Alvoye arrived in San Francisco from Chicago in the early Seventies. He quickly joined a circle of friends that included people like the Cockettes, and he considered himself an artiste enjoying the ebullient and liberated times of that era. In the early days he was a communard of Hunga Dunga. Alvoye worked on a number of art-house films in Belgium, France and California during those wonderful years.
In the Spring of 1983 at the Haight-Ashbury home of his roommates and dear friends, Dave and Erik, he died at his own hand �" being spared the full brunt of grief and despair that the then burgeoning AIDS crisis was yet to unleash on the City.
The emotional pain of the terrible period that followed made it difficult to acknowledge his and the death of so many others, and the time has now come for his memory to be noted so that Alvoye can take his place with his fallen comrades.