Provcetown Gay & Lbian History

Contents:

• GAY AND LBIAN HISTORY OF PROVCETOWN
• LGBTQ PROVCETOWN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO PTOWN
• LGBTQ, GAY AND LBIAN-IENDLY, HOTELS, NS, AND RORTS MASSACHETTS
• GAY GUI PROVCETOWN
• GAY PROVCETOWN TRAVEL GUI
• IS PROVCETOWN MOSTLY A GAY MEC? - PROVCETOWN FOM
• HOW A RORT TOWN FACG A COVID SPIKE IS DUCKG DISASTERHOLIDAY SCAREVACCATED PEOPLE WHO VISED CAPE COD ARE SPEAKG OUT ABOUT GETTG SICK WH COVID-19. WHAT GIV?PILAR MELENZSENR NATNAL REPORTERUPDATED JUL. 13, 2021 9:16PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 13, 2021 8:52PM EDT MADDIE MEYER/GETTYABOUT TEN DAYS AFTER BILLY WENT WH HIS PARTNER AND A IEND TO PROVCETOWN, MASSACHETTS, A CAPE COD TOURIST HUB POPULAR WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AFFECTNATELY KNOWN AS “PTOWN,” TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND, HE STARTED TO FEEL SICK.DPE GETTG HIS SEND JAB OF THE MORNA VACCE APRIL, THE 26-YEAR-OLD GROCERY STORE WORKER OM BOSTON—WHO ASKED HIS LAST NAME BE WHHELD FOR PROFSNAL REASONS—SAID HIS SYMPTOMS MIRRORED ALL THE DITORS OF THE NOVEL RONAVIS THAT HAS PLAGUED THE UNED STAT FOR OVER A YEAR. HE HAD A HEADACHE, FATIGUE, NSEA, NGTN, DIARRHEA, AND A SLIGHT UGH.TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, BILLY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, HIS PARTNER WAS ALSO EXPERIENCG SYMPTOMS—ALONG WH OTHER PTOWN VISORS AND RINTS, SOME OF WHOM WERE GOG ONLE TO REPORT A POSIVE DIAGNOSIS AFTER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND.“I LEFT WORK AND GOT TTED,” BILLY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, NOTG THAT ONLY HE—AND NOT HIS PARTNER—TTED POSIVE FOR COVID-19. IT WAS JT ONE OF “SEVERAL” S THAT HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS AMONG VISORS WHO SPENT TIME THE MASSACHETTS TOWN, ACRDG TO OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVIC, A LOL GROUP OF MUNY HEALTH CENTERS. “GOG TO PTOWN [AND] BEG AROUND SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE OM ALL ACROSS THE NEW ENGLAND REGN AND NYC, I KNEW WAS A RISK,” HE SAID TUDAY, ADDG THAT HE WAS STARTG TO FEEL BETTER ALREADY. “HOWEVER, ALL THE SYMPTOMS I’VE HAD, IF WE WERE A PRE-COVID WORLD, I WOULD’VE PROBABLY GONE TO WORK. THEY HAVEN’T BEEN BILATG AT ALL.”IN OTHER WORDS, THE VACCE IS WORKG. IN FACT, LOL OFFICIALS, HEALTH EXPERTS, AND PEOPLE WHO PASSED THROUGH PROVCETOWN DURG WHAT APPEARS TO BE A MOST SPIKE THERE ALMOST UNIVERSALLY SAY THE NEW S ARE NO E FOR GRAVE ALARM, AT LEAST NOT YET.THE REASON IS SIMPLE: PROVCETOWN CURRENTLY HAS ONE OF THE HIGHT VACCATN RAT THE STATE, AND THE SHOTS ARE HELPG PREVENT SUMMER VATNS OM TURNG TO A DISASTER.ACRDG TO THE BARNSTABLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE HAVE TTED POSIVE THE LAST WEEK—AND A MAJORY OF THOSE S ARE OM “FULLY VACCATED” DIVIDUALS. THAT REPRENTS AN UPTICK FOR THE UNTY THAT NSISTS OF ALL OF CAPE COD AND THE ASSOCIATED ISLAND, WHICH SAW ABOUT 20 S TWO WEEKS PRR.IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW