Chelsea Lately’s Very Own Good Fortune, Out Comedian & Roundtable Guest-Host Fortune Feimster Does The Dinah! Out Comedian & Roundtable Guest-Host Fortune Feimster Does The Dinah!

LOS ANGELES, CA — Rocking Palm Springs for 22 consecutive years, the Dinah Shore Weekend — the biggest lesbian event in the world popularly known as The Dinah — has continuously been attracting the who’s who of ‘celebritydom’ covering the entire gamut of the entertainment spectrum including music, fashion, film & TV.

From Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, The Pussy Cat Dolls, Colbie Caillat, Natasha Bedingfield to Dev & The Cataracs, Meredith Baxter and Wanda Sykes, The Dinah has undeniably grown to become quite a sought-after music festival that almost every major recording artist vies to play, not to mention a world-class event that numerous A-list celebrities want to attend. And this year is no different!

Joining the stellar 2012 Club Skirts Presents The Dinah celebrity roster is Fortune Feimster (E!’s “Chelsea Lately” & “After Lately”).

Feimster is the lovable Southern comic with great hair and an ever better personality, who has been making a name for herself as Chelsea Lately’s good fortune revealed!

Taking the Los Angeles comedy scene by storm, she made her national TV debut on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” where she finished as a semi-finalist.

Now Fortune is a full-time writer and “roundtable” performer on the E! Network’s popular “Chelsea Lately” & “After Lately” shows.

Fortune will emcee the entire weekend and give Dinah-goers a taste of her hilarious comedic medicine when she hosts the “Laughing Loud 4″ Comedy show on Thursday, March 29 at The Riviera Spa & Resort in Palm Springs, CA. Sharing the stage with famed fellow comedians Suzanne Wesntenhoefer, Jessica Kirson and Karen Williams, this is a not-to-be-missed comedy tour de force.

Countdown to Dinah has started! Don’t miss this epic five-day world-renown weekend: the legendary wild Pool Parties, the sexiest go-go dancers, the best DJs, the top-notch entertainment, the hottest girls in the world, plus the non-stop action and … the celebrity sighting!

Hosted by the hilariously funny Fortune Feimster!

… in an exclusive, up close & personal Q & A session moderated by veteran comedian suzanne westenhoefer

LOS ANGELES, CA — The most well-known hippie mom of the sitcom world, the beloved and iconic television actress Meredith Baxter is ready to sit down with veteran comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer for an exclusive Q&A session with a live audience of listeners and fans at the legendary Dinah — the largest lesbian event in the world.

The one-hour event will be held at the Riviera Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, CA on Friday, March 30 from 8:00pm to 9:00pm. A Dinah premiere, this special intimate panel will consist of an interview conducted by Suzanne Westenhoefer, followed by a Q&A session where attendees will be able to hit the famed actress, producer and activist with all their burning questions.

Baxter will also autograph copies of her bestselling autobiography “Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame and Floundering,” and pose with fans for photo ops.

“Meredith Baxter has had one of the most extraordinary careers of any actresses in TV history” says Mariah Hanson, founder and producer of Club Skirts Presents The Dinah, “Her personal bravery is an encouragement to all those who have yet to make the personal decision to live out loud. She’s a wonderful person with great wit and reflection. This is a one of a kind event that will leave our audience smiling and inspired.“

Emmy Award winning Meredith Baxter is most known for her role as Elyse Keaton on the hit 80s sitcom “Family Ties”. Her warmth, humor and contagious smile made her one of the most popular women on television with millions of viewers religiously following her on the small screen each week. The author of the bestselling Memoir “Untied”, Baxter revealed how her success deceitfully masked a tumultuous personal story and a harrowing private life sharing her incredible highs (working with Robert Redford, Doris Day & Michael J. Fox, as well as bravely coming out on The Today Show), and her lows (a thorny relationship with her mother, a difficult marriage to David Birney and a bout with breast cancer), to finally reveal the real woman behind her iconic All-American mother image.

“A conversation with Meredith Baxter is like therapy, comedy and fun Hollywood stories wrapped in a blond blue eyed package,” says Suzanne Westenhoefer.

Don’t miss your opportunity to spend an intimate evening with movie/TV legend Meredith Baxter – a one of a kind chance to meet this beloved actress at Palm Springs’ premiere destination event, The Dinah!

