Balkan Babylon

So I ended up at a surprisingly accurate, albeit Balkan, copy of Queer as Folk's Babylon last night. There were dancers in cages, very loud very bad techno, & a lot of attractive gay men making out with each other.

The non-mainstream society of Belgrade is tiny. The peace groups, the gay groups, the human rights groups, the feminist groups all overlap. It's a bunch of Serbian social outcasts and a few supportive foreigners. Which means: I have a lot of new gay friends. And a big gay party was happening last night, so where else can you go? There were cops outside the door making sure that evil chetniks (nationalists) didn't come in & beat people up. Such things have happened before.

It was fun for a while, but I realize why QaF never did a whole episode set in Babylon. The music and people-watching both get old after a while.