{"id":142529,"date":"2024-03-14T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/armistead-maupin-on-trans-rights-and-growing-up-gay-in-a-homophobic-household\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:00:03","slug":"armistead-maupin-on-trans-rights-and-growing-up-gay-in-a-homophobic-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/armistead-maupin-on-trans-rights-and-growing-up-gay-in-a-homophobic-household\/","title":{"rendered":"Armistead Maupin on trans rights and growing up gay in a homophobic household"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/Pht23fDI98o\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Armistead Maupin on trans rights and growing up gay in a homophobic household\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pht23fDI98o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer &#8211; writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were.<\/p>\n<p>(Subscribe: https:\/\/bit.ly\/C4_News_Subscribe)<\/p>\n<p>His \u2018Tales of the City\u2019 series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the lives of queer people in San Francisco and pokes fun at morality and social norms, touching millions of readers and viewers over 50 years. The beloved saga is now back for its 10th and final instalment, Mona of the Manor.<\/p>\n<p>Now in his late 70s and living in London, the American writer opens up to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about growing up in the South in a \u201csexist, homophobic\u201d conservative family, how he came to embrace the LGBTQ community, what life was like at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Silvia Maresca.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer &#8211; writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. 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