In the mid-1970s members of
Boston's gay community began
moving to Provincetown, MA. In
1978 the Provincetown Business
Guild (PBG) was formed to
promote gay tourism. Today more
than 200 businesses belong to
the PBG and Provincetown is
perhaps the best-known gay
summer resort on the East Coast.
Provincetown's zip code has the
highest concentration of
same-sex couple households of
any zip code in the United
States. The
Atlantic House in
Provincetown is a contender for
the oldest gay bar in the United
States and Frommer's calls it "the
nation's premier gay bar".
Others argue that the
A-House is not even the
premier gay bar in Provincetown,
given the competition from the
Crown & Anchor and the
Gifford House.
In October, Provincetown sees
the arrival of transvestite,
transgender and transsexual
people for the annual Fantasia
Fair. Started in 1975, it is the
longest running event of its
kind in the USA.
Other notable festivals during
the year include the
Christmas-themed "Holly Folly",
"Bear Week", "Mate's Leather
Weekend", "Women's Week",
"Family Week", "Single Men's
Weekend", "Provincetown
International Film Festival",
"Provincetown Rocks: The
Festival!" and the "Provincetown
Jazz Festival."
In Time is a science fiction thriller
film starring Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian
Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki,
and Vincent Kartheiser. The Rum Diary
is directed by Bruce
Robinson and stars
Johnny Depp.
Puss in Boots,
a computer animation
film, stars Antonio
Banderas, Billy Bob
Thornton and Salma
Hayek.
Anonymous dramatizes a fringe theory, unsupported by any
historical evidence, that the works of Shakespeare were
written by an
Elizabethan
aristocrat, Edward
de Vere, 17th Earl
of Oxford.
