DISASTERAMA!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997. by…

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DISASTERAMA!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

New York: Three Rooms Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A memoir and a social history in which Orloff attempts to answer the question "what was it like when everyone started dying?" He describes the "delirious adventures of his youthfrom San Francisco to Los Angeles to New York where insane nights, deep friendships with the creatives of the underground, and thrilling bi-coastal living led to a free-spirited life of art, manic performance, high camp antics, and exotic sexual encounters, until AIDS threatened to destroy everything he lived for. . [He] looks past the politics of AIDS to the people on the ground, friends of his who did not survive AIDS wrath the boys in black leather jackets and cackling queens in tacky frocks remembering them not as victims, but as people who loved life, loved fun, and who were a part of the insane jigsaw of his friends." Introduction by Alexander Chee. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 232 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 978-1941110829.

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 87482
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