Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin - Armistead in 'Nam - Clip
Clip: Season 19 Episode 4 | 1m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens Mon., January 1, 2018
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, the writer who was once a conservative son of the Old South and would become a gay rights pioneer, reflects on how he came to serve in the Navy while not yet out of the closet. "I volunteered for Vietnam," Maupin says, "because I think I still had some manhood issues going on and I wanted to go to the war."
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Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin - Armistead in 'Nam - Clip
Clip: Season 19 Episode 4 | 1m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, the writer who was once a conservative son of the Old South and would become a gay rights pioneer, reflects on how he came to serve in the Navy while not yet out of the closet. "I volunteered for Vietnam," Maupin says, "because I think I still had some manhood issues going on and I wanted to go to the war."
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Trailer | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Video has Closed Captions
Preview: S19 Ep4 | 30s | Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin premieres on Independent Lens on Monday, January 1, 2018. (30s)
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