![]() ![]() I lost all patience with that â I have lost all patience. My own family supported Jesse Helms, the conservative senator who was the most homophobic person in congress. This s**t’s been going on there for a long time. “He made up a pathetic excuse for why he couldn’t attend. “My university decided to honour me with an honorary doctoral degree about five years ago and I asked my little brother to come to the ceremony, thinking he’d be proud of me, and he was embarrassed to have to do it,” Maupin tells PinkNews. Naturally, Armistead Maupin expected his family to be proud of him â so he was disappointed to learn that his Trump voting, conservative brother was “embarrassed” of his achievements as a chronicler of queer life in America. It was a proud moment for the author of Tales of the City, the trailblazing series of books that brought the story of queer San Francisco to the masses. Five years ago, acclaimed gay author Armistead Maupin was given an honorary doctorate by the university he attended many years earlier. ![]()
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