I got them a subscription to the newspaper so they could read it. I was writing Tales of the City and everyone knew that the author of that work was gay, but my parents were kind of conveniently looking the other way. I pretty much came out to the world before I came out to them. This year it was adapted by Neflix as a series starring Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis and Ellen Page.Īrmistead said: “I started it as a daily serial 43 years ago, so I didn't imagine these characters would continue to live and flourish in print or on screen as long as they have. The series went on to encompasses nine hugely popular novels: Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn and The Days of Anna Madrigal. It started out describing the lives and loves of characters in the apartment block, with gay man Michael Tolliver at its heart and the magnificent landlady, trans woman Anna Madrigal. The Tales of the City began as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s. So there’s some stuff that I can chew on there.”Īrmistead Maupin's groundbreaking story of San Francisco’s 28 Barbary Lane and its residents has been charming fans for more than 40 years. I have never told the story of Mona and her aboriginal teenage son and how she fits in that village and what it is alike to live in the era of Margaret Thatcher when you are a proud American lesbian. “I left her there and I never told what happened and I thought ‘oh, I would love to write about that’. “I am starting on a new novel, which is actually a Tales of the City novel, that goes back in time to a period that I didn’t cover before when Mona Ramsey, Mrs Madrigal’s daughter, inherits a manor house in the Costwolds from her husband whom she married to get him a Green Card so he could go to the States and be gay. I use those as much as I can,” says Armistead. “There's some menacing looking stains on the ceiling so it may all come and crush me before I finish, or maybe that’s an excuse to not write.
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