The Boyfriend

When Yudi, a Nalla Supara living freelance journalist and out gay man finds himself in his 40’s, sex with strangers just doesn’t cut it for him anymore. Cruising through the first few chapters is an orgiastic overdose from Cuffe Parade to Kandvili that will leave you unable to see the lavatories of Churchgate station in the same way ever again. Certain parts of certain toilets, certain bogeys of certain trains, certain areas of certain parks stop being mere public facilities and come into view for what they are: forums for fevered homosexual activity, where all kinds of men – rich, poor, beggars and thieves – come to hustle other men. Some are seasoned old fags, some bright-eyed boywonders, and many, many others are married men taking a quick detour on their way home to their wives, their other lives.