Fay Week Provcetown 2024 - GayOut 2023

Contents:

• HOW A NEW ENGLAND BEACH TOWN CHANGED THE COURSE OF GAY HISTORY
• PROVCETOWN GAY GUI EVENTS CALENDAR
• GAY PROVCETOWN TRAVEL GUI
• GAY WE WEEK

HOW A NEW ENGLAND BEACH TOWN CHANGED THE COURSE OF GAY HISTORY

After a week of meetg other gay and lbian parents at the beach, they ved about 15 of those fai to their rental for dner—and so the magic of Fay Week was created!

For almost a century, gay and lbian travelers have ma Provcetown a statn. In Provcetown, gay and lbian events go all summer long, but you don’t have to be here between Memorial Day and Labor Day to experience some lor.

"This annual gatherg, which has grown exponentially each year, has mirrored the progrs of the gay rights movement as has shifted s foc om the rights of dividuals to s ago, when the event started, Provcetown already had a well-tablished gay scene, but, as the event's -founr Stt Davenport put , the "dance boys om Boston" who me over on the ferry didn’t brg kids wh them. The scene largely nformed to the prevailg stereotype of gay men, he said.

PROVCETOWN GAY GUI EVENTS CALENDAR

This summer, a thoroughly unscientific survey, a reporter statned on Commercial Street unted 15 strollers passg by wh a five-mute Davenport se , the recent succs of the gay rights movement and the growth of Fay Week are not unrelated.

GAY PROVCETOWN TRAVEL GUI

"Tellg our stori as fai helped other people see as somethg other than that party-boy stereotype, " Davenport Fay Week started back the mid-'90s, nearly a before Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage, the parents who showed up Provcetown were as pneerg as the relig dissints who arrived there nearly 400 years Cartage and his partner, Reed Chaik, vised for the first time 1996, when their baby was still jt an embryo their surrogate’s womb.

GAY WE WEEK

”Four years ago, Roberta Kaplan, one of the leadg lawyers of the gay rights movement, began g to Fay Week wh her wife, Rachel Lave, and their now 9-year-old son, Jab. Hodg, the se that ma gay marriage legal throughout the land June.

Havg triumphed the Wdsor se, Kaplan had turned her attentn to Mississippi, a state so opposed to gay marriage that s lears banned three tim -- first by executive orr 1996, then by statute 1997, and fally by voter-approved nstutnal amendment October 2014, Kaplan took up the fight agast the state’s same-sex marriage ban on behalf of Prchett and Webb, as well as the Campaign for Southern Equaly and one other uple. Prchett, buoyed by her first foray to activism, has cid to go on and n for state dor; she is the first openly gay Mississippian to n for a statewi dune ri me to a stop on the beach as the sun was skg toward the sea, fillg the sky wh the brilliant hu that have long ma Provcetown a favore hnt of paters. Why Is Provcetown So Gay?

is a group of bs owners mted to the enomic and cultural velopment of LGBTQ+ tourism for Provcetown and to matag Provcetown as the #1 gay muny Ameri.

Provcetown Gay Gui Events Calendar.

Historic, scenic, and seclud, the former Portugue fishg muny and longtime artists lony of Provcetown is also one of the world's most popular rort statns among gay and lbian travelers.