Limited Space Available — Book Now!

Most wanted pop starlets BC JEAN, WYNTER GORDON & DANCE DIVA CE CE PENISTON just added!

Los Angeles, CA — Thought The Dinah’s entertainment line up couldn’t get any bigger? Think again!

Always breaking grounds by delivering the crème de la crème of all things entertainment The Dinah brings you this year again THE buzz-heavy breakthrough artist of the moment: BC Jean.

We know you’ve crooned along to Beyonce’s massive hit “If I were a Boy”, now meet the pop princess who originally wrote it, snatching a record deal with Sony Records and becoming music mogul, Clive Davis’ latest protégé. The multi-platinum, award-winning songwriter, BC Jean has already scored two Top 40 charting singles, “Just a Guy” and “I’ll Survive You”, from her forthcoming debut album due out this year featuring a host of top-notch collaborators including The Matrix (Britney Spears) and Max Martin (Katy Perry).

The SoCal native has also written a pop hit with American Idol alum, Adam Lambert, for his upcoming new album, Trespassing. A double threat of a talent, BC Jean stars in Alloy’s hot new series “Talent” from the executive producers of the TV show phenomenon, “Pretty Little Liars”.

But wait there’s more! Joining the Dinah roster and keeping the party going are international music sensations Wynter Gordon and Ce Ce Peniston.

Gordon took over the dance charts around the world with her club anthem “Dirty Talk” which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance US Chart and went 3x platinum in Australia – the accompanying music video received an impressive 8 MILLION hits on YouTube. She followed up the massive success of “Dirty Talk” & “Sugar” (ft. Flo Rida) with the two worldwide hit singles “Til Death” and “Buy My Love” from her newly released EP “With The Music I Die”, which made a Hot Shot Debut on the Billboard Club Play Chart. Gordon, who’s written the title track on Mary J Blige’s multi-platinum, Grammy nominated album “The Breakthrough”, and penned hit songs for A-List artists such as David Guetta and Jennifer Lopez, is readying to drop her full-length debut album this year.

A fixture on the club scene with her chart topping international commercial hits “Finally” & “Keep On Walking”, Ce Ce Peniston is back with a brand new collaboration with world-renown DJ Paul Oakenfold. Oakenfold delivers freshest productions and fierce remixes of Peniston’s Gold-certified, timeless classic “Finally” in “We are Planet Perfecto” — the first in a new compilation series from dance pioneer Paul Oakenfold that reflects the diverse, non genre-conforming sounds that have given him the legendary status he holds today.

Want to see and hear what the next best thing in music is? The Dinah’s got it!

Los Angeles, CA – For its 22nd consecutive year, Club Skirts Presents The Dinah is once again bringing one of the biggest names in music to heat up the desert.

The sultry “Queen of Funk”, R&B Diva, iconic music legend, Chaka Khan will headline Club Skirts’ “The Dinah Goes To Rio” themed-soiree and monumental dance party on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Palm Springs’ largest concert venue, The Convention Center (www.TheDinah.com).

In a special one-night only performance, the timeless singer/songwriter is exclusively bringing her full touring band to rock The Dinah – the biggest all-girl party & music festival in the world. The R&B Diva, understanding the caliber of The Dinah as a music festival elected to pull out the big guns to wow the stage with her classic signature hit anthems including: “Tell Me Something Good” (written by Stevie Wonder), “Ain’t Nobody”, “Through The Fire”, “I’m Every Woman” (written by Ashford & Simpson with a then 15-year-old Whitney Houston singing background vocals) and the platinum seller international smash hit “I Feel For You” (written by Prince featuring memorable collaborations by Stevie Wonder on harmonica and the now iconic cult-classic distinctive triple-fast “Cha-ka Khan” rap by Melle Mel).

With an impressive recording career that spans over three decades, Chaka Khan has sold over 200 million records worldwide, scored 8 Platinum Albums, half a dozen Gold records, snatched three #1 US singles on the Billboard charts, sold-out concerts around the world, received 10 Grammy Award wins, four American Music Awards nominations, a BET Lifetime Achievement Award, a Soul Train Legends Award, a Diamond Life Award for Excellence by the International Association of African-American Music (IAAAM), and now a 2012 nomination for induction into the Rock’N Roll Hall of Fame.

