Dinah Shore Golf Tournament

The Dinah Shore Golf tournament began in Palm Springs in 1972, with TV personality Dinah Shore hosting. The Ladies (PGA) Professional Golf Association event quickly grew into a major lesbian extravaganza, attracting thousands of women to Palm Springs for a weekend of pool parties and frolicking. Michele Kort, a senior editor at Ms magazine, has been to the Dinah Shore Golf tournament, and—lucky for us—she wrote about it in her new book DINAH! Three Decades of Sex, Golf, and Rock ‘n’ Roll. Michele Kort joins Larry to talk about this golf tournament and what Kort calls the annual “Sapphic rite of spring” in Palm Springs.

The Dinah Shore Golf tournament began in Palm Springs in 1972, with TV personality Dinah Shore hosting. The Ladies (PGA) Professional Golf Association event quickly grew into a major lesbian extravaganza, attracting thousands of women to Palm Springs for a weekend of pool parties and frolicking. Michele Kort, a senior editor at Ms magazine, has been to the Dinah Shore Golf tournament, and—lucky for us—she wrote about it in her new book DINAH! Three Decades of Sex, Golf, and Rock ‘n’ Roll. Michele Kort joins Larry to talk about this golf tournament and what Kort calls the annual “Sapphic rite of spring” in Palm Springs.