{"id":3603,"date":"2024-11-21T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T10:11:16","slug":"25th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-quentin-crisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/11\/21\/25th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-quentin-crisp\/","title":{"rendered":"25th anniversary of the death of Quentin Crisp"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) [born Denis Charles Pratt] was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, he was an artist’s model, hence the title of his most famous work, ‘The Naked Civil Servant’.<\/p>\n

He afterwards became a gay icon due to his flamboyant personality, fashion sense, wit and repartee.<\/p>\n

He attempted to join the British Army at the start of World War Two but was but was rejected and declared exempt by the medical board on the grounds that he was “suffering from sexual perversion”.<\/p>\n

Quentin had a varied and most interesting life \u2013 including rent boy, artist\u2019s model, engineer\u2019s tracer, performer, tutor, writer. His most famous work \u2018The Naked Civil Servant\u2019 was televised in 1975 making actor John Hurt and Quentin stars and launched Quentin\u2019s nationwide journey with his one-man show.<\/p>\n

Sting dedicated his song \u2018An Englishman in New York\u2019 to Crisp, it includes the lines<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile,
\nBe yourself no matter what they say\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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