Simultaneously quaint and cosmopolitan, Provincetown is a year-round haven for the LGBTQIA+ community, though certain weeks assigned to queer archetypes (Bear Week, Family Week, Girl Splash) are known to inject high-octane party fuel into the streets. Owing to its geographic seclusion at the extreme tip of Cape Cod, it eventually became America’s first artist colony in the 20th century, and not long after, New England’s most inclusive haven. Luckily, P-town has since come a long way from its Puritan origins. Before the Pilgrims established a New World colony in Plymouth, the English settlers first came ashore in Provincetown.