Redefining the Perfect Summer Body

Club Skirt’s Dinah Shore Weekend is right around the corner.  This lesbian mecca is a melting pot of thousands of LGBT women who travel to Palm Springs, California once a year to unite as a community.  The music festival is the largest lesbian gathering on the planet. Pool parties and nightlife events are continuously hosted for five days. In preparation for Dinah Shore, the term “Dinah body” gets thrown around a lot. So what is a “Dinah body?” The original intention of Dinah’s creation was to provide a safe space for lesbians to mix and mingle.  Lesbians from all over the world flock to Dinah Shore Weekend partying in all shapes and sizes.  However, Hollywood has done a great job of warping our perceptions of what it means to be Dinah-ready.

Lesbians from all over the world flock to Dinah Shore Weekend partying in all shapes and sizes.  However, Hollywood has done a great job of warping our perceptions of what it means to be Dinah-ready.

When I try to formulate an answer to the above question, some specific groups come to mind.  The cast of Showtime’s L-Word, the women of The Real L-Word by the same producer, and the girls in almost every photo that pops up in a Google image search with “Dinah Shore Weekend” in the keywords.  These women have washboard abs, no tan lines, and magazine cover hair.  Videos of The Dinah often have gorgeous women scantily clad (if not naked), tight and toned from head to toe.