“Presenting Chaka Khan on my main stage is a lifelong dream of mine. Chaka is a legend and my customers are in for a rare treat. Her decision to bring her full touring band speaks to not only The Dinah’s growing stature as a music festival, but what a rare and magical evening we are all in store for ,“ says Mariah Hanson, founder and producer of Club Skirts Presents The Dinah.

Yvette Marie Stevens, the petite high school student raised on Chicago’s south side, attending Calumet High School and Kenwood Academy, changed her name to Chaka Khan when she went to work for the Black Panthers. She first arrived on the music scene in 1973, achieving breakout success as the lead singer for the multiple award-winning funk powerhouse Rufus.

Since then the leather-and-feathers ’80s superstar, who has collaborated with some of the most outstanding music talents in the business such as Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, David Foster, Robert Palmer, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Steve Winwood, Gladys Knight, Phil Collins, Mary J. Blige and rapper 50 Cent, has to this day remained a top-selling solo performer and a first-class name drawing sold-out crowds.

Khan also used her fame to launch a charity, “The Chaka Khan Foundation”, which provides help and education to children and young-adults victim of domestic violence, substance abuse, and autism.

Celebrating three decades as a phenomenal entertainer, CHA–KA KHAN still got the funk and is bringing it to The Dinah for what is sure to be a packed-house out of this world showstopper party!

A larger than life Music Legend, Chaka Khan is indeed “Every Woman” … and “Ain’t Nobody” doing it better!

…and to catch first at the Dinah’s legendary pool parties

Los Angeles, CA — What do Lady GaGa, Ke$ha, Dev, Katy Perry, The Pussycat Dolls and Colbie Caillat (among others) have in common? Besides the fact that they’re all international mega-superstars, they’re also first and foremost Club Skirts alumni, and chances are, you’ve all discovered them first at The Dinah.

Carrying on its solid unique reputation for spotting and booking breakthrough artists on the verge of becoming music’s next new biggest sensation, The Dinah – the largest girl party music festival in the world – brings you this year again five of the fastest-rising artists building the hits of tomorrow to keep your eyes on!

Meet Anjulie, Meital, Rye Rye, Porcelain Black and Daniela Brooker, the RISING STARS of tomorrow, who will all exclusively, for this one time only, perform under one roof! Already stepping to the forefront of the pop/dance music circuit, these “Fab Fives” are securely carving their way towards success.

ANJULIE

The youngest of four children, Anjulie grew up in the Toronto suburb of Oaksville, Ontario, raised by immigrant parents from Guyana. The exotic mélange has definitely influenced Anjulie’s debut album created with her producers and songwriting collaborators Colin Wolfe (Dr. Dre and Monica) and Jon Levine.

Anjulie made her marks on the music charts with her memorable radio hit “Boom” and “Rain”. She also wrote two songs for actress-singer Emma Roberts’ debut album Unfabulous and More. Now the soulful chanteuse/dance vixen is back and set to s-l-a-y with her new single “Brand New Bitch”. The song already featured on Charlie’s Angels TV series, just landed at # 5 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart thus becoming her 4th consecutive top 10 hit.

With her unique voice, disarmingly frank lyrics, melodic gifts and exotic sex appeal, Anjulie announces herself as a commanding new presence on the music scene.

PORCELAIN BLACK

Ever since her debut single, “This Is What Rock N’ Roll Looks Like ” (featuring Lil Wayne), pop-rock singer-songwriter Porcelain Black has been wowing audiences with her fierce, raspy vocals, two-tone hair, and bad-girl attitude. She’s released a handful of singles while fans wait for her new album (to be released in early 2012). She toured with Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and Travis Barker, appeared in videos for Swizz Beatz and Jeffree Star, and made her television debut on Late Night With David Letterman Show last July.

Now the heavily tattooed rocking chick in killer platforms is invading our iPods and airwaves with her newest single, “Naughty Naughty”, which not only reminds us why we can’t wait for her new album in 2012, but also why she’s definitely a MUST-SEE performance at The Dinah!