MANY OF THE POSIVE DIVIDUALS BARNSTABLE ARE BREAKTHROUGH S—MEANG THEY ARE EXHIBG SYMPTOMS SPE GETTG SHOTS. BUT PROVCETOWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVIC BOTH TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THEY WERE MONORG THE SUATN.THE NUMBERS ALSO DO NOT ACUNT FOR PEOPLE WHO VISED THE UNTY AND LATER TTED POSIVE THEIR HOMETOWNS—AND, OF URSE, LIKELY FAIL TO PTURE SOME VACCATED PEOPLE WHO BEME FECTED AND NEVER HAD SYMPTOMS. SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE, EVEN VACCATED ON, ULD THEORETILLY HAVE GONE ON TO FECT OTHERS—CLUDG YOUNG KIDS WHO NNOT GET VACCATED—THOUGH THE EVINCE SUGGTS THAT IS UNLIKELY. A SPOKPERSON FOR OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVIC, MEANWHILE, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT NO HOSPALIZATNS HAVE BEEN RERD ASSOCIATED WH THE POTENTIAL BREAKTHROUGH S.“BOTTOM LE: WE ARE NOT SEEG ANYTHG WE DIDN’T REALLY EXPECT,” PROVCETOWN TOWN MANAGER ALEX MORSE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, NFIRMG THAT THE TOWN WAS MONORG POSIVE COVID S AMONG PEOPLE “ PTOWN OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS.”“IF ANYTHG, NFIRMS THE VACCE IS WORKG, WE ALWAYS KNEW WAS NOT 100 PERCENT EFFECTIVE. AND OM WHAT WE ARE SEEG, EVERYONE WHO HAS TTED POSIVE HAS A D SE,” HE ADD.THE SLIGHT SPIKE S BARNSTABLE COUNTY, HOWEVER, IS A MICROSM OF AN ONGOG NATNAL PROBLEM—ONE THAT ALMOST ENTIRELY FALLS ON UNVACCATED PEOPLE.ACRDG TO JOHNS HOPKS UNIVERSY, 34 STAT—CLUDG MASSACHETTS—HAVE SEEN A 50 PERCENT SPIKE OF NEW S THE LAST WEEK AS THE HIGHLY TRANSMISSIBLE DELTA VARIANT SWEEPS THE NATN. THE VAST MAJORY OF THOSE S, HOSPALIZATNS, AND ATHS STEM OM UNVACCATED RINTS.DR. AMH ADALJA, A SENR SCHOLAR AT THE JOHNS HOPKS CENTER FOR HEALTH SECURY AND A SPECIALIST FECT DISEAS, EXPLAED THAT WHILE BREAKTHROUGH S ARE GOG TO OCCUR, ALL S WOULD BE CREASED IF EVERYONE JT GOT THE VACCE ALREADY.PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, MI OUTBREAKS LIKE THIS ONE DO NOTHG TO NT THE CLEAR REALY THAT THE VACC ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE.“THE PEOPLE SOMEHOW BELIEVE THAT COVID IS GOG TO MAGILLY DISAPPEAR,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “WE ARE GOG TO BE HAVG COVID S TEN YEARS OM NOW. AND BREAKTHROUGH S WILL OCCUR NO MATTER WHAT.”IN PROVCETOWN, ALMOST ALL PART-TIME AND PERMANENT RINTS ARE FULLY OCULATED WH ONE OF THREE COVID-19 VACC. FURTHER, MANY BARS AND CLUBS THE CAPE COD TOWN REQUIRE VACCATN RDS FOR ENTRY—AND THREE PAST VISORS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SOME TABLISHMENTS STILL HAVE A MASK POLICY.FOR JEREMY COX, A 39-YEAR-OLD PROGRAM MANAGER, THE ONGOG THREAT OF THE RONAVIS AND THE DELTA VARIANT HAS NOT YET MA HIM PSE ON HIS EQUENT TRIPS TO PROVCETOWN. HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SCE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, HE HAS GONE MULTIPLE TIM—AND HAS NEVER HAD A MOMENT OF UNEASS BEE “PEOPLE ARE REQUIRED TO BE VACCATED TO GET TO PLAC” AND MASK-E IS STILL ENURAGED.