Sex, Drugs & Disco: San Francisco Diaries from the Pre-AIDS Era
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1925313107 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Missing San Francisco" according to Armando. I loved to read about pre-AIDS San Francisco. It must have been fascinating, all the people & places. Some places are still there and I plan a trip to see them in July.. Sexual gay wunderland Ralf Amazing history of free love and casual sex without any worries.. "An Easy Read" according to Mark Lipinski. I bought this book because I lived and came out in San Francisco during the late 70's and 80's and read a review headline for it (only the headline) in the Bay Area Reporter, online this week. When I downloaded the book to my Kindle, I had no idea until the middle of reading the first chapter that this was the same author who wrote, "For My Brothers" (another of Mark Abramson's books I recently read). Had I realized that before buying this title, I proba
These are his raw, uncensored diaries.. In the 1970s, thousands of young gay men flocked to San Francisco. Mark Abramson, author of the best-selling "Beach Reading" mystery series and the AIDS memoir "For My Brothers," was one of them. In a time and place where sex was free, drugs were cheap, and the driving disco beat felt like it would go on forever, he landed in the great gay Mecca fresh out of college, reconnected with his old friend, the writer John Preston and soon encountered such interesting people as Harvey Milk, Sylvester, Rock Hudson, Natalie Wood and Vincent Price