'These days,' he told me with a grimace, 'my sex life consists of me and the VCR.' Then he puffs back up the slope, armed with some food for dinner and a hard-core video for dessert. Maupin sometimes ventures down to Castro at lunchtime, passing a juice bar where his name is inscribed on a fresco of queer celebrities, and dodging tour guides who point to him as a mobile monument, like a greying, pudgy statue on leave from his plinth. Tucked away directly below his home, as if secreted in a bodily cleft, is Castro Valley, once the city's gay ghetto, now - as Maupin acidly observes in his new novel The Night Listener - a slick, commercialised 'theme park for homos'. In the distance is Macondray Lane on Russian Hill, a tunnel of regressive greenery straggling back into the secret garden of our shared childhood: here Maupin located the happy, communal Eden which he calls Barbary Steps in Tales of the City, his six-volume chronicle of frisky San Francisco in the Seventies and Eighties. He can glimpse the red span of the Golden Gate Bridge which triumphally subjugates the Pacific, and the pyramidal Transamerica skyscraper which optimistically straddles the San Andreas fault. The steep height is in San Francisco, and the city beneath his glazed, suspended chalet used to be Sodom. He's been married to website producer and photographer Christopher Turner since 2007.A rmistead Maupin lives on a mountain, vertiginously overseeing a city of the plain. In 1976 he published "Tales of the City", the first novel in a series of nine books. In 1974 he came out as gay, although he claims he had known he was homosexual since childhood. He wrote for a number of newspapers and in 1971 became a member of the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press. He served several tours of duty in the United States Navy.
Maupin later renounced Helms' conservative beliefs.
He worked for Channel 5 and received a patriotic award that the station's manager, future U.S. He graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1962 and went on to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His parents were Armistead Jones Maupin, co-founder of the Maupin, Taylor & Ellis law firm, and Diana Jane (nee Barton). Born in Washington, D.C., United States as Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr., he is an American writer, best known for the "Tales of the City" novels.
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