Lovetown
By: Michal Witkowski ; translated from the Polish by W. Martin
Contributors: Martin, William
Publisher: Portobello Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781846270871; 9781846270512
Subjects: Communism and sex; Gay men; Fiction
Work titles: Lubiewo
Description: Growing up queer in a communist state, queens Patricia and Lucretia spent the 70s and 80s underground, finding glamour in the squalor, strutting their stuff in parks and public toilets, seducing hard Soviet soldiers, preying on drunks, and seeing their friends die of AIDS. Today they're about to hit Lovetown, a homo-haven, populated by a younger generation of emancipated gays, who are out and proud in their post-communist paradise: suntanned, sculpted and vigorously spending the pink euro. This is the story of the clash between old and new gays as they meet in a place where anything goes, but some things have also been lost.
Notes: Translated from the Polish.