Proof positive that gays, especially many eldergays, are in fact not paragons of great taste but have taste that is as atrocious and tacky as any middle American frau.
What makes you think the gays are responsible for this statue?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 21, 2024 2:11 AM |
Many queens in Palm Springs wear flip flops in public.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 21, 2024 2:21 AM |
R1 Queens of a certain age clutch pearls and defend this hideous fucking atrocity as high art.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 21, 2024 3:46 AM |
I don’t really understand her appeal, but then again I don’t like anything
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 21, 2024 3:59 AM |
Good luck getting through that very badly-written article.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 21, 2024 4:09 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 21, 2024 7:38 AM |
It can be defended as tall art.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 21, 2024 7:42 AM |
She has nothing to do with Palm Springs.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 21, 2024 8:14 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 21, 2024 1:42 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 21, 2024 1:46 PM |
Suzanne Somers lived in Palm Springs too, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 21, 2024 1:48 PM |
R10 you're right. Because they're all flyover trash.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 21, 2024 1:49 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 21, 2024 2:29 PM |
The Marilyn statue is loved by the straights. We homos have another giant installation to.... admire.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 21, 2024 2:33 PM |
It's tacky and belongs in Disneyland. Marilyn deserves more respect that that oversized garnish cartoon.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 21, 2024 3:16 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 21, 2024 3:48 PM |
I mean, next they'll put a fucking Bob's Big Boy statue up, too.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 21, 2024 3:53 PM |
Can’t believe anyone has the nerve to pretend this statue isn’t the result of Palm Spring gays.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 21, 2024 3:56 PM |
I had sex on the floor at Dorothy Lamour's old house in Palm Springs. Is that considered tacky?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 21, 2024 4:01 PM |
A lot of homophobic cunts here trying to chop up gay people by presumed categories:
I wonder what their motives possibly could be.....
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 21, 2024 4:02 PM |
All you seething queens wish you could live in Palm Springs.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 21, 2024 4:15 PM |
[quote]I had sex on the floor at Dorothy Lamour's old house in Palm Springs.
Were you wearing a sarong at the time?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 21, 2024 4:19 PM |
[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?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 21, 2024 4:23 PM |
More intergenerational hate trolling, OP stereotyping gay men on a gay board.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 21, 2024 4:26 PM |
R24 I'm old, girl. Clutch those pearls any harder and they'll go back into an oyster's cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 21, 2024 4:29 PM |
[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!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 21, 2024 4:33 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 21, 2024 4:50 PM |
In 2012 the statue was displayed on Michigan Avenue in Chicago across from the Wrigley Building.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 21, 2024 5:04 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 21, 2024 5:15 PM |
[quote] These are the same queens who all have Phantom of the Opera masks on their wall, proclaiming it's ARTTTTT.
I doubt it.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 21, 2024 5:17 PM |
People may like the statute. That does’t equate to “worshipping it as high art.” You are really overstating your case.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 21, 2024 5:18 PM |
It looks like she is airing out.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 21, 2024 5:22 PM |
If y'all stand under it, can you see her cooter?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 21, 2024 5:24 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 21, 2024 5:26 PM |
Your Honor, The Defense would like to enter into evidence drone photos of a million fraubuses 🚌 entering Branson, Missouri every year
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 21, 2024 5:26 PM |
[quote]a mere hour drive from one of the most populated regions of the country.
THREE hours.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 21, 2024 5:32 PM |
Is OP Boris... I mnean the anti-boomer troll?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | June 21, 2024 5:41 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 21, 2024 5:49 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 21, 2024 5:57 PM |
It’s not really about the Seven Year Itch or even Marilyn. It’s about Hollywood. Hollywood made Palm Springs.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 21, 2024 6:00 PM |
R23 demonstrate he knows nothing about Palm Springs or the Coachella Valley… which is good because stupid trolls like him will stay away!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 21, 2024 6:01 PM |
[quote] Is OP Boris
The nellie prisspots really will call anyone Boris, won't they?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 21, 2024 6:16 PM |
Oh dear!
by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 21, 2024 9:08 PM |
No, r7. It's High Art.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 22, 2024 2:24 AM |
PS also has Sonny Bono and Lucy statues, but on a much smaller scale. And in metal.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 22, 2024 2:42 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | June 22, 2024 3:38 AM |
A "spring noir" dress code???? It's smug and pretentious.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | June 22, 2024 4:25 AM |
R23 Not to mention 150 degree weather for 6 months.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | June 22, 2024 5:07 PM |
That's why everyone wears caftans there!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | June 22, 2024 5:27 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | June 22, 2024 6:49 PM |
Vagina worship statue
by Anonymous | reply 53 | June 22, 2024 7:03 PM |
Okay bitches, 'fess up... who here wrote R54's profile for DuckDuckGo?
by Anonymous | reply 55 | June 23, 2024 5:00 PM |
R14, did the sphincter materialize? It’s actually quite funny.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | June 23, 2024 5:05 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | June 23, 2024 5:26 PM |
r55 That's a maliciously edited Wikipedia page. It's been fixed.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | June 23, 2024 6:09 PM |
Marilyn should have been Oscar nominated for Bus Stop and The Misfits
by Anonymous | reply 59 | June 23, 2024 6:17 PM |
R56 The butthole/sphincter/donut never materialized and has now been cancelled. Back to the drawing board.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | June 25, 2024 11:22 PM |
The city council voted to move the statue last night.
So many fat, nellie queens are HISSING this morning with righteous rage.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 26, 2024 4:01 PM |
One nellie queen in particular is crying and quoted lyrics from "Candle in the Wind"......LMAO
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 26, 2024 4:50 PM |
The city council is over 50% gay.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 26, 2024 5:15 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 26, 2024 5:20 PM |
City council is almost all gay. They're also really bad at their jobs.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 26, 2024 6:36 PM |