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Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, TS Madison, Miss Lawrence, Symone, Guillermo Diaz, Guy Branum Sept. 30 in theaters
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In this period drama set in 1950s Brighton, England, policeman Tom marries a schoolteacher while maintaining a secret relationship with Patrick, a museum curator. Based on the 2012 Bethan Roberts novel of the same name.
Queer film is more diverse than ever, with 2022’s slate of forthcoming and currently running films and TV programs depicting LGBTQ+ characters in a variety of genres. These movies include a groundbreaking rom com from Billy Eichner, a new Whitney Houston biopic, and a documentary about a transgender woman who participated in a pioneering trans research study.
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In the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio in history, two very busy gay men stumble their way into a cinematic love story. This is also the first major studio release to feature an entirely queer principalStarring:cast.
LGBTQ+ films aren’t easy to come by! Despite the progress we’ve made with representation over the years, it can still be difficult to find new queer movies worthy of a watch. Ranging from experimental indie titles to mega-budget studio films, 2022 will offer many exciting and significant works aiming to highlight and platform LGBTQ+ perspectives that the world needs to see. This year, feature-length documentaries and films will focus on sharing real and fictionalized LGBTQ+ experiences that many mainstream audiences and filmmakers a have often dismissed. The LGBTQ+ films and programs of 2022 will operate as significant cultural works that will represent underserved communities in our culture
Queer characters have come a long way in a relatively short time, from the self-loathing middle-aged men of 1970’s The Boys in The Band to the headstrong misfits of this summer’s Fire Island. Queer cinema has evolved too, from the shoestring brilliance of The Watermelon Woman to the big-budget glitter-fest that is Rocketman. While gay characters tended until much too recently to be one-dimensional, white, marginal, and doomed, in 2018 Barry Jenkins won a Best Picture Oscar telling the layered and hopeful story of a gay Black man in Moonlight. Representation matters, and these films and programs provide a variety of stories and styles for you to lose or find yourself in.
Starring: Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, David Dawson, Linus Roache, Gina McKee, Rupert Everett, Kadiff Kirwan Fall 2022 in theatres & on Prime Video
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hits like Sex and the City, Younger and Emily in Paris, Darren Star has teamed up with Modern Family co-executive producer Jeffrey Richman on the Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris. As Michael, Harris’ life is upended after his husband of 17 years (Tuc Watkins) suddenly leaves him and is forced to navigate New York City as a newly single gay man in his mid-forties. In addition to Harris, the series stars Tisha Campbell as Michael’s business partner, Suzanne; Emerson Brooks as TV weatherman Billy; Brooks Ashmanskas as art dealer Stanley; and Marcia Gay Harden as a socialite named Claire. Netflix
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SEPTEMBER 2022 7 OverTHEY/THEM40years after starring in Friday the 13th, Kevin Bacon is returning to his horror roots in They/Them, which is pronounced “they-slash-them.” In the Peacock film, the 63-year-old actor plays the director of a gay conversion camp where several queer and trans campers have been forced into a week of programming that becomes increasingly more unsettling as the LGBTQ youth work together to protect themselves from a mysterious killer.
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Queer for Fear is a four-part documentary about the history of the LGBTQ representation in the horror genre. Through interviews with Lea DeLaria, Kimberly Peirce, Jennifer Tilly, Leslye Headland and more, the series will examine everything from queer authors Mary Shelley and others to the influences of the 1920s monsters’ craze and how real-life events like the “lavender scare” and the AIDS crisis were reflected in everything from alien invasion films to the modern-day takes on vampires.
Lottery Dream Home host David Bromstad, husbands Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent and Bargain Block’s Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas, realtor and designer Carmine Sabatella is the latest personality to bring gay visibility to HGTV with the indoor/outdoor renovation series Inside Out co-hosted by Mike Pyle.
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THREE MONTHS Caleb (Troye Sivan) is a Florida teen who receives a text from a one-night stand that he just tested positive for HIV. Now Caleb must get tested, but as HIV can take up to three months to show up in the body, he spends his summer before going off to college anxiously waiting. Those three months are not without drama: his best friend and coworker Dara (Brianne Tju) is hooking up with their boss (Judy Greer), and Caleb quickly falls for another boy (Viveik Kalra) who is also waiting for his test results.
ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE Billy Porter’s directorial debut stars Eva Reign as a high school trans girl who is asked out after the boy who has a crush on her gets some advice online. It’s based on a wonderfully sweet real-life reddit post, so we can’t wait to see how cute this high school romance is.
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“BasedFIREBIRDParamount+.ona true story during the Cold War, Firebird is a passionate love story set against the backdrop of an Air Force base in occupied Estonia during late 1970’s Communist rule. Sergey (Tom Prior), a soulful, young soldier who dreams of becoming an actor in Moscow, is counting the days until his military service ends. His life is turned upside down when he locks eyes with Roman (Oleg Zagorodnii), a sexy, enigmatic ace fighter pilot newly assigned to his base. Driven by their undeniable attraction, Sergey and Roman navigate the precarious line between love and friendship at a time when Soviet men in uniform caught having a sexual affair was met with the severest punishment. As their friendship grows into love, the men risk their freedom and their lives to be together in the face of an all-seeing Communist regime.” Firebird premiered in April 2022 in theatres.
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Amazon Prime FIRE ISLAND “A group of queer best friends gather in the Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but a sudden change of events might make this their last summer in gay paradise. As they discover the romance and pleasures of the iconic island, their bonds as a chosen family are pushed to the limit.” Hulu. 8
Amazon Prime Release Dates TBA FRAMING AGNES Director Chase Joynt expands her 2019 short of the same title in this documentary that explores the idea of the “trans icon.” The film combines fiction and nonfiction as a group of trans actors explore the case of a trans woman who participated in a UCLA health study in the 1960s. Starring: Angelica Ross, Zackary Drucker, Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard
Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
Netflix THE LAKE A biting comedy with Jordan Gavaris, Julia Stiles, and Madison Shamoun. After a divorce leaves Justin’s life in disarray, he must pick-up the pieces. This includes reconnecting with Billie, the daughter he gave up for adoption. Justin hopes summer at the lake will bring them closer. It does the opposite until they team up to take back the family cottage from Justin’s stepsister Maisy-May. Starring Jordan Gavaris, Julia Stiles, Madison Shamoun, Travis Nelson.
Keiynan Lionsdale and Dylan Sprouse will star in this romantic comedy from Lionsgate and BuzzFeed. It follows “a young man in a tricky situation, who follows the advice of his unconventional best friend and uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to keep his awful ex-lover out of his life” but then meets the person he thinks might be the real love of his life.
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Naomi Ackie stars as Whitney Houston in this biopic from the writer of Bohemian Rhapsody. It will focus on the iconic singer’s life story, charting her rise to stardom. It will reportedly not shy away from including her love affair with her best friend and personal assistant Robyn Crawford. In theaters December 23.
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ThisBENEDICTIONMaxbiopicfollows the life and loves of British poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon during World War I. It depicts his openly critical attitude toward the war, his marriage to a woman who knew about his sexuality, and his on-and-off romance with composer and actor Ivor Novello.Release date is TBA.
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This queer period piece stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor as two men setting out to record the lives, voices, and music of their countrymen during World-War I. It’s based on the Pushcart Prizewinning story by American author Ben Shattuck. Release date is TBA.
is regarded as a queer horror classic thanks to its fluid depiction of sexuality and exploration of S&M, and this 2022 remake reportedly closely follows the original source material, Barker’s 1986 novel The Hellbound Heart. Trans actress Jamie Clayton has been cast as the iconic Pinhead, and queer TV heartthrobs Brandon Flynn and Adam Faison have been cast in undisclosed roles.
Starring: Odessa A’zion, Jamie Clayton, Brandon Flynn, Goran Višnjić, Drew Starkey, Adam Faison, Aoife Hinds, Selina Lo AMHuluI OK?
