Tag Archives: gay travel

Durham Launches Gay Tourism Campaign

After North Carolina’s same-sex marriage ban was approved many LGBT folks declared that they’d never vacation there again. (The Outer Banks have long been a favorite summertime gay destination.) The city of Durham thinks you should still visit and has launched a new website promoting itself as a gay-friendly place. Via press release: Durham is widely known as an open …

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Evening View – Ferry Parade

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Afternoon View – Retail Bears

Outside the Marc Jacobs store. Note the harnesses.

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Morning View – PTown Cottage

I love these little houses.

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Evening View – PTown Fishing Fleet

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For Your PTown Tattoo Emergency

If you have a tattoo emergency, rub-on armbands are available in the Boatslip men’s room for 75 cents. (Condoms are free at the bar.)

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Morning View – PTown Jetty

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Evening View – Lobster pot

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Father Tony On Bear Week

“How you structure your Provincetown days and nights is telling. During Bear Week, I tried to do too much. I loved the people-watching from the chairs in front of Joe’s coffee shop, in the crowd at Tea Dance, or over a burger at Bubala’s. I loved the music at Bob Mould’s Blowoff party at the Boatslip, I loved my boat …

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Morning View – PTown Wharf

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Open Thread Thursday

What’s your favorite summer getaway?

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Provincetown’s Hat Sisters

Late yesterday afternoon I ran into Provincetown’s legendary Hat Sisters on Commercial Street. People were mobbing them before they could even get out of their car. I first heard about the Hat Sisters many years ago when they made regular appearances in the comic strip The Most Unfabulous Social Life Of Ethan Green.

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Tina, Bring Me The Ax

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Morning View – Provincetown

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Evening View – The Boatslip

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Afternoon View – PTown City Hall

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Provincetown Low Tide

The tides in Provincetown are rather dramatic. It was a bit of an exhausting slog to muck back in from way out there.

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Armistead Maupin Speaks In P-Town

Today I attended Tea With Armistead Maupin, where the famed author entertained a standing-room only crowd with anecdotes from the history of his legendary Tales Of The City series. One highlight was his reading of a chapter from the upcoming The Days Of Anna Madrigal, which traces the history of one of his most beloved characters. The following Q&A from …

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Evening View – Gay Coffee

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Afternoon View – PTown To-Do List

I’m attending the Armistead Maupin talk later today and will take in one of Matt Alber’s shows later this week. I’m still cracking up over Bearilyn Monroe.

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