bLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALISTbbrb A compelling memoir of social life in the queer underground of San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles at a time when the manic frivolity of gay rights and bohemian creativity collided with the deadly reality of plague.ibribpbiDISASTERAMA Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997ib, is the true story of Alvin Orloff who, as a shy kid from the suburbs of San Francisco, stumbled into the wild, eclectic crowd of Crazy Club Kids, Punk Rock Nutters, Goofy Goofballs, Fashion Victims, Disco Dollies, Happy Hustlers, and Dizzy Twinks of post-Stonewall American queer culture of the late 1970s, only to see the subterranean lavender twilit shadow world of the gay ghetto ravished by AIDS in the 1980s. Includes an introduction by Alexander Chee iHow to Write an Autobiographical Noveli. brIn biDisasteramaib, Orloff recalls the delirious adventures of his youth--from San Francisco to Los Angeles to New York--where insane nights, deep friendships with the cre