Oct
23
Wed October 23rd, 2019
7:00PM
The Gallery
Minimum Age: 21+
Doors Open: 6:30PM
Show Time: 7:00PM
Pricing Details:
Free with RSVP
Featuring
ALVIN ORLOFF, author, Disasterama!
with
MICHAEL MUSTO
GIO BLACK PETER
BETH LISICK
JENNIFER BLOWDRYER
THE NYC BABES
plus special guests
Three Rooms Press is thrilled to present the NYC launch of DISASTERAMA! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997, a stunning new memoir detailing high camp in the plague years by critically acclaimed author Alvin Orloff.
The event will feature a reading and discussion by Orloff (Gutterboys), along with special readings and performances by renowned performer Gio Black Peter, Voice of the Village Voice Michael Musto, writer and performance artist Beth Lisick (Everyone Into the Pool), groundbreaking punk musician Jennifer Blowdryer, and vaudeville-steampunk pop power trio The Babes NYC. Additional special guests to be announced.
DISASTERAMA! has received extraordinary advance critical praise, including:
“This book in your hands is one you could say I’ve waited for, and I’m not alone.” —from the introduction by Alexander Chee, author, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“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.” —Michael Musto, columnist, author, Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back
“No one is cooler than Alvin Orloff, and Disasterama! proves it.” —Andrea Lawlor, author, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
“Heartbreaking and hilarious, sexed-up and political, Disasterama is a deeply personal coming-of-age story. – Michelle Tea, author Against Memoir and Modern Tarot
Alvin Orloff
About Alvin Orloff:
ALVIN ORLOFF began writing in 1977 as a teenager, penning lyrics for early San Francisco punk band, The Blowdryers. He spent the 1980s working as an exotic dancer while concurrently attending U.C. Berkeley and performing with The Popstitutes, an absurd performance art/homocore band. In 1990, he and his bandmates founded Klubstitute, a fl oating queer cabaret devoted to the ideal of cultural democracy that featured spoken word, theater, drag, and musical acts. In 1995, the club, whose staff and patrons had been ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, closed its doors and Orloff suddenly remembered that all he’d ever wanted to be was a writer. He subsequently published three rather whimsical novels, I Married an Earthling, Gutter Boys, and Why Aren’t You Smiling? before producing Disasterama!. Orloff currently works as the manager of Dog Eared Books, a literary hot-spot in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro District. He lives in San Francisco.