“I THK THE PANIC OM PEOPLE EXPECTG THE VACCE TO BE MAGIC AND ALSO THKG WOULDN’T BE THEM TERMS OF BEG A BREAKTHROUGH SE,” HE SAID, ADDG THAT HE KNEW WHILE AT THE TOURIST SPOT THAT “IF I WENT ANYWHERE WHOUT A MASK, THEN I AM RPONSIBLE FOR MY ACTNS.”COX, HOWEVER, DID ADM THAT HE WAS SURPRISED WHEN HE LEARNED THAT THREE OF HIS IENDS WHO WERE WH HIM DURG THE JULY 4TH WEEKEND HAD TTED POSIVE FOR COVID-19 SPE BEG FULLY VACCATED. HE SAID HE WAS EVEN MORE SHOCKED WHEN HE SAW ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT A SLEW OF PEOPLE WHO WENT TO PROVCETOWN—AND ULD HAVE BEEN AROUND HIM AT HOLIDAY EVENTS—WERE SPEAKG OUT ABOUT HOW THEY HAD TTED POSIVE, WH SYMPTOMS, SPE THEIR VACCATN STAT.“I WAS A B SURPRISED, BUT ONLY BEE LIKELY MEANS THAT SOMEONE SHARG HO WEREN’T VACCATED AND THEN HUNG OUT WH OTHERS WHO HUNG OUT WH OTHERS,” HE SAID, NOTG THAT WHILE HE SHARED A HOE WH THREE OTHER PEOPLE, HE SAID HE WAS “ALWAYS WH OTHER PEOPLE, WHETHER WAS AT THEIR HO, DNER OR DANCG.”LOL HEALTH OFFICIALS UTNED THAT THEY HAVE NOT YET TERMED THE ORIGS OR E OF THE PROVCETOWN UPTICK.“I THK EVERYONE JT NEEDS TO ACCEPT THE SCIENCE AND LOOK AT THE SYMPTOMS THE NEWLY FECTED ARE HAVG,” COX TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “MY IENDS WHO HAVE ARE SAYG ’S JT A HEAD LD—IF THAT. THOSE WHO ARE SAYG THEY’RE HAVG STRONGER SYMPTOMS ARE THE OUTLIERS HERE TERMS OF THE BODY’S REACTN TO BEG FECTED WHILE VACCATED.”ADALJA ALSO STRSED THAT THE VACCE “SENTIALLY FANGS THE RONAVIS,” AND WARNED AGAST SOCIAL-MEDIA HYSTERIA ABOUT SPIK RORT TOWNS.WORRIED THAT OVERTTG ULD HAVE A CHILLG EFFECT ON THOSE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE FENCE ABOUT GETTG THE VACCE, THE DOCTOR STRSED THAT IS IMPORTANT FOR ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT VACCATED OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SYMPTOMS TO GET TTED FOR THE RONAVIS.“FULLY VACCATED PEOPLE WH NO SYMPTOMS SHOULD NOT BE TTED. PERD,” HE ADD.STILL, DR. GRAHAM WALKER, AN EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN SAN FRANCIS WHO HAS TREATED COVID-19 PATIENTS, BELIEV THAT THE UPTICK S SHOULD ENURAGE PEOPLE TO E “SLIGHTLY MORE UTN… AS WE FD SOME NEW NORMAL AFTER VACCATNS.”“SOME PEOPLE THK THEY MAY BE MORE PROTECTED THAN THEY ARE,” WALKER SAID. “NOBODY THE PTOWN GROUP HAS BEEN HOSPALIZED, BUT WE DON’T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL HAVE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OM THE VIS.”WHILE WALKER STRS THAT THOSE WHO WENT TO PROVCETOWN VACCATED “DID NOTHG WRONG” AND SHOULD NOT BE “BLAMED FOR FOLLOWG THE CDC GUIL AND GOG OUT TO CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY,” THE CLTER SHOULD BE A WAKE-UP LL.“THIS WAS NOT A SUPERSPREAR EVENT, THIS IS JT A NUMBERS GAME,” HE SAID. “EVEN IF THERE WASN’T A DELTA VARIANT, WE WOULD STILL GET BREAKOUT S. THE VACCE ISN’T 100 PERCENT EFFECTIVE. DO THE MATH. SOMEONE HAD TO GET .” PILAR MELENZ
• CAPE COD WEL GAY AND LBIAN GUTS
•  PROVCETOWN’S MOST UNIQUE HISTORIC GAY BOARDG HOE