This Sundance darling, directed by wife and wife team Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, follows Lucy, a 32-year-old Angeleno who realizes she’s a lesbian, and her best friend Jane, who prepares to moveStarring:abroad.Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, Molly Gordon, Sean Hayes HBO
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Premiering at Sundance, this Finnish film focuses on three friends, Emma, Mimmi, and Rönkkö, as they discover first love and navigate their sex lives on a quest to find pleasure. Release date is TBA.
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Best known for his turn in the “Deadpool” movies, Karan Soni is a prolific comedic character actor who has been slowly charting a course as an unconventional leading man in small independent films. Earlier this year, he starred opposite Geraldine Viswanathan in the charming Indie Spirit winner “7 Days,” which he co-wrote with his partner Roshan Sethi. Most of his “Deadpool” and “Miracle Workers” fans may not realize he’s gay, but Soni has never made his sexuality a secret. Here he stars in a sci-fi comedy short from director Naman Gupta, as a man who uses a time machine to come out to his traditional Indian parents.
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Netflix. SPOILER ALERT: THE HERO DIES Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies is based on the best-selling memoir of the same name written by Michael Ausiello which tells a heartwarming, funny, and life-affirming story that takes a look at how the relationship between Ausiello and his husband, photographer Kit Cowan, evolves over an 11-month span when Cowan is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Notable Mentions from The Tribeca Film Festival
DirectedRUSTIN by George C. Wolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), written by Dustin Lance Black, and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground, this film is a mustwatch this year, especially with Coleman Domingo as civil and gay rights icon Bayard Rustin.
There’s no denying that queer cinema would not be the same without “Paris Is Burning,” but Jennie Livingston’s groundbreaking 1990 documentary is no longer the only cinematic archive of New York’s legendary ballroom community. Directed by Fredgy Noël, this short documentary features members of the prominent ballroom family, the House of LaBeija, which is the first ballroom house in New York City — established in 1972 by Crystal LaBeija. The film pays homage to the House of LaBeija through a series of letters from current members. It also features original music composed by Khalif Diouf, formerly known as Le1F.
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THESTANDARDPS.COMTHELASTCHAPTERThisdocumentary,which won the Queer Lion Award at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, follows 63-year-old French dom Bernard Guyonnet and his submissive younger lover, Italian filmmaker Gianluca Matarrese, after the BDSM master retires.
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SEPTEMBER 2022 13 We’re proud to be honored in 15 categories. But caring for patients is an honor in itself. We want to thank our exceptional care teams for your hard work, dedication and compassion which, once again, have earned Eisenhower Health recognition from U.S. News & World Report. In addition to being named a Best Regional Hospital, we were recognized for high quality care in the following categories: • Aortic Valve Surgery • Chronic PulmonaryObstructiveDisease(COPD) • Colon Cancer Surgery • Diabetes • Heart Attack • Heart Bypass Surgery • Heart Failure • Hip Fracture • Hip Replacement • Kidney Failure • Knee Replacement • Lung Cancer Surgery • Pneumonia • Spinal Fusion • Stroke We look forward to another year of caring for the Coachella Valley and to adding new treatments and services to enhance your care and comfort. Our gratitude goes out to the many community members who choose Eisenhower to help them get well and stay well. Thank you, one and all — you are the inspiration for what we do. Learn more about our accreditations and recognitions at EisenhowerHealth.org/Awards
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BY SHANN CARR As the queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race bring drag into venues from leather bars to lesbian bars and from huge venues to small town book clubs, Bob the Drag Queen stands above the fray. And it isn’t just the stilettos.
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In 2016, when Bob scored $100,000 for winning the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar” on season 8’s Drag Race, she was new to doing drag herself. When he was a kid, Bob’s mother owned a drag show bar in Columbus, Georgia. But little Bob was terrified of queens after a family friend was shot by a drag queen. He decided that all queens had guns and were dangerous which Bob says today, tongue in cheek, “is correct.” It wasn’t until he saw the first season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race that Bob was inspired to “doll it all” and wow the world of Drag.Born Christopher Caldwell, he has taken the legal name Caldwell Tidicue, and before settling on Bob the Drag Queen, his original drag name was Kitten Withawhip, which was an homage to Ann Margaret in a 1964 film. He identifies as non-binary, pansexual, polyamorous and enjoys she/her and he/him pronouns. He is a whole spectrum of diversity all in oneBobperson.hasbuilt an equally diverse slate of successes since his big win including multiple hit songs, two favorites being “Purse First” and “Wrong Bitch” from Todrick Hall’s hit film “Straight Outta Oz.” She has crushed roles in HBO’s “High Maintenance” and in Berkeley Rep’s “Angels in America”. She also has two side-splitting, live comedy specials under her bedazzled belt.
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It won’t be a touring podcast though, it will be an all-out, live show, full of comedy, song, drama, and dance.
This Pride season Bob appeared on “Stand Out Comedy: An LGBTQ+ Celebration” on Netflix with nearly 20 other established and rising stars in the queer comedy industry. Bob’s origins in entertainment start from comedy, and she can “cut a bitch” but she doesn’t really come from that place. Her smarts, her interest in human rights and politics, and the fact that her perspective is one of a lover, not a hater distinguishes her from a lot of comedians, gay and straight.
Alexander also asked, “What do you admire most about each other?” Monet answered “Something I love about Bob is that he’s one of the most talented and smartest people I know. Bob is very smart, very brilliant. He has an idea for every second of the day. And he often, more times than not, pulls them off because he is also a very hard worker. I just really respect Roberta’s mind.”
In an interview with Alexander Rodriguez on his show “On the Rocks,” Bob and Monet bicker fast and hard but with tremendous heart, prompting Alexander to ask “Was there ever a spark or an attraction at first? Did you think, ‘hmm, maybe scissor sisters or something?’” Monet answered “Bob is very beautiful, but no, we never had a romantic connection. I call Bob my platonic life partner. We have been through a lot of stuff together with family, personal stuff, and the business. So we really are like platonic life partners.”
For example, on the Netflix show, Bob has some “rules for gay men.” Among them “Stop being mean to lesbians. We need these bitches. We can’t do this by ourselves! The Gay Agenda, it was designed by lesbians, so you know it works! And stop being mean to straight women too. They were the very first allies you ever had.” It is something special for a queer comedian not to hate-on women. Bob’s comedy is structured with openness and inclusivity, while still managing to be sharp. That makes her a feisty crossover queen that can entertain the diverse audiences that the queer community strives to be and to serve. A truly diverse queer audience
In another break-out show, HBO’s “We’re Here,” she stars with Drag Race sisters Eureka O’Hara and Shangela Laquifa. In this series, the trio of drag queens travel across the United States to recruit smalltown residents to participate in one-night-only drag shows. The heartwarming 3rd season of “We’re Here” is set to drop any time now. Thanks to the success of the podcast “Sibling Rivalry” that Bob does with his bestie, drag-sister Monet X Change, they are about to hit the road for a flamboyant, US tour, also called “Sibling Rivalry.”
To get tickets to the tour or info about their collaborations and then to find links to their solo endeavors, you can start at www.
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Bob has a sincerity that lets people get a sense of who he is, for real. He says that all the things that are good about him are things his mom taught him. And that the way to his heart is through his mother Martha. Be sweet to her, you’re in, be bad to her you’re out.
SEPTEMBER 2022 19 can be the greatest or the toughest audience. At a time when every comedy performance can be a trigger-minefield, Bob navigates and delivers as safely as possible without compromising. She is an entertainment mega-threat, in the good way, and she has her bases well covered off stage too. She can sustain a longterm friendship, and she is an honest-enough communicator to have navigated polyamory, which is tricky, but it can be SO worth the work -when it works. Recently, Bob has been enjoying some polyamorous adventures with photographer Jacob Ritts and musician Ezra Michel. Seems like she can do everything. You know what she can’t do? Style a wig, a gurl can’t be everything!
He says he likes to put his hands into the dirt and do the work in the queer community, to help it grow, because it is this community that made him grow! Thanks for all you taught him Martha, we’re lovin’ it.
