U.S. novelist Armistead Maupin: It's time to take “cultural revolution” to countries where “queers get thrown off roofs”
'Tales of the City' author calls for 'revolution' to end homophobia LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the modern LGBT+ rights movement, U.S. novelist Armistead Maupin said it was time for storytellers to take the “cultural revolution” to countries where “queers get thrown off roofs”. His trailblazing “Tales of the City” series, which began as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976, introduced one of the first transgender characters - pot-smoking landlady Anna Madrigal - to a mainstream audience. “For me, it’s always been a cultural revolution. ‘Tales of the City’ made a difference in San Francisco when it was in the newspaper because a lot of people were reading about gay life for the first time,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. A new television adaptation of the nine-novel series premieres on Friday on Netflix, with the return of former ingenue Mary Ann Singleton to San Francisco, a U.S. city...