Women's Week Provincetown (formerly Women's Weekend) is an annual LGBT festival founded in 1984 that primarily serves
lesbian
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s.
Held in mid-October in
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States. A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of 3,664 as of the 2020 United States Census, Provincet ...
on
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...
, it is attended by almost 2,000 women and is "the longest running lesbian cultural event in the Northeast."
Organized by Women Innkeepers of Provincetown, the week hosts over 300 events, including film screenings, author readings,
dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, f ...
tours, concerts, dance parties,
stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up.
Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...
, ceremonies, and community
clambake
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See also
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Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend
Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, popularly known as “The Dinah”, is a five-day weekend getaway and music festival catering to the lesbian community that takes place annually in Palm Springs, California, United States.
History
The Dinah Sh ...
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Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, often referred to as MWMF or Michfest, was a feminist women's music festival held annually from 1976 to 2015 in Oceana County, Michigan, on privately owned woodland near Hart Township referred to as "The La ...
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SuperShe Island
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Circuit party
A circuit party is a large dance event. It extends through the night and into the following day, almost always with a number of affiliated events in the days leading up to and following the main event. Proto-circuit parties in the late 1970s, t ...
References
External links
Women's Week Provincetown
Provincetown Women's Weekat PTown Events
Provincetown for Women ''Clambake'' 2015 film by Andrea Meyerson (history of Women's Week in Provincetown)
Lesbian culture in the United States
Lesbian events
Women's events
Women's festivals
LGBT events in Massachusetts
Women in Massachusetts
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