Jon Fielding, Michael's lover and DeDe's gynecologist, becomes part of the social group.

D'orothea Wilson returns from a modeling assignment in New York to resume an affair with Mona. Madrigal's mother and owner of the Blue Moon Lodge brothel, brings mystery and comic relief. Edgar Halcyon, Mary Ann's and Mona's boss Edgar's socialite daughter DeDe Halcyon-Day (a character based on real-life art patron Dede Wilsey ) and DeDe's scheming bisexual husband Beauchamp Day all provide a glimpse into a more affluent Californian class. Mary Ann becomes friends with other tenants of the building: the hippyish, bisexual Mona Ramsey heterosexual lothario Brian Hawkins the sinister and cagey roof tenant Norman Neal Williams and Michael Tolliver, a sweet and personable gay man known to friends as Mouse (as in Mickey).īeyond the house, lovers and friends guide Mary Ann through her San Francisco adventures.

She finds an apartment at 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the eccentric, marijuana-growing landlady Anna Madrigal, later revealed to be a transgender woman. The series opens with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a naive young woman from Cleveland, Ohio, who is visiting San Francisco on vacation when she impulsively decides to stay. Ĭharacters from the Tales of the City series have appeared in supporting roles in Maupin's later novels Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. Tales of the City has been compared to similar serial novels that ran in other city newspapers, such as The Serial (1976 Marin County), Tangled Lives (Boston), Bagtime (Chicago), and Federal Triangle (Washington, D.C.). The remaining titles were never serialized, but were instead originally written as novels. The stories from Tales were originally serialized prior to their novelization, with the first four titles appearing as regular installments in the San Francisco Chronicle, while the fifth appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. Tales of the City is a series of nine novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2014, depicting the life of a group of friends in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBT. United States first edition cover of the first book in the Tales of the City series

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