Writer Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass viewers and daring to incorporate homosexual, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others have been.
His ‘Tales of the Metropolis’ collection, which began as a newspaper column in 1974, turned worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix collection. It chronicles the lives of queer individuals in San Francisco and pokes enjoyable at morality and social norms, touching hundreds of thousands of readers and viewers over 50 years. The beloved saga is now again for its tenth and closing instalment, Mona of the Manor.
Now in his late 70s and residing in London, the American author opens as much as Krishnan Guru-Murthy about rising up within the South in a “sexist, homophobic” conservative household, how he got here to embrace the LGBTQ group, what life was like on the peak of the AIDS epidemic within the 80s.
Produced by Silvia Maresca.
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