Gay Community News Links:

	FRONTIERS Newsmagazine - Website is a counterpart to the print edition serving California, includes news, arts and entertainment, an events calendar, and guides to LA, Palm Springs and San Francisco nightlife.
	Edge Los Angeles: includes gay community news, dining, entertainment, style, night life and event information for the greater Los Angeles Area.
	The Advocate - breaking news, news analysis, and developing arts & entertainment stories that involve gay and lesbian people or are of direct interest to a national readership of gay and lesbian readers.
	The Data Lounge - This site includes news, gossip, topics, surveys and forums on subjects of interest to the gay community.
	IN THE LIFE - America's only nationally televised, award-winning gay and lesbian newsmagazine, is dedicated to chronicle the history and contemporary experiences of the gay and lesbian community. For air dates and times check their national broadcast schedule.
	365gay.com - The daily gay newspaper online, offers the latest in news, entertainment, travel destinations, sports scores and coverage, business, and health news for the gay & lesbian community.

Gay Community Social & Sports Events:
(These events are generally not naturist events)

Community Visions For the best in Gay & Lesbian Social and Sports Events visit our affiliated website, which lists a variety of West Coast gay community organizations and events including ski weekends, bridge club events and square dancing and nude square dancing events.

2008 Gay Community Festivals & Events:

	San Diego Leather Pride 2008 - March 13-16, San Diego. Annual leather event includes reception, dinner, San Diego Mr. Leather contest and dances.
	LA Leather Weekend 2008 - March 27-30, Silverlake. Annual leather event features evening seminars, Mr. Los Angles Leather contests, dances and a Sunday street fair which includes demonstrations, vendor booths and entertainment.
	Las Vegas Pride - May 2-3. Weekend will feature a night-time parade route downtown on Friday and a festival at the Las Vegas Event Center (formerly known as All-American Sports Park), Sunset Blvd and Las Vegas Blvd.
	Hot Rodeo - May 2-4, A C Dysart Equestrian Park, Banning, CA. Weekend will feature IGRA sanctioned rodeo competition events, sponsored by the Golden State Gay Rodeo Association - Greater Palm Springs Chapter.
	Long Beach Pride - May 17-18, Marina Green & Rainbow Lagoon, Long Beach. The yearly celebration includes four entertainment stages, dancing and food. A parade highlights Sunday morning.
	International Mr Leather - May 22-26, Chicago, IL. International contest draws leathermen representing organizations, communities and business from throughout the world. Includes reception, contests events, leather marketplace, victory celebration, and black and blue ball.
	Spring California Men's Gathering - May 23-26, Malibu, CA. Provides a place where men can explore different ways of looking at life and expand concepts of self while having fun.
	Los Angeles Pride - June 6-8, sponsored by Christopher Street West, features a parade Sunday and festival Saturday and Sunday which includes entertainment stages, vendor booths, dancing and food in West Hollywood.
	Los Angeles Rodeo - June 20-22, rodeo location to be announced.
	Southern California Leather Gathering - June 28, South El Monte, is an outdoor gathering open to ALL leather/BDSM-related groups, organizations, businesses, individuals, etc., and is inclusive of ALL gender and sexual orientations.
	San Francisco Pride - June 28-29, features a colorful parade, festival, dancing, food, music, entertainment stages and other events.
	Outfest 2008 Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - July 10-21, showcase for diverse, international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender film and video, features more than 200 feature and short films, at nine venues.
	San Diego Gay Pride - Festival July 19-20, Balboa Park, includes entertainment stages, several dance floors, food, and vendor booths. Parade along University Ave.
	Up Your Alley - July 27 (Sunday), 11-6, Dore Alley, San Francisco, leather and fetish event which features vendor booths and entertainment.
	Sunset Junction Street Fair - August 23-24, Sunset Junction, Silverlake. Street fair celebrates diversity, promotes understanding and acceptance in the local community, features entertainment, food and vendor booths.
	Summer California Men's Gathering - August 29 - September 1, Santa Rosa, CA. Provides a place where men can explore different ways of looking at life and expand concepts of self while having fun.
	San Diego Rodeo - September 11-14, Lakeside Rodeo Grounds, Lakeside. Weekend will feature rodeo performance events, dancing, entertainment and the "famous San Diego Parties".
	San Francisco Bay Area Gay Rodeo & Festival - September, featuring a weekend of rodeo events, country dancing, entertainment and a festival at the Corralejo Tequila Arena, Driscoll Ranches, La Honda, California.
	Folsom Street Fair - September 28 (Sunday), San Francisco. Twentieth anniversary of this annual leather event which features demonstrations, vendor booths and entertainment.
	Castro Street Fair - October 5 (Sunday), Castro and Market Streets, San Francisco, features vendor booths, food, music, dancing and entertainment.
	National Coming Out Day - October 11, Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people and friends hold workshops, speak-outs, rallies and other events aimed at showing the public that GLBT people are everywhere.
	San Fernando Valley Pride - October 12, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., CBS Studio Center, Studio City, to feature entertainment, dancing, vendor and food booths.
	AIDS Walk Los Angeles - October 19, This 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) AIDS Walk begins and ends in West Hollywood and aims to raise urgently needed funds to help prevent the spread of HIV and provide life-saving services for those living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
	Halloween Carnival - October 31, Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood. This night of tricks and treats, the Halloween & Costume Carnival draws over 400,000 participants to The Boulevard for food, merriment and costume contests.
	Greater Palm Springs Pride - Festival November 1-2, includes entertainment, dancing, food, and vendor booths. Palm Springs Stadium. Parade November 2.
	Palm Springs Leather Pride '08 - November 6-9, Palm Springs, CA. Includes reception, dinner, Sunny Dunes Street Fair, Mr. Palm Springs Leather contest and dances, presented by Palm Springs Leather Order of the Desert.
	Fall California Men's Gathering - November 28-30, Mountain Center, CA. Provides a place where men can explore different ways of looking at life and expand concepts of self while having fun.

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