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From: The Out Traveler
Date: 20070701
Author:Kaplan, David

The aura of Provincetown's famous gay writers, from Tennessee Williams to Michael Cunningham, fills every street

"Provincetown boys are of course all sailors and have sailors eyes."

THOSE queer words are from Henry David Thoreau, who in the 1850s rode the slow boat to Provincctown, Mass. He then predicted the place would, in time, he a destination for tourists. What Thoreau couldn't forecast was the future of what many call the "knuckle on Cape Cod's clenched fist" as a harbor for some of the next century's most celebrated gay writers and artists.

Ironically, it was Provincetown's ...

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