City Council
MEETING DATE: 9/27/2017
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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 #17-022 with conditions that the organizers meet and confer with our fire and police departments to mitigate any safety concerns and any department inspections, if needed, are approved.
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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 contest and dinner Gala events will occur at the Palm Spring Air Museum. The annual Friday night parking lot party has been held at the Tool Shed, an LGBT bar in Palm Springs, but due to potential ownership changes, they are unable to host the parking lot party this year.
DISCUSSION:
Kevin Winters, the owner of the Barrack's Bar in Cathedral City, has applied for a Special Use Permit to host the Palm Spring Leather Pride Parking Lot Party at their establishment. This would be a first for Barracks Bar.
The event would occur on Friday, October 27, 2017 from 5:30 pm to 1:30 am on Saturday, October 28, 2017 at their current location, 67625 E. Palm Canyon D...
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