At one point Bob’s Mom saw Monet X Change perform in Atlanta where Monet did one of Martha’s favorite songs “Encourage Yourself” made famous by Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers. Martha called Bob later to say how much it affected her. She said “Monet really healed my heart. She really is my child. She doesn’t even realize how much that meant to me.” And with that seal of approval, Monet made his way into the inner circle with Bob.
Bob says he is a queen for the people, and he’s proven it with a political willingness to get involved. Early on, he was arrested in full drag, at Times Square, during one of the many protests he participated in involving public drag queen weddings. His group of friends and activists vowed to keep performing the drag wedding protests until gay marriage became legal. Well, there it is, we have Bob to thank for gay marriage too.
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First, though, you’re going to laugh because author Wade Rouse is a natural-born humorist, and his family is a great launching-pad for him despite the splinters and near-clawing despair of the overall theme of this book. That sense of humor can’t seem to let a good story go, even when it’s obvious that there’s something heartbreaking waiting in the bullpen. Which brings us to the father-son-baseball triple-play. It may seem to some readers that such a book has been done and done again, but this one feels different. Rouse excels at filling in the blanks on the other, essential teammates in this tale and, like any big skirmish, readers are left breathless, now knowing the final score until the last out.
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If you like your memoirs sweet, but with a dash of spice and some tears, right here you go. For you, “Magic Season” is a book to look
Love, Wade Rouse says, is “shaped like a baseball.” You catch it, throw it, or hit it out of the park, but “You don’t know where it’s going.”
You’ve always looked up to your dad. Sometimes it happened literally, like when you were a child and “up” was the only way to see his face hovering over yours. You’ve looked up at him in anger, embarrassment, dismissal, and yeah, you’ve looked up to him in the best ways, too – never forgetting, as in the memoir “Magic Season” by Wade Rouse, that sometimes, the hardest thing is seeing eye-to-eye. Wade Rouse threw like a girl. He couldn’t catch a baseball, either, and he wasn’t much of a runner as a young boy. He tried, because his father insisted on it, but Rouse was better with words and books and thoughts... He was nothing like his elder brother, Todd, who was a natural hunter, a good sportsman, and an athlete, and their father never let Rouse forgetAndit. yet, curiously, Rouse and his dad bonded over baseball. Specifically, their love of Cardinals baseball became the one passion they shared. The stats, the players, the idea that “Anything can happen,” the hope that there’d be a World Series at the end of every season was the glue they needed. It was what saved them when Todd was killed in a motorcycle accident. When Rouse came out to his father, Cards baseball was what brought them back together after two years of estrangement. In between games, though, and between seasons, there was yelling, cruelty, and all the times when father and son didn’t communicate. Rouse accepted, but didn’t like, his father’s alcoholism or his harsh life-lessons: his father didn’t like Rouse’s plans for his own future. Rouse admits that he cried a lot, and he was surprised at the rare times when his father displayed emotion – especially since an Ozarks man like Ted Rouse didn’t do things like that. Until the time was right.
Oh, my. Oh, my, but “Magic Season” is a ten-hankie book.
Just be sure you never take “your eye off it, from beginning to end.”
“Magicup. Season: A Son’s Story” by Wade Rouse c.2022, Hanover Square Press / $27.99 / 304 pages
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As always, DAP Health’s day-to-day approach to health care is a holistic one. Its umbrella of culturally competent services encompasses:HIV/AIDS outreach, testing, and care STI outreach, testing, and care Primary care
The money raised thanks to the perennially popular pet- and family-friendly affair will go directly to fund DAP Health’s advocacy and health care efforts, with 2022 proceeds also benefitting a handful of community partners, including The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert, Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, Brothers of the Desert, The L Fund and Queer Works.
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Ever since its inception in 1984, DAP Health has centered its work on advocating on behalf of populations whose voices are often unheard — people with HIV/AIDS, people of color, those living in poverty, unhoused individuals, and people with disabilities, and people struggling with substance use. Through it all, the organization has never wavered in its determination to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and today continues to: Offer free onsite and mobile HIV and STI testing, including mailing at-home HIV tests to those unable to access its main Palm SpringsLinkcampus.people newly diagnosed with HIV to care — and help them remain in care — so that they can be undetectable, therefore unable to transfer the virus to others (U=U). Provide pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
“Unfortunately,equity.history is repeating itself,” says David Brinkman, CEO of DAP Health, an advocacy-based health care organization that provides service to more than 10,000 individuals annually throughout the Coachella Valley. “With queer rights falling under attack across our nation, and our government’s dispiriting lack of urgency in responding to the growing Monkeypox (Mpox) crisis, 2022 looks, sounds, and feels just like the early ’80s, when HIV/ AIDS was decimating our community and politicians turned their backs, refusing to act. As we learned then, silence equals death, and when our leaders abandon us, it is up to members of our community to join forces and advocate on our own behalf. Only by coming out in unprecedented numbers and raising our collective voice this year can we show local, state, and federal officials that their apathy concerning LGBTQ people is absolutely unacceptable.”
BY STEVEN HENKE What better way to remember those lost to HIV/AIDS than to unite as a community, raise our collective voice, and keep advocating for health equality, just as our brothers and sisters did at the start of the epidemic four decades ago Two thousand community members — from babies in strollers to seniors — are expected to participate in DAP Health’s annual Desert AIDS Walk, which will kick off at Ruth Hardy Park on Saturday, October 29, tracing a route through downtown Palm Springs. The theme of this year’s event, whose presenting sponsor is Desert Care Network, is “Walk, Out Loud,” which places its focus squarely on advocacy and on uniting the entire community in the fight for LGBTQ+ health
The Desert AIDS Walk registration will begin Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m. for a 9:00 a.m. departure. The Health & Wellness Village sponsored by Walgreens will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Entertainers on the main stage will include The Palm Springs Gay Men’s Chorus.
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4,100 patients accessed its dental health services. 2,431 substance use visits were completed.
2,924 Hep C tests were completed. 901 Hep B tests were completed.
1,558 STI appointments were scheduled, with 947 patients being treated for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis.
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The positive effect of DAP Health’s continuous endeavors to improve the overall health of everyone living in the Coachella Valley has indisputably been considerable, and its recent Vision Forward: Building for a Healthier Tomorrow campaign has served as a roadmap toward ensuring health equity for every one of our desert8,298INneighbors.2021ALONE:patientswere seen at DAP Health.
The recent opening of a DAP Health clinic in Indio is proof of the non-profit’s ongoing desire to expand its reach into the East Valley.
Below are statements of support from some of DAP Health’s community partners.
8,182 HIV tests were conducted, with 53 individuals being linked to HIV care following their positive diagnosis and 58 patients consulting for PEP. 4,698 patients accessed the organization’s mental health services.
1,029 patients received PrEP, including 359 new PrEP starts. 1,188 individuals attended its community health presentations. You can download a PDF of DAP Health’s 2021 community impactTheCOVID-19report.invaluable
experience and expertise DAP Health has gained through its service to all residents of the Coachella Valley over the last four decades enabled it to be among the first to provide a life-saving local response to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and
“The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert is proud to partner with DAP Health and Desert AIDS Walk 2022 to advance LGBTQ+ health equity in the Coachella Valley,” says Executive Director and CEO Rob Wheeler. “The Desert AIDS Walk brings our diverse community together in a powerful statement of solidarity, action, and resolve. The Walk reminds us that the LGBTQ+ community continues to be disproportionately affected by HIV and that all LGBTQ+ people deserve dignity, equity in health care access, and to live long, healthy lives.”
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Similarly,MONKEYPOXbeyond.DAPHealth leads all other local health care organizations in its aggressive, targeted strategy to combat the widening Mpox outbreak — an effective effort that stands proudly alongside that of other cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. The nonprofit is not only continually advocating for increased assistance from local, state, and federal governments, but has secured a considerable number of Jynneos vaccine doses, which are immediately being used to inoculate community members most at risk.
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“As Brothers of the Desert supports this year’s AIDS Walk, we are encouraged by its focus on health equity for traditionally underserved and overlooked people. Let us be mindful on Saturday, October 29, 2022, that every great march for progress, from African American rights to LGBTQ equality, started with like-minded individuals joining forces and taking that first step to lift communities in need.”