GAY AND LBIAN HISTORY OF PROVCETOWN

Gay and Lbian History of Provcetown: Tolerance, Harmony, and Open Spir. It is no cince that for more than 50 years, the gay and lbian muny returns every summer to Provcetown.

The 1920’s and ‘30’s were when the prence of gays and lbians creased over that of artists, wrers, dramatists, poets, romantics, and journalists.

Several artists had gay iends. It was not a long time before Provcetown beme an ial space to pass the months of summer for gays and lbians, pletely sced by the feelg of acceptance and artistic energy.

LGBTQ PROVCETOWN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO PTOWN

The 1970’s were a talyst makg Provcetown even more of a mec for gay and lbian ftivals and tourism than ever.

Disver the bt of Provcetown my LGBTQ gay travel gui below.

LGBTQ TRAVELProvcetown Gay Travel Gui.

LGBTQ, GAY AND LBIAN-IENDLY, HOTELS, NS, AND RORTS MASSACHETTS

The plex, loted directly on Commercial Street, has seven different gay bars and club spac on s premis, cludg a hotel and pool!

As such a popular statn for LGBTQ travelers, Provcetown has plenty of gay bars and clubs. One of Provcetown’s most inic gay bars is A-Hoe (short for Atlantic Hoe). Loted a historic buildg, ’s one of the olst gay bars Ameri.

GAY GUI PROVCETOWN

Today, ’s a fun nightlife spot and one of the few gay bars town that operat year-round.

Other gay bars Provcetown clu Club Purgatory (one of the bigger nightclubs and one that hosts weekly parti such as an unrwear party every Thursday and Saturday night). LGBTQ, gay and lbian-iendly, hotels, ns, and rorts Massachetts.

GAY PROVCETOWN TRAVEL GUI

Massachetts has dozens of hotels, motels, ns, and other lodggs that pri themselv beg fortable and welg toward gay and lbian guts.

Gay Gui Provcetown. Provcetown, also known as "P-Town" is a popular summer vatn and weekend statn for gays and lbians om New York, Montreal and Boston. But this town still feels very gay durg the summer months wh gay people who e here to enjoy the acceptg muny, the sun, sand and numero bars and clubs.

Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. “P-Town, ” which is perched on the very tip of Cape Cod, started to attract gays and lbians the 1960s when was predomantly a lony for eccentric artists, radil polis, and anyone else who shunned the stat quo.

IS PROVCETOWN MOSTLY A GAY MEC? - PROVCETOWN FOM

Featured Gay Friendly Hotel Provcetown.

Gay Provcetown. The ltle seasi town of Provcetown has been a favore statn for gay and lbian travelers for s.

Cy-slickers and nature-loverss, artists and lawyers, straight and gay. Provcetown Gay Scene. Affectnally lled “P-Town, ” gays and lbians ist started visg the 1960s when was predomantly a lony for eccentric artists, radil polis and anyone else who shunned the stat quo.

