“We’ve been booked for five months,” says Art DellaVedova, the manager of Palm Springs‘ clothing-optional resort on Warm Sands Drive. “We have probably turned away 30 to 40 people.” The only difference between this weekend, when thousands of gays will descend upon Palm Springs for Jeffrey Sanker’s White Party, and other weekends? It’s going to be easier than ever to find an anonymous roommate who will let you crash out in his bed. [photo via]
Cat Walker
Those two bears are HOT!
Sam
And please boys, don’t solicit a cop in public and then btch later…
Shannon
They are GROSS! And also this will be nothing but a DRUG/ORGY/NAKED fest! This why the masses think gay people immoral and sex ~~crazed~~ animals…
David Ehrenstein
LOVe Palm Springs!
Spike
Shannon is such an ignorant prick that its sad. I went one year and sure its a big party, but its also a big hug. Thousands of thousands of gay people who know each other having lunch dancing at the pool and just having a great time. Shannon probably spends the nights popping ass pimples and is jealous.
Jeffree
Shannon probably hasn’t finished 5th grade yet, so I doubt she’s aware of the drunken debauchery called “Spring Break” where hetero college students go wild, too.
PS Bill
Palm Sprngs is just lovely…all are welcome as long as you treat each other and our desert well!
Truthful
Didn’t think it was possible to make Palm Springs seem scarier, then Queerty posted that photo..
Jonathan
Its a seroconversion party weekend & Sanker is a blood sucking war profiteer.
DJ
Yummm… Bears!
TheRealAdam
@Truthful: I don’t understand why they are considered attractive at all.
If I see one more burly ass dude with that horrible beard and baseball cap that no doubt covers up baldness…..bleh.
ThatRandomGuy
c’mon! everyone has their opinions on what is and what is not attractive or hot. personally, i say: BRING THE BEARDS!!!! =D
Spike
God, not another WPPS hating post by Queerty. Seriously, your request for comp passes was never received and there are no comp passes in the mail. Get over it. Try again next year.
Might I suggest you drop a flinstone vitamin, drive over to your local HomoDepot, head for the lighting department, plug in your ipod earplugs and have a blast!
Zonk
Actually, most “bears” are disgusting (effeminate overeating lazy guys who think the “bear” title explains and excuses why they’re fatties).. But those guys aren’t too bad : not too fat and just a little bit hairy.
JAW
@TheRealAdam:
LOL… u get around… you never did tell us what you would do if you saw them… perhaps u would firebomb them too??
Truthful
It isn’t the beards or hairiness that turns me off, AT ALL – in fact, it’s almost mandatory for a guy to have a beard, for me to want to boing them.
It’s just that these guys’ bodies are not too attractive. Their heads don’t fit on their over-worked out bods and the guy on the right is obviously one who abuses steroids.
Lucas
My only critique is why Palm Springs? After what that city put gay people through over the last year, uncovering a serious case of institutionalized homophobia, why spend our tourist dollars there?
West Hollywood is a Lady Gaga-listening road trip away.
Adonis-of-Fire
Those bears are yumm
TheRealAdam
@Truthful: Well, your standards on what’s attractive are even more hideous than I imagined.
FloRunner
I’ll take the one in the green hat!!
Fit Cub
@Zonk: So true.
JoeyO'H
Those bears are HOT!
Ignore Shannon, she’s always stirrig up the pot here…she has no life!
Natural Disaster
For a study in overcompensating to make-up for one’s insecurities about being Homosexual, see the two guys in the pic above.
Soupy
Has anyone seen this hilarious Anderson Cooper clip about bears?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faUXYJ1g3og
Wild Gift
@Shannon: Shannon, YOU’RE gross! And who gives a fuck what the masses think?
ousslander
@Natural Disaster: lol, good one.
Never been to one wanted to when I was younger but I thank gods the moment soon passed.
TheRealAdam
@Natural Disaster: Win.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Think the boys at queertyland haven’t been to many white parties………
Any white/black party I ever been to is full ‘o thin, smooth, muscledboyz……don’t see many bears roaming ’round those parties…………
TwlightoftheDogs
I like the body hair. I think one of them even has a cute face once you get passed the body type. Do not like the body shape. I don’t like them skinny, but I don’t like them this over developed hulking either. I agree that this look along with other looks like “I’m a Twink!” seem like overcompensation. Its like their bodies are uniform that all look the same. BUt, then I dont like conformity so that’s likely what turns me off the most about the image.
Adonis-of-Fire
@TheRealAdam:
Bitch take a seat, not everyone is into tiny effeminate twinks
TwlightoftheDogs
No Adonis, you are just into your own gay stereotype. Its like the modern version of the Village People- a Drag Queen, A Twink, A Bear, etc. Stereotypes all. Not an ounce of originally amongst them.
