Forty years before the self-congratulatory “Pose,” Maupin gave us a transgender heroine, the sly and fascinating Anna Madrigal (played by “Moonstruck” Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis), whose name one Maupin fan determined was anagram for A Man and a Girl. Both the columns and the series were decades ahead of its time, presenting male gay and bisexual characters who kissed on camera and had sex in bathhouses. Based on a series of Armistead Maupin San Francisco Chronicle columns that first appeared in 1976, “Tales” was based on a series of Armistead Maupin San Francisco columns that first appeared in 1976. When the original “Tales of the City” mini-series (as they were called back in the day) premiered in January 1994 on PBS, NBC’s “Must See TV” (“Friends,” “Seinfeld” and “ER”) was all anybody watched.
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