I’m spending a week this summer in Provincetown, better known as PTown. It’s a gay vacation mecca on the tip of Cape Cod. You might recall that I was in PTown in December for Holly Folly. That was just a weekend. This will be a full week. Imagine that. I’m taking an honest-to-Pete vacation. That hasn’t happened in a long time.
I’m going with my friends Andy and Jay in July, and the week we’re going is Bear Week.
Let me stop right there and do some explaining. In the gay universe, just like in the wild, bears tend to be large, furry creatures. That’s where the term bear came from. Obviously, I’m not a bear. My German heritage doesn’t give me a whole lot of body fur, and I can’t grow a decent beard to save my soul.
Going for Bear Week is going to be a lot of fun. While I’m not part of the bear community, they are a lot of fun. And I won’t have to worry about shaving my chest to be on the beach.