An historical memoir about a young straight woman from the Midwest who moved to San Francisco in the mid-70s. The book describes the last days of Disco, assassinations of Mayor George Moscone, and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the onset of AIDS both in the Bay Area and Minneapolis where the author moved in the 80s. It chronicles her repeated trips back to California to be with her dead and dying friends, her AIDS activism in the Twin Cities and Washington D.C. and her eventual healing process.