Armistead Maupin

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Armistead Maupin (pronounced “mop-pin”) was born into a Southern, conservative household. He served a tour of duty in Vietnam, voted for Barry Goldwater for president, and worked in the office of ultraconservative newspaperman and later senator Jesse Helms. One of Maupin’s earliest impressions of homosexuality came from the film Advise and Consent (1962), from which Maupin inferred that the only recourse available to the honorable homosexual was suicide.

Celebrity Anita Bryant’s antigay campaign triggered Maupin’s evolution from Southern...

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