http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-11-22T04:23:19Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Tours http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/25/12359/6548 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/maupin_blog.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.armisteadmaupin.com"><b>Armistead Maupin</b></a> if you don't know him, is the author of the <i>Tales of the City</i> series about life for a group of eclectic individuals in San Francisco. Basically, he was Candace Bushnell (the author of <i>Sex and the City</i>) of the late 1970s except he's a gay man who doesn't seem to have a Manolo Blahnik obsession--that we know of. He even had a character named Connie Bradshaw. Hmmm...draw your own conclusions. <p>Maupin is also a pioneer for the LGBT community because during a time when these topics were still considered taboo, he wrote about the random sex, gay men, lesbian socialites, transsexuals, and AIDS. Yet he always made love--searching for it, having it, losing it-- juliana 2007-07-25T12:43:47-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/