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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: the twins' performance art and the sculptures Mary Ann, Brian, and Michael see at the gallery.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: zig-zagged. There are regular scenes of the characters getting down, but it's often more complicated than just fun.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Shawna.
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* WatchItStoned: When Anna is reading ''Literature/{{Howl}}'' in a park, she's approached by a hippie girl who offers her a joint and says, "If you haven't read Ginsberg high, you haven't read Ginsberg."
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* WatchItStoned: When Anna is reading ''Literature/{{Howl}}'' ''Literature/Howl1955'' in a park, she's approached by a hippie girl who offers her a joint and says, "If you haven't read Ginsberg high, you haven't read Ginsberg."
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* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: Every woman Brian swipes right on on Tinder bears a marked resemblance to Mary Ann.
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* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: Ben and Michael perusing gay hookup apps and finding a lot of the jargon impenetrable. For example, what's "NDQ"? [[spoiler: No Drag Queens.]]
* AdaptationalSexuality: In the novels, Jake Greenleaf is a gay trans man, and has consistently identified as such since his late teens. In the Netflix miniseries, he previously identified as a lesbian (and is still in a committed relationship with his lesbian girlfriend after transitioning), identifies as non-specifically queer, and only begins to experience attraction to men later on.
** [=DeDe's=] decades-long relationship with D'orothea isn't even mentioned, let alone present; the impression she gives is that she dabbled a bit with partners of various sexes instead of being functionally married to a woman after her husband's death.
* AdaptationalSexuality: In the novels, Jake Greenleaf is a gay trans man, and has consistently identified as such since his late teens. In the Netflix miniseries, he previously identified as a lesbian (and is still in a committed relationship with his lesbian girlfriend after transitioning), identifies as non-specifically queer, and only begins to experience attraction to men later on.
** [=DeDe's=] decades-long relationship with D'orothea isn't even mentioned, let alone present; the impression she gives is that she dabbled a bit with partners of various sexes instead of being functionally married to a woman after her husband's death.
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* TheBear: Michael. His magnificent greying CarpetOfVirility is on display in his many shirtless and nude scenes.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Not only are Ysela, Anna, and their other trans friends present at the Compton's Cafeteria riot, Ysela is shown throwing coffee in a cop's face - an act that, in real life, was committed by an unknown trans woman and is said to have sparked the riot.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Claire]].
* ButterflyOfTransformation: a subtle example. Early on in "Days of Small Surrenders", Anna covets a scarf with butterflies on it, and Tommy buys it for her. Once he learns of her trans identity, he offers to save up so he can pay for her gender confirmation surgery.
* CampGay: Mateo is the walking embodiment of the prissy, pissy gay man. In fairness, he seems to have good reason to be irritated throughout most of the show.
* CastFullOfGay: Mary Ann and Brian are straight and cis. Pretty much everybody else in the main cast, not so much.
* CatharticChores: After Shawna runs off, Mateo encourages Mary Ann to work out her feelings through vacuuming and window cleaning.
* [[ClosetGay Closet Trans]]: Anna in the sixties "passes" enough to hold down a job in a bookstore and even go on a date with a man.
* ClubKid: None of the main cast, but there's plenty of queer debauchery in the background.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs.Madrigal.Madrigal and [[spoiler: Ysela]].
* CoordinatedClothes: the twins start dressing alike in flamboyant outfits for their social media careers.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Days of Small Surrenders" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback to 1966 and Anna's first arrival in San Francisco.
* DirtyCop: the police working in the Tenderloin harass, extort, and beat up trans women.
* DragQueen: Shawna's boss at Body Politic, Ida Best (portrayed by Series/RuPaulsDragRace winner Caldwell Tidcue, aka Creator/BobTheDragQueen), as well as loads and loads of background characters.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Not only are Ysela, Anna, and their other trans friends present at the Compton's Cafeteria riot, Ysela is shown throwing coffee in a cop's face - an act that, in real life, was committed by an unknown trans woman and is said to have sparked the riot.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Claire]].
* ButterflyOfTransformation: a subtle example. Early on in "Days of Small Surrenders", Anna covets a scarf with butterflies on it, and Tommy buys it for her. Once he learns of her trans identity, he offers to save up so he can pay for her gender confirmation surgery.
* CampGay: Mateo is the walking embodiment of the prissy, pissy gay man. In fairness, he seems to have good reason to be irritated throughout most of the show.
