Both of his parents were of Creole heritage, natives of Mermentau, in southwestern Louisiana. He describes his parents as “left-leaning Democrats,” but notes that his family attended a strict, fundamentalist Black church. His mother was also a fine gospel singer whose musical talent Duplechan inherited.ĭuplechan is the first-born of four sons, and his family included a half-sister from his father’s first marriage. Lawrence Duplechan, Jr., was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of the late Lawrence Duplechan, Sr., an aircraft electronics engineer, and Margie Nell (Andrus) Duplechan, who worked as a postal clerk, office administrator, and homemaker. He is also a vocalist, musician, and graphic artist. He is a popular Lambda Literary Award-winning author whose novel “Blackbird” was turned into a film directed by Patrik-Ian Polk.
He is a deacon at the Metropolitan Community Church in the Valley in North Hollywood, California.Larry Duplechan was born on December 30, 1956.
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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