Time To Read

Thanks for joining us! In this episode we’re talking about Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. San Francisco, 1976. A naive young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous. The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live. In this episode we discuss Armistead Maupin’s days as a Republican and his family’s Confederate history; Maupin’s memoir, Logical Family; The two Tales of the City TV series (1993 and 2019); The Letter to Mama which Michael writes (Trevor found this amazing video of Sir Ian McKellan reading it); Hal Johnson talks about Body Break and racism; Ongoing discrimination toward trans men and women; Learning to use gender neutral pronouns; Misgendering and microaggressio