Rock Hudson had a 'legendarily large penis,' Armistead Maupin says
It's hard for the South to get things right from the start, because, ever since the Civil War, it has taught itself to equate righteousness with losing. "We must be right, y'all, because everyone else is against us." In my seventy-two years I have heard Southerners offer this excuse for everything from segregation to miscegenation laws to the 'religious liberty' currently invoked in the name of subjugating gay people. And in every instance, when the Supreme Court reminds them that decent people don't act this way anymore, they haul out the states' rights flag and brandish it in a Rebel-gray fog of amnesia.
-- Armistead Maupin (Logical Family)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ArmisteadMaupin #Denial #Racism #TheSouth
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(Oui c'est pas le jour mais après-demain je serai parti en vacances).
Mona et son manoir, tome 10 des Chroniques de San Francisco d'Armistead Maupin. Mona, fille d'Anna Madrigal, est une curieuse châtelaine dans une campagne anglaise digne d'une épisode de Barnaby.
On est content de retrouver les personnages des Chroniques (surtout Mona et Anna, Michael Tolliver manquant ici d'un peu de corps), mais j'ai trouvé l'ensemble un poil léger.
(On apprend dans les remerciements que Maupin et son mari ont été hébergés par Ian McKellen et Graham Norton le temps de trouver le pied-à-terre britannique. C'est beau la solidarité).
#armisteadmaupin #Monaetsonmanoir #annamadrigal #Chroniquesdesanfrancisco
The wonderful #NathanLane reading for #LettersLive. #LGBT #gay
"#ArmisteadMaupin's #TalesOfTheCity books chronicle the lives and loves of a group of unique people living in San Francisco in the late 1970s. Probably the most beloved of these characters is Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, a gay man who in the second novel, discovers that his parents have joined Anita Bryant's campaign in Florida to quell the rights of gays. He later writes a letter to his mother."
It's hard for the South to get things right from the start, because, ever since the Civil War, it has taught itself to equate righteousness with losing. "We must be right, y'all, because everyone else is against us." In my seventy-two years I have heard Southerners offer this excuse for everything from segregation to miscegenation laws to the 'religious liberty' currently invoked in the name of subjugating gay people. And in every instance, when the Supreme Court reminds them that decent people don't act this way anymore, they haul out the states' rights flag and brandish it in a Rebel-gray fog of amnesia.
-- Armistead Maupin (Logical Family)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ArmisteadMaupin #Denial #Racism #TheSouth
En dépit d’un démarrage un peu poussif l’écoute du bookclub au cours duquel Marie Richeux interviewe Armistead Maupin a été une des joies de la journée 😀 quel plaisir d’entendre Maupin vilipender le patriarcat et se revendiquer du camp des femmes ! Qu’elles soient cis ou trans of course
Dans "Mona et son manoir", l’auteur américain Armistead Maupin réunit les figures cultes de ses "Chroniques de San Francisco" pour une ultime aventure. Il s’amuse des codes du polar anglais : un vieux château, une garden-party endiablée, un soupçon d’érotisme, et bien sûr, un mystère à élucider.
Today in Writing History May 13, 1944: Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin was born. Maupin wrote the novels over the course of nearly forty years, (1978-2014). He was one of the first writers to incorporate the AIDS epidemic into his novels.
#novel #fiction #ArmisteadMaupin #writer #author #sanfrancisco #lgbtq #aids #books @bookstadon
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