The Marilyn statue in Palm Springs

What makes you think the gays are responsible for this statue?

Many queens in Palm Springs wear flip flops in public.

R1 Queens of a certain age clutch pearls and defend this hideous fucking atrocity as high art.

I don’t really understand her appeal, but then again I don’t like anything

Good luck getting through that very badly-written article.

That statue embodies the myth of Marilyn as having agency over her sexuality, but the irony was that she struggled against that image and suffered mistreatment by men.

I suppose there’s a type of queen who likes his icons tragic like Marilyn and Judy, or bitchy like Bette and Joan.

It can be defended as tall art.

She has nothing to do with Palm Springs.

[quote] She has nothing to do with Palm Springs.

But sad, fat old eldergays will alll CRYYYYYYYYY if you tell them that. These are the same queens who all have Phantom of the Opera masks on their wall, proclaiming it's ARTTTTT.

Ugh.

The gays who live and own property in PS, as well as the straights and all others don’t give a rats ass what any of you think or don’t think. You can be sure of that. As for the statue being art or not- no one care about that either.

Suzanne Somers lived in Palm Springs too, OP.

R10 you're right. Because they're all flyover trash.

[quote]Queens of a certain age clutch pearls and defend this hideous fucking atrocity as high art.

[quote]Many queens in Palm Springs wear flip flops in public.

Tell me you've never been to Palm Springs without telling me you've never been out of your mother's basement.

The Marilyn statue is loved by the straights. We homos have another giant installation to.... admire.

It's tacky and belongs in Disneyland. Marilyn deserves more respect that that oversized garnish cartoon.

[quote]She has nothing to do with Palm Springs.

She met William Morris agent and lover Jonny Hyde at the Racquet Club's swimming pool. He's the one who got her first contract at Fox and her part in All About Eve. The rest is history.

I mean, next they'll put a fucking Bob's Big Boy statue up, too.

Can’t believe anyone has the nerve to pretend this statue isn’t the result of Palm Spring gays.

I had sex on the floor at Dorothy Lamour's old house in Palm Springs. Is that considered tacky?

A lot of homophobic cunts here trying to chop up gay people by presumed categories:

I wonder what their motives possibly could be.....

All you seething queens wish you could live in Palm Springs.

[quote]I had sex on the floor at Dorothy Lamour's old house in Palm Springs.

Were you wearing a sarong at the time?

[quote] All you seething queens wish you could live in Palm Springs.

Oh yes, please, please, let me live in the middle of nowhere around a bunch of MAGAts and old drunken MARY!s talking about how much better it was in 1978. Drowning in cocktails, poppers and drugs, peppered by random homeless and/or crazy people and the occasional Latino landscaper-slash-escort.

How, how could one possibly resist?

More intergenerational hate trolling, OP stereotyping gay men on a gay board.

R24 I'm old, girl. Clutch those pearls any harder and they'll go back into an oyster's cunt.

[quote] Clutch those pearls any harder and they'll go back into an oyster's cunt.

R25 best line I’ve read on DL all week. Kudos!

R23 You seem bitter. Thank god a place exists - a mere hour drive from one of the most populated regions of the country - where older gay men of means and functional genitalia can live out the rest of their lives drowning in cocktails, poppers, and drugs while ogling their hot Latino poolboys if they so choose. I've been around and have never met gay men who are more relaxed and content than those in the SoCal desert.

In 2012 the statue was displayed on Michigan Avenue in Chicago across from the Wrigley Building.

R28 yes, she's been around. It's chipped and damaged and just tacky as fuck. But the bad taste queens all worship that statue as high art, or as some sort of symbol of "carefree" Palm Springs.

[quote] These are the same queens who all have Phantom of the Opera masks on their wall, proclaiming it's ARTTTTT.

I doubt it.

People may like the statute. That does’t equate to “worshipping it as high art.” You are really overstating your case.

It looks like she is airing out.

If y'all stand under it, can you see her cooter?

R31 Exactly. I've never heard anyone in these parts mistake it for a Rodin. If anything, it just fits into the pop art aesthetic of the region.

Your Honor, The Defense would like to enter into evidence drone photos of a million fraubuses 🚌 entering Branson, Missouri every year

[quote]a mere hour drive from one of the most populated regions of the country.

THREE hours.

Is OP Boris... I mnean the anti-boomer troll?

From OP’s article:

[quote] If you want the statue moved and you impugn the statue, you look like a stick-in-the-mud. If you like the statue where it is and you praise the statue, you look like you have bad taste—which is not a crime in Palm Springs but might as well be.

Nobody is claiming the statue should remain because it’s “art.” The museum had nothing to do with it, and wants it moved.

Not sure what “the gays “ have to do with it one way or the other.

I always wondered, what the hell does that Seven Year Itch Marilyn image have to do with Palm Springs. This has got to be the work of hets.

It’s not really about the Seven Year Itch or even Marilyn. It’s about Hollywood. Hollywood made Palm Springs.

R23 demonstrate he knows nothing about Palm Springs or the Coachella Valley… which is good because stupid trolls like him will stay away!

[quote] Is OP Boris

The nellie prisspots really will call anyone Boris, won't they?

Oh dear!

No, r7. It's High Art.

Compare and contrast.

PS also has Sonny Bono and Lucy statues, but on a much smaller scale. And in metal.

PS has a host of shitty, awful statues.

The Lucy one is almost as ugly as the Scary Lucy one.

There was also a giant fuss about a racist old mayor who had a statue and then when they wanted to move that one or take it down, a whole bunch of elderstraights hissed.

A "spring noir" dress code???? It's smug and pretentious.

Next statue for Palm Springs.

R23 Not to mention 150 degree weather for 6 months.

That's why everyone wears caftans there!

Art major here.

Representational (vs. abstract) sculpture is just hard to get right.

JMO, but even Rodin's The Thinker is not a super-impressive piece of art.

I actually like the Bob's Big Boy sculpture. It is what it is. It's not trying to be something more. AND - it did its job: become something fun, friendly, and recognizable that made you think: "Let's stop here and eat at Bob's Big Boy."

The PS Marilyn piece is like something from a theme park. Was that the goal? I don't know.

Vagina worship statue

LOL....this is apparently on DuckDuckGo

Okay bitches, 'fess up... who here wrote R54's profile for DuckDuckGo?

R14, did the sphincter materialize? It’s actually quite funny.

[quote]Art major here.

Not a very good one if you haven't heard of John Seward Johnson II, the sculptor who created this piece.

r55 That's a maliciously edited Wikipedia page. It's been fixed.

Marilyn should have been Oscar nominated for Bus Stop and The Misfits

R56 The butthole/sphincter/donut never materialized and has now been cancelled. Back to the drawing board.

The city council voted to move the statue last night.

So many fat, nellie queens are HISSING this morning with righteous rage.

One nellie queen in particular is crying and quoted lyrics from "Candle in the Wind"......LMAO

The city council is over 50% gay.

R40 nailed it. Most property owners and visitors of all ages and sexuality love it. There are many outdoor sculptures all over Palm Springs- some I like, some not so much. But I love that they are there.

City council is almost all gay. They're also really bad at their jobs.