HeyJaredBarbary Lane Dispatches
Pull up a chair on the porch of 28 Barbary Lane—tales, truth, and tea from Armistead Maupin.
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Vietnam: The War I Went Looking For (opens the original)
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I encourage you to watch the video, as there are many more photos and archival footage. Plus, it’s always wonderful to hear Armistead tell his stories in his own voice. For those of you who prefer the written version, here’s a transcript of the video. (Note: This is a long post and may be truncated by some email providers.)When I ended my first tour of duty, came home from Naples and Malta, I finally lost my virginity. It’s such a quaint, old-fashioned way to put it, but I had sex with a man for
“I Love You, No Boolsheet” (opens the original)
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When I was 24 years old, I joined the Navy.It was during the Vietnam War, so part of the effort was to see that I wasn’t going to be on shore in a combat situation. I went to Officer Candidate School up in Newport, Rhode Island.<img alt="" class="sizin
In the Navy: Closeted, Confused and Full of Lust (opens the original)
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Here’s a transcript of the video: When I signed up for Officer Candidate School for the Navy in the late ’60s, it’s a good thing that my mother filled out the form and not me, because it asked if I had had any “homosexual tendencies”.It was on the list of maladies that you needed to recognize before they let you in. So I didn’t have to lie about that, but I knew in my heart what was going on with me, who I was attracted to, all of that.It was a big dark secret that I hadn’t acted on at that poin
Catching Up (opens the original)
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Here’s a transcript of the video: Well, we owe you a bit of an apology, I think, because we haven’t been on here for a while. There are reasons for that, and I’ll explain some of them later, but we had a great time in France.Zeke had a great time in France. We couldn’t take the Eurostar because they have this ridiculous rule about dogs not travelling on the Eurostar. So we took a ferry and had him with us every inch of the way, and he loved it. He loved the stimulation of it. We loved having him
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