SERBIAN DIARIES

SERBIAN DIARIES
Boris L. Davidovich

What has the Balkan War meant for gay people? What kind of life did gay men have anyway, in the cities of former Yugoslavia? Boris Davidovich, a university teacher in Belgrade, kept for the last seven years a diary of his daily thoughts and activities. Cruising the streets and toilets, he picks up young men, often soldiers, exploring with them a world of male love quite remote from the Western gay scene. As his country descends into nationalism and chaos, even sex becomes increasingly bizarre. How can the same person be a torturer by day, and a sensitive lover by night? What does a young man do for sex, when his arms and legs have been amputated? Drawing on his own experiences, Boris reflects on some fundamental features of the human condition: patriarchy and comradeship, masculinity and violence, eros and thanatos.

176 pages, paperback