That meant telling a sudsy but authentic tale of queer life just a few years after the modern queer liberation movement began, and in one of the epicenters of queer living. Maupin began writing Tales of the City in San Francisco in the late '70s, with his characters living in the same place and time. But Netflix takes on the beloved classic with more queer creatives behind the scenes and in front of the camera than ever before. Earlier adaptations were produced in 1994, 1998, and 2001 by PBS and later Showtime in conjunction with Channel 4. Tales of the City is something of a gay cat with nine lives, returning this summer for a fourth limited series adaption. The address is entirely fictional, but both the Netflix version of the series and its earlier television adaptations are fashioned to resemble the real place off of which Maupin based 28 Barbary Lane. But newcomers to the story may be wondering if the house in Tales of the City is real. Based on the serialized newspaper columns-turned-novels of Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City tells the story of a group of fictional characters living at 28 Barbary Lane in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
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