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Wednesday, May 12 Love and Marriage in Provincetown Mass.
It was great really darlings, because the town’s commercial businesses have really been hurting these last few years..while big money folks hiked up the prices for rent in town and the year-rounders were pushed out to the dunes or to the next town over Truro which has now become almost as pricey as Ptown sorta like what Manhattan did to Brooklyn. But I digress… High rents…loud drunken yahoos aside..Provincetown has always been a town that marches to the beat of its own drum…or flute..whistle.. Hell they’ve even had a dancing traffic cop who does a spin and something I might call a shimmy when he tells cars to go. So it’s fitting with its history of tolerance and a supremely high percentage of gay tourists and year-rounders, that P-town should become marriage central in this whole gay marriage thing. Honey..everyone’s getting in on it. Used to be when I strolled into town and told folks I was a wedding caterer..they looked at me like I said…oh you know I’m a rocket scientist.. This time around the answer is oh so is so and so and so and so and her and him and my dog…and yeah my cat plans weddings. Art galleries are turning themselves into reception venues. Forget it honey. Still money and mishegash aside..It’s great really that this strange little town on the tip of a long cape…has become a beacon for the nuptials that dare not say their name. I was proud to hear that the board of selectman (who include babes by the way don’t let the name fool ya) voted unanimously in favor of issuing marriage licenses to out-of-state same-sex couples when gay marriage becomes legal in the state next week, putting them in direct conflict with super yahoo...Republican Gov. Mitt Romney. Yeah…there’s a little bitty state law dating back to 1913…you know when dinosaurs ruled the earth, that says couples cannot be married in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be valid in the state they live in. Now just to show you what a big pile of crap this whole racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic BLECH is. That particular law was meant to keep interracial couples from getting hitched when it was still illegal in their home states. Nope…no whities and darkies getting hitched in Mass. If it wasn’t okay in redneckville. So Romney who’s probably someone George Bush Junya would love, love, love, has dug up this ol law and is trying to slow down the gay marriage performed by town clerks across Massachusetts by forcing them to make the intended couples show proof that they live in the state. But clerks in Ptown (YAY CLERKS) have been once again marching to their own drum and have stated they either will not ask for proof of residency or they’re gonna be rreallllllly loosey goosey about it. Knowing Ptown as well as I do, the conversation might go something like this, “We wanna get married.” “Do you live or are you planning on moving in state?” “No.” “Well do you like it here?” “Love it.” “Might you consider moving here one day?” “Not sure.” "But you're not...dead set against it?" "No..." “Good enough for us!” Course Rotten Romney is already threatening to press charges against the clerks if they don’t listen to big brother. But honeys’ that kinda press would be fun, fun, fun to watch. A whole group of clerks hauled off to jail for letting some lovebirds get married. Cover of Time here we come! Anyway…this all should prove to be pretty damn interesting and I’m truly bummed that I will not be in Ptown the week of May 17th to watch it all unfold. Ah the drama I shall miss. Now then…do any babes out there wanna marry me in late May…I wanna be a part of this so bad! Soooo badddddd!
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