FOR IndividualsPARTICIPANTSinterested in participating in the 2022 Desert AIDS Walk: Walk, Out Loud may register at desertaidswalk.org. FOR BusinessesSPONSORSinterested in sponsorship opportunities related to the Walk or to the Health & Wellness Village may learn more by contacting DAP Health’s Director of Development James Lindquist at jlindquist@daphealth.org or 760.656.8413. Visit www.daphealth.org to learn more.
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“At Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, we believe all people should have access to the health care they need to make the best decisions for their health, life, and future,” says Vice President of External Affairs Vernita Gutierrez. “LGBTQ+ people deserve to live full and authentic lives free from discrimination, judgment, and stigma. As health care providers, educators, and advocates, Planned Parenthood is committed to serving all people with care and respect. We are proud to work in collaboration with partner organizations and community members in the Coachella Valley to work together toward health equity for all.”
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designs are a combination of creativity, enthusiasm, team work and hard work. Your finished home is the vision and goal, from day one. My work as a designer is intimate. I have to know my clients deeply to really understand what their world needs to be. It is that understanding that creates the best home and my finest work. A home is your most intimate space, it should reflect you, your tastes, lifestyle and your family.
So, how do you find the right designer or design firm to work with? What are the questions you should be asking yourself and your potential designer? And, how do you avoid pitfalls in that relationship? It really isn’t all that difficult but, like anything worthwhile in life, some planning and maintenance is important.
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Enthusiasm from your designer is everything! I have been told, many times over the years that the reason a client hired me over other perspective firms, was my enthusiasm for their project. I don’t go into potential client meetings with the goal of signing them. I enter each new meeting wondering if we are going to like each other. It is as simple as that. Find someone you like. It is like making a new friend, if we like each other, the collaboration cannot help but succeed.Trulysuccessful
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For more than 3 decades I have been heading my own design firm. It is safe to say that I have worked with very type of personality imaginable. Some clients want to be intimately involved in the entire process, while others want to see a design presentation and then want to be called only when the project is finished. Either way, the design process remains the same.
NAVIGATING THE PROCESS OF DESIGN: FINDING THE RIGHT DESIGNER FOR YOU!
Some projects, just as some clients are more challenging than others. Ultimately, my job is be a problem solver. The vast majority of the time the problem solving I am referring to is in the design itself. Creativity is the key to any successful project but, at its core, the design process is really about problem solving. Those problems can be related to architecture, space, budget, needs/desires, etc. In every case it is up to the professional to guide the client through a myriad of options, selections and issues. Together, we make a client’s dreams come true. The optimum relationship in design, is a collaboration between me and the client. We each have specific roles to fill. I listen to what the client desires most and then help them to see the bigger picture, a wider possible vision and the potential limitations of space and budget (that is where the problem solving comes in most handy).
As I tell all my potential clients, “I will give you everything you ask for but, in a way you dreamed possible.” We pride ourselves on projects that are delivered on time, on budget and with results that exceed our client’s expectations. That is the experience you deserve!
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o This one sounds simple but, it really isn’t. A creative process is fluid and it is important to remain open to ensure the best outcome.
• Does your designer have a website with clear examples of their owork?In today’s world if your potential designer does not have a website with multiple examples of their varied work and clientele, I say move on. It is wonderful to give someone new a chance but, if you do not personally know them, protect yourself and your investment.
o If I cannot speak with references for someone I am about to entrust with my home and my hard-earned funds, then that is a red flag!
• Who will oversee the work and the contractors?
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• What is their experience in the extent of work you are considering?oAt this point you know what you are looking for. Do they have the experience and expertise to help you get the best result?
Questions To Ask Yourself (beforehand)
o This is very important. I have met far too many homeowners who think because they renovated a bathroom themselves, they can manage a job site. A general contractor is imperative when renovations are going to take place. And that person should have direct access to and be responsible to your designer. It is the designer’s job to ensure that their vision and details are met by the craftsmen.
In the end, the first piece to finding the right designer is, do you like them? And do you believe/trust that they are competent to do your project? This does not ensure success but, asking questions can. Every day from the beginning, ask questions, request updates, demand follow-up. After all, it is your home and your money.
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Currently, highlighted is the work of local artist Lucia Grossberger Morales, whose unique creations are based in her groundbreaking career at the forefront of personal computer graphics.
PROFILE CENTRAL TIME AT GRAND CENTRAL PALM SPRINGS
“Palm Springs is now a year-year destination,” said Rita Capponi, founder, and co-owner of Grand Central. “That means that Palm Springs is also a year-round food destination, so we’ve expanded our hours, and our offerings to meet the demand.”
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“As they used to say at our namesake Grand Central Station in New York City, ‘meet us under the clock’,” said co-owner and founder John Diskin. “It may be the height of the summer, but we’re already seeing a real pick-up in bookings and inquiries for the Holiday Season, so call us now to reserve your spot.”
“I remember vividly in 1979 seeing my first Apple II computer,” recalls Lucia. “That night I dreamt that I was a ten-year-old boy walking on the shore, and embedded in the sand, I found a black box. When I opened the box, small dots of light danced in the night sky. When I woke up, I knew the computer would become my medium.”
In the ’80s, Lucia coauthored the Designer’s Tool Kit, a graphics program published by Apple Computer. Lucia’s software and artwork on the Apple II computer work are archived at the Rochester Museum of Play.
The answer at Palm Springs’ iconic Grand Central it’s always “Grand Central Time” for brunch, munch, lunch, dinner or the new “nibbles and bites” offerings at the restaurant that is, literally, at the center of everything in Palm Springs, smack dab in the middle of the classic downtown gathering spot, La Plaza. And the new offering “Tequila Thursdays” with a wide range of high end Mezcal food & drink.
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With a patio, dining room and bar long known as the place “to see and be seen” by Palm Springs and Hollywood’s weekend glitterati, Grand Central also boasts a true “hidden gem”: its spacious special event space, complete with separate entrance, for the perfect Instagram-able wedding, bachelorette party, rehearsal dinner, birthday or business gathering. With a regular rotation of local artists, the “Art Gallery” special event space is quickly becoming a “go to” spot for this year’s post-worst-of-COVID Holiday parties.
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In addition to its artistic backdrop, the spacious “Art Gallery” special event space can comfortably accommodate 150 for a seated dinner or over 200 for standing cocktail reception. Additionally, Grand Central is open for a full buyout of the restaurant with the “Art Gallery” room set up for dancing either with live music or a DJ. What makes Grand Central Café Palm Springs unique? “Our brunch is very much based on California cuisine with influences of the coffee cafe culture of Auckland, New Zealand, Dublin, Ireland and Melbourne, Australia,” John explains. “Our goal and our mission are to bring those flavors to Palm Springs.”
As computer technology exploded, Lucia innovatively used images, text, animation, and interactivity to tell her story of leaving her homeland at three to emigrate to the United States. In 1969, starting at sixteen, she returned to Bolivia. The experience was overwhelming. Lucia created a CD-ROM Sangre Boliviana that has been shown around the world and is stored in perpetuity at the National Library in Paris. Lucia’s work can be seen online at www. Lgmanimation.com and www.lgmappleii.com
“For dinner, we expand our offerings to bring a fine dining experience in a more casual and relaxed environment,” says Rita,
“As a LatinX artist, Lucia blends cutting-edge technology with themes of social justice and gender equality,” said Grand Central husband and wife team Rita and John. “This is exactly the sort of art and perspective we want to highlight and celebrate in our restaurant gallery space.”
32 THESTANDARDPS.COM PROFILE known for her personalized touch as hostess and creator of Grand Central’s iconic and seasonally changing “Book Holiday Tree” in the main dining room. “Good food doesn’t have to be overly complicated, and lovely surroundings don’t have to be stuffy. At Grand Central, we stand for approachable elegance.”
