ABSTRACT
Like other queer studies scholars engaging with postcolonial studies and critical ethnic studies, The author uses the term "queer" not to represent an identity or a population but, instead, to signal a theoretical investment in analyzing the gender, racial, and class politics of space and sexuality. The project of increasing the visibility of respectable lesbian and gay parents who organize their lives around domesticity and consumption further marginalizes non-homonormative forms of queerness. The official tourism-activism imaginary produced during Family Week, like the competing imaginaries manufactured by the local tourism organizations, is arranged around consumer culture and indicates the homonormativization of lesbian and gay politics. During the latter half of the twentieth centuryand especially following the boom in lesbian and gay tourism during the 1990s-Provincetown's tourism imaginaries have targeted an increasingly privileged class of travelers. Despite the town's small size, Provincetown is currently home to three different tourist-centered organizations.
