong><br />
760 272-5553<br />
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flag at the request of Harvey Milk a<br />
gay activist and City supervisor in San<br />
Francisco. The rainbow flag has since<br />
been updated to recognize the trans<br />
aspect of the rights movement which<br />
has recently been attacked by various<br />
aspects of the far rights movement.<br />
During the past week, the school board<br />
of the Temecula Valley School voted<br />
to not adopt a social studies program<br />
that recognized Harvey Milk as a gay<br />
activist. This exemplifies that LGBTQ<br />
discrimination is active in our area as<br />
well as across the nation.<br />
Acts of discrimination have also been<br />
found in attempting to repress PRIDE<br />
art in department stores. Designs with<br />
PRIDE symbols have been rejected as<br />
an example, Target Department Stores<br />
have either removed or limited<br />
PRIDE designs due to threats to store<br />
employees and vandalizing displays<br />
of PRIDE clothing. The UK trans artist<br />
Erik Carnell who designed some of<br />
the PRIDE clothing for Target has been<br />
threatened personally.<br />
The Human Rights Campaign declares<br />
a State of Emergency for LGBTQ+<br />
Residents and Travelers regarding a rise<br />
in more than 75 anti-LGBTQ bills that<br />
have been signed into law in certain<br />
states that have created increasingly<br />
hostile and dangerous environments for<br />
LGBTQ people. A guidebook can be<br />
downloaded through the HRC website<br />
discussing safety resources and stateby-state<br />
laws. Artists and other activists<br />
need to be on alert to participate in<br />
addressing this tyranny from the far-right<br />
and not allow hate and discrimination to<br />
continue.<br />
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Community<br />
Heroes<br />
#2<br />
George Zander<br />
1944-2015<br />
On the next page<br />
is one of the last<br />
articles George<br />
wrote in the <strong>Desert</strong><br />
<strong>Daily</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />
One of the LGBTQ<br />
community’s bestloved<br />
community<br />
organizers,<br />
He was famous<br />
for calling us to<br />
a quick meeting<br />
and finding all the<br />
community leaders<br />
present.<br />
Community Heroes Series #2<br />
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We feel fortunate<br />
to have him<br />
mentor on our<br />
team. He shared<br />
and supported<br />
the DDG and our<br />
mission to keep<br />
the community<br />
informed and<br />
participating!<br />
Relevant here in his<br />
article about Bill AB<br />
827<br />
Safe Place to Learn<br />
Act: Passed and<br />
made law!
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