On the bustling streets of 1970s San Francisco, neon lights pierce through the fog-drenched skies, disco music explodes from crowded nightclubs, and a wide- eyed Midwestern girl finds a new home—and creates a new kind of family—with the characters at 28 Barbary Lane. Over three decades after Armistead Maupin mesmerized millions with his daily column in the city's newspapers, detailing the lives and (multiple) loves of Mary Ann, Mouse, Mona, Brian, and their beloved but mysterious landlady Mrs. Madrigal, his iconic San Francisco saga came to life as a momentous new musical at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater.
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EEUU /// San Francisco, 1985. El test para detectar en sangre el VIH comienza a practicarse en un contexto en el que la comunidad gay, célebre por su creativa y disidente práctica de los placeres sexuales, se enfrenta a un nuevo estigma traducido como la ira de la naturaleza sobre cuerpos negados a “una verdad”. Alegorizados como efectos virales de la culpa, estos cuerpos pasan a ser considerados una amenaza contra la salud pública.
