How Provincetown Became America’s Queer Utopia

How Provincetown Became America’s Queer Utopia

Where does America begin? Where does it end? And where is it going? One place may be at the nexus of all three questions: Provincetown, Massachusetts. As kids, we grew up learning that the Pilgrims settled in Plymouth Rock, and this is true. A perhaps lesser-known story is that the Pilgrims actually landed in Provincetown. They spent five weeks exploring the region, but chose not to stay because of a lack of drinkable water. Provincetown, at t…