Why the name Grand Central? “In cities and train stations throughout the years, people have been meeting ‘under the clock’,” explains John. “Grand Central’s iconic clock is a reminder to take a breath. Take some time to relax and enjoy innovative food and drink at our table” And most importantly, reiterates Rita, “Take some time to be with family and friends.” Grand Central opened in May of 2018 after extensive renovations to the previous Palm Springs Institution, Desmond’s Department Store. After sitting vacant for over a decade, owners and husband and wife, John and Rita, revitalized and reimagined the space as a place for friends to gather and share good conversation, great cocktails, and a wonderful meal.
www.grandcentralpalmsprings.com LUCIA MORALES
Sunday & Monday: 7:30am – 3pm Tuesday – Saturday: 7:30am – 9pm New “Nibbles & Bites” Tapas Menu Daily 3pm – 5pm For further info visit
SEPTEMBER 2022 33 Palm Springs Cultural Center 2300 E. Baristo Rd, Palm Sept.Streaming:Springs16-25Sept.Sept.In-Theatre:15-1822-25"Itopenedthe door for a lot of men to be free. Who knew a little catalog company would have such a massive impact on the male identity?" DALE JOHNSON, GROOMER FEATURE SPOTLIGHT ALL MAN: THE INTERNATIONAL MALE STORY journeys across three decades of the catalog’s unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. Gene Burkard, a once-closeted Midwesterner and GI, found freedom in San Diego, where he transformed men’s fashion into something cosmopolitan, carefree and trend-setting. International Male reached gay and straight customers alike as it redefined images of masculinity in American culture, generating revenue and circulation in the millions. ALL MAN: THE INTERNATIONAL MALE STORY Sept 16, 7:30 pm • Sept 25, 12:00 pm All Access Passes, @cinemadiverse.orgTickets
This year’s cast is a who’s who list of legendary Broadway, TV and film performers including: Tony® Award winner, 7-time Primetime Emmy® Award nominee and Daytime Emmy® Award winner Jason Alexander; Klea Blackhurst, Academy® Award and Golden Globe® Winner Keith Carradine, Julie Garnye, Alex Getlin, Anita Gillette, Tony® Award winner Debbie Gravitte, Sam Harris, Sean McDermott, 2-time Drama Desk® Award winner Alix Korey, Lawrence Olivier ® Award winner Lesli Margherita, Golden Globe® Award winner Amanda McBroom, Drama Desk® Award winner Ken Page, Teri Ralston, Tony® and Drama Desk® award nominee Lee Roy Reams, Gary Shaw, Tony® and Grammy Award winner Billy Stritch, along with the talented kids of Musical Theatre University and NickersonRossi Dance. Performers appearances are subject to availability.
“One Night Only” - “New York, New York” is November 9, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert and tickets will go on sale September 7, 2022, through the McCallum Theatre box office online at www.McCallumTheatre.com. Tickets can also be purchased by phone at 760-340-2787.
Much of the success of “One Night Only” can be attributed to the continued dedication of the honorary co-chairs: Helene Galen, Patti Grundhofer, Garry Kief, Barry Manilow and Harold Matzner, and event co-chairs Barbara Fromm and Terri Ketover.
PSP FOCUS MICHAEL CHILDERS PRESENTS
Founded in 1986 by Barbara and Frank Sinatra, the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, located on the internationally acclaimed Eisenhower Health campus in Rancho Mirage, California, is dedicated to ensuring every child’s right to a normal, healthy, and secure childhood.Formore information www.BarbaraSinatraChildrensCenter.orgvisit
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“ONE NIGHT ONLY” >> Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center is thrilled to announce the incredible return of Michael Childers Presents “One Night Only” for the 16th year with “New York, New York” on November 9, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. This year’s theme is all about New York in all its glory from Harlem and the Cotton Club to Broadway and 42nd Street to Studio 54. Returning to the show with their brilliant talents are director Scott Coulter and music director Todd Schroeder. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday, September 7, through the McCallum Theatre box office online at www.McCallumTheatre.com. Tickets can also be purchased by phone at 760-340-2787. “It is our great pleasure to work with Michael Childers each year to bring the season’s most exciting night of entertainment to the McCallum stage. The production of “One Night Only” - “New York, New York” allows us the opportunity to raise funds to benefit the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center and the important role it plays in ensuring every child’s right to a normal, healthy, and secure childhood,” remarked Terri Ketover and Barbara Fromm, Event Co-Chairs.
Michael Childers commented, “This year’s “One Night Only”“New York, New York” will be one of one of the best spectacles in years! You won’t want to miss this incredible show with pop, rock, disco, and Broadway. We are so thrilled that an event I started in 2002, with some of the top stage and screen performers donating their time year-after-year, has raised millions of dollars for local charities.”
PS Underground’s new show, Starstruck offers an all new, exciting musical dinner event that pays tribute to the glamorous, starstudded history of Palm Springs Casual Concours, The Desert’s Most Fabulous Midcentury Car Show: Disco Inferno returns this year at the Desert Princess Country Club in Cathedral City. This popular event will feature approximately 150 cars and will be set in a relaxed resort environment with a dramatic backdrop of mountains and palm trees.
Modernism Week, the annual festival that highlights midcentury modern architecture, art, interior and landscape design, and vintage culture in the Palm Springs area of Southern California, will offer Modernism Week – October from October 13-16, 2022. While smaller in scope than the 11-day festival held annually each February, the October event offers more than 50 events during 4-days, including several free and low-cost programs.
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Modernism Week’s signature 11-day festival will take place February 17-27, 2023. Tickets will be available starting November 1 at 12 p.m. PST and may be viewed online starting October 25. To receive updates, visit modernismweek.com and sign up to receive the free M-Weekly newsletter.
At the Midcentury Mai Tai Domination Cocktail Party, bartenders from the top tiki bars in Palm Springs will face off in the ultimate tiki cocktail challenge to see who serves the best Mai Tai.
“We are very excited to present Modernism Week – October with a full and robust event schedule for 2022. We invite everyone to experience new and exciting events offered exclusively during the four-day October festival,” said Lisa Vossler Smith, CEO of Modernism Week. “Locals and visitors alike will find an exciting line-up of home tours, iconic architecture, and entertaining poolside parties.” A hallmark of Modernism Week events are the inspirational and educational tours of neighborhoods, significant buildings, and residences.
MODERNISM WEEK – OCTOBER OFFERS FOUR DAYS OF TOURS AND EVENTS
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Be the first to see the newly renovated Alexander Estate in the House of Tomorrow Home Tour. Located in the historic Vista Las Palmas neighborhood, this extraordinary home was built in 1960 by architect William Krisel for Helene and Robert Alexander of the Alexander Construction Company.
Modernism Week’s signature Premier Double Decker Architectural Bus Tour provides guests with a 2.5-hour overview of significant civic and commercial buildings, as well as residential properties.Midcentury Top Ten Tour: Ten Architects Who Made Palm Springs Modern is a small group guided tour on board an air conditioned mini- SPECIALcoach. EVENTS Palm Springs Modernism Fall Show features more than 45 premier exhibitors from across the U.S. and Europe presenting and offering for sale 21st century contemporary designs, rare and beautiful vintage furniture, lighting, sculpture, paintings, silver, jewelry, ceramics, art glass, rugs, prints, photography, posters, vintage clothing, and accessories reflecting all design movements of the 20th century and especially highlighting midcentury modern design.
Modernism Week Featured Home Tour: HiSun, participants will be captivated by the dramatic panoramic view of stone and mountain as the natural backdrop at Modernism Week’s latest Featured Home.
Week attendees are invited to attend the festive Opening Night Party and Early Buying Preview Reception at the Palm Springs Modernism Fall Show at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
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The following are just a few of the highlights of this year’s event, for a complete schedule and ticket information visit www. modernismweek.comWhileviewingthe
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Hosted by H3K Home+Design, the Modernism Yard Sale offers dozens of curated booths featuring a wide range of vintage items.
October 7 - AMARCORD (1973)
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The Palm Springs Cultural Center’s Fellini Retrospective will play on the first Friday of the month at 7pm from September through December in their Historic Camelot Theatre.
