De Engelse schrijver, acteur en homoactivist Quentin Crisp werd geboren als Denis Charles Pratt op 25 december 1908 in Sutton, Surrey. Zie ook alle tags voor Quentin Crisp op dit blog.
Uit: The Alternative Queen’s Message
“As you now know, the Queen of England addresses the nation on the afternoon of Christmas Day. And she tells them what has happened and she invites them to be part of the history of England, and to be proud of being English and to go on. Then a Mr. Michael Jones came from England to America and said, “Will you make a speech?” And I said, “Ye-e-e-e-s-s-s-s.” And I was worried about it, but when I had on the table the script which I could read, I told them how to be happy. And in the last bit, Mr. Jones said, “Have you one final speech, one final message to deliver the English?” And I said, “Yes, I have. Tell them to pack tonight and to leave tomorrow, like Portuguese explorers of old, for the islands of the blessed. We are waiting for you.” Here is what I told the English that night:
As Mr Dickens would have said, 1993 has been the best of times and it has been the worst of times. A reginal theme has permeated my year. I have had, as some of you may know, the novel experience of appearing as a Queen of England in a film adaptation of Mrs Wolf’s novel Orlando. The film connects the many moments of English history with what, I believe, is called gender bending.
Having worn reginal gowns, I begin to understand why Queen Elizabeth the first was not always in the best of moods. She was much troubled by relatives and in-laws, often Scottish. Many of whom she axed from life, and even more seriously from the social register.
Continuing my honest masquerade, I appear thus to address the entire British nation on Christmas day. I am, of course, in mufti. But departing from tradition, I will not speak mainly of myself, Britain, or the strangely misnamed commonwealth. Instead, I will speak of America. I do this because America is the land where I think, despite its faults, is where the best of you should be.“

Quentin Crisp (25 december 1908 – 21 november 1999)
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