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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Alas, I believe the aforementioned Tales of the City does a much better job of that. It is still very problematic in some of its treatments, but I appreciated it a lot more as a true snapshot of LGBTQ life in the Bay Area.
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Absolutely, it's a quite accurate snapshot of the SF LGBTQ community, pre-AIDS. Which means, of course, that there ARE issues because there
were issues. And while I'd agree that we can hold Ellen Klages to a higher standard of awareness, even though she is writing about an earlier era, I don't think we can expect Armistead Maupin to be other than a product of his time and place.
ETA:
Tales of the City originated as serialized stories starting in 1974, in the
Pacific Sun and then the
San Francisco Chronicle. It wasn't pulled into a book until 1978. (And is the first of nine books from Maupin's columns. For more, I suggest this article in
The Guardian. )