Desert Daily Guide

By Vic Gerami

Desert Daily Guide is the greater Palm Springs area’s premiere LGBTQIA+ publication, distributed throughout the desert communities and available online. It is owned and published by Will Paige.

For 22 years, the largest offering of local LGBTQIA+ information and advertisers than any other queer publication or website. As the only proven experts in reaching LGBT consumers in the Coachella Valley and visitors, we don’t just talk about the LGBTQIA+ community we are part of the community.

The Oldest LGBTQIA+ weekly publication in Southern California! Every year, hundreds of thousands of queer people from around the world are part of the estimated 3.5 million annual visitors that vacation in Palm Springs. Now in its 23rd year of publication, the Desert Daily Guide magazine has been the most often-quoted source for weekly information on travel, activities and lodging in the Palm Springs desert area.

For more information, please visit DesertDailyGuide.com

Vic Gerami

A noted columnist, Vic Gerami is also a journalist and media contributor who is also publisher and editor of The Blunt Post. His show, 'The Blunt Post with Vic' on Public Radio KPFK 90.7 FM, part of Pacifica Network, launched in 2018. Today reaching national international audiences, Gerami first built a foundation of knowledge and skills by learning the media industry during his years at Frontiers Magazine, followed by positions at LA Weekly and Voice Media Group. For the second time, Gerami was selected as a finalist in the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards “Columnist of the Year” category in 2019, having first made the final round of consideration in 2017. His celebrity Q&A column, '10 Questions with Vic', is syndicated internationally. The Wall Street Journal featured Gerami as a “leading gay activist” in its landmark 2008 coverage of opposition to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that for years denied same-sex couples in California the freedom to marry. In addition to his years of volunteer work as a leading advocate for marriage equality, later Gerami went on to serve as a Planning Committee member for the historic Resist March in 2017. Vic Gerami is also a founding board member of Equality Armenia. In 2015, Gerami was referenced in the landmark Supreme Court civil rights case, Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Vic Gerami is a contributor to the LGBTQ San Diego County News, Windy City Times, Montrose Star, DC Life Magazine, Out & About Nashville, Q Virginia, GNI MAG, QNotes, GoWeHo, Asbarez, California Courier, Desert Daily Guide, Armenian Weekly, GED, The Pride LA, IN Magazine, OUT Traveler, The Fight and The Advocate Magazine among others.

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