Father Figures: On Armistead Maupin’s ‘Logical Family’
Tensions between romance and loyalty and blood and true affinity run through Tales of the City, but Maupin leaves them sadly unexamined when discussing his own life.
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The Ballad of Thom and Joseles: Communities of the Carnal Heart
Gunn lived much of his life by the principle of free love: a deliberate transcendence of socially prescribed coupling practices.
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