Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend

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The Dinah Event and Music festival
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Genre Electronic music
Dateseach Fall for 5 days
Location(s) Palm Springs, California, U.S.
Years active1991–2019, 2021– (unofficial starting in 1986)
Founders Mariah Hanson
Attendance15,000
Capacityvaries per venue
Website The Dinah

Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, popularly known as "The Dinah", is a five-day weekend getaway and music festival catering to the queer women/non-binary/lesbian community that takes place annually in Palm Springs, California, United States. [1] [2]

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History

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The Dinah Shore Weekend as The Dinah is commonly referred to, was coined after the late Dinah Shore – a singer, TV personality and renowned golfer, whose women's major golf championship was held in the area at the time. The event is not authorised by the Shore estate or the tournament. [3] Born Frances Rose Shore, in 1916, she lived in the Coachella Valley and is credited for having founded in Palm Springs the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle women's golf tournament, now known as the LPGA's Chevron Championship in Texas, The Dinah initially coincided with the tournament, which took place the same weekend. The first unofficial Dinah Shore Weekend took place in 1986 when women began to flock to Palm Springs in conjunction with the tournament. "Loosely organized events with boomboxes and alcohol" took place during the tournament in the late 1980s. [4] After-dinner parties following the golfing turned benefits for the Human Rights Campaign and the AIDS Service Foundation.

The first Dinah Shore event was produced as a one night party in 1991 by Mariah Hanson under her Club Skirts Presents The Dinah Marquee at the Palm Springs Art Museum. [5] The early years had the event as co-produced by Hanson and Sandy Sachs and Dr. Robin Gans (promoters of Girl Bar in West Hollywood [6] ) beginning in 1992. [7] In 2003 the television series The L Word had an episode set as happening at the weekend, which helped heighten its visibility. [5] The following year, attendance doubled - the Saturday night party jumped to 2500 from 1200 the year prior. [8] In 2005 the partnership between Hanson and Sach & Gans dissolved, with competing Palm Springs parties happening the same weekend. [6] That state continued until 2012 when Sachs and Gans relocated to Las Vegas for an event which was called Girl Bar Dinah Shore Week Las Vegas. [9]

The event initially was viewed as a party weekend, with the New York Times in 2007 calling it " Girls Gone Wild for Girls" [8] and Sports Illustrated calling it "lesbian spring break". [10] Beginning in the late 2010s, the event started to rebrand itself as "the largest and most famous girl party music festival in the world" in an effort to move away from that image. [7]

In 2006 Guinevere Turner featured the event in the TV documentary A Lez in Wonderland (original title: Broute-minou à Palm Springs).[ citation needed ]

In October 2021, it was announced that the tournament would move to Houston in 2023 as the Chevron Championship due to a new sponsorship agreement; while recognizing the event's tradition, Hanson stated she was supportive of the move, arguing that it made sense for the LPGA since the two events "[made] it difficult for a broad range of people to even come here to experience events that are happening because the economic bar is raised". Hanson stated the Dinah Shore Weekend would still be held in Palm Springs, but that it would likely move from April to September due to more favorable weather and hotel rates; that year's event (which marked its 30th anniversary) had already been delayed to October 2021 due to COVID-19. [11] [12]

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  2. ↑ MacWilliam, Keenan (June 29, 2016). "Dive into America's Most Popular Lesbian Pool Party". Vice. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  3. ↑ Mahdawi, Arwa (April 7, 2016). "20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to The Dinah, a world without men". The Guardian. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  4. ↑ Hoeffner, Melissa Kravitz (9 October 2021). "Back in Lesbian Paradise, at Long Last". New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  5. 1 2 Kravitz Hoeffner, Melissa (2021-10-09). "Back in Lesbian Paradise, at Long Last". New York Times . Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  6. 1 2 Gelt, Jessica (2010-04-03). "Rival parties toast 20 years at the Dinah". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  7. 1 2 Bendix, Trish (2021-10-10). "Why The World's Biggest Lesbian Party Is Trying To Rebrand Itself As A 'Women's Music Festival'". Into. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  8. 1 2 Ryzik, Melena (2007-04-01). "Daughters of the Dinah, Unbound". New York Times . Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  9. ↑ Mazak, Cheryl (2012-01-26). "Dinah Shore Weekend Dual Rivalry Ends: Club Skirts Is Last Dinah Party Standing, Girl Bar Goes to Vegas" . Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  10. ↑ Mansfield, Stephanie (1997-04-07). "MAJOR PARTY WOMEN GO TO THE DINAH FOR THE GOLF AND FOR THE SCENE THAT HAS GROWN UP AROUND THE TOURNAMENT". Sports Illustrated . Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  11. ↑ Blueskye, Brian. "The Dinah founder says party staying in desert, but dates may change". The Desert Sun. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  12. ↑ Blueskye, Brian. "'We have to be what we want': The Dinah returns this weekend for 30th anniversary". The Desert Sun. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
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