"An Appeal To All Decent People In The Town of Provincetown" 1952

A transcript of a letter from the Provincetown Board of Selectmen dated August 5, 1952 and published in the Provincetown Advocate regarding "a situation which bids fair to undermine our moral" notably, a "large homosexual element," and requests help "to stamp out this degrading and soul destroying influence." The original letter appears at the end of the transcription...Courtesy of Stephen H. Borkowski, into whose care it was entrusted.

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Provincetown (Mass.) -- Politics and government, Provincetown (Mass.) Board of Selectmen, and Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century