![]() ![]() ![]() A legal secretary during the week, the sometimes-lounge singer now croons over dead friends as deacon and soloist at the First Assembly of Love Church in Hollywood. ![]() He is a deacon at the Metropolitan Community Church in the Valley in North Hollywood, California.ĭuplechan (Blackbird) revisits the life of gay, black, and sassy Johnnie Ray Rousseau in this tale of love and loss. Larry Duplechan is the author of four previous novels, including Blackbird, published in a new edition by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2006. Got ’Til It’s Gone is a queer romantic comedy for the ages. In the midst of a midlife crisis, he falls for a much younger man with some serious Daddy issues throughout it all, Johnnie Ray tries to look at love (and his life) from both sides now (to borrow a phrase from his idol Joni Mitchell). When we first met Johnnie Ray in the novel Blackbird, he was a gay teenager in love with the star of a high school play now he’s forty-eight, still handsome and gym-built, but admittedly vain and looking down the short road to fifty. This is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter ego protagonist Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock. ![]() "With his gift for language, eye for detail and consistent tone of voice, Larry Duplechan has the makings to be a major literary figure." -Edge Publications ![]()
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