MEITAL

Born and raised in Israel, Meital Dohan (pronounced “Mey-tall”) is no stranger to the spotlight as an award-winning actress in theater, film, and television, and the author of a number of successful plays and the book “Love and Other Bad Habits”. After an outstanding performance on Showtime’s “Weeds”, she broke into the music scene with her single “Yummy Boyz”, which playful music video garnered over ONE MILLION views on YouTube. “Yummy Boyz” is the first single off Meital’s forthcoming debut album “I’m in Hate with Love” produced by Che Pope (Dr. Dre, Eminem, Lauryn Hill). Meital is also starring in the upcoming feature film “Foreclosure” with Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos.

This eccentric, over-the-top, triple threat will be bringing her sexy, provocative, envelope-pushing show to the desert with an exclusive never-heard-before “Yummy Girls” version tailor-made for Dinah goers that is sure to sweep the ladies off their feet and take The Dinah by storm.

RYE RYE

20-year-old rapper Rye Rye’s new single “Never Will Be Mine” is heating up the charts, and with her debut album “Go! Pop! Bang!”(set to be released early 2012 ) she’s on top of the world. Baltimore-native Rye Rye burst onto the music scene at just 16. As a perfect showmanship she pulled herself up and out of the Baltimore projects making mentors along the way. DJ Blaqstar offered her a club hit with “Shake it to the ground” while her collaboration with M.I.A on “Bang” – also featured as a single on the soundtrack of “The Fast and The Furious” – sealed her star status.
One of the freshest voices in the industry, Rye Rye throws down rhymes ridiculously easily to let the music alone be the sound of her triumph.

“Choosing 2012′s line up was tough this year as so many young artists have current club hits, but I narrowed it down to the five I felt had the most impressive and well rounded talent. Possessing a seasoned and commanding stage presence is always also a factor for me. Wowing my audience with a very high caliber of talent is always my goal. We’re going to have five amazing shows at The Dinah pool in 2012.” says Mariah Hanson.

“Ever since The Pussycat Dolls, then still unknown, performed at The Dinah in 2006, our event has steadily developed a reputation for breaking the artists of tomorrow, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry being amongst our most well known and Dev being the latest revelation. Keeping with the tradition, our 2012 pool parties will showcase a variety of promising emerging artists – the next “it” thing in music!”

Jump on the bandwagon and be the first ones to say: “I saw them first at The Dinah”, because, predictably next year, they’ll be storming the charts and selling out arenas and stadiums all over the world.

DOUBLE DECADES OF DINAH WITH DOUBLE TROUBLE Identical Twin Sister Pop Duo NINA SKY

The Sexy “Move Ya Body” Puerto Rican Girls Take Center-Stage At The Legendary “White Diamonds Party” … Talent Times Two And Twice The Hotness!

LOS ANGELES, CA — What started 22 years ago catering to a relatively small gathering of women who trekked to Palm Springs to socialize and maybe even take in some of the concurrent Dinah Shore Championship Golf Tournament has now turned into a series of multi-media, star-studded, internationally known parties of enormous proportions hosted by famed DJs with headlining performances by Top Billboard Recording Artists. This is The Dinah!

And The Dinah 2012 will not only be off the hook but double trouble with the exclusive headlining performance by the iconic identical twin sisters pop duo Nina Sky.

As phenomenal and unclassifiable as The Dinah itself, the eclectic mix of R&B, hip-hop, reggae and rock waves of Nina Sky are undeniably best experienced live! The genre defying, boundary breaking twin hotties will take center-stage at the legendary “White Diamonds” Party, Friday, March 30 at the trendy-chic Riviera Resort & Spa in the Sunny Oasis.

The multi-talented duo known as Nina Sky – Nina equaling a portion of each of their names (Nicole and Natalie Albino) and Sky representing their shared aspirations – stormed up Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart and had everybody partying with their international smash hit “Move Ya Body”, which peaked at #4 and earned them instant global recognition.

Their critically acclaimed debut Album “Nina Sky” (Universal Records) hit the music industry with a brand of R&B/pop that was unprecedented, coming from, then, two New York teenage twin sisters of Puerto Rican descent. A slew of music gems have been following such as “Turning Me On” with Pitbull & Shawnna, “Oye Mi Canto” with Daddy Yankee, “Your Time”, and “Beautiful People”.

