De Engelse schrijver, acteur en homoactivist Quentin Crisp werd geboren als Denis Charles Pratt op 25 december 1908 in Sutton, Surrey. Zie ook mijn blog van 25 december 2006 en ook mijn blog van 25 december 2007 en ook mijn blog van 25 december 2008 en ook mijn blog van 25 december 2009.
Uit: The Bell Diaries (January 1997)
„As all New Yorkers know The Native has folded. With it Christopher Street, Theatre Week, and Opera Monthly are also no more. I deeply regret their demise. I used to think it so encouraging that Mr. Steele had become a kinky Lord Beaverbrooke at such an early age. It is not of course from any fault of his that his empire has collapsed, but simply because now that kinkiness has become mainstream the unique appeal of such papers as The Native has become obsolete. The “shocking” things it said can now be read in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other respectable daily papers.
Finding myself an orphan, so to speak, I have been instructed by a Mr. Bell to write my diary on Internet. Mr. Bell is employed by — or possibly owns — the brewery in Perth, Scotland, which has adopted the ruse of producing a whisky with my name and my photograph on the label, in an attempt to win the “gay” liquor market of the world. This new enlarged readership of my humble diary alters irrevocably the rather parochial (if it is possible to think of Manhattan as a parish) nature of my diary. What I asked myself could I possibly write that would amuse and inform the whole world?
To start in a small way, I have seen a play called Making Porn to which I was taken by a young man my agent calls “my millionaire”. It contains inevitably a lot of well-endowed young men simulating various sex acts, the sight of which I was prepared to greet with a puritanical yawn when a plot emerged. The hero, a man called “Blue Blake” (I think) has a girlfriend (Joanna Keylock) to whom he has represented the films in which he stars as “educational.” She is suspicious and demands to see one of them being made. The experience tells her that her lover and his outstanding equipment are the essential ingredients of the film.“

Quentin Crisp (25 december 1908 – 21 november 1999)









