Provincetown update! Drag, seafood and sex in the Monkeypox era!
Crown & Anchor’s Wave Bar, I caught Mack’nifique & The Dolls, “a queer, cirque-style burlesque fantasy in the round” where they give you a “consent bracelet” on the way in, though nothing ever really becomes intrusive.
As the audience of middle aged ladies in appliqued blouses filed in, I wondered if they mistakenly thought they were seeing a Chippendale’s show, though I then realized that this is the new answer to that kind of thing.
It was a lively romp—based around a pole, a hoop, and a white rectangular stage—where Drigo (Andres Butler), Lady Prism (Maddi Wyda), and Spookey (Spookey Boylesque) did invigorating numbers, and so did non binary host Mackenzie Miller, who proudly admits “I don’t shave, tuck or pad” but who certainly knows how to whoosh around a stage with angel wings.I had coffee at the food court on Commercial Street, then hung out at Watership Inn, where a bunch of seasoned activists from NYC were enlightening me over hard boiled eggs.
One of them (who’s old enough to have gotten the smallpox vaccine) had gone to the Dick Dock, the lower area near the Boatslip, where unbridled anonymous sex has carried on through many a plague.
