Bøger af Larry Duplechan

Movies That Made Me Gay is a wonderfully well-informed, witty and acerbic take on iconic Hollywood films, film-stars, and indie cult favorites from an author who is himself a Black gay icon; and is also a touching and extremely readable personal memoir of growing up gay in the early '60s, surviving the AIDS pandemic of the '80s (legendary Vito Celluloid Closet Russo was a dear friend) and the adaptation of his novel 'Blackbird' into a feature film starring Mo'nique in 2014, and still thriving today."Duplechan is a master film critic, alternately praising and scathing, with a gushing heart and acerbic wit, all the while giving the reader little known facts about the classic and not-so-classic movies that shaped his colorful life. Personal anecdotes round out this well-crafted journal of the ultimate movie fan who, above all, despite the oft caustic pen, is a romantic sentimentalist."Sam Harris, author of Ham: Slices of a Life, and The Substance of All Things."Once I started reading I couldn't stop, like eating a bucket of salted cashews. But it's far more educational than nuts."Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters"Fasten your seatbelts for a wild ride through "gay" movie history with Larry Duplechan at the wheel. His enlightening, bitchy, unfiltered, pithy, and sentimental observations coaxed me to take another look at countless films, and it will for you!"Michael Gregg Michaud, author of Sal Mineo, A Biography and Inventing Troy Donahue."...full of fresh ideas, good history, and smart jokes. I laughed out loud a lot. Best of all, he weaves a fine autobiography into his movie talk, one that's honest, real, complex, and moving."Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters¿¿"Larry Duplechan is the storyteller you want to sit next to at the party. His deep dive into movies that molded our youth and haunt our adulthood is funny, acerbic and personal. I dare anyone to read this book without making a list of films to see or see again. I say two snaps up!"Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories¿¿"Black gay men's autobiographies are still vanishingly rare - the more so due to the catastrophe of the AIDS crisis. Larry's wise and witty telling of his life through his love of films both classic and obscure is to be cherished."Patrik-Ian Polk, creator of Noah's Arc

Movie tie-in edition of Larry Duplechan's 1980s YA novel about growing up black and gay in America.

Tangled Up in Blue is love story of three people bound together by ties of love, passion, and friendship until a crisis threatens to destroy them all.Maggie Sullivan's accidental discovery that her husband Daniel has taken the AIDS test leads to a devastating confession: Before he met and married Maggie, Daniel had been lovers with Crockett, a gay man who is now Maggie's closest friend. Reeling from a sense of betrayal and unable to deal with the husband she loves intensely and the friend she cares for most, Maggie faces a crisis that threatens to destroy both marriage and friendship, testing her and her husband's love for each other and for their closest friend."The breezy, hedonistic mood of the typically Californian characters in this arresting, heartwrenching novel is shattered by the AIDS virus... This moving, inspirational story commands attention whatever one's sexual orientation." - Publishers WeeklyStonewall Inn Editions

First published by St. Martins in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet; if that werent enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. All the while, hes intrigued by Marshall MacNeill, a fellow drama class member whos surely the sexiest man to walk Gods green earthat least according to Johnnie Ray. This novel of adolescent awakening is as fresh and heartfelt as it was when first published. Features an introduction by Michael Nava.