Events
In every issue you can find the latest “Local Calendar” as well as “PSP Focus” with all the upcoming events in Palm Springs.
Palm Springs Focus
TCC Presents The Stonewall Humanitarian Awards Gala Transgender Community Coalition (TCC) began as TDoR Palm Springs in 2014 and is a certified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. In the beginning, its purpose was to raise funds for the first Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Cenotaph Statue. Due to the strong demand by the local transgender, intersex, gender...
Queer Love Songs
Be Steadwell Releases New Album Queer Love Songs By Martha Tang Follow Up To 2017 Album Breakup Songs “Be’s songwriting is fresh and individual in the same personal storytelling way of Joni Mitchell or Carly Simon. Some might think it’s premature to align Be’s Queer Love Songs with such large and iconic artists but much...
Evening Under the Stars
25 Years of Honoring Community Heroes and Providing Outstanding Performances By Bob Bogard In 1991 AAP – Food Samaritans was founded (originally called AIDS Assistance Program) with the goal of helping the most at-risk members of our community – people who are low-income and compromised by health issues – by providing nutritional support to...
Toni Braxton
Celebrates 25 Years In Music By Martha Tang Multi-platinum, seven-time Grammy Award®-winning superstar and icon Toni Braxton released SEX & CIGARETTES last month via Def Jam Recordings. SEX & CIGARETTES – the ninth album in Toni’s legendary career – is her first studio album since 2014’s Grammy-winning collaboration with Babyface, Love, Marriage & Divorce...
2018 Food Trends
What Are YOU Eating? By Chris Astrala Remember when kale was the new lettuce, quinoa the new rice and cauliflower the new mashed potato? We are constantly looking for that latest thing to tickle our taste buds and at the same time be a bit healthy . We’ve run down a few trends that...
Transgender History
Always Overbooked By Terri Schlichenmeyer It had to start somewhere. Someone had to make the first step, to pave the way, to stick a fork into the ground and say, “Here, now.” Someone had to be the first so that others could follow, and in the newly updated book “Transgender History” by Susan...
Ji Strangeway
Visual Artist, Poet & Filmmaker, Ji Strangeway By Michel Khordoc Visual Artist, Poet & Filmmaker, Ji Strangeway offers a raw and realistic take on the teenage experience for LGBTQ youth in new graphic novel “Red As Blue” With a unique, genre-bending style that is sometimes lyrical, sometimes sharp as a razor’s edge, and always engaging;...
The 24th Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards
The 24th Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards By Steven Henke Co-chairs Patrick Jordan and Lauri Kibby will join Senator Barbara Boxer on February 10 when they welcome more than 1,500 D.A.P. supporters at the 2018 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards benefitting Desert AIDS Project. The party begins with red carpet arrivals at the Palm Springs Convention...
Desert AIDS Project
Desert AIDS Project Looks Toward the Future: Innovation and Commitment By Jack Bunting In our work to address the health needs of the most vulnerable in our community, including our core focus on those affected by the HIV epidemic, we had believed for some time that the need for services was greater than the...
Amanda Lepore
Buckle Up Amanda Lepore Takes Fans On A Wild, Fun Ride By Tom Corliss Amanda Lepore’s “Buckle Up” is flirty and playful song, with a burlesque, retro-pop swing. It is the first single from her soon-to-be-released LEPORE Ep and the first original solo release from the world’s mega-famous transsexual since “I…Amanda Lepore,” her acclaimed...
Holiday Gift Guide
5th Annual Holiday Gift Guide By Chris Astrala Every year we say the same things, “Where has the year gone?” “Is it that time already?” “I have no idea what to get him/her/them.” Well it IS that time again and if you are starting to wonder what to get those certain special people in...
HeartThrobs and Hounds
A Year of HeartThrobs and Hounds By Larry Olsen Big or small, fluffy or shorthaired, young or old, everyone loves photos of adorable pooches. So what happens when you pair the cutest pups on earth — who just happen to be in need of forever homes — with beautiful, hunky men? The year’s most...