TheRealAdam
@Adonis-of-Fire: What, you think that’s what I am, or that’s what I’m into? Well, you’re wrong.
Zonk
I don’t like effeminate twinks. But I’ll take a tough guyish kick-ass twink over a fat faggy bear anytime. It all depends on the individual dude.
hf2hvit
Amazing that the world’s most judged and abused group of individuals has to be so judgemental and abusive towards itself.
IAbuseGays
Yes, it is a well known fact that if you do not find someone attractive or question the conformity of trying to fit into niches that means you are “abusive” in the same way as people who are trying to murder gays or deny us our rights. Thanks for calling us out.
mb00
Who gives a Fuck?! If you don’t like these types of events, stay home or go some place else. It’s no’t my kind party but far be it for me to try and make someone feel shitty for attending. There are biggerisses in the world to worry about.
mb00
Who gives a Fuck?! If you don’t like these types of events, stay home or go some place else. It’s not my kind party but far be it for me to try and make someone feel shitty for attending. There are bigger issues in the world to worry about.
IAbuseGays
We are commenting about how they look on a blog at home or somewhere not there.
AL
Wow, what hate! These two guys are acquaintances from Gold’s Gym in Hollywood… neither is bald, as if having male pattern baldness from an excess of testosterone were somehow bad, both are strong manly guys and neither has had a bad word to say about the skinny hairless estrogen enriched ‘men’ here who have such nasty horrible things to say about them. I
Comments like above are cliches of effeminate homosexual bitterness. Maybe, I’m thinking there is some truth to the cliche after all.
No one is allowed to flame me unless they can bench press 315 lbs… i just wont take you seriously.
TheRealAdam
@AL: This whole comment basically tells me that you are a contradictory hot mess.
zeb
Al, I don’t read comments from anyone with an IQ under 140 so it looks like we won’t be discussing global warming or Gold’s Gym. Go benchpress and see if that gets rid of all your anger issues.
Rob Moore
@Truthful: Your incredible power that allows you to detect steroid use through nothing more than a photograph is sorely needed by the Olympics, Major League Baseball, and just about every athletic enterprise in the world. You could be the world’s first trillionaire.
A couple of decades ago, I had a boyfriend who resembled the one on the right. He was nearly 7 feet tall and weighed around 265 pounds of mostly muscle. It was just who he was. His brothers were of similar build as were a couple of his mother’s brothers. He was undoubtedly the strongest man I ever knew. He did not belong to a gym, but had worked outdoors since he was old enough to drive a tractor. He was also one the gentlest men ever, perhaps, because he was too big for all but the most stupid to challenge. He also liked to draw and was very good. In the five years we were boyfriends, I will guarantee that he never used steroids.
The guy on the right of the photo does not look worked out. He simply looks big.
Nat
@AL:
Why do you simply assume it’s bitchy effeminate men who take issue with this?
Maybe the real issue is the same rampant phoniness that so many gay men subscribe to. It’s not enough to like a particular activity, or to wear particular clothes, you have to fashion an entire identity out of a label.
And maybe it’s an issue because it’s exactly what we’ve been fighting against the past fifty years. We’re supposed to be more complex than these vacuous parodies of masculinity or femininity. For God’s sake, it’s 2011 – stop dressing up your insecurity with an empty stereotype. Or don’t. Your choice.
Hillbilly
Seems that the ‘White Parties’ are still the Alisters dissing the rest of us. Actually partner and I look pretty much this way, not so much gym lately as working an organic farm start up and no steroids.
If memory serves weren’t the White parties supposed to be a charity benefit for hiv services?
I’m so sorry to say that when they started and I was going to several funerals a week, I was afraid they would turn out to be just booze and anonymous sex..which I don’t really have a problem with.. its the shallow bickering of a bunch of small minded queens grow up children. please.
Hillbilly
Seems that the ‘White Parties’ are still the Alisters dissing the rest of us. Actually partner and I look pretty much this way, not so much gym lately as working an organic farm start up and no steroids.
If memory serves weren’t the White parties supposed to be a charity benefit for hiv services?
I’m so sorry to say that when they started and I was going to several funerals a week, I was afraid they would turn out to be just booze and anonymous sex..which I don’t really have a problem with.. its the shallow bickering of a bunch of small minded queens grow up children. please.
I have been poz for almost 30 yrs, been on the roller coaster of hospitals, hospice and funerals. The White party is just another excuse to party like its 1977.
Spider_orchid
The asshole comments in this post are kind of making me want to hurl. What a bunch of self hating judgmental DOUCHE CANONS you lot are. Calm your tits.