Armistead Maupin: Last News

Rock Hudson’s private life is as much a part of his legacy as is all his great work during the Golden Age of Hollywood.While deeply closeted, Hudson had relationships with several prominent male lovers including esteemed Tales of the City author and LGBTQ+ activist Armistead Maupin. Unlike Hudson, Maupin was out and proud and working for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he began Tales of the City as a newspaper serial. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.In a new interview, Maupin detailed the first time he met Hudson in the mid-’70s after being invited to a Palm Springs party the movie star was supposed to attend.“I ended up going home with a bunch of guys from the party who took me out to some house in the middle of the desert where we took some drug called TT1, which I’m told was a relaxant given to women in childbirth,” Maupin tells Interview magazine in a new sit-down.