Natalie and Nicole Albino are not only two heavenly attractive young women, they are also, first and foremost, singers; true singers with cohesive melodies that are as strong as their sisterly bond.

Nina Sky consistently continues to impose their eclectic presence on the music scene.
They’re featured artist on Sean Paul’s “Connection” and enjoy sparkling collaborations with R&B legend Betty Wright (“You Deserve”), The Alchemist with Prodigy of Mobb Deep, and more recently appeared with Creep on the single “You”.

Not just breaking the sound barrier, the duo also broke sexual orientation and racial stereotypes in 2010 when Nicole became one of the first Latina recording artists to publicly announce she was openly gay, and married her partner, fashion designer, Erin Magee. Nina Sky has been active in voicing their opinions on LGBTQ rights both nationally and internationally. The twins recently performed at Rome’s annual Gay village festival as well as posed for the No H8 Campaign.

With a new masculine and “butched up” style, the band – while currently in an ongoing battle with their record label, Polo Grounds Records, for the lack of support over the release of their new album “Starting Today” – decided to independently release an 8-track EP entitled “The Other Side” for digital download this past August, featuring production from DJ Yonny, Salaam Remi, Kidz in the Hall and many more. The lead-single of the EP “You Aint Got It (Funk That)” dropped along with the music video.

“When I heard Nina Sky’s latest EP, I was blown away. It’s so good. I support their move to go independent to produce and promote their music on their own terms. I want to get them in front of their lesbian fans and show them how much our community embraces them, appreciates Natalie coming out, and just plain loves their music!” says Mariah Hanson, creator & producer of Club Skirts Presents The Dinah. “The duo will blow Dinah goers away with their show. They’re phenomenal live. Having Nina Sky on our music festival line-up makes perfect sense. They’re legends in their own right. The Dinah prides itself in continuously delivering music legends and breaking the new faces of tomorrow.”

This double threat of a duo has recently confirmed a new EP is presently in the works.
In the meantime, always remaining true to the philosophy of their flagship single “Move Ya Body”, Nina Sky sure knows how to keep the party going and it’s going on at The Dinah.

Ladies get ready for talent times two … twice the sexiness and a double dose of Latina hotness!

Former Pussycat Doll JESSICA SUTTA takes solo spotlight with the #1 dance hit “SHOW ME” and kicks-off CLUB SKIRTS DINAH SHORE WEEKEND with exclusive opening-night performance

Los Angeles, CA — For its 22nd consecutive year, The Dinah, the largest girl party music festival in the world, is once again delivering some of the biggest names in music to heat up the Sunny Oasis.

Palm Springs will get steaming hot March 28 through April 1, 2012 when the jaw-dropping, ex-Pussycat Doll, Jessica Sutta, now embarking on a much talked-about solo career, will exclusively kick off the official opening-night celebration of the legendary Club Skirts Dinah Shore weekend at Zelda’s Nightclub (Thursday, March 29, 2012).

Already stepping to the forefront of the pop/dance music circuit, Sutta is securely carving her way towards success with multiple concerts and promotional appearances in support of her debut #1 hit single “Show Me”, before returning to the studio to record additional new tracks with various top producers for her highly anticipated debut album set to drop mid 2012.

“Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?” Indeed that’s what Florida native, Sutta and her former all-female burlesque group was singing to us back in 2006 when The Pussycat Dolls took the world by storm and caused quite a sandstorm in the desert with their memorable Dinah headlining show.

Turning up the volume on her music career and taking solo spotlight, “Pin-Up Doll” Jessica Sutta is making a roaring comeback at The Dinah 2012 to give her LGBT fans a preview of her forthcoming debut album “Sutta Pop” featuring “Show Me”, her first #1 dance single as a solo artist.

Welcome back Jessica!

“We are beyond thrilled to have Jessica Sutta come back and perform at The Dinah’s opening night kick-off party,“ says Mariah Hanson, founder and producer of Club Skirts Presents The Dinah, “It’s a Dinah first! Her show will be one unlike any other. She’s an amazing talent and a fantastic activist for LGBT rights. It makes perfect sense to have her back. She’s definitely one of the fastest-rising artists of tomorrow to keep your eyes on!”