HOW A RORT TOWN FACG A COVID SPIKE IS DUCKG DISASTERHOLIDAY SCAREVACCATED PEOPLE WHO VISED CAPE COD ARE SPEAKG OUT ABOUT GETTG SICK WH COVID-19. WHAT GIV?PILAR MELENZSENR NATNAL REPORTERUPDATED JUL. 13, 2021 9:16PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 13, 2021 8:52PM EDT MADDIE MEYER/GETTYABOUT TEN DAYS AFTER BILLY WENT WH HIS PARTNER AND A IEND TO PROVCETOWN, MASSACHETTS, A CAPE COD TOURIST HUB POPULAR WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AFFECTNATELY KNOWN AS “PTOWN,” TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND, HE STARTED TO FEEL SICK.DPE GETTG HIS SEND JAB OF THE MORNA VACCE APRIL, THE 26-YEAR-OLD GROCERY STORE WORKER OM BOSTON—WHO ASKED HIS LAST NAME BE WHHELD FOR PROFSNAL REASONS—SAID HIS SYMPTOMS MIRRORED ALL THE DITORS OF THE NOVEL RONAVIS THAT HAS PLAGUED THE UNED STAT FOR OVER A YEAR. HE HAD A HEADACHE, FATIGUE, NSEA, NGTN, DIARRHEA, AND A SLIGHT UGH.TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, BILLY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, HIS PARTNER WAS ALSO EXPERIENCG SYMPTOMS—ALONG WH OTHER PTOWN VISORS AND RINTS, SOME OF WHOM WERE GOG ONLE TO REPORT A POSIVE DIAGNOSIS AFTER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND.“I LEFT WORK AND GOT TTED,” BILLY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, NOTG THAT ONLY HE—AND NOT HIS PARTNER—TTED POSIVE FOR COVID-19. IT WAS JT ONE OF “SEVERAL” S THAT HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS AMONG VISORS WHO SPENT TIME THE MASSACHETTS TOWN, ACRDG TO OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVIC, A LOL GROUP OF MUNY HEALTH CENTERS. “GOG TO PTOWN [AND] BEG AROUND SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE OM ALL ACROSS THE NEW ENGLAND REGN AND NYC, I KNEW WAS A RISK,” HE SAID TUDAY, ADDG THAT HE WAS STARTG TO FEEL BETTER ALREADY. “HOWEVER, ALL THE SYMPTOMS I’VE HAD, IF WE WERE A PRE-COVID WORLD, I WOULD’VE PROBABLY GONE TO WORK. THEY HAVEN’T BEEN BILATG AT ALL.”IN OTHER WORDS, THE VACCE IS WORKG. IN FACT, LOL OFFICIALS, HEALTH EXPERTS, AND PEOPLE WHO PASSED THROUGH PROVCETOWN DURG WHAT APPEARS TO BE A MOST SPIKE THERE ALMOST UNIVERSALLY SAY THE NEW S ARE NO E FOR GRAVE ALARM, AT LEAST NOT YET.THE REASON IS SIMPLE: PROVCETOWN CURRENTLY HAS ONE OF THE HIGHT VACCATN RAT THE STATE, AND THE SHOTS ARE HELPG PREVENT SUMMER VATNS OM TURNG TO A DISASTER.ACRDG TO THE BARNSTABLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE HAVE TTED POSIVE THE LAST WEEK—AND A MAJORY OF THOSE S ARE OM “FULLY VACCATED” DIVIDUALS. THAT REPRENTS AN UPTICK FOR THE UNTY THAT NSISTS OF ALL OF CAPE COD AND THE ASSOCIATED ISLAND, WHICH SAW ABOUT 20 S TWO WEEKS PRR.IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW MANY OF THE POSIVE DIVIDUALS BARNSTABLE ARE BREAKTHROUGH S—MEANG THEY ARE EXHIBG SYMPTOMS SPE GETTG SHOTS. BUT PROVCETOWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVIC BOTH TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THEY WERE MONORG THE SUATN.THE NUMBERS ALSO DO NOT ACUNT FOR PEOPLE WHO VISED THE UNTY AND LATER TTED POSIVE THEIR