Inspired by the queer historical legacy of this town, together with my own story, this work aimed to explore a diversity of versions of what love is and how it exists, encompassing memories, lessons, thoughts, and advice to perform a fairy tale of progressive values. 

This project has been built in five chapters -Map of Love, Dear Daddy, Demon’s Battle, True Love’s Kiss, and The Ball- developed in a seven-month collaboration with artists and different members of the Provincetown community. During this time, I’ve been collecting stories, pursuing interviews, acting in improvisational theater, attending townie’s private parties, and living the secret winter life of the town itself. The off-season is when Provincetown’s wizard ecosystem comes alive, nesting an art community with a unique world of rituals and culture before surviving another gentrified summer.

Within an entanglement of sunset paintings, dark rooms, cruising cemeteries, poetry readings, and blizzarded floods, it unfolds True Love’s Kiss, a participatory performance developed through an open call to help me find love. Anyone in town was invited to kiss me in the middle of the “Breakwater”. In this chapter my wish melts with my work; challenging the heteronormative imagery of a True Love's Kiss, and diversifying the narratives of idealized romance, for me and others.  

This Fairy Tale is about my aim for love and acceptance as much as about Provincetown as the tale of a land where freedom and care are shielded from the world. Fairy tales are learning tools that use fantasy to carefully expose children to the enchants and miseries of humanity, forging character and values. Provincetown offers fantasy for adults, as a place to live all the stories we were never told, enhancing the values we’ve had to build on our own. True Love’s Kiss: A Queer Fairy Tale in Provincetown is a self-portrait created through a collective gesture in an attempt to inspire intergenerational wisdom.