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Here’s Your Gay Desert Guide for the Weekend: Feb 2-4, 2024 🌴

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Valerie Milano
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February 2–4, 2024
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“If you’ve got your health, you’ve got everything,” the adage goes. That’s resonating with me as I have friends and relatives dealing with cancer, dementia, and other life threatening diseases. I’m in relatively good health, and thankful for that more than ever.

At last weekend’s Heath Run & Wellness Festival, it also hit home that we have many things at our disposal to stay healthy – from Pilates (my fave) to the simple act of walking. It beats the alternative (death).

But if the loss of a loved one has come into your life recently, there’s a new book out by local author Ray Smythe to help deal with the pain. Ray came to us as a KGAY listener with a self-published first title. He wanted to help others and thought that advertising on KGAY would be a good idea. And it was! His second title, My Life After Loss: A Resource for Gay Men Moving Forward, is now out and he’s already gotten great reviews for the book and numerous comments from his ads.

The other adage we hear often is “there’s nothing certain but death and taxes”. Yes, none of us makes it out alive. But along the way we have choices for how we avoid both eventualities. So exercise….and hire a good tax guy!

Brad Fuhr, your Gay Desert Guide & KGAY 106.5 Palm Springs host

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This Weekend in #ILoveGayPalmSprings
February 2–4, 2024

We’re keeping you updated on the weekend’s Top Events: Black History Month in Palm Springs, Palm Springs Reader’s Festival, The Trilogy Tour: Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, and Pitbull, A Taste of Jalisco in Cathedral City, Coco Peru: Have You Heard?, Cabaret, Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, The Lifespan of a Fact, International Desert Conservation Summit, Passion 4 Pinot Noir Festival, Totally Rad 80s Murder Mystery, LGBTQ+ Victory Fund in Palm Springs…and much more! 
Read Brad’s Blog to Learn More!

Black History Month in Palm Springs

The entire community is invited to participate in a host of free, fun, and educational Black History Month events organized by the Palm Springs Black History Month Committee, in partnership with the City of Palm Springs and the Palm Springs Art Museum. See our listing for the events coming up, including this weekend’s 14th Annual Awards Gala (Feb. 3), plus the Men’s Basketball Tournament (Feb. 17), Black History Caravan (Feb. 19), and the Parade and Town Fair on Saturday, February 24. More info

Palm Springs Reader’s Festival

The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs hosts the inaugural Palm Springs Readers’ Festival this Friday–Sunday, February 2–4, at Hotel Zoso. The festival is described as “inclusive, thought-provoking and engaging,” with a focus on “celebrating a wide range of literary voices and promoting lively conversations that spark intellectual curiosity and empathy.” Single-day or full-festival passes are available. The festival will include in-depth author conversations and workshops, and you can see a full schedule on our event listing. Of note is the Big Gay Author Panel on Saturday, February 3 at 6 pm, featuring Jedidiah Jenkins (Mother, Nature), Byron Lane, R. Eric Thomas, Rasheed Newson (My Government Means to Kill Me), with Jason Blitman (Gays Reading). More info

The Trilogy Tour

The one-of-a-kind Trilogy Tour comes to Acrisure Arena on Friday, February 2 at 7 pm. This arena party features three multigenerational global powerhouses: Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, and Pitbull, for an unforgettable night of music. The megastars will perform an electrifying mix of their biggest career-spanning hits with influences of reggaeton, salsa pop, dance, and electronic music. Get tickets
We have a featured Hot Deal for savings at Destination PSP, plus deals at V Wine Lounge, Desert Zen Day Spa, Palm Springs Fine Men’s Salon, Monster Shakes, Papa Dan’s Pizza and Pasta, Rick’s Desert Grill, Lulu California Bistro, Men’s Grooming Spot, and more!
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Power Yoga Palm Springs welcomes all experience levels and all body types to their two Downtown Palm Springs yoga studios with stunning mountain views. Join their signature Power Yoga class, hot classes, relaxing slow and stretchy classes, and everything in between. Power Yoga Palm Springs also offers rooftop sunrise classes, and free classes on Tuesdays at the ACE Hotel and Saturdays in Ruth Hardy Park. There’s never a charge to use a mat. Come join a class, or ask them about massages, bodywork, stretch therapy, and assisted stretching. Learn more
On the Air
The KGAY 106.5 Retro Lunch airs Monday through Friday at noon, with DJ Galaxy (Vincent Corrales) and DJ Eric Ornelas playing an hour of their high-energy throwback mixes.
Today, DJ Galaxy celebrates five years mixing on KGAY!  We’re celebrating with a little party on the patio at Sonny’s on Arenas.  Come by Friday 4-6 pm and raise a glass to the mixmaster of the Coachella Valley!
On Sundays, we put all five hours together for the Retro Sunday Brunch from 11 am–4 pm. Perfect party music! Listen Online.
The KGAY 106.5 Sunday Tea Dance with DJ Modgirl airs every Sunday from 4–6 pm (right after the Retro Brunch). DJ Modgirl (AKA Kellee McQuinn) is all about “Music! Dancing! Fashion! Fun!” and she throws down the most irresistible, uplifting beats each week. Listen online.
103.1 MeTV FM salutes Black History Month with Two at 10, featuring two songs back-to-back by an influential Black artist every day at 10 am and 10 pm, all month long! 103.1 MeTV FM is KGAY’s sister station, featuring a unique mix of timeless and memorable music incorporating a wide variety of classic hits, deep tracks and softer sounds spanning several decades of popular music, including the ‘60s and ‘70s with a touch of the ‘50s and ‘80s. Listen online
103.1 MeTV FM wants you to win tickets to see Mid-Century Moderns at Revolution Stage Company! Palm Springs’ homegrown musical is a vibrant romantic comedy where the fashion is always as sharp as the wit. Weekend performances continue through April, and you can
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Valerie Milano
Valerie Milano is the well-connected Senior Editor and TV Critic at The Hollywood Times, a showbiz/promotions aggregate mainly for insiders. She has written for Communications Daily in DC, Discover Hollywood, Hollywood Today, Television International, and Video Age International in NYC. Valerie works closely with GLSEN, GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign (Fed Club Council Member), LAMBDA Legal, NCLR, and Outfest. She is also a member of the LA Press Club. She is a lay minister and parishioner of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Hollywood. Milano loves meeting people and does so in her getaway home in Palm Springs as a member of the Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs Center and DAP Health (Partners for Life member). For years Valerie Milano had volunteered as a board member and one of the chief organizers for the Television Critics Association’s press tours. The tours take place twice a year in Beverly Hills/Pasadena.

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