Tales of the City Adds Ellen Page and Olympia Dukakis

[TotallyOz]

This was my first gay love affair in literature.  I had to read it quietly and checked it out of a local library. It was magic for me as it helped me to see a future and a world outside of Alabama.

 

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[Riobard]

Also my first gay book when the 1st in the series was published beyond the 'zine stages, but just as I launched into big city life and realized San Francisco and New York might be more interesting than the OK place I landed. Then Kramer's Faggots ... perhaps a little more jarring than Maupin fare. But who had much time for books competing with tea dance?! I suspect Faggots in Alabama was shelved under fireplace fuel.

[AdamSmith]

In the 1993 March in NYC, I randomly found myself walking alongside Armistead Maupin. Whom I certainly had known to that time only through his work. We struck up a (very warm, immediately intimate; he was beautiful that way) convo,.

One of my several high points from that day.

[Riobard]

No surprise a quarter century on Netflix picks him up. 

If a certain clever, genteel, North Carolinian writer is tuning in here ... greetings and salutations!

But maybe the moon is a bit of a reach in this regard.