It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

He says he had known he was gay since childhood but didn't have sex until he was 26 and only decided to come out in 1974 when he was about 30. In April 2010 it was announced that a theatrical musical version of Tales of the City would debut in May 2011.

Armistead Jones Maupin Jr.