With two multi-platinum albums, Top 10 singles including the Grammy-nominated “StickwitchuÝ, and an incalculable amount of concerts around the world, The Pussycat Dolls re-imagined feminine style. But Sutta, crowned one of the “100 Sexiest Women in The World” by FHM Magazine, alone is undoubtedly already a dance diva defined.

The soulful vocalist previously scored number one singles working with famed dance producers Paul Van Dyk (“White Lies”) and Dave Aude (“Make It Last”).

Her Hollywood Records debut single “Show Me”, a sleek, sexy dance track that hit dance floors worldwide earlier this Fall, is not only featured as a bonus track on “Now That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 39”; but also hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs in the US. The music video premiered on ABC Family at the same time. Written and produced by Busbee (Katy Perry, Lady Antebellum) and mixed by Grammy-nominated Veronica Ferraro (David Guetta), “Show Me” definitely shows Sutta’s artistic savoir-faire while building anticipation for her forthcoming full-length due out in 2012.

Having built a reputation as a fan favorite, the sexy glamour icon with the heart of gold, Jessica Sutta is all that and more. Having a fondness for charity work, she’s continuously working to support The New Possibilities Foundation as well as marriage equality, and counts her gay fans among her favorites.

Continuing its grand tradition and solid unique reputation for spotting and booking breakthrough artists on the verge of becoming music’s next new biggest sensation, The Dinah is turning its legendary five-day weekend getaway into a spectacular music festival — a sure crowd-pleaser and show stopper event!

And with Jessica Sutta starting the multi-media, star-studded, internationally known event of now enormous proportions, how could it not?

She’ll surely have everyone saying “Don’t Cha Wish You Were at The Dinah!”

Jessica Sutta will be performing at Zelda’s Nightclub in Palm Springs on Thursday, March 29 , 2012

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Never taking no for an answer, she built an empire and raised a historical DINAH’STY!

Los Angeles, CA — Against the backdrop of a conservative America, every year for the past 22 years, the city of Palm Springs (CA) has been home to the biggest lesbian event in the world: The Dinah Shore Weekend popularly known as The Dinah.

Created and produced by Mariah Hanson under her Club Skirts marquee, The Dinah now is not only an event celebrating the tapestry of women around the world but also stands as a seminal Mecca for lesbians.

Armed with steadfast courage, wit and a savvy sense of business, Hanson has grabbed the entrepreneurial torch – chasing dreams, breaking stereotypes and forging the way for the next generation of DYI moguls. More than just an event promoter blessed with incredible success, Hanson has also become a (militant) voice to be reckoned with as a dedicated advocate for LGBT rights and also for women in general.

With The Dinah, Hanson has succeeded in imposing, in a country where LGBT rights still remains a polemical issue, an international world-class event that celebrates differences.

Each year, approximately 15,000 women from all over the world make the pilgrimage to the Sunny Oasis for a monumental 5-day weekend of spectacular comedy shows, games, live concerts, activism and legendary pool parties.

Hanson has managed to turn The Dinah into an inescapable event by welcoming the biggest names in the music industry such as Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, The Pussy Cat Dolls, Colbie Caillat, India Arie, Pat Benatar, Natasha Bedingfield, The Indigo Girls, Chely Wright and Salt’n Pepa, to name a few. And beyond delivering the who’s who of the music arena, Hanson has also transformed The Dinah into a trampoline for success catapulting emerging talents in the likes of Ke$ha and Dev & The Cataracs (for instance) to the top of the Billboard charts – both of whom have seen their careers enjoy international fame post-Dinah appearance. Hanson continuously exceeds the expected with unmatched level of inspiration, imagination and innovation to deliver the latest trends — the “it” thing — in entertainment.

Another major substantial victory for Hanson manifested in her securing sponsorships from major mainstream (non-LGBT affiliated) corporations. Miller, OB Tampons, Shake Weight, and Bacardi are just a few examples of sponsorship endorsements The Dinah continuously rallies. In a country where the Tea Party still finds a voice and within which homosexuals still remain stigmatized, getting the seal of approval from such recognizable leading top-global brands was certainly no small task for Hanson.

And that’s just it! Hanson is a woman who has perpetually been defining extreme reinvention by revolutionizing her industry, overturning tradition and raising the bar on female achievement. They said she was crazy and perhaps you do have to have a screw loose to dream this big but Hanson never takes NO for an answer.

