Palm Springs: Not Just for Heavily-Tanned 70-Year Olds

Palm Spring is a small, ritzy town in the desert 120 miles east of West Hollywood, too far to go for a day.  Gay men over 50 went there for weekend visits.  Around age 70, they moved there permanently. got a deep tan (who cares about melanoma?), drank a lot, and cruised the cabana boys.

I only visited once, in the company of a Geezer whose name I no longer remember.  It was kind of fun being the youngest guy in the room by at least 20 years, and the hookups were plentiful: once you hit 70, you are no longer concerned about such old-fashioned concepts as marital fidelity.

I had the impression that it consisted entirely of elderly gay men, but in fact only about 10% of the population consists of gay couples, and probably another 20% of single elderly gay men.  There are lots of heterosexuals about, and you can see lots of beefcake (other than heavily tanned 70 year olds).

There are about as many gyms as West Hollywood.





There are three high schools (public, fundamentalist, Catholic).  Strangely, the public school has a water polo team.

Water polo in the middle of the desert?












And of course a wrestling team.  Presumably you have to be 18 to get a job as a cabana boy and get cruised by heavily-tanned 70-year old gay men.



















Adjacent Palm Desert has four high schools (two public, two fundamentalist Christian), plus the College of the Desert.  The wrestling teams appear to hold matches in hot desert sun.


















And the football team holds meetings in...um...a swimming pool.










Well, I'm in favor of anything that gets cute guys' shirts off. 

Especially if they are not too heavily tanned and under 70.