Author Armistead Maupin was born on this day in 1944 and is celebrating his 76th birthday today. Maupin is best known for his Tales of the City novels which have also been turned into a series of television programs. First published as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle. The series encompasses nine hugely popular novels: Tales […]
Perth’s Queer Book Club has selected Less by Andrew Sean Greer as their book to read in March. The novel was first published in 2017 and won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for literature, and in 2019 it won the Australian Book industry Award for International Book of the Year. It tells the story of Arthur Less, a […]
The bestselling, much-loved author and LGBT+ activist, Armistead Maupin has announced he will return to Australia in July 2020. One of America’s true literary icons and storyteller, Armistead will recount his favourite tales from the past five decades, offering his own engaging observations on society and the world we inhabit. Tickets on sale from 10th […]
Earlier this year Netflix featured the fourth installment of Tales of the City. Now all four series of the show can be streamed online,giving a new generation of LGBTI viewers a chance to see the iconic series. The groundbreaking show is based on the books by Armistead Maupin. It first appeared on our screens back in 1993, […]
Author Armistead Maupin has shared his delight that the new series of Tales of the City has a gay actor playing the character of Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver. Several different actors have played the character of the four series of the show, but in the new series Australian actor Murray Bartlett takes over the part, the first time […]
Netflix has released the first photos from the upcoming return of Tales of the City. The groundbreaking series based on the books by Armistead Maupin first appeared on our screens back in 1993, way before shows like Queer as Folk, The L Word, and Looking focussed on the chosen families of queer communities. The original mini-series starring Laura Linney […]
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (★★★★★) is an absorbing documentary about San Francisco writer Armistead Maupin whose Tales in the City became a cult television series. Tales in the City started out as an entertaining column in the Francisco Chronicle in the mid seventies that recorded the local stories of the city’s residents – […]
