{"id":19350,"date":"2012-12-25T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T04:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=19350"},"modified":"2015-12-25T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T18:56:21","slug":"virgin-queen-quentin-crisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/12\/25\/virgin-queen-quentin-crisp\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Queen &#8211; Quentin Crisp"},"content":{"rendered":"<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ZxBxZExQj0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>25 December 1908 &#8211; Birthday of Quentin Crisp &#8211;  &#8211; \u201cDo not fade, do not whither, do not grow old\u201d commands Queen Elizabeth I, played here\u2014in an amusing but appropriate gender-bending twist\u2014by Quentin Crisp. (via Reverseshot)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/1999\/12\/03\/crisp\/\">&#8220;England was a mistake&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the root of Crisp\u2019s act was a kind of radicalism: Mocked and brutalized for his flamboyant effeminacy, he nonetheless chose to live, beginning in the London of the 1930s, \u201cnot merely as a self-confessed homosexual, but a self-evident one.\u201d He tinted his hair lilac, wore eye shadow, pert scarves and silk blouses, and transformed himself into a walking, quipping objet d\u2019art. It was this feat of defiant self-invention that eventually brought him celebrity. He wrote several wonderful books and at least one famous one, his 1968 memoir \u201cThe Naked Civil Servant.\u201d But Quentin Crisp\u2019s masterpiece was, emphatically, \u201cQuentin Crisp.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1QCrispPaulWaldman11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1QCrispPaulWaldman11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1QCrispPaulWaldman1\" width=\"479\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1QCrispPaulWaldman11.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1QCrispPaulWaldman11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1QCrispPaulWaldman11-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPhoto of Quentin Crisp by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musarium.com\/photo\/lampp\/index.html\"> Paul Waldman <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He lived on the same block as the NYC Hell&#8217;s Angels club house. He always answered his phone with &#8220;Oh yes!&#8221;<br \/>\nwe became friends. He lived across 2nd Ave. on 3rd St. On the west side of 2nd Ave &#038; 3rd is where Philip Glass lived. Quentin always said when he walked past the club house he&#8217;d lower his head in reverence. &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musarium.com\/photo\/lampp\/index.html\"> Paul Waldman <\/a>  (via email) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crisperanto.org\/index1.html\">Quentin Crisp Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crisperanto.org\/news\/AnEnglishmanInNYmovie.html  \">English man in New York <\/a>&#8211; John Hurt as Quentin <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 December 1908 &#8211; Birthday of Quentin Crisp &#8211; &#8211; \u201cDo not fade, do not whither, do not grow old\u201d commands Queen Elizabeth I, played here\u2014in an amusing but appropriate gender-bending twist\u2014by Quentin Crisp. (via Reverseshot) &#8220;England was a mistake&#8221; At the root of Crisp\u2019s act was a kind of radicalism: Mocked and brutalized for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/12\/25\/virgin-queen-quentin-crisp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virgin Queen &#8211; Quentin Crisp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}