The Dinah

The Dinah, AKA Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, is the largest lesbian gathering in the U.S. and possibly the world as some 10,000 women turn out for five days of pool parties, sports events, comedy shows, top recording artists and networking. Named after the late Dinah Shore, the golf-playing singer and TV personality who lived nearby, it began informally in 1986 during what is now the Kraft Nabisco Championship in women's golf. Officially it was launched in 1991 at a gala at the Palm Springs Art Museum.