Provincetown’s reputation as a modern-day destination for the LGBTQ+ community began in 1899. That year, Charles Hawthorne came to town and founded the Cape Cod School of Art. Having just been devastated by the great Portland Gale of 1898, Provincetown was in ruins. And with its fishing fleet sunk, the town’s economy was in shambles.
Little did Hawthorne know at the time, but his art school would open a pipeline between Provincetown and New York City. Thousands of artists, writers, actors, and left-wing political radicals flocked to Provincetown. And with
