Amistead Maupin’s Tales of the City: Queer genealogies, memory, and representation in contemporary serial narratives

This chapter examines the final installment of the cross-media serial narrative *Tales of the City*, produced for Netflix in 2019. It begins by exploring how the series programmatically engages with the developments of queer theory, according to Teresa de Lauretis and Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick, mainly through the representation of queer subjects and the creation of a community. Drawing on José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of queer time and its utopian potential, the chapter analyzes the series' visual choices and how the intertwining of history and narrative creates a rich emotional landscape and sentimental environment.