Consider this your spoiler alert. Our old favourites, and some new ones too, decamp to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert.
Mouse, who dubs it "a Fellini carnival on Mars", has grown from twink to bear, as all gay men must. Now a settled sixtysomething, he's married to a much younger man called Ben and fears Burning Man won't have sofas, but goes anyway because he's Mouse. Even as a thirtysomething I identify with his move from all-night dancing to all-night box sets.
Mrs Madrigal, now 92, warns: "Your regrets, my dear, are all about the things you didn't do. This orgy of self-discovery is the perfect place for yet more secrets to out. I sobbed for the last 30 pages but not, perhaps, for the reason you'd expect.
My favourite scene is a very hot and very sweet threesome with Mouse, Ben and a beautiful youth dressed as a satyr. It is Mouse finally accepting, and getting off with, his younger self, but it is somehow not as narcissistic as it sounds. Handing a newbie the keys to 28 Barbary Lane is one of life's simplest joys — like Mrs Madrigal taping a joint to Mary Ann's door on her first night. It's a way of reaching out, of saying "You're not alone" and also asking "Are you like me? It was a well-weathered, three-story structure made of brown shingle.
It made Mary Ann think of an old bear with bits of foliage caught in its fur. She liked it instantly. So did I. Shingle seemed impossibly exotic to a year-old in a pebble-dashed council house in a village outside Glasgow. Then I was terrified of being myself, of being different, of being the only one. If this thing called Aids didn't get me then my Granny Mac would find out what I was up to with my best pal Mark and that would be that. I grew up not just gay but tall, speccy and scarecrow-skinny, the child of divorced parents from opposing sides of a sectarian divide.
We all have our differences to bear, Maupin knows that. He celebrates them for us — especially when we can't.
In life, as in the book, coincidences are never just that. Flicking through, I felt a flash of recognition that drove me, flushed with shame, to snatch it up lest it disappear. Over six million readers have done the same since the first title was published in , making Maupin's series one of the bestselling ever.
I've yet to meet the person who doesn't love Tales — though there are envious critics who dismiss them as froth and bigots who condemn them as filth. It would be like meeting the person who doesn't like chocolate.
Tales features all kinds of minorities and in the later titles gender-queer characters take up the reins of radicalism let go by Mouse and co as they win the big battles while growing older and comfier.
But the books aren't minority interest. Maupin's gay characters were among the first to have jobs and friends and lives. Pity the poor gay fledgling that first walks into James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. White's coming-of-age novel thrilled me — but it was dark.
It didn't offer much hope. It wasn't looking good for me in fiction. To live another life. Long before the idea of a gay best friend became a cliche, Maupin explored the unique friendship between straight women and gay men.
Mona's greatest fear is becoming a fag-hag. Maupin acknowledges the mutual ambiguities. Either could meet their Prince Charming and abandon the other but, even when he comes along, they choose to stay. In Mary Ann in Autumn , the penultimate book in the series, it's a much older, wiser Mouse that a divorced, moneyed Mary Ann turns to when she gets cancer. He is HIV positive but has been saved by the cocktail of drugs that came too late for so many.
Together they survive. Heather, my high-school girlfriend, held my hand through my first gay breakup and gave a reading when I finally married my boyfriend Mike last summer. Together we survive. In Further Tales of the City , published in , Maupin maps amity between gay men and straight men — terra incognita still.
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