The Dinah divide: a contentious split between the longtime copromoters of Palm Springs's Dinah Shore Weekend leaves loyal followers with two competing events to choose from this year.(Business)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 28-MAR-06

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After a 13-year partnership that helped parlay Palm Springs's Dinah Shore Weekend into the world's largest and best-known annum lesbian gathering, Mariah Hanson, of San Francisco's Club Skirts, and Sandy Sachs and Robin Gans, of Los Angeles's Girl Bar, parted ways in June 2005. And it wasn't amicable. Nine months later, loyal attendees are faced with competing and similarly named events on the March 29-April 2 weekend.

"It's not as dramatic as everybody wants to make it out to be," Sachs says of the breakup. "The simple fact was just that the nature of our relationship completed itself. Relationships work until they don't work anymore. I think it was just a matter of, we grew apart....

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