"Rita Ruduša's book is a testimony to the isolation, anguish and concessions that every person aware of their homosexuality had to face in Soviet-day Latvia. It refutes the official myth that there were no homosexuals in the USSR and shows that there certainly were, despite the efforts of the state and fellow humans to "repair" them or simply extinguish them. Rejection and humiliation, hours of loneliness and moments of despair, public ridicule and unsolved murders, oppression by religion and medicine - all of these are recorded in the history of homosexuals in Latvia. But what about dignity, the ability to trust, and the need to love and be loved - do those remain unattainable dreams to this day?" Kārlis Vērdiņš, poet.