Esprit

Port Townsend, WA

Esprit always sounded interesting to me, it sounds like the west coast equivalent of Fantasia Fair in Provincetown.

Annual Esprit transgender convention opens today
By Arwyn Rice
Peninsula Daily News
May 12. 2012

The convention provides a place for transgender individuals to wear their identity openly, to learn to be ladies and to live it up a little.

The Red Lion, which has hosted the event since 1990, was deep in preparations for the arrival of the Esprit participants Friday, said Vanessa Fuller, Red Lion director of sales.

Most of the events at the convention are closed to the public, including clothing exchanges, a pool tournament and classes in self-defense, religious and legal issues, cosmetics, dancing and social graces.

The Esprit conventioneers are “wonderful to be around and easy to work with,” Fuller said
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Guests at the convention also will be offered more typical North Olympic Peninsula tourist activities, such as a trip to Hurricane Ridge, a visit to the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, shopping in Port Townsend and a ferry trip to Victoria

In 1999, I went out to the west coast for a wedding and afterward we drove up the Olympic Peninsula to Port Townsend, but we never made it up to Port Angeles which was the next town up the coast. So I always thought it would be nice to go out to Esprit someday just to sight see and enjoy the evening activities at night.