Provincetown, Massachusetts has been called America’s gayest safe harbor — but in 2026, staying that way takes more than glitter. This episode of Pride This Way heads to the tip of Cape Cod for Provincetown Pride, where drag queens hawk tickets on Commercial Street, boys wear high heels to the docks, and the fight to protect this queer safe harbor is very real.

We sit down with Rachael Brister, Executive Director of the Provincetown Business Guild (PBG), and learn why the official Provincetown Pride and visibility still matters in “the queerest place on earth.” Comedian Kristen Becker tells us how she founded Summer of Sass, a nonprofit that relocates vulnerable LGBTQ+ 18–20-year-olds out of hostile hometowns into summer housing and jobs in P-town and preaches about the atheists and Christians attending her “Loosen the Bible Belt” tour— and Sasser Salem opens up about Summer of Sass, leaving Atlanta, finding chosen family, and what it’s really like starting gender-affirming hormone therapy. We also catch up with drag performer Preston Seymour (aka Sutton Lee Seymour) of the Art House, celebrating 20 years and debuting his new show, Super Ma’am.

This episode’s Pay It Forward recipients are the Provincetown Business Guild — the people who plan the party and fight to protect it and Summer of Sass – because a little sass goes along way with these folks. It also unleashes for the first time, “Out! Takes” bloopers, when the rainbow hits record and then falls off the stage.

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Every subscribe, follow, and listen pays it forward to over 375 LGBTQ+ organizations around the world. Join the movement and follow us on Pride This Way podcast platforms and YouTube channel because we put the vodka in vodcast.