For pride month, we're looking at a new queer-themed documentary each week beginning with The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, which continues to play festivals around America.
“I’d like to tell you about the first time I had sex.”
This is a like spoken by the one and only Armistead Maupin in Jennifer M. Kroot’s documentary The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. It’s spoken by him as he sits in a relaxed chair on a plainly adorned stage in front of a crowd of predominantly gay men. It garners a laugh from those in the audience there (as well as presumably the audience at home; I did), but it’s a moment that is quite indicative of the film around it.
Kroot’s film is not one that is shy about sex. It couldn’t possibly be. To do so would be to deny the essence of...
“I’d like to tell you about the first time I had sex.”
This is a like spoken by the one and only Armistead Maupin in Jennifer M. Kroot’s documentary The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. It’s spoken by him as he sits in a relaxed chair on a plainly adorned stage in front of a crowd of predominantly gay men. It garners a laugh from those in the audience there (as well as presumably the audience at home; I did), but it’s a moment that is quite indicative of the film around it.
Kroot’s film is not one that is shy about sex. It couldn’t possibly be. To do so would be to deny the essence of...
- 6/6/2017
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
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