A World Without Men

There's no event on Earth quite like 'The Dinah', an annual, five-day mega-festival for girls who like girls, with almost no men in sight, and all the booze, sun and - yes - debauchery that a woman could want and it's no doubt the world's biggest all-female festival.

As the photos from this year's event - taken by LA Weekly - show, the 26-year-old mega-party is going stronger than ever, regularly attracting 20,000 women looking to party till they drop.

This year's bash, which ran from March 30-April 3 in its traditional home of Palm Springs, Florida, saw celeb guests in attendance, including Lady Gaga, Samantha Ronson and Orange is the New Black star Lea DeLaria.

The official name of the festival - Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend - comes from the Dinah Shore golf tournament, now known as the ANA Inspiration, one of the 'big five' of women's golf.

Shore, its founder, who died in 1994 aged 77, wasn't a lesbian, The Guardian noted, but the tournament drew a heavy lesbian contingent that increased in number year after year.

The event is still held in conjunction with the ANA Inspiration (until recently known as the Kraft Nabisco Championship), but has really taken on a life of its own, with many women coming for the sun, camaraderie, a chance to be themselves among like-minded women - and a touch of debauchery too.

'Flashing is normal,' one partygoer told The Guardian. 'I get flashed at a lot.'

'Random girls pulling you into their hotel rooms are also pretty standard,' the paper added. 'One year, there was a minor earthquake in Palm Springs. Debbie, a Dinah veteran who has attended every event since 1991, recalls that half the water splashed out of the pool. Most of the girls were too drunk to realize or care.'

As the show has grown in size, it's begun to attract big-name sponsors and big-name stars - both arguably signs that the show is doing something right.

This year's performers included comedian and jazz musician Lea DeLaria - known as prison inmate 'Big Boo' in hit Netflix show Orange is the New Black - who put on 'an evening of comedy and music.'

Another of the show's stars, Taryn Manning, who plays 'Pennsatucky' the former evangelical Christian and newly minted best friend of Big Boo, also performed a DJ set.

There was also a DJ set from former Lindsay Lohan squeeze Samantha Ronson and a live performance by Grammy-nominated headline act Ellie King.

Lady Gaga was also in the crowd, there to watch her friend Katherine Moennig - aka Shane from lesbian drama The L Word - play tunes. She was caught rocking out with Ronson.

Previous guests have included Katy Perry and The Pussycat Dolls.

-Daily Mail cullage