The courage to connect : sexuality, citizenship, and community in Provincetown / Sandra Faiman-Silva.
"Based on over six years of fieldwork, The Courage to Connect traces the transformation of the well-known Cape Cod community of Provincetown from its nineteenth-century origins as a Portuguese fishing town to its present status as a welcoming, sexually diverse tourist enclave." "In...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Provincetown history as diversity
- 2. Portuguese ethnics : reinventing traditions
- 3. Socioeconomic transitions : from fishing to a pink economy
- 4. Mainstreaming diversity : community life as lived
- 5. "We're here, we're queer! Get used to it!" : gay/bi/les/trans - from margin to center
- 6. The politics of citizenship : police-community relations
- 7. A culture of resistance in Provincetown's schools
- 8. Encountering queer sexualities : dealing with difference
- 9. Learning to connect, loving the connection : lessons from Provincetown
- App. A. Provincetown human rights resolution
- App. B. Provincetown hate crimes resolution
- App. C. Domestic partnership bylaw, 1993
- App. D. Certificate of domestic partnership
- App. E. Provincetown police department values.