Going to Provincetown

What to do in Provincetown

by Matt Link

Who would have thought that an obscure fishing village at the end of the spiral arm of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, would become one of the most celebrated arts centers in America? Provincetown (affectionately referred to as "P-town") has hosted the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Norman Mailer, Michael Cunningham, Tennessee Williams, Sebastian Junger, Eugene O'Neill, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and even John Waters. Artists have been drawn to the beauty, remoteness, and anything-goes attitude of Provincetown for generations.

And where there are artists, there are gays and lesbians. Since the 1950s, this quaint, intact New England village has been an LGBT getaway for Bostonians and New Yorkers who want to sunbathe in the very queer dunes of Herring Cove, and then want to have a same-sex drink at the...

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