What
Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend (also known as The Dinah), entirely produced by women, is the largest lesbian event in the world and is timed to start at the end of Women’s History Month in the US.
Mariah Hanson, the festival’s founder and producer, says:
The Dinah has always stood for living out loud in celebration of our unique and incredible lives. These are women who have taken a chance, shaken off-stereotypes, fought adversity and broken the glass ceiling in their respective professional fields paving their own ways. Because that is what the Dinah has been and continues to be about: living out loud, breaking barriers!
Where
The Dinah takes place in hotels, clubs and bars around Palm Springs, with the official free pre-party kicking off the celebrations at Hilton Palm Springs. Over the course of the weekend other events including Thank Good It’s Dinah Friday Pool Party and The Hollywood Party will take place at various locations around Palm Springs.
Many hotels, including Hilton Palm Springs, Hyatt Palm Springs and Renaissance Palm Springs, are offering special festival packages for visitors during the weekend, ensuring that party goers can enjoy the best possible deals for their stay in Palm Springs.
The Dinah is one of a number of world class festivals which take place in and around Palm Springs, including Coachella, Desert Trip and Stagecoach Country Music Festival. The constantly evolving music festival line up, in addition to the many cultural and sporting events held in the city, has marked Palm Springs as one of the top destinations for music, art and culture lovers from around the world.
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Palm Springs has a long history of promoting LGBT rights and is home to the largest number of LGBT specific resorts in the world as well as a number of excellent LGBT clubs and bars, all of which help create a safe and relaxed environment for visitors to the city. As well as The Dinah, Palm Springs hosts a variety of LGBT events throughout the year including Palm Springs Pride Parade and The White Party, which help promote equality and solidarity within the community and beyond.
When
March 28 – April 1, 2018
How Much
Tickets start from $30 for the Saturday night comedy show, between $40 and $60 for the various parties and $219 for the full Festival pass.
Who’s On
This year features a powerful all-female line up of inspiring women. The line-up includes American hip hop recording artist and actress Snow Tha Product; an electronic music artist and activist Madame Gandhi; Ariana and the Rose, an American synth-pop band from New York; Dana Goldberg, named one of the top three LGBT comedians in the US; and Suzanne Westenhoefer, an out lesbian stand-up comedian.