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Tales of the City, the Glossary

Tales of the City is a series of ten novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2024, depicting the life of a group of friends in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBT.^[1]

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Alan Poul

Alan Mark Poul (born May 1, 1954) is an American film and television producer and director.

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American Conservatory Theater

The American Conservatory Theater (ACT) is a nonprofit theater company in San Francisco, California, United States, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions.

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Armistead Maupin

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.

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Babycakes (1984) is the fourth book in the Tales of the City series by American novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle. Tales of the City and Babycakes are novels set in San Francisco.

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Barbara Garrick

Barbara Garrick is an American actress.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.

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BBC list of 100 most inspiring novels

On 5 November 2019, the BBC published a list of novels selected by a panel of six writers and critics, who had been asked to choose 100 English language novels "that have had an impact on their lives".

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Betsy Wolfe

Betsy Wolfe (born Elizabeth Marie Wolfe; June 1, 1982) is an American actress, singer, and entrepreneur.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Chanticleer (ensemble)

Chanticleer is a full-time male classical vocal ensemble based in San Francisco, California, founded in 1978.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Dede Wilsey

Diane Buchanan "Dede" Wilsey (born 1944) is an American socialite, Republican Party donor, and philanthropist, who lives in San Francisco.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit theater company founded in 1964 by George C. White.

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Frederica von Stade

Frederica von Stade (born 1 June 1945) is a semi-retired American classical singer.

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Further Tales of the City (novel)

Further Tales of the City (1982) is the third book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle. Tales of the City and Further Tales of the City (novel) are novels set in San Francisco.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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Jake Heggie

Jake Heggie (born March 31, 1961)Slonimsky, Nicholas; Kuhn, Laura; ed.

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Jake Shears

Jason Sellards (born October 3, 1978), known professionally by the stage name Jake Shears, is an American musician.

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Jason Moore (director)

Jason Moore (born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.

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Jeff Whitty

Jeffrey Daniel Whitty (born September 30, 1971) is an American playwright, actor, and screenwriter.

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Jim Jones

James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978.

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Judy Kaye

Judy Kaye (born October 11, 1948) is an American singer and actress.

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Laura Linney

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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LGBT culture in San Francisco

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in San Francisco is one of the largest and most prominent LGBT communities in the United States, and is one of the most important in the history of American LGBT rights and activism alongside New York City.

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Lothario

Lothario is an Italian name used as shorthand for an unscrupulous seducer of women, based upon a character in The Fair Penitent, a 1703 tragedy by Nicholas Rowe.

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Marin County, California

Marin County (Condado de Marín) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Mary Ann in Autumn

Mary Ann in Autumn (2010) is the eighth book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin.

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Mary Birdsong

Mary Evans Birdsong (born April 18, 1968) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and singer.

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Maybe the Moon

Maybe the Moon is a 1992 novel written by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Michael Tolliver Lives

Michael Tolliver Lives (2007) is the seventh book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin. Tales of the City and Michael Tolliver Lives are novels set in San Francisco.

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Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

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More Tales of the City (novel)

More Tales of the City (1980) is the second book in the Tales of the City series by San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle. Tales of the City and More Tales of the City (novel) are novels set in San Francisco.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Novelization

A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book, or video game.

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Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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PinkNews

PinkNews is a UK-based online newspaper marketed to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning community (LGBTQ+) in the UK and worldwide.

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Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

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Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.

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Seattle Gay News

The Seattle Gay News is a weekly newspaper aimed at the Seattle and Puget Sound area LGBT community in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Self-insertion

Self-insertion is a literary device in which the author writes themselves into the story under the guise of, or from the perspective of, a fictional character.

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Serial (literature)

In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments.

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SFGate

SFGate is a news website based out of San Francisco, California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics and sports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii and California.

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Showtime (TV network)

Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_City

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