The house has all the elements of what they are calling “Midcentury Modern meets bohemian cowboy”: rattan, leather, gold, metal and natural materials that blend into the views.
When gay, fringe-masked country-western singer Orville Peck performed at Pappy and Harriet’s in April, the Station owners Glen Steigelman and Steve Halterman outfitted Big Josh, the 21-foot-tall fiberglass cowboy outside their Joshua Tree gift shop, in a pink fringed mask to match the country crooner’s trademark disguise.
Another choreographer, Spencer Liff, is turning an abandoned homestead cabin into a dance studio. (You’ll also spot an occasional anti-Biden “Let’s Go Brandon” flag in town.) Celebrity dancer and choreographer Ryan Heffington, who lives in the desert, recently started hosting a popular queer dance party at the Out There Bar in Twentynine Palms. Visit the shops along Route 62 and you’ll be greeted by pride flags in the windows. Coming from those two very gay-welcoming communities, I felt some real trepidation about what a gay man might find in the high desert - especially in some of the more conservative communities here,” McAdam adds.Ī lot has changed.
“At the time, I lived full-time in San Francisco and had a second home in Palm Springs.