In less than two decades Hanson parlayed a one-day small-scale event originally held at the Palm Springs museum into a 5-day one-stop destination booking entire hotels. Coinciding with the Ladies Professional Gold Association’s Kraft Nabisco Championship Golf Tournament (formerly the Dinah Shore Golf Championship), The Dinah is a MUST-DO rite of passage for lesbians, not to mention Palm Springs’ hottest ticket!

The envy of the world with more than 330 days of sunshine each year, Palm Springs has intrinsically been linked to the Dinah — more than a tradition the event is now part of the Sunny Oasis’ patrimony. Now The Dinah is to Palm Springs what Sundance is to Park City.

Through the image of lesbians supported and celebrated by The Dinah, it is as well the image of women in general that is uplifted. Within the community created by The Dinah, Mariah offers a platform where all stereotypes are broken: every woman is accepted no matter what age, size, height, colors, race, cultural background, religion and handicap. Reflective of this all-embracive/non-discriminating philosophy, is the comedy show, which offers a sign language interpreter who simultaneously translates the comedian’s words for the hearing impaired.

For each Dinah installment, Hanson also engagingly travails for the LGBT cause and for women. In previous years, The Dinah famously partnered with a variety of activist associations and charity organizations such as GLAAD, NOH8, Love is Louder, Equality California, and The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center among others.

The Dinah 2012 will be held March 28 through April 1 at The Riviera Resort and Spa in Palm Springs. Headlining performances as well as the full schedule of activities will be announced early 2012.

1. The Dinah Shore Weekend popularly known as The Dinah was created & produced by Mariah Hanson in 1990 under her Club Skirts marquee, and has been rocking Palm Springs for 22 years.

2. Welcoming some 15,000 women from all over the world to Palm Springs, California, to enjoy both the Nabisco Golf Tournament and The Club Skirts’ parties, The Dinah now is not only an event celebrating the tapestry of women around the world but also stands as a seminal Mecca for lesbians. It has been hailed by national media as the largest Lesbian event in the world.

3. In less than two decades Hanson parlayed a one-day small-scale event originally held at the Palm Springs museum into a 5-day, one-stop destination booking entire hotels, delivering spectacular comedy shows, massive dance parties, live concerts, activism, celebrity antics and games, and legendary pool parties.

4. Coinciding with the Ladies Professional Gold Association’s Kraft Nabisco Championship Golf Tournament (formerly the Dinah Shore Golf Championship), The Dinah is a MUST-DO rite of passage for lesbians, not to mention Palm Springs’ hottest ticket!

5. The Dinah has become an inescapable event welcoming the biggest names in the music industry such as Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Dev & The Cataracs, The Pussy Cat Dolls, Colbie Caillat, India Arie, Pat Benatar, Natasha Bedingfield, The Indigo Girls, Chely Wright and Salt n’ Pepa, to name a few.

6. As seen on TV! Showtime’s “L Word” and “The Real L Word” have shot episodes on location at The Dinah. And cast members including Kate Meonnig, Alexandia Hedison, Jane Lynch, Laurel Holloman, Leisha Hailey, Rachel Shelly, Whitney Mixter, Rose Garcia, Elizabeth Keener have attended the event as celebrity guests.
 

7. The Dinah garnered impressive media coverage crossing over to mainstream with a cover story in the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times, a feature story in Elle Magazine and Marie Claire International, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and a televised profile piece on NBC’s “Last Call with Carson Daly.”.

8. Club Skirts The Dinah has exclusively secured the city owned Palm Springs Convention Center — the biggest concert venue of the city — for its legendary packed-house Saturday night party.

9. The Dinah has been securing sponsorships from major mainstream (non-LGBT affiliated) corporations. Budwieser, OB Tampons, Walmart, and Bacardi are just a few examples of sponsorship endorsements from recognizable leading top-global brands The Dinah continuously rallies.

10. For each Dinah installment, Hanson also engagingly travails for the LGBT cause and for women. In previous years, The Dinah famously partnered with a variety of activist associations and charity organizations such as GLAAD, NOH8, Love is Louder, Equality California, and The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center among others.