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Rue Dauphine
Rue Dauphine
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Vinh Tien and Binh Pham arrive in New Orleans shortly after the fall of Saigon in 1975 with three strikes against them: They’re immigrants. They’re Vietnamese. And they’re Gay.
It is the dawn of Southern Decadence, during the Gay Golden Age – the years between Stonewall and the outbreak of the AIDS crisis. Their next-door neighbor/landlord, Bill Ardoin, a French professor at Newcomb College, is a grieving widower just home from Paris, where he scattered the ashes of his longtime lover.
As Vinh and Binh fight to be accepted, Bill becomes their champion, while battling the isolation that comes from age, and alcoholism. After Bill dies and leaves his estate to Vinh, the knives come out when Bill’s estranged sister, with the help of Bill’s New Orleans friends, fights to keep the Vietnamese men from inheriting the property.
Set in New Orleans, Paris, and Louisiana’s famed Cajun heartland, Rue Dauphine is the story of those immigrants who flee war-torn homelands for a piece of the American Dream. It is a story of late 20th century New Orleans, a gay-friendly city filled with colorful personas.
It is the dawn of Southern Decadence, during the Gay Golden Age – the years between Stonewall and the outbreak of the AIDS crisis. Their next-door neighbor/landlord, Bill Ardoin, a French professor at Newcomb College, is a grieving widower just home from Paris, where he scattered the ashes of his longtime lover.
As Vinh and Binh fight to be accepted, Bill becomes their champion, while battling the isolation that comes from age, and alcoholism. After Bill dies and leaves his estate to Vinh, the knives come out when Bill’s estranged sister, with the help of Bill’s New Orleans friends, fights to keep the Vietnamese men from inheriting the property.
Set in New Orleans, Paris, and Louisiana’s famed Cajun heartland, Rue Dauphine is the story of those immigrants who flee war-torn homelands for a piece of the American Dream. It is a story of late 20th century New Orleans, a gay-friendly city filled with colorful personas.
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