A look at the life and work of Brish thor and gay in Quent Crisp (1908-1999) whose flamboyant character remas a pillar of Brish Queer History.
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BRISH GAY IN: QUENT CRISP
Quent Crisp spe the fact that he often urted ntroversy wh his radil and somewhat prehensible views on Gay Liberatn was, and remas, inic Brish Queer history. However, the world generally was not ready for such a unique character as Quent Crisp, and th the more ual reactn om strangers was hostily, homophobia and vlence.
It is at this pot his life that he began to equent the fés of Soho where he would meet wh gay men, his favoure beg ‘The Black Cat’ Old Compton Street. Whilst the ial stag of his big move-the Amerin Embassy asked him if he was a ‘practicg homosexual’, to which Crisp answered, ‘I didn’t practice. Stg 1986 vised Crisp his New York apartment-and listened wh shock and fascatn to Crisp reuntg his unual life and obv experienc of homophobia early 20th century Bra; this ultimately rulted Stg ditg his song ‘Englishman New York’ 1987 to Crisp.