The BBC's TV-miseri adaptatn of Armistead Mp's Tal Of The Cy ed a furor when aired on PBS– 1994, two men kissg on televisn, much ls sually discsg gay sex, was unheard of. But Tal treated s gay characters and s straight characters as equals, much to the chagr of right-wg…
Contents:
- THIS IS WHAT IT’S LIKE BEG AMERI’S BT-LOVED GAY AUTHOR
- ARMISTEAD MP: ‘BEG GAY LIBERATED ME’
- GAY HISTORY – MAY 13: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARMISTEAD MP! WH LOVE, 28 BARBARY LANE.
- OLR AND WISER: ARMISTEAD MP, CHRONICLER OF GAY LIFE, FEELS LUCKY TO BE HERE
THIS IS WHAT IT’S LIKE BEG AMERI’S BT-LOVED GAY AUTHOR
The film, directed by Jennifer M. Kroot, illtrat how the novelist’s gay experience rmed his art. * armistead gay *
” There were a lot of gay characters Tal, that was kd of the pot, but my books were never the 70s, Warner Brothers bought the optns, and I got a T-shirt ma that said: “Soon to be major motn picture.
ARMISTEAD MP: ‘BEG GAY LIBERATED ME’
“Burst down those closet doors once and for all, ” said Harvey Milk, Ameri’s first out gay polician, before he was assassated 1978. The g-out letter his central gay protagonist Michael “Moe” Tulliver sends his Republin parents More Tal of the Cy beme a cut-out-and-keep pattern ed by untls rears for revealg the tth to loved on.
He remaed the closet and worked for the anti-gay polician Jsie Helms, later elected as North Carola’s Republin senator. “I was acced, ” he says, “of ventg a utopian place – Barbary Lane – the notn that a straight woman, a straight man, a gay man, a bi woman, and a transgenr landlady would all be livg unr the same roof, but the tth was I was already begng to see that and feel .
GAY HISTORY – MAY 13: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARMISTEAD MP! WH LOVE, 28 BARBARY LANE.
In 1993, when PBS and Channel 4 Bra aired the first adaptn of Tal, starrg Lra Lney, featured every cloud of dope smoke, bathhoe steam, and gay sex sweat risg om the book.
OLR AND WISER: ARMISTEAD MP, CHRONICLER OF GAY LIFE, FEELS LUCKY TO BE HERE
He had spent s beg someone he was not – an illn that was succsful outsi of the gay grapeve – but that mangled thumb betrayed the pa of his reprsn.
On at least one ocsn, Mp’s persuasn worked, however, by enuragg Ian McKellen to announce 1988 he was gay.