According to its website, the event draws 15,plus attendees throughout the weekend. Hanson spoke by phone to The Desert Sun about organizing this year's event, adapting to change s in the LGBTQ community and the importance of the event to women.
The following interview was edited for length and clarity. What are the benefits of doing it in the fall and do you see this becoming a permanent change? At what point did you become comfortable moving ahead on doing The Dinah this year?
Nobody wants to provide a super spreader event, but previous events have been watched very closely. My company has taken guidance and gone further. I feel like our customers have been really responsive and appreciative of that.
There are things we need to do above and beyond the requirements set forth by the powers that be. We have to learn how to gather responsibly in the face of that while reducing transmission or hopefully having none at all. We were on our way to another notch on our belt with picking the next big thing and we postponed.
But I think overall my best memory every year has to be my customers. Year after year, as each Dinah comes to a close, I see them all depart Palm Springs with profound nostalgia for a one-of-a-kind weekend that changed their lives forever, gifted their hearts with beautiful memories, and energized their spirit.
And that to me is the biggest reward I can get. The Dinah Shore Weekend, Sept. How can we help you? Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report. News News See all. Food See all. The Best Sweets for the Season are in the L.
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Hanson and Lizzo. A sapphic scene sprouted up around the golf tournament, and the Dinah was born. Today, nobody is here for the golf. No one is here for the DJs, comedians or YouTube stars performing either. Butch, femme, old, young, gold stars, bi, black, white, hardcore, normcore — the Dinah attracts a diverse group.
One year, there was a minor earthquake in Palm Springs. Debbie, a Dinah veteran who has attended every event since , recalls that half the water splashed out of the pool. Most of the girls were too drunk to realize or care.
The feeling of permissiveness is compounded by the desert scenery: it looks like there has been some sort of gaypocalypse, and all the straight men and women have died out. But I feel like that comes more from the queerness rather than the femaleness. No one at the Dinah wishes a plague on all men. This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies.
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