Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend

Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend
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Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, popularly known as “The Dinah”, is a five-day weekend getaway and music festival catering to the LGBT communities that takes place annually in California in the United States. It is considered the largest lesbian event in the United States and the world. Held each spring in Palm Springs, California, the event offers a series of pool parties, night entertainment, live concerts by Top Ten Billboard recording artists, comedy shows, sport-games and social networking opportunities.

Primarily catering to the lesbian demographics, The Dinah celebrates the tapestry of women around the world attracting some 10,000-plus participants from countries such as Australia, Russia, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, China, South Africa, Belgium and Spain. Over the years, it has gradually rallied the corporate support of market leaders such as Miller, MTV/LOGO Networks, here tv!, Sirius Radio, Showtime, O.B. Tampons, Shake Weight and Bacardi among others.

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History/Creation

The Dinah Shore Weekend was named after the late Dinah Shore – a singer, TV personality and renowned golfer born Frances Rose Shore in 1916, who lived in the Coachella Valley and is credited for having founded in Palm Springs the Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Tournament in 1978. The event now coincides with the Kraft Nabisco Championship women’s golf tournament. The first unofficial Dinah Shore Weekend took place in 1986 when women began to flock to Palm Springs in conjunction with the tournament. After-dinner parties following the golfing turned benefits for the Human Rights Campaign and the AIDS Service Foundation.

The first Dinah Shore Weekend was produced in 1991 by Mariah Hanson under her Club Skirts Presents The Dinah Marquee at The Palm Springs Museum.


Activism and Humanitarian Endeavors

The Dinah has become a platform to mobilize the LGBT community around LGBT-oriented humanitarian projects and social issues. Hanson has teamed up with a variety of organizations and lent her support to various humanitarian causes and activist movements such as GLAAD, NOH8, LOVE IS LOUDER, The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Community Center, The Women's Building, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Jon Sims Center, Ladies Philharmonic, Uhuru Movement, HRC, Lyon Martin Health Clinic, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center, and Equality California. Hanson just ended her second term on the Board of Equality California and also sits on the "Women's Night" committee for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Both organizations are named charity recipients of The Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend.


The Dinah Timeline & Highlights

Year Highlights
1991 First Club skirts The Dinah at The Palm Springs Museum featuring Martha Wash.
1993 First Major magazine to sponsor The Dinah: Out Magazine.
1994 First long term contract with a major hotel: The Riviera Resort.
1994 Expanded to Sunday night making it a full four-day event.
1995 Ellen DeGeneres attended as guest at the Friday night White Party.
1997 Received proclamation from republican and conservative Mayor Kleindienst acknowledging March 29th as Gay Tourism Day Dinah Shore Weekend Day.
1998 Signed ten-year contract with The Wyndham.
2000 Added Doral as second overflow hotel.
2001 Added Wednesday night & making it a five-day event.
2003 Added Wednesday night & making it a five-day event.
2006 The Dinah joined forces with Planet Out to produce the exclusive Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend. Headline performances by The Pussycat Dolls, En Vogue, and Joan Jett.
2007 The Dinah teamed up with L Word's Ilene Chaiken to produce an exclusive L Word event with actresses Kate Meonnig, Leisha Hailey and Jane Lynch called “be Scene”. Headliners featured India Arie and Uh Huh Her.
2008 Colbie Caillat, Lisa Lisa and Pat Benatar headlined The Dinah. The official LOGO Networks and Here TV Red Carpet events launched.
2009 The Dinah boked Grammy nominees Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, and Indigo Girls, as well as Margaret Cho and Uh Huh Her to headline the night parties/concerts.
2010 The Dinah celebrates its 20th milestone Anniversary. Headliners featured Salt-N-Pepa, Ke$ha, Martha Davis and The Motel, and Paradiso Girls. Celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley hosted a “NOH8” Sunday Pool Party.
2011 Chely Wright, Natasha Bedingfield and Dev and The Cataracs headlined The Dinah. Actress Brittany Snow and MTV/Logo hosted a “Love is Louder” Sunday Pool Party to raise awareness on school bullying and discrimination.

Celebrities attending included Laurel Holloman (“The L Word”), Fernanda Rocha (“The Real Housewives of Orange County”), Whitney Mixter and Rose Garcia (“The Real L Word”).


Web Site

The Dinah


Press

  • Rival parties toast 20 years at the Dinah: LA Times
  • Dinah 2011: Mary B interviews Mariah Hanson from Club Skirts: GayTravel.com
  • Fernanda Rocha, Real Lesbian Housewife of Orange County, Poses Topless for NoH8: LA Weekly
  • Mariah Hanson Blows It Out at Dinah Shore 2009: SheWired.com
  • Brooke Means Business: Talking to Dinah Shore Masterbrain Mariah Hanson: Autostraddle.com
  • Mariah Hanson, la diva du Dinah Shore: Tetue.com
  • Interview: Mariah Hanson, Les’preneur Extraordinaire: Cherrygrrl.com
  • Julie Goldman's Celesbian Interviews Special: MARIAH HANSON: AfterEllen.com
  • NATIONAL PROFILE The Dinah turns 20: Talking with Mariah Hanson: Windy City Times
  • Club Skirts Presents The Dinah, Celebrates Its 20th Milestone Anniversary With A Music Legend: Salt N Pepa: Top40Charts.com
  • How Can You Make Salt-N-Pepa Even Better? Add A Sprinkle Of Spinderella: Queeried.com
  • here! TV Parties with the Dinah Girls: Heretv.com
  • Laurel Holloman on Art, Motherhood and the Balancing Act That Makes for a Truly Great Life: EdgeOrlando.com
  • From the closet to club skirts: OFC interviews ‘out’ country music artist Chely Wright: OutFrontColorado.com

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