GR translation: Lotta those fags still around

[Mike Jing]

V289.26-30, P294.5-9   Slothrop wanders into a roofless part of town.
Old people in black are bat-flittering among the walls. Shops and
dwellings here are all long-looted by the slave laborers liberated
from the Dora camp. Lotta those fags still around, with baskets and
175 badges out on display, staring moistly from doorways.

Just to make sure, the word "fags" here is used in the homosexual
sense, right? I'm asking because the published translation treated it
differently.
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