TALE OF THE GAY INSURGENT Luxor (Egypt) January 1985 Ausar was born without a family. He was one of the many young people who swarmed the Nile to get some modest income from the tourists who stopped in the city every day to see the wonders it had to offer. Nowadays Luxor was a mass of houses being building as the population increased at present. But under every basement, every building to be built, the ruins of ancient Thebes, the proud capital of the Egyptian empire, remained intact. Ever since he remembered, he had been suffering the alms, the leftovers, the violent moods of adults or the police who needed to harass helpless beings, the overwhelming heat that only cooled the water of the great river and the winter cold with which he had lived subconsciously intense moments of harsh li