Budapest gay mile
Typical scene on the promenade between the hotels and the Erzsébet bridge, on a sunny late afternoon. A well-dressed, bit older man lights up a cigarette. A young guy comes to him, asks for a cigarette and starts a conversation. The game is clear and not about smoking. Who is the young guy? A runaway kid? Somebody from the penitentiary, or an orphan who never knew his parents and was not tough enough to become a badass? Someone just making a fast ten-thousand to sup- port his coke or whatever habit? Someone from a distant village, who came to work in the city and somehow ended up as a male prostitute?
Most of the punters don’t care. Rich West meets poor East for a quickie. Even the hotel receptionists turn a blind eye and make some cash. News is spread, the sex tourists keep coming. At night, when the last train is gone to the East, there are always some desperate ones without shelter. See more in the film „Nincsen nekem vágyam semmi” by Kornél Mundroczó. Or check out the area around the Pest leg of the Erzsébet bridge, esp. up river.
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