An Evening with Armistead Maupin
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2017
- Each year on October 11, the LGBTQ community celebrates National Coming Out Day, a holiday grounded in the philosophy that coming out of the closet and living openly as an LGBTQ person is a form of activism. In honor of the 29th anniversary of National Coming Out Day, the JCCSF is honored to present the incomparable Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) for a conversation about his long-awaited memoir Logical Family, which chronicles his odyssey from the Old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to groundbreaking writer and gay rights pioneer. Appearing in conversation with Armistead Maupin is Peter Stein, arts and media producer and frequent onstage interviewer.
National Coming Out Day was started in 1988 to challenge homophobia in our communities. It was a call for oppressed people to be brave, come out, and take up space for the sake of the other people in their communities. By celebrating this day, we are building on the idea that we can create safer spaces, a more accepting community, and a citywide home for LGBTQ people under the values of Sukkot. This holiday hinges on the idea that we must create our homes. A sukkah is a humble dwelling, a fragile space built during Sukkot. What makes these structures a comfortable place to dwell is the people we bring into them, and the spirit of community and safety that we create during Sukkot.
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I just read my first book, Tales of the City , and want him to know that I am a white, female , over sixty , from Ohio. I also worked as a R. N., and personally took care of HIV positive , and Full blown AIDS patients . And when my fellow Nurses argued over patient assignment , I went forward to swap assignment , in order to give care to these men. I never had a female patients who were afflicted . I enjoy reading the book, and ordered the rest of the books on ebay. Thanks for the amusing characters and the humanity you gave voice to.
Dear Joanna.You are an Angel,plainly and simply..Thankyou.
they are some of my favorite books ever! I hope you enjoyed them as much as i did.
You are evidently one blessed person and a blessing to those you help. I am 80. I am not a person who is tolerant of risky behaviors although i know males enjoy rougher behaviors than females in general. My grandparents and great aunts and uncles were doctors. That was over a century ago ...they muttered to me to choose a different life, law maybe.
The only statement Maupin made that i know of regarding his own escape from AIDS was to say: "...by being boring in bed." Of course he is joking but he never mentions SAFETY in his "hilariously entertaining" stories which i have not read. I am reading his autobio, Logical Family which i do recommend. I was too close to HIV and AIDS when it came to New York. Homosexual males were already opening the fourth wall before this toxic tsunami of deadly disease. Sadly, history overlooks the diseases that promiscuous bodily intimacies fostered and spread. Sorry to go off topic, but i am basically homophilic and long ago dealt poorly with my handsome gay brother who jumped off the GG Bridge soon after calling me on the phone. Tragedy beats Boredom ... yea i'm kidding.
and there's more.....😜😎
A very wonderful conversation with a great author. It jogged my memories of his memoir.
Armistead Maupin was the Godfather of LGBTQ fiction during a time when just mention of term would cause loss of job, family or possibly your life. Now, the political environment swings back to to those times. Maupin is still a Mavrick. Tales from the City just blew me away first time I saw series on PBS.
Great interview and a wonderful interviewer. Hurray for Armistead Maupin!
What a delightful man. I read the entire T of TC in one fell swoop when I came across them in the mid-80s. I caught up with the original TV series on RUclips this past week and then there's the Netflix T of TC where Anna Madrigal gathers her family around her to celebrate her 90th birthday.Everything about this gem is timeless.
love you Armistead, love you, love you, love you :-)
An amazing man, thank you!
Thanks for sharing!!!
He looks a lot like Armie Hammer especially when he was young in his 20’s or 30’s. So, anybody who wants to make a movie about Armistead Maupin, you know you have to make a trip to Cayman Islands, have a chat with so chatty Armie Hammer. This will be a nice addition to his resume after ‘Call me by your name.’
I love this man.
Amistead outed others in his past. I think that is disgusting