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Provincetown Family Week 1999

This page is dedicated to Janel Radtke, who died while we were in Provincetown. Janel had volunteered a weekend of her time in 1998 to the board of directors (including myself) of Family Pride Coalition. She helped us during a retreat we had in Mississippi to review our organization's infrastructure. Janel is survived by her partner of 14 years, Sherrie Eisenpress. Janel had just turned 47.

For the second Summer in a row, Alexandra and I spent a week in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a lovely town on the edge of Cape Cod. The event is hosted by Family Pride Coalition, of which I have been on the board for several years. Alexandra and I made a lot of new friends and we saw a lot of old friends (this was our fourth conference, which is more like a family reunion).

Make sure to read the "Tattoo in the Bathroom" story at the bottom of this page.

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I think this photo is STUNNING. Charlie Klowden, Hope and Alex in front of a magnificent sunset.

Beach and pool, beach and pool....

Alexandra & I were pleasantly surprised to be included in the Love Makes a Family Photo-Text Exhibit. This was taken at Family Week last year.

Lots of fun activities.

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Alex & I stayed on the second floor and had lots of friends come visit us at our place near the center of town.

This was us the first day.

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Here we attended a concert in which the kids were encouraged to join in and we all sang about how proud we are of our families.

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The gay dads and the kids took a ride on a sailboat one evening. Alex took the photo of me on the left.

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Kevin Woodward and Jon Logan with their daughter Lily and holding a cutie named Helen Hankey.

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Same folks, just with Lily and Helen looking into the picture.

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Jon, Lily and Kevin shortly after the "tattoo" story took place.

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The couple on the left are from Red Bank, NJ. Keith Heimann is in the middle. To the right is Barry Kessler and his daughter Helen.

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This is Barry, Alex and adorable Helen in the front wearing a sailor dress.

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I adore this picture. Look at the girls' faces carefully. With Jon are Elizabeth Wall, Alex and Lily.

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Alex and Jon are both hammy.

Pucker up Jon!

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Gavin Singer and his prey!

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Gavin with his father Garrison (men in black) visiting from Phoenix, Arizona.

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Gavin riding Executive Director of Family Pride Ray Drew's shoulders.

Sal and Wayne celebrated their 27th year together this week. They were there with their daughter Hope Steinman-Iacullo.

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Alex, Felicia Park-Rogers (director of COLAGE) and Hope.

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These two pictures are of Charlie again with her mother Jill Klowden, Esq., at the pool. They live in Boston.

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To the immediate left is Yvette and her daughter Cameron from Los Angeles.

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Joe Zipkin and Family live in the Los Angeles area. From the left in the photo on the left are Rick, Katie, Joe and David.

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This beautiful couple (Betty Piazza & Margaret Pucci) live on Staten Island, NY with their son Anthony.

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This photo happens to be of all New Yorkers. Betty and Margaret again with Troy, who is the son of Steve Clements and Harold Magazine, who live on Long Island.

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Karin and Renee have two daughters named Katia and Ana, who Alexandra loved making friends with. This beautiful family lives in Michigan.

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Of course NO vacation would be a vacation to me unless I came across BEARS, and Ptown actually has a few (visiting at least). This is a picture of Chris Medeiros, Scot LaGreca, Steve Albert and Dean Morris, all sweet men who I have the pleasure of calling my friends.

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Here's another great picture of Chris when he came to visit Alex and me at the pool.

"Tattoo in the Bathroom"

While several of the dads and I were at a table one evening, enjoying a meal at the Provincetown Inn with hundreds of others who were there for Gay Family Week, Alexandra was asked to take Lily to the bathroom. Alexandra came back and asked if she could have 75 cents for a temporary tattoo in a vending machine. I was about to give it when my friend Kevin said that his daughter advised him that these "tattoos" were in a vending machine in the ladies room (I hadn't realized that part). So I told my daughter that these were probably not what she believed them to be, without getting into too much detail (we were at the dinner table), but she insisted that she did not read too quickly and that it was "tattoos". I told her that if she was so sure, to take the quarters and read it carefully again before making a purchase. A few minutes later she came back to the table, slapped the quarters in front of me and ran off to play with the other kids without an explanation. I asked Lily what happened and Lily said: "They were big lady things!" Normally, that would be a great place to finish this story, but incredibly I told this to one of the lesbian moms who had been in the ladies room and -- to my shock -- she advised me that there was indeed a vending machine in the ladies' room that sells three items: (1) condoms, (2) tampons and (3) tattoos!!!! Only in Provincetown...