I Know A Place (From the "Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City") – .mp3

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City is an upcoming American drama web television miniseries set to premiere on June 7, 2019, on Netflix. The show follows Mary Ann (Laura Linney), who returns home to San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter Shawna (Ellen Page) and ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross), twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann returns home to her chosen family and will quickly be drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis) and the residents of 28 Barbary Lane.

I Know A Place, performed by MUNA, is reflective of the queer content featured prominently in Tales of the City and its adaptations. The band consists of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson. All three members of the band identify as queer. Initially wary of being pigeonholed as a "queer girl band", they later came to embrace the opportunity to use their musical notoriety to help inspire younger people to be comfortable with their identities. Their songs frequently address issues of sexuality and gender. According to Naomi McPherson, "It would have meant a lot to me when I was, say, 12, to know of someone in a band and think they were cool and know they were out." McPherson added, "I am out and I feel safe being out because the three of us are a little army for one another. I don’t feel afraid to be myself. That makes me proud to be queer. That’s the whole point of why we do this. We want a safe haven."

The song was released a few months after the 2016 Orlando Nightclub shooting at Pulse, a gay bar and dance club. I Know A Place celebrates peace, love, and equality. In an interview with iHeartRadio, the members of the all-female band said:

"We wrote I Know a Place to be like a contemporary anthem for the queer community. The LGBT community. We started writing it in 2015 after the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage, and it was a really celebratory song, but we also knew that there were a lot of people in our community who still don�t feel safe. So we wrote it also as a message of safety and nonviolence. And then it took on a new meaning after the Orlando shooting."

The song instantly became an anthem for the safety of the LGBTQ community, as declared by TIME Magazine.

I Know A Place (From the "Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City" Trailer) – Single

1. I Know A Place – MUNA

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