Fantasia Fair

'Fantasia Fair, "Fantasia TV Fair"," or FanFair is a major eight to ten-day-long conference for transgender people and cross-dressers, held every October in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a small Portuguese fishing village and largely gay and lesbian tourist village on the very tip of Cape Cod. This annual event is significant because it is the longest-running transgender conference and because it allows transgender people space to experiment with gender-role presentations in a safe and affirming community. The goal of the conference is to create a place in which transgender and transexual people are accepted without judgement, and to create a "time when [participants] just relax and wear [their] beautiful clothes and enjoy being [their] femme [selves]" In November, 1980 the event was featur

Fantasia Fair

'Fantasia Fair, "Fantasia TV Fair"," or FanFair is a major eight to ten-day-long conference for transgender people and cross-dressers, held every October in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a small Portuguese fishing village and largely gay and lesbian tourist village on the very tip of Cape Cod. This annual event is significant because it is the longest-running transgender conference and because it allows transgender people space to experiment with gender-role presentations in a safe and affirming community. The goal of the conference is to create a place in which transgender and transexual people are accepted without judgement, and to create a "time when [participants] just relax and wear [their] beautiful clothes and enjoy being [their] femme [selves]" In November, 1980 the event was featur