GR translation: Lotta those fags still around

[David Morris]

Yes, "fags" means homosexual.

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:49 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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