For tickets visit https://psculturalcenter.org/fellini-retrospective
BY LAUREN WOLFER
With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. The infinitely expressive Masina registers both childlike wonder and heartbreaking despair as Gelsomina, loyal companion to the traveling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, in a toweringly physical performance), whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down her gentle spirit. Winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, La Strada possesses the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties.
The Palm Springs Cultural Center will join the international celebration of Italian film director Federico Fellini’s (1920–1993) centennial with screenings of his masterpieces as part of the Fellini 100 Tour. Coordinated by Paola Ruggiero and Camilla Cormanni of Cinecittà, the Fellini 100 Tour has traveled to major museums and film institutions worldwide despite being interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour launched in Fellini’s birthplace of Rimini, Italy, with the opening of the International Federico Fellini Museum, and has since visited institutions such as UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the British Film Institute (BFI), the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA).
One of the most influential directors of the 20th century, Fellini’s films are known for their surreal, dream-like imagery and eccentric characters, often combining a playful carnival-like atmosphere with biting social critique. Fellini’s body of work has inspired several generations of directors including Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, and Pedro Almodóvar. “It’s a tremendous honor for the Cultural Center to partner with Cinecittà in celebrating Fellini’s legacy as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.” said Program Director Lauren Wolfer. “These films deserve to be seen as the Maestro intended.”
Federico Fellini returned to the provincial landscape of his childhood with this carnivalesque reminiscence, recreating his hometown of Rimini in Cinecittà’s studios and rendering its daily life as a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge. Sketching a gallery of warmly observed comic caricatures, Fellini affectionately evokes a vanished world haloed with the glow of memory, even as he sends up authority figures representing church and state, satirizing a country stultified by Fascism. Winner of Fellini’s fourth Academy Award for best foreignlanguage film, Amarcord remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score.
November 4 - LA STRADA (1954)
One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ marks the moment when the director’s always-personal approach to filmmaking fully embraced self-reflexivity, pioneering a stream-of-consciousness style that darts exuberantly among flashbacks, dream sequences, and carnivalesque reality, and turning one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life, as he struggles against creative block and helplessly juggles the women in his life—including Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, and Claudia Cardinale. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is
December 2 - 8 ½ (1963)
All films have been digitally restored by Cinecittà, Cineteca di Bologna, and Cineteca Nazionale. Cinecittà is the state-owned company whose main shareholder is the Italian Ministry for Culture subsidizing its activities on an annual basis. Cinecittà holds one of the most important European film and photographic Archive in which are collected and digitally categorized both its own productions, and materials derived from private collections and acquisitions by a variety of sources. It is a large audiovisual collection concerning the history of the twentieth century, and it has also been inscribed by UNESCO in the registry “Memory of the World”. Cinecittà distributes and supports domestically the theatrical releases of Italian first and second time feature films; moreover, distributes films and documentaries made by Italian and European directors and guarantees they are given an adequate release in the nationalCinecittà’smarket.institutional work includes promoting Italian cinema both at home and abroad by means of projects dedicated to the great authors, actors, and personalities of the past and their classic films, as well contemporary ones. These projects are presented in collaboration with the most relevant cultural institutions of the world: the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, UCLA, University of Berkeley, MoMA, British Film Institute, Institute Lumiere, Cinematheque Francaise and many others. Cinecittà cooperates with major film festival such as Cannes, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Shanghai, Tokyo, Locarno, New York, London, etc, by organizing national selections, guaranteeing the presence of Italian films and artists in the various festivals, and by providing multifunctional spaces to help the promotion of our cinematography and it is the reference place for all Italian and foreign operators. It is also involved with the direct organization of numerous Film Festival around the world: The Italian Film Festival in Tokyo, Cinema Italian Style in Los Angeles, Open Roads – New Italian Cinema in New York, The Festival of Italian Cinema of Barcelona, London, Istanbul, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and The Mittelcinemafest. The Fellini Retrospective is a program produced by the Palm Springs Cultural Center, a 501C3 non-profit. Screening film festivals, revival screenings, retrospectives, and special premieres, the PSCC continues the communities’ storied cinematic legacy that began when their home venue, the Historic Camelot Theatre, originally opened its doors in 1967.
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We also believe LGBTQ+ films and LGBTQ+ film festivals are critical to our local community, and to the world community, because they tell stories that remind us of where we came from, who we are, and who we can be. They tell stories that not only inform and transform those within our community, but also have the power to change the lives and attitudes of people outside our community.
Mark your calendars! The Palm Springs Cultural Center is proud to present the 15th Anniversary of Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival, running September 15 -18 & September 22 - 25 at the Palm Springs Cultural Center (PSCC).
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The festival opens on Thursday, September 15th with Universal Pictures’ Bros - the highly anticipated film from Universal Pictures. Bros is the first romantic comedy from a major studio about two gay
We do this because we believe that LGBTQ+ Filmmakers, and the stories they tell through the movies they make, empower our community, advance our efforts to gain equal rights, and often introduce us to a world that has heretofore never known us.
The Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival: Cinema Diverse was established by the Palm Springs Cultural Center in 2008 and is dedicated to advancing and further strengthening our diverse gay community by presenting a world-class film festival featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender cinema from around the world.
SEPTEMBER 2022 39 PSP FOCUS men maybe, possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They’re both very busy. From the ferocious comic mind of Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, 2019’s The Lion King, Difficult People, Impeachment: American Crime Story) and the hitmaking brilliance of filmmakers Nicholas Stoller (the Neighbors films, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Judd Apatow (The King of Staten Island, Trainwreck, The Big Sick), comes a smart, swoony, and heartfelt comedy about how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to go through life with.
Festival Director Michael C. Green said, “We could not be more excited to be opening our fifteenth edition with Bros. Cinema Diverse is all about celebrating LGBTQ+ film and filmmakers, so it truly is a celebration to see a film about gay men that was created by a gay man and produced by a gay man fill the BIG screen on our opening night!” Starring Billy Eichner, the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film, and Luke Macfarlane (Killjoys), the film featuring an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast, including Guy Branum (The Other Two), Miss Lawrence (Star), Ts Madison (The Ts Madison Experience), Dot-Marie Jones (Glee), Jim Rash (Community), Eve Lindley (Dispatches from Elsewhere), Monica Raymund (Chicago Fire), Guillermo Díaz (Scandal), Jai Rodriguez (Uncoupled) and Amanda Bearse (Married …with Children). Bros is directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Eichner and Stoller. The film is produced by Judd Apatow, Stoller and Josh Church (co-producer Trainwreck, Stepbrothers) and is executive produced by Eichner and Karl Frankenfield. Bros screens at 7:30pm with a reception to follow. Attendees are encouraged to come early to mingle with guests and take advantage of our Cinema Diverse 15th anniversary drink specials. The film is being screened in the Historic Camelot Theatre at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, boasting the largest screen in the valley. Tickets for opening night can be purchased at the Box Office during normal business hours or online at www.cinemadiverse.org. All Access Passes, which can be purchased online as well, include the opening night film and reception afterwards. Six Pack passes cannot be used for opening night.
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Kicking off the 2022 Award Season in style, celebrities will have a chance to indulge in some exquisite bubbly and experience an unforgettable and exclusive champagne moment with RendezVous Rendez-vousChampagne.
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Coming exclusively from grapes organically grown in Premier Cru vineyards in the Montagne de Reims, France, the cuvées are elaborated with a hands-on approach to environmentally friendly viticulture to ensure authenticity and quality.
Rendez-Vous Champagne will present its natural champagnes at the upcoming DPA’s seventeenth Pre-Awards luxury gifting lounge, held at the hidden boutique hotel Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel, September 10, and 11th, 2022.
As a woman entrepreneur, Perrin has succeeded in making her dream come true despite being an outsider (she is not a Champenoise) and a woman in a predominantly male dominated Champagne industry.
