Armistead Maupin celebrates his 80th BIrthday by publishing the 10th book of his iconic Tales of The City series

    2024 will be a red-letter year for iconic queer writer Armistead Maupin who will be celebrating both his 80th birthday and a new book in his critically acclaimed Tales of The City series. Maupin published the first of the novels  Tales of The City in 1978 after it had been a newspaper serial … Continue reading

Armistead Maupin reads from his latest addition to his Tales of The City Saga.

  Queer Literary giant Armistead Maupin has a new book out which is always such major news.  It’s called Mona Of The Manor which is naturally part of the Tales of The City saga.  This story of Mona Ramsay actually fits somewhere in the middle of this queer epic as opposed to being any sort … Continue reading

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of The City Musical : now streaming online

  Armistead Maupin’s beloved Tales Of The City started out as a newspaper column over 40 years ago.  They morphed into 9 novels, two television mini-series, and then in 2011 into a musical. With a score by Jake Shears (the lead singer of Scissor Sisters, and John “JJ” Garden, and book by Tony Award winner … Continue reading

Arrival : a touching animated coming-of-age tale

Arrival is a stunning new animated short film that tells a vivid and poignant tale of a young man’s close relationship with his mother and his struggle to reconcile it with his newly-embraced gay identity as he starts a life in the big city. The two have always had a special bond communicated through the … Continue reading

Art After Stonewall 1969 – 1989 : an exhibit at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery

  There is still a couple of weeks left to see the superb exhibit ART AFTER STONEWALL  1969-1989  at the Leslie Lohman Gallery in NY.  1969 is also the year that  Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman held an exhibit of gay artists for the first time in their SoHo loft. This would eventually evolve into … Continue reading

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