A brilliant and often humorous memoir about the San Francisco queer punk/camp underground in the 80s and early 90s. Explores the devastating effects of AIDS and how the camp counterculture used humor to stay sane. An superb addition to the #ownvoices queer history genre. Author Alvin Orloff has previously written three humorous queer novels, including I Married an Earthling, Gutter Boys, and Why Aren't You Smiling? As manager of one of the premier LGBTQ+ bookstores in the US, author Orloff is deeply enmeshed in queer literary community and will be instrumental in marketing. Includes 60 iconic b/w photos from the period Disasterama showcases Orloff's wit and poignancy as he relays the true tale of how a bunch of pathologically flippant kids floundered through a deadly disaster, and, struggled to keep the spirit of camp and radicalism alive, even as their friends lost their lives to the plague.