Fiona is part of new generation of women in Champagne who have taken a chance, shaken off-stereotypes, fought adversity, and broken the glass ceiling paving their own ways. She is hands down perpetuating the age-old trend that in fact punctuates the history of Champagne with strong iconic female daredevils (Veuve Clicquot, Madame Pommery, Lilly Bollinger, Jeanne Krug and Olry Roederer) who have revolutionized the Champagne industry in a demonstrably impactfulFiona,way.anative of Lyon France, moved to Montreal, Canada in 2004 where she began her career in the wine industry. In July 2018, she becomes VP America for Champagne Jeeper, the co-owned Champagne House of Cos d’Estournel in Bordeaux, building the brand and its distribution across the US, which allows her to embrace the beautiful world of Champagne.
Rendez-Vous is a conscious champagne option to the market emanating from a small artisanal production and crafted naturally without the use of any chemicals or animal products from vine to bottle.
After spending 10 years in the wine business, at the onset of the Covid 19 outbreak, Fiona begins a new adventure and launches her own brand of Champagne, Rendez-Vous Champagne.
is the exclusive Cuvée of Champagne Diane Salem, a new brand of natural grower champagne, co-founded by Fiona Perrin and Jean-Michel Salem.
As part of the Grower champagne movement, Rendez-Vous Champagne has radically broken with the accepted practices of the
Each year, Dubois hosts the most exclusive, by invitation only, luxury lounges in Beverly Hills, Paris, as well as her annual celebration at the Carlton Hotel during the Cannes Film Festival. In celebration of the Emmy’s, Dubois will present the latest global brands in the areas of travel, beauty, fashion, jewelry and food and beverage.
“With our natural craft champagnes, we’re changing what champagne means to people, one bottle at a time. We are breaking the mold by bringing a low intervention, all-natural champagne to the market. We are on a mission to becoming the new cork in town.”
DPA, a leader in celebrity gifting was founded by French native Nathalie Dubois- Sissoko. Dubois Pelin and Associates (DPA) is the world’s number one global brand execution platform. DPA has worked with more than 700 companies and produce at least 6 “suites” per year in USA, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
The parade of international celebrities that stopped by DPA GIFTING LOUNGES include: Queen Latifah, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Mireille Enos, Stephen Moyer, Jim Cazeviel, Angela Basset, Rachel Bilson, Eva Longoria Parker, Morgan Freeman, Terrance Howard, Catherine Deneuve, Spike Lee, Vanessa Williams, Kate Walsh, Paula Abdul, Eric Roberts, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Hudson, Scarlet Johansson, Edie Falco, Vanessa Williams, Terry O’Quinn, Simon Baker, Jane Lynch, Jessica Schorz, Felicity Huffman, Adrien Brody, Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan, Viola Davis, to name a few.
As the first digital native champagne brand in the US, Rendezvous is the only exclusive direct-to-consumer champagne brand in the US that ships nationwide.
“Most champagne labels carry a snobbish perception and premium price tag that aren’t backed by authentic flavors and handcrafted quality, “says Fiona Perrin.
SEPTEMBER 2022 41 Champagne region adopted by the major Champagne Houses. Their raison d’être is a strict adherence to “best practices” from vineyard source, vineyard practices and cellar practices that altogether demonstrably impact the quality and character of the wine. Embracing a Terroir-Driven philosophy, Rendez-Vous pulls all the stops to naturally maximize the personality & the expression of the vineyard in their grapes.
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I’ve given a lot of thought to this conundrum and came up with a solution that I’d like you to consider. I hope that you’ll choose to join me in this launch to re-claim our Bars and Clubs. I call it OPERATION: OCCUPY GAY BARS!
Did you know that you can now purchase delicious bar food in the Bars in which you drink? In Palm Springs, on Arenas that would be at Hunters and Chill Bar, and it used to be at The Eagle 501 & Streetbar at the height of the Pandemic (thank you COVID). We could do like the Spanish, Portuguese or Italians do and eat meals, like dinner, on a weekend night at the Bar rather than leaving to go to our local restaurants. This leaves the other 5 nights a week to support our local restaurants and lets our visitors enjoy them on the weekends.
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If we are in our bars at FULL OCCUPANCY and a group(s) of Bridal Party girls arrive at the front door, they would be told that the same number of gay men must leave the bar before the whole group of the bachelorettes could enter. Do you see what I see? There is no discrimination there, just a simple matter of numbers, right?
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I hope you are all well and are mindful of the extreme temperatures that we’re experiencing and are staying hydrated and safe. Over the last three months my article, The Unbridled Bridal Parties, talked about the state of Gay Bars worldwide which has left many in the gay community disillusioned. It’s a real issue and one that I am very concerned about.
In today’s world, most things revolve around numbers, like mathematics, money or in this case, occupancy. It’s my sincere belief that we can affect a shift in the current atmosphere at our local watering holes without the fear of discrimination claims or by creating a dangerous situation like gay bashings or violence. Instead, it will be more like a peaceful demonstration. I believe the time has come for us to remind the Bar and club owners just who it was that filled up their coffers with cash all these years. And one way to do this is for us to return to the bars, enmasse week after week. It will take some planning and may include dressing a certain way to really prove our point. For example, if you agree, we could all wear to the bars, a certain color to show our unity allowing us to once again, OCCUPY GAY BARS.
Let’s take this one step further, COVID shifted our town’s dynamics and hundreds if not thousands of Gay men moved to the Coachella Valley. I don’t know about you, but I can’t figure out who lives here and who is just visiting. So, I am proposing that Palm Springs in conjunction with KGAY and our local DJ’s put on an old-fashioned “Meet & Greet,” in our new greenspace for us to get familiarized with one another. We can again wear COLORS to help identify who’s who. We, as the long-time residents, could wear red to signify the Root Chakra which represents Community, i.e., Roots, while the new Boys on the Block could wear Orange, which happens to represent the Sacral Chakra, of creativity. Once we know who’s who, it will make it easier for us to come together again. We’ve been separated and alone for over 2 long years and like the past, have lost many loved ones. But now there are new friends and lovers to meet and enjoy but we must know who we are as a community. Together we are strong!
You guys created FUN, FROLIC and F**King! And you sure didn’t do it before 9pm, did you? Over 50 is sexy and alive. Don’t buy into the “I’m too old and fat!” mentality, it’s a bunch of lies. You are way more vital than your straight counterparts and always will be. You have set the tone for entertainment for hundreds of decades, if not longer. Can you imagine if on a chosen day, every Gay Male who works in the entertainment industry around the world did NOT go to work? If you thought COVID stopped the world, think again! Maybe this is what it would take for the world at large to notice and appreciate the breadth of your contributions. Just saying……… So, what do you think? Are you willing to participate?
But going to bars is not enough. We will need to stay in the Bars after eating to do what we all used to do in the past and DANCE! Yes, it’s time to put on your Dancing shoes, kick up your heels and Dance! And please don’t let me hear you say that you are too old? What Kool-Aid have you been drinking?
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Thirty (30) years ago, the gays in Palm Springs, wrote a “G” on dollar bills to show the town’s business owners just how much of their money drawers got filled with dollars you spent. Sadly, that was breaking a law by defacing money, but it was nonetheless, very effective. Now, it’s our turn to do the right thing, in the right way. We could use sheer numbers to be seen and eventually heard and effect the change we want to see, by being the change to get what we want.
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MUSIC TEARIN’ HEARTS JOEY DIAMOND AND JACE M BRING
“When Jace presented the idea to me, I didn’t hesitate at the opportunity,” recalls Joey. “I’m a 90s kid. I grew up on Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and *NSYNC. This song I
BY PAUL HUTNICK Joey Diamond is a social media influencer who first rose to fame on YouTube in 2009 when he made a video coming out as gay. “At that time, it was really scary,” he admits. “I was afraid that it would forever end my chances in pop and R&B.” Of Filipino descent, Joey grew up in Hayward California, outside of San Francisco. His mother and father were very young when they had him and did not raise him together, but they were strong individuals who managed to provide for their son the best way they could. It wasn’t easy but their struggle instilled in young Joey a will to survive and thrive. In his toughest times, he found singing and music to be his savior. Joey released his first single, “Simple Things,” in 2014. Shortly after, he dropped an album and embarked on his first music tour, releasing additional singles along the way. With the success of the tour and his growing YouTube fanbase, he was invited to join a boy band, but it would be a short-lived project. Within a year, the members decided to go in different directions and Joey took time to re-evaluate what was important to him.
