City Council
MEETING DATE: 8/8/2018
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2nd Annual Palm Springs Leather Pride Parking Lot Party
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FROM:
Chris Parman, Communications / Events Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the approval of Special Use Permit #18-018 to hold the 2nd Annual Palm Springs Leather Pride Parking Lot Party.
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BACKGROUND:
Palm Springs Leather Pride is organized and produced by volunteers and members of Palm Springs Leather Order of the Desert (PSLOD), a registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. It promotes with power and pride the right of all adults to engage in safe, sane and consensual sexual expression and orientation.
The organization raises money for local and national organizations such as AIDS Assistance Program, Desert AIDS Project, Desert Women for Equality Mammogram Program and Well in the Desert. Over the past 23 years, they have raised more than $250,000 for these charities and causes.
Each year, the PSLOD holds the annual Mr. Palm Springs Leather Contest, the annual Gala dinner and cocktail party, pool parties, and other activities including the Friday night parking lot party. In recent past, most of the events have occurred in Palm Springs.
The 2017 annual parking lot party was held last year for the first time at the Barrack's Bar in Cathedral City as the event moved from the Tool Shed, an LGBT bar in Palm Springs. To my knowledge, last year's event was successful and had no calls for action of our public safety departments.
DISCUSSION:
The annual event would occur on Friday, October 26, 2018 from 6:00 pm to 2:00 am Saturday as well as on October 28, 2017 from 8:00 pm to 2:00 am Sunday, October 29, 2018 at the Barracks Bar located at 67625 E. Palm Canyon Drive. The party will attract at peak hours around 1,000 attendees, therefore there is a need to extend the event beyond the interior space of the bar and utilize their parking lot space.
The party will include outdoor music; however, they wi...
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