Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin is among the world's greatest campaigner's for gay rights. Not in a tub-thumping, high-on-his-horse sort of way, though - just by writing and saying what he feels. He was a friend of Rock Hudson and convinced his now good buddy Sir Ian McKellen to come out. The upbeat 62-year-old does not fail to deliver during our interview about the screen adaptation of his novella, The Night Listener, which stars San Franciscan Robin Williams as a character based on the writer himself. Maupin was the "night listener" at the other end of the phone.
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