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Podcast: Allusions: LGBTQ Writing
Episode: Alvin Orloff - Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997
Description: DISASTERAMA: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997, 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 âsubterranean lavender twilit shadow world of the gay ghettoâ ravished by AIDS in the 1980s. Includes an introduction by Alexander Chee (How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.In Disasterama, Orloff recalls the delirious adventures of hi...