* CastFullOfGay: Mary Ann and Brian are straight and cis. Pretty much everybody else in the main cast, not so much.
* CatharticChores: After Shawna runs off, Mateo encourages Mary Ann to work out her feelings through vacuuming and window cleaning.
* [[ClosetGay Closet Trans]]: Anna in the sixties "passes" enough to hold down a job in a bookstore and even go on a date with a man.
* ClubKid: None of the main cast, but there's plenty of queer debauchery in the background.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs.
* CoordinatedClothes: the twins start dressing alike in flamboyant outfits for their social media careers.
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Days of Small Surrenders" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback to 1966 and Anna's first arrival in San Francisco.
* DirtyCop: the police working in the Tenderloin harass, extort, and beat up trans women.
* DragQueen: Shawna's boss at Body Politic, Ida Best (portrayed by Series/RuPaulsDragRace winner Caldwell Tidcue, aka Creator/BobTheDragQueen), as well as loads and loads of background characters.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: when Anna goes to help her trans friends at the Compton's Cafeteria riot, her trans identity is discovered and revealed to the entire police force.
* [[GayBestFriend Gay Personal Assistant]]: Mateo to [=DeDe=].
* GayConservative: the Chrises and other guests at Harrison's dinner party are wealthy, white, and generally opposed to wokeness in all its forms.
* GayGroomInAWhiteTux: averted. Both the grooms at Bryce and Donahue's wedding wear matching black tuxes.
* GirlfriendInCanada: when Anna won't let her trans friends meet Tommy, Ysela jokes that she's dating a ghost.
* [[GayBestFriend Gay Personal Assistant]]: Mateo to [=DeDe=].
* GayConservative: the Chrises and other guests at Harrison's dinner party are wealthy, white, and generally opposed to wokeness in all its forms.
* GayGroomInAWhiteTux: averted. Both the grooms at Bryce and Donahue's wedding wear matching black tuxes.
* GirlfriendInCanada: when Anna won't let her trans friends meet Tommy, Ysela jokes that she's dating a ghost.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Shawna.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Anna's attitude. When Mary Ann refuses a joint, saying she's just sobered up from day-drinking with [=DeDe=], Anna says, "Being drunk is not the same as being high. One makes you stupid, the other makes you...interesting."
* HomosexualReproduction: Jake's mother [[IWantGrandkids is eager for Jake and Margot to start a family]]. The way she talks about it implies that she thinks Jake is going to impregnate Margot himself, despite being no more capable of that now than he was before he transitioned.
--> '''Margot:''' Where does she think queer babies come from?
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: Claire]] says it doesn't matter what she did, because she can misrepresent what actually happened at Barbary Lane by [[spoiler: editing her documentary]] to make her the hero. She says this in front of dozens of people who all turned up for a protest, including two popular social media influencers. Does she really think in 2019, ''nobody'' is filming this on their phone?
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Anna's attitude. When Mary Ann refuses a joint, saying she's just sobered up from day-drinking with [=DeDe=], Anna says, "Being drunk is not the same as being high. One makes you stupid, the other makes you...interesting."
* HomosexualReproduction: Jake's mother [[IWantGrandkids is eager for Jake and Margot to start a family]]. The way she talks about it implies that she thinks Jake is going to impregnate Margot himself, despite being no more capable of that now than he was before he transitioned.
--> '''Margot:''' Where does she think queer babies come from?
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: Claire]] says it doesn't matter what she did, because she can misrepresent what actually happened at Barbary Lane by [[spoiler: editing her documentary]] to make her the hero. She says this in front of dozens of people who all turned up for a protest, including two popular social media influencers. Does she really think in 2019, ''nobody'' is filming this on their phone?
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Or rather, "Lady Looks Like a Dude Who Looks Like a Lady". When Michael and Ben's would-be threesome partner sees Mary Ann come out of the bathroom unexpectedly, he snaps, "I specifically said in my ad, NO DRAG QUEENS!" and storms out without bothering to get dressed.
* {{Leatherman}}: Ben teases Michael about his fondness for men in leather.
* LGBTAwakening: Jake, having already come out as a lesbian and then a trans man before the start of the series, realizes he's attracted to men.
* LikesOlderWomen: [[spoiler: Margot]], apparently.
* LuxuriousLiquor: [=DeDe=] serves Mary Ann $600-a-bottle wine during their day-drinking session at [=DeDe's=] mansion.