HOMETOWNS—AND, OF URSE, LIKELY FAIL TO PTURE SOME VACCATED PEOPLE WHO BEME FECTED AND NEVER HAD SYMPTOMS. SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE, EVEN VACCATED ON, ULD THEORETILLY HAVE GONE ON TO FECT OTHERS—CLUDG YOUNG KIDS WHO NNOT GET VACCATED—THOUGH THE EVINCE SUGGTS THAT IS UNLIKELY. A SPOKPERSON FOR OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVIC, MEANWHILE, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT NO HOSPALIZATNS HAVE BEEN RERD ASSOCIATED WH THE POTENTIAL BREAKTHROUGH S.“BOTTOM LE: WE ARE NOT SEEG ANYTHG WE DIDN’T REALLY EXPECT,” PROVCETOWN TOWN MANAGER ALEX MORSE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, NFIRMG THAT THE TOWN WAS MONORG POSIVE COVID S AMONG PEOPLE “ PTOWN OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS.”“IF ANYTHG, NFIRMS THE VACCE IS WORKG, WE ALWAYS KNEW WAS NOT 100 PERCENT EFFECTIVE. AND OM WHAT WE ARE SEEG, EVERYONE WHO HAS TTED POSIVE HAS A D SE,” HE ADD.THE SLIGHT SPIKE S BARNSTABLE COUNTY, HOWEVER, IS A MICROSM OF AN ONGOG NATNAL PROBLEM—ONE THAT ALMOST ENTIRELY FALLS ON UNVACCATED PEOPLE.ACRDG TO JOHNS HOPKS UNIVERSY, 34 STAT—CLUDG MASSACHETTS—HAVE SEEN A 50 PERCENT SPIKE OF NEW S THE LAST WEEK AS THE HIGHLY TRANSMISSIBLE DELTA VARIANT SWEEPS THE NATN. THE VAST MAJORY OF THOSE S, HOSPALIZATNS, AND ATHS STEM OM UNVACCATED RINTS.DR. AMH ADALJA, A SENR SCHOLAR AT THE JOHNS HOPKS CENTER FOR HEALTH SECURY AND A SPECIALIST FECT DISEAS, EXPLAED THAT WHILE BREAKTHROUGH S ARE GOG TO OCCUR, ALL S WOULD BE CREASED IF EVERYONE JT GOT THE VACCE ALREADY.PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, MI OUTBREAKS LIKE THIS ONE DO NOTHG TO NT THE CLEAR REALY THAT THE VACC ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE.“THE PEOPLE SOMEHOW BELIEVE THAT COVID IS GOG TO MAGILLY DISAPPEAR,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “WE ARE GOG TO BE HAVG COVID S TEN YEARS OM NOW. AND BREAKTHROUGH S WILL OCCUR NO MATTER WHAT.”IN PROVCETOWN, ALMOST ALL PART-TIME AND PERMANENT RINTS ARE FULLY OCULATED WH ONE OF THREE COVID-19 VACC. FURTHER, MANY BARS AND CLUBS THE CAPE COD TOWN REQUIRE VACCATN RDS FOR ENTRY—AND THREE PAST VISORS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SOME TABLISHMENTS STILL HAVE A MASK POLICY.FOR JEREMY COX, A 39-YEAR-OLD PROGRAM MANAGER, THE ONGOG THREAT OF THE RONAVIS AND THE DELTA VARIANT HAS NOT YET MA HIM PSE ON HIS EQUENT TRIPS TO PROVCETOWN. HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SCE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, HE HAS GONE MULTIPLE TIM—AND HAS NEVER HAD A MOMENT OF UNEASS BEE “PEOPLE ARE REQUIRED TO BE VACCATED TO GET TO PLAC” AND MASK-E IS STILL ENURAGED.“I THK THE PANIC OM PEOPLE EXPECTG THE VACCE TO BE MAGIC AND ALSO THKG WOULDN’T BE THEM TERMS OF BEG A BREAKTHROUGH SE,” HE SAID, ADDG THAT HE KNEW WHILE AT THE TOURIST SPOT THAT “IF I WENT ANYWHERE WHOUT A MASK, THEN I AM RPONSIBLE FOR MY ACTNS.”COX, HOWEVER, DID ADM THAT HE WAS SURPRISED WHEN HE LEARNED THAT THREE OF HIS IENDS WHO WERE WH HIM DURG THE JULY 4TH WEEKEND HAD TTED POSIVE FOR COVID-19 SPE BEG FULLY VACCATED. HE SAID HE WAS EVEN MORE SHOCKED WHEN HE SAW ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT A SLEW OF PEOPLE WHO WENT TO PROVCETOWN—AND ULD HAVE BEEN AROUND HIM AT HOLIDAY EVENTS—WERE SPEAKG OUT ABOUT HOW THEY HAD TTED POSIVE, WH SYMPTOMS, SPE THEIR VACCATN STAT.