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Catalan Scenes

2021; Duke University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/23289252-9311214

2328-9260

Frau Diamanda,

Spanish Literature and Culture Studies

En el baño, va desplumándose de vestuario post show. Público de bar queer la ha despedido de escena entre ovaciones y rechifles. Ya de civil, se mezcla con los habituales del lugar. Travesti Rubia 1 muy mona la felicita y se hace íntima entre copas y cotilleo. La invita a fumar afuera. Salen y continúan cotilleo ameno entre risas y humo de tabaco frente a gran gato gordo de metal que las ignora. De pronto, Travesti Rubia 2 sale muy pedo y puesta, exigiendo un mechero. Se acerca y se le concede fuego. Mira a su rival rubia y soltando insultos intenta buscar pelea. Siamesas rubias se miran directo y quieren arrancarse los ojos. La Fray, muy diplomática, trata de evitar la masacre de uñas y mechas y con argucias se lleva del brazo a Travesti Rubia 1 rumbo al Moog. Por el camino fuman porro para calmar los nervios y se adentran en la Rambla que es un mar de guiris pedos y chillones en pleno Sant Joan; se deslizan abriéndose paso entre mar de cuerpos y lenguas del mundo entero. Les lleven MADREs, GUAPAS y OLÉs por doquier y hasta algún aguerrido les da un pellizco en la teta l vuelo. Aun así lograron llegar a spot de chico rubio que reparte sellos de ingreso for free al antro techno.Con sendas muñecas selladas, ambas ya hacen cola donde se les invita a vino cutre de botella de plástico que es repartido entre la peña por chica rumana entusiasta y amistosa. Una vez dentro, cubil techno retumba a beats hiperacelerados y decibeles malsanos. Abundan los tíos monísimos y ambas pactan con coque de manos no pelearse por ninguno: pacto de hermanas cazadoras en plan de ligue de la noche, prestas a diseñar sus propias rutas de caza.* * *In the bathroom, she plucks off her postshow wardrobe. The audience in the queer bar bade her farewell from the stage amid standing ovations and whistles. Now in street clothes, she intermingles with the bar's regulars. Blonde Transvestite 1, very cute, congratulates her, and the two get cozy over drinks and gossip. Blonde Transvestite 1 invites her outside for a smoke. They go out, continuing their pleasant gossip between laughs and tobacco smoke in front of a large, fat, metal cat, which pays them no mind. Suddenly, Blonde Transvestite 2 comes out, very drunk and dolled up, demanding a lighter. She approaches and lights her cigarette. She looks at her blonde rival and, spitting insults, tries to pick a fight. Blonde Siamese twins glare at each other, each wanting to rip out the other's eyes. Frau, a diplomat, tries to prevent a massacre of nails and highlights; cunningly, she drags Blonde Transvestite 1 by the arm toward the club. Along the way they smoke a joint to calm their nerves and plunge into La Rambla, which is a sea of foreigners, drunk and shrieking in the middle of Sant Joan. They slither through the sea of bodies and tongues from all around the world. OH MY GODs, HOTTIESs, and OLÉs rain down on them from all sides, and one daring man even gives their tits a quick pinch on the fly. Even so, they manage to arrive at the spot where a blond boy is handing out free entrance stamps to the techno club.With their wrists duly stamped, they join the line of people clamoring for free, cheap wine from a plastic bottle, which is distributed to the crowd by an enthusiastic and friendly Romanian girl. Once inside, the techno den booms with hyperaccelerated beats and unhealthy decibel levels. There are cute guys all around, and the two girls shake hands in a pact not to fight over any of them: a pact between two sister hunters on the prowl for a one-night stand, each ready to plot her own route for the hunt.