* {{Leatherman}}: Ben teases Michael about his fondness for men in leather.
* LGBTAwakening: Jake, having already come out as a lesbian and then a trans man before the start of the series, realizes he's attracted to men.
* LikesOlderWomen: [[spoiler: Margot]], apparently.
* LuxuriousLiquor: [=DeDe=] serves Mary Ann $600-a-bottle wine during their day-drinking session at [=DeDe's=] mansion.
** Later in the series, [[spoiler: Margot and [=DeDe=].]]
* MistakenForGay: inverted. Mary Ann is surprised to learn that Sam is gay. Yes, he's a well-dressed, well-spoken older gentleman with a fondness for the arts, but she just thought he was English.
* MoreDiverseSequel: while the earlier books and adaptations were groundbreaking in their depictions of queerness, they were extremely white. The 2019 series makes a greater effort to include people of colour.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Ben and Michael arrange to have a threesome with a guy they met on a hookup app. The guy starts stripping down almost the second he walks in the door, only to be discovered by Mary Ann, who dropped by for an unexpected heart-to-heart with Michael, when she walks out of the bathroom.
* MistakenForGay: inverted. Mary Ann is surprised to learn that Sam is gay. Yes, he's a well-dressed, well-spoken older gentleman with a fondness for the arts, but she just thought he was English.
* MoreDiverseSequel: while the earlier books and adaptations were groundbreaking in their depictions of queerness, they were extremely white. The 2019 series makes a greater effort to include people of colour.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Ben and Michael arrange to have a threesome with a guy they met on a hookup app. The guy starts stripping down almost the second he walks in the door, only to be discovered by Mary Ann, who dropped by for an unexpected heart-to-heart with Michael, when she walks out of the bathroom.
* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: what Anna worries will happen to her if her trans identity is discovered.
* QueerCharacterQueerActor: while earlier adaptations tended to be looser about it, the 2019 adaptation makes an effort to cast actors of the same gender and sexuality as the character they're portraying.
* QueerCharacterQueerActor: while earlier adaptations tended to be looser about it, the 2019 adaptation makes an effort to cast actors of the same gender and sexuality as the character they're portraying.
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* TokenMinority: Lampshaded with Mateo, [=DeDe's=] Deaf, gay, [=POC=] personal assistant.
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* TokenMinority: Lampshaded with Mateo, [=DeDe's=] Deaf, gay, [=POC=] personal assistant.
--> '''Mateo:''' I'm Deaf! You can't out-minority me!ShutUpHannibal: Ida interrupting [[spoiler: Claire's]] big speech during the Save Barbary Lane protest.
* TheStoner: almost every character uses pot at least occasionally, but the twins come the closest to embodying the spacy stereotype.
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* TheStoner: almost every character uses pot at least occasionally, but the twins come the closest to embodying the spacy stereotype.
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* WhenIWasYourAge: A non-comedic example. Michael brings Ben to a dinner party where all the other guests are older and white as well as gay. When Ben calls one of them out for racist and transphobic language, using the word "privilege" in doing so, the other man comes back at him with this trope. When he was Ben's age, all his friends were dying of AIDS and no one in power cared, so in a sort of combination of ScrewPolitenessImASenior and NWordPrivileges, he feels he has the right to use the word tr*nny around other gay men if he feels like it.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: the twins' performance art and the sculptures Mary Ann, Brian, and Michael see at the gallery.
* TwinsAreSpecial: To Ani/Jen and Raven/Jonathan, their relationship with each other is more important than any other.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Lampshaded with Mateo, [=DeDe's=] Deaf, gay, [=POC=] personal assistant.
--> '''Mateo:''' I'm Deaf! You can't out-PC me!
* WatchItStoned: When Anna is reading ''Literature/{{Howl}}'' in a park, she's approached by a hippie girl who offers her a joint and says, "If you haven't read Ginsberg high, you haven't read Ginsberg."
* WhenIWasYourAge: A non-comedic example. Michael brings Ben to a dinner party where all the other guests are older and white as well as gay. When Ben calls one of them out for racist and transphobic language, using the word "privilege" in doing so, the other man comes back at him with this trope. When he was Ben's age, all his friends were dying of AIDS and no one in power cared, so in a sort of combination of ScrewPolitenessImASenior and NWordPrivileges, he feels he has the right to use the word tr*nny around other gay men if he feels likeit.it.
* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Body Politic.
* TwinsAreSpecial: To Ani/Jen and Raven/Jonathan, their relationship with each other is more important than any other.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Lampshaded with Mateo, [=DeDe's=] Deaf, gay, [=POC=] personal assistant.
--> '''Mateo:''' I'm Deaf! You can't out-PC me!
* WatchItStoned: When Anna is reading ''Literature/{{Howl}}'' in a park, she's approached by a hippie girl who offers her a joint and says, "If you haven't read Ginsberg high, you haven't read Ginsberg."
* WhenIWasYourAge: A non-comedic example. Michael brings Ben to a dinner party where all the other guests are older and white as well as gay. When Ben calls one of them out for racist and transphobic language, using the word "privilege" in doing so, the other man comes back at him with this trope. When he was Ben's age, all his friends were dying of AIDS and no one in power cared, so in a sort of combination of ScrewPolitenessImASenior and NWordPrivileges, he feels he has the right to use the word tr*nny around other gay men if he feels like
* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Body Politic.
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* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: the books feature a pair of Asian-American fraternal twins, as does the miniseries. However, in the books they're [=DeDe's=] children, and in the miniseries they're a pair of wannabe influencers who convince her to take them in and document her life on Instagram.
* TokenMinority: Lampshaded with Mateo, [DeDe's=] Deaf, gay, [=POC=] personal assistant.
--> '''Mateo:''' I'm Deaf! You can't out-minority me!
* TokenMinority: Lampshaded with Mateo, [DeDe's=] Deaf, gay, [=POC=] personal assistant.
--> '''Mateo:''' I'm Deaf! You can't out-minority me!
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Based on Armistead Maupin's ''Literature/TalesOfTheCity'' novels, though the events of the series aren't taken directly from any of the novels.
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* AdoptionAngst: Shawna, after she learns the truth about her parentage, since she feels that not only her parents but also Anna and Michael lied to her for her entire life.
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* FamilyOfChoice: pretty much the theme of all of Armistead Maupin's works.
* FamilyOfChoice: pretty much the theme of all of Armistead Maupin's works.
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* EvilBrit: Shawna and Mary Ann suspect Sam of being after Anna's money.
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** [[After it turns out they're wrong, he and Mary Ann team up to dig into Anna's pas. The two of them have an argument about who should be the "bad cop", Sam argues it should be him, since there's "no significant precedent" for a Midwestern bad guy.]]
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Margot is a lesbian. Period. But she loves Jake enough to be with him even after he came out and started transitioning.
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* TransEqualsGay: Inverted. Jake's family are overwhelmingly accepting of his trans identity - because he's in a relationship with Margot, and they'd rather have a straight trans son than a cis lesbian daughter. Mrs. Rodriguez even says how happy she is that any potential future kids will grow up in a "normal" family with a mother and father.
* TransRelationshipTroubles: Margot identifies very much as a lesbian, and it troubles her to be in a relationship with a man and be perceived as straight. Jake, meanwhile, has started to become attracted to men as well and wants to experiment outside their relationship. It all blows up when [[spoiler: Jake cheats on Margot with a guy and they break up.]]
* TransRelationshipTroubles: Margot identifies very much as a lesbian, and it troubles her to be in a relationship with a man and be perceived as straight. Jake, meanwhile, has started to become attracted to men as well and wants to experiment outside their relationship. It all blows up when [[spoiler: Jake cheats on Margot with a guy and they break up.]]
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* MayDecemberRomance: Michael and Ben are about twenty years apart, and the age gap is heightened by the relatively rapid progress of both the LGBTQ+ rights movement and treatment for HIV/AIDS in the 2000s and 2010s. Michael came of age at a time when being a gay man was far more highly stigmatized; he also discovered he was HIV+ before effective treatments were developed. As such he has a sense of his own mortality that Ben does not.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Michael and Ben are about twenty years apart, and the age gap is heightened by the relatively rapid progress of both the LGBTQ+ rights movement and treatment for HIV/AIDS in the 2000s and 2010s. Michael came of age at a time when being a gay man was far more highly stigmatized; he also discovered he was HIV+ before effective treatments were developed. As such he has a sense of his own mortality that Ben does not.not.
