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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
Heroes #2: George Zander
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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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