““Welcome to Palm Springs,” says Rosemary Galore, towering above me in six-inch skyscraper heels. “Or, as I like to call it, Gay Disneyland!”
It’s a sleepy Sunday morning in the Californian desert city of Palm Springs and the sun is languidly rising above the jagged San Jacinto Mountains. Just beyond the window of the Saguaro hotel, palm trees sway lazily in the breeze and there’s hardly a car visible on the street. But inside the hotel lobby, Rosemary’s arrival is causing a stir, with fans lining up for a photo with the renowned drag queen.
Rosemary is the founder and hostess of the popular PS Drag Brunch, and I’m joining her for a pre-show chat. It took a Los Angeles costume designer three weeks to craft the local starlet’s outfit, a vision of twinkling sequins finished with a cherry-red-lined superhero cape. It was inspired by Liberace and Elvis Presley, who came to Palm Springs to clink martinis around shimmering swimming pools, back when the city was known as Tinseltown’s hedonistic playground…”
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