Provincetown : : From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort / / Karen Christel Krahulik.
How did a sleepy New England fishing village become a gay mecca? In this dynamic history, Karen Christel Krahulik explains why Provincetown, Massachusetts-alternately known as “Land’s End,” “Cape-tip,” “Cape-end,” and, to some, “Queersville, U.S.A”-has meant many things to many people. Provincetown...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American History and Culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I INVENTING PROVINCETOWN, 1859–1928
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial Outpost
- 2 “The Perfect Compromise” Provincetown’s Portuguese Pilgrims
- 3 “Paradise of Artists”
- PART II SURVIVING PROVINCETOWN, 1929–1969
- Introduction
- 4 Weathering the Depression
- 5 “Provincetown Tells the Gayflower Set: Scram”
- PART III GENTRIFYING PROVINCETOWN, 1970–2000
- 6 “Sexism in Paradise”
- 7 “Gay World”
- Conclusion: Cape Queer?
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author