“I WAS A B SURPRISED, BUT ONLY BEE LIKELY MEANS THAT SOMEONE SHARG HO WEREN’T VACCATED AND THEN HUNG OUT WH OTHERS WHO HUNG OUT WH OTHERS,” HE SAID, NOTG THAT WHILE HE SHARED A HOE WH THREE OTHER PEOPLE, HE SAID HE WAS “ALWAYS WH OTHER PEOPLE, WHETHER WAS AT THEIR HO, DNER OR DANCG.”LOL HEALTH OFFICIALS UTNED THAT THEY HAVE NOT YET TERMED THE ORIGS OR E OF THE PROVCETOWN UPTICK.“I THK EVERYONE JT NEEDS TO ACCEPT THE SCIENCE AND LOOK AT THE SYMPTOMS THE NEWLY FECTED ARE HAVG,” COX TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “MY IENDS WHO HAVE ARE SAYG ’S JT A HEAD LD—IF THAT. THOSE WHO ARE SAYG THEY’RE HAVG STRONGER SYMPTOMS ARE THE OUTLIERS HERE TERMS OF THE BODY’S REACTN TO BEG FECTED WHILE VACCATED.”ADALJA ALSO STRSED THAT THE VACCE “SENTIALLY FANGS THE RONAVIS,” AND WARNED AGAST SOCIAL-MEDIA HYSTERIA ABOUT SPIK RORT TOWNS.WORRIED THAT OVERTTG ULD HAVE A CHILLG EFFECT ON THOSE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE FENCE ABOUT GETTG THE VACCE, THE DOCTOR STRSED THAT IS IMPORTANT FOR ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT VACCATED OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SYMPTOMS TO GET TTED FOR THE RONAVIS.“FULLY VACCATED PEOPLE WH NO SYMPTOMS SHOULD NOT BE TTED. PERD,” HE ADD.STILL, DR. GRAHAM WALKER, AN EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN SAN FRANCIS WHO HAS TREATED COVID-19 PATIENTS, BELIEV THAT THE UPTICK S SHOULD ENURAGE PEOPLE TO E “SLIGHTLY MORE UTN… AS WE FD SOME NEW NORMAL AFTER VACCATNS.”“SOME PEOPLE THK THEY MAY BE MORE PROTECTED THAN THEY ARE,” WALKER SAID. “NOBODY THE PTOWN GROUP HAS BEEN HOSPALIZED, BUT WE DON’T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL HAVE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OM THE VIS.”WHILE WALKER STRS THAT THOSE WHO WENT TO PROVCETOWN VACCATED “DID NOTHG WRONG” AND SHOULD NOT BE “BLAMED FOR FOLLOWG THE CDC GUIL AND GOG OUT TO CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY,” THE CLTER SHOULD BE A WAKE-UP LL.“THIS WAS NOT A SUPERSPREAR EVENT, THIS IS JT A NUMBERS GAME,” HE SAID. “EVEN IF THERE WASN’T A DELTA VARIANT, WE WOULD STILL GET BREAKOUT S. THE VACCE ISN’T 100 PERCENT EFFECTIVE. DO THE MATH. SOMEONE HAD TO GET .” PILAR MELENZ

Today, gay Provcetown has is creasgly diverse playground – specifilly durg the summer months when gays and lbians mgle wh straight tourists.

CAPE COD WEL GAY AND LBIAN GUTS

Among straight upl walkg hand--hand, you’ll see LGBTQ upl phg strollers and twenty-somethg gay club-kids ready to party.

Nightlife at the many gay bars and clubs attracts LGBTQ travelers year-round. Provcetown hosts a gay pri ftival June, though the biggt queer event of the year is Provcetown Carnival Augt.

 PROVCETOWN’S MOST UNIQUE HISTORIC GAY BOARDG HOE

Gay-Friendly Dg Provcetown.