Heartbreaking and hilarious, sexed-up and political, Disasterama is a deeply personal coming-of-age story. With wit and flair Alvin Orloff gives us a guided tour of the era''s vibrant subcultures glittering, pointed reactions to a cold-hearted status quo. Long live the queens!!!" -Justin Vivian Bond, author, Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels " Disasterama takes us deep into the 80s and the daily creative resistance that saved the culture''s soul during the plague years. Tackling a mass of contradictions with unflinching realness, this book both entertains and inspires." -Michael Musto, author, Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back "Alvin Orloff''s Disasterama! is a darkly funny memoir depicting SF''s Queer Underground during the height of the AIDS Crisis when we were young, angry and horny as hell! This is a remarkable evocation of a heroic time.
This is memoir in the classic (or classic Hollywood) sense: a witty and glamorous raconteur who''s lived a wild life tells all." -Andrea Lawlor, author, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl "Alvin Orloff''s memoir of San Francisco queers facing the mounting AIDS crisis and freaking, caring, denying, performing, and carrying on is a witty remembrance that avoids cheap sentiment or easy responses. Orloff''s madeleine is Day-Glo, his Balbec the lost queer punk scene in San Francisco at the height of the AIDS crisis.
"No one is cooler than Alvin Orloff, and Disasterama! proves it.
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