Armistead Maupin
Author
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited memoir from the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series. 'Sooner or later, no matter where in the world we live, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us. We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives.'--from Logical Family. Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching novel, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane—as
...Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, lives on in this novel about growing older joyfully. Almost twenty years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, author Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his own story. Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life,...
Author
Publisher
Ablaze Publising
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A classic of LGBTQ literature that has become a cult sensation! The heroes of this enchanting group have been enjoyed by millions of readers worldwide! Adapted on TV (BBC), Limited Series (Netflix), Theater...and now in graphic novel form for the first time! San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb...
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the city moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
English
Description
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions of the boy's identity comes up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
After Stonewall traces the gay rights movement in America from the 1969 raid on the Stonwall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, through the 1990s.
Before Stonewall presents the story of the gay and lesbian experience in the United States since the 1920s. Covers many of the milestones in the fight for gay acceptance and equal rights, culminating in the 1969 riots that followed the police raid of a gay bar in New York's Greenwich...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.