* WhenIWasYourAge: A non-comedic example. Michael brings Ben to a dinner party where all the other guests are older and white as well as gay. When Ben calls one of them out for racist and transphobic language, using the word "privilege" in doing so, the other man comes back at him with this trope. When he was Ben's age, all his friends were dying of AIDS and no one in power cared, so in a sort of combination of ScrewPolitenessImASenior and NWordPrivileges, he feels he has the right to use the word tr*nny around other gay men if he feels like it.
* WhenIWasYourAge: A non-comedic example. Michael brings Ben to a dinner party where all the other guests are older and white as well as gay. When Ben calls one of them out for racist and transphobic language, using the word "privilege" in doing so, the other man comes back at him with this trope. When he was Ben's age, all his friends were dying of AIDS and no one in power cared, so in a sort of combination of ScrewPolitenessImASenior and NWordPrivileges, he feels he has the right to use the word tr*nny around other gay men if he feels like it.
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Mary Ann Singleton returns to 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco after a 23-year absence for the 90th birthday of her former landlady, Anna Madrigal. Mary Ann is happily reunited with Michael Tolliver and Anna, but things are more complicated with her ex-husband, Brian Hawkins, and Shawna, the daughter she left behind to pursue a broadcasting career. Shawna follows a mysterious attraction to a new girl in town who is making a documentary about 28 Barbary Lane. The relationship between transgender man Jake Rodriguez and his lesbian girlfriend Margot Park faces challenges as Jake explores his newfound attraction to men. Michael struggles with the option to stop using condoms now that he is in a relationship with Ben Marshall. Anna begins receiving mysterious letters threatening to expose a secret from her past.
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Mary Ann Singleton returns to 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco after a 23-year absence for the 90th birthday of her former landlady, Anna Madrigal. Mary Ann is happily reunited with Michael Tolliver and Anna, but things are more complicated with her ex-husband, Brian Hawkins, and Shawna, the daughter she left behind to pursue a broadcasting career. Shawna follows a mysterious attraction to a new girl in town who is making a documentary about 28 Barbary Lane. The relationship between transgender man Jake Rodriguez and his lesbian girlfriend Margot Park faces challenges as Jake explores his newfound attraction to men. Michael struggles with the option to stop using condoms now that he is in a relationship with Ben Marshall. Anna begins receiving mysterious letters threatening to expose a secret from her past.past.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Madrigal.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: zig-zagged. There are regular scenes of the characters getting down, but it's often more complicated than just fun.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Mary Ann abandoned Shawna and Brian, and the fact that Shawna wasn't her biological child is not an excuse. However, she is absolutely right that Brian should have told Shawna that she was adopted instead of letting her get to age 25 without having the slightest idea.
*MayDecemberRomance: Michael and Ben are about twenty years apart, and the age gap is heightened by the relatively rapid progress of both the LGBTQ+ rights movement and treatment for HIV/AIDS in the 2000s and 2010s. Michael came of age at a time when being a gay man was far more highly stigmatized; he also discovered he was HIV+ before effective treatments were developed. As such he has a sense of his own mortality that Ben does not.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Madrigal.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: zig-zagged. There are regular scenes of the characters getting down, but it's often more complicated than just fun.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Mary Ann abandoned Shawna and Brian, and the fact that Shawna wasn't her biological child is not an excuse. However, she is absolutely right that Brian should have told Shawna that she was adopted instead of letting her get to age 25 without having the slightest idea.
*MayDecemberRomance: Michael and Ben are about twenty years apart, and the age gap is heightened by the relatively rapid progress of both the LGBTQ+ rights movement and treatment for HIV/AIDS in the 2000s and 2010s. Michael came of age at a time when being a gay man was far more highly stigmatized; he also discovered he was HIV+ before effective treatments were developed. As such he has a sense of his own mortality that Ben does not.
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Mary Ann Singleton returns to 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco after a 23-year absence for the 90th birthday of her former landlady, Anna Madrigal. Mary Ann is happily reunited with Michael Tolliver and Anna, but things are more complicated with her ex-husband, Brian Hawkins, and Shawna, the daughter she left behind to pursue a broadcasting career. Shawna follows a mysterious attraction to a new girl in town who is making a documentary about 28 Barbary Lane. The relationship between transgender man Jake Rodriguez and his lesbian girlfriend Margot Park faces challenges as Jake explores his newfound attraction to men. Michael struggles with the option to stop using condoms now that he is in a relationship with Ben Marshall, who is on PrEP.Marshall. Anna begins receiving mysterious letters threatening to expose a secret from her past.
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