He now lives in Miami, working with creatives like Jace M on innovative new sounds. They are out now with their updated take on the *NSYNC favorite, “Tearin’ Up My Heart.” The track is being distributed by the Queen House Music label.
“Joey and I met through friends,” explains Jace M. “He came to me with an original record he had already recorded called ‘Everyday’ and asked me to remix it. I was immediately impressed by his amazing voice, and I knew right away I would want to find a project to collaborate on. One day, I was with DJ GSP (head of Queen House Music) and *NSYNC’s ‘Tearin’ Up My Heart’ came on the radio and my brain was like this is the perfect song for Joey!”
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“I like songs people can sing along to on the dance floor,” Jace M explains. “Songs that make people want to hug their dancing partner.”
BRING BACK PRE-MILLENNIAL BEATS have an incredible love for. I am so grateful to Queen House Music for allowing Jace and me this chance to redo ‘Tearin’ Up My Heart’ in ourJoeyway.”and Jace take the track in a new direction, incorporating house and disco elements for an uplifting club sound. Along with the radio edit, Jace M has called upon some of the biggest remixers and producers in the club industry to release their own versions of their track. The remix package includes eleven mixes of varying sounds from techno to hard tribal, making the track suitable for every dance floor. There is even an acoustic mix with a huge orchestral movement!
Jace M is DJ and producer, specializing in happy, uplifting, circuit music with vocals. He draws inspiration from many of the leading gay DJs from the early 2000s: luminaries like Abel, Ralphie Rosario, Tony Moran, Manny Lehman, Joe Gauthreaux, Toy Armada, and DJ GRIND. As they did, Jace produces his own dancefloor music. He has released a slew of remixes, both by himself, and with collaborators including Joe Gauthreaux, Toy Armada, and Mauro Mozart. Jace M has also released an original track, “We Won’t Go” with Joe Gauthreaux. He works full-time as a computer engineer. In the evenings, Jace is produces new music and on weekends, he is traveling the world DJing. Both agree that “Tearin’ Up My Heart” is only the beginning of their collaboration. “Joey and I are definitely working together again!” Jace M confirms. “With the help of our label, we’re deciding on if we should do another remake or an original song we write together. We both have half-finished songs sitting around. What better opportunity to finish them up?”
Katja’s authenticity and energy at her live shows inspires new & current fans alike to connect with her story and her music. Katja sings live & dances, speaking genuinely to the crowd from her heart. She has toured all over Australia and the USA and speaks out on various topics relevant to the audience, including equal rights, anti-bullying, abuse, self esteem, childhood trauma, wellness & LGBTQ+ rights.
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Katja’s inspiring song “Shooting Star” became the official anthem for The Doctors Hospital of America. Bringing her all around the United States advocating for women’s rights in domestic violence safe houses, health and wellbeing programs for obesity and eating disorders and headlining for The Doctors Hospital Run for Cancer.
Katja’s personal story of perseverance through adversity, abuse and poverty inspires her dedicated fans; on the surface, Katja is what appears to be an ideal stereotype. Yet one moment in her world, Katja relates so effortlessly through her dark humor, deep sadness, passion, compassion, and resilience that she has achieved only by being willing to be open and vulnerable.
Other releases also include the emotional ‘I Would Kill’, ‘The Ones Like Me’, the Halloween themed ‘PICKY’, ‘Midnight’, ‘Me Then U’, which was featured in a Nordstrom campaign & the iconic ‘Ride the Wave’, which was released exclusively via a partnership with Shazam & reached #40 on the iTunes charts.
Australian born recording artist Katja Glieson first gained recognition for singing and rapping as ‘Elsa’ in the hugely popular viral video ‘Princess Rap Battle’, which has had over 245 million views on YouTube. Katja Glieson first gained recognition for singing and acting in the popular viral video “Princess Rap Battle,” and has gone on to become a finalist for TikToker of the Year in the 2019 Shorty Awards with nearly 10 million followers on the platform. Katja’s most successful release is an urban/pop crossover entitled ‘Come Thru’, or as she describes the track: “Aussie girl boss demands attention and respect in throwback urban glam record”, which has had over 5 million streams across services. The single was featured on the Billboard Bubbling Under R&B Chart at #3.
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Jake Dean Taylor plays the role of the ex-boyfriend in “Maybe We Shouldn’t Talk”. Australian Actor Stephen Multari and up and coming pop artist Kelechi are also prominently featured. The dancers are Kyle McCraw and former Glee cast member RILAN. Julie Vegliante, who has worked with Lady Gaga, choreographed the moves. The role of the snake is played by Beau, a real-life python that was provided by the same family of handlers who supplied Britney Spears with the sevenfoot python she performed with in her “I’m A Slave 4 U” production at the 2001 VMA’s. Stewart insists Beau was “sweet and well-behaved.”
“My ex and I argued over anything and everything,” recalls Stewart Taylor from his LA home. “If there was a boundary that I set, he would cross it every time. I’m not saying he was a bad person. I did things, too, that hurt the relationship. It’s just that we all have our demons. I didn’t respond well to his and he didn’t respond well to mine. Some people simply shouldn’t be together.”
Stewart Taylor is an LA-based out singer, songwriter, dancer, and MMG model. He grew up in a small town outside of New York City, performing in local talent shows and Lower East Side clubs. He graduated from Boston’s Berklee College of Music.
MUSIC MIC DROP…STEWART TAYLOR GETS THE LAST WORD
He has collaborated with several Grammy-nominated songwriters and producers including Charlie Puth, Kara DioGuardi, (P!nk, Katy Perry) and David Pramik (Selena Gomez) and has released multiple singles, notably 2019’s “Mess Your Hair Up,” 2021’s “Cover Boy”, and 2022’s “Maybe We Shouldn’t Talk,” a song Stewart Taylor premiered earlier this summer at California’s firstever Venice Pride Festival.
“My look, sound, and artistry have changed dramatically since I first started releasing music in 2015,” Stewart Taylor acknowledges. “Back in college, I was heavily inspired by David Bowie and everyone I came across expected me to sing rock music. I love rock, but my heart is in soul and pop, more in the line of early George Michael and Prince. I’ve worked hard to get in touch with the R&B influences I grew up on and I’ve become a better dancer, singer, and songwriter in ways that I never could have imagined a decade ago.”
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The video for “Maybe We Shouldn’t Talk” reflects on his past struggles. Directed by Benjamin Farren and filmed primarily at Vasquez Rocks National Park in California, the video includes scenes of two lovers chasing one another, battling it out and then passionately making up, all in front of a fantastical canyon backdrop. Taylor made sure to include a game of tug of war in the video to depict the constant push and pull he experienced. He admits he took some creative license. “Did my ex and I ever fight and chase each other through a desert? No. But it’s more interesting to recreate our dynamic through the lens of fantasy and set it against that backdrop because the desolate wasteland represents how it felt for me emotionally.”
Stewart Taylor sings about the experience in “Maybe We Shouldn’t Talk,” his catchy true-to-life pop tune about breaking ties with an ex-lover. “It can be extremely difficult to move on from someone you love,” he continues, “even when you know they’re bad for you. Sometimes the only thing you can do to stop the unhealthy cycles of a toxic relationship is to stop talking altogether.”
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Stewart Taylor’s “Maybe We Shouldn’t Talk” is being distributed independently and is available on Apple Music, Spotify, and all digital platforms. Its video is on YouTube. Visit stewarttaylorofficial.com. Follow on IG @imstewarttaylor
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If there is one thing Stewart Taylor has learned these past few years, it’s the importance of great friends, creativity, and walking away from unhealthy relationships. “I learned the hard way that being half of a destructive duo will never make a person whole,” he says. “Walking away is so much easier said than done, but if I can leave the toxic relationship I was in, I believe anyone can.”
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