00:00Please be sure to turn on your electronic devices in order to fully enjoy the experience.
00:05The story of Tales of the City is one of quiet revolution.
00:11Whatcha doing?
00:12Feeling the vibes of fiery resistance seeping into my skin.
00:15We find we're able to still push the conversation forward, extending it to the younger generation.
00:20And it's the opportunity of a lifetime to come back to something that was truly a formative experience for me.
00:26People have been talking about bringing Tales back over the past 25 years.
00:30But the reason for it being redone had to be in response to the world that we're living in now.
00:36A couple of queers walk down the street and no one knows it. Are they still queer?
00:39Barbary Lane is a magical place that exists a little outside the real world.
00:46You'll find I'm not particularly literal about these things.
00:51Literals for the unimaginative.
00:54Action!
00:57Just as Barbary Lane is a safe place for our characters, I wanted the show to be a safe space
01:02for viewers.
01:03Inherently within Tales, there is a sense of family and a sense of home.
01:07It's got a little community.
01:10These friendships and relationships are all about letting you be the person who you want to be.
01:21Generations that seem like light years away actually can reach common ground and understand each other and it's just a
01:27matter of listening.
01:29So it's time to regroup and show again how a loving community can become a family.
01:34What do you think's up there?
01:36Rich white people.
01:38A lot of the season is structured around Anna Madrigal and a flashback to 1966, a secret that she has.
01:46Humptons was basically the Rosa Parks boss of trans history.
01:50Girls, this is Anna.
01:52We see Anna's experience juxtaposed against these trans women that she falls into.
01:57Those men, the ones you drink and dance with, those men are killing us one by one.
02:02Predominantly marginalized people, in some ways potentially being rejected from their family, you know, have to form their own family.
02:10This feels too good to be true.
02:14My mother used to say, there's only the truth.
02:18Any community, race, culture, class, all of it, it shows that we can all be different and still experience the
02:24same thing.
02:24The new generation.
02:27Isn't it beautiful and also terribly depressing?
02:31Terribly.
02:33The books and the series are such cult classics.
02:38Oh, this is surreal.
02:40I produced the original in 1994.
02:43We were making a love letter to San Francisco and a love letter to a new, all-embracing, non-judgmental
02:51version of family.
02:52For the viewer, I think it just widens their perspective.
02:57I think it's especially good for younger people and makes their humanity more inclusive.
03:04You don't wish for what's to come.
03:07You revel in what's already here.
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