Crisp, Quentin

Quentin Crisp
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Name	Crisp, Quentin Gender: M
Birthname	Pratt, Denis Charles
born on	25 December 1908 at 12:30 (= 12:30 PM )
Place	Carshalton, England, 51n22, 0w10
Timezone	GMT h0w (is standard time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A Collector: Fisher
Astrology data	03°21' 00°17 Asc. 25°15'

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Quentin Crisp
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Biography

British character, the gay author of "The Naked Civil Servant." He "came out" in 1931 in the streets of London as an effeminate, mincing, limp-wristed queen with blue hair and vermilion lips, make-up and jewelry. Noted for years as being a local character, he was harassed, ridiculed and beaten up.

A fourth child with two older brothers and one sister, he grew up greedy for continual attention. He spent most of his life in London, living in the same room for 33 years and working at a variety of jobs, mostly in art layout. When he published his autobiography in 1968, he became a celebrity, a cult personality from the '20s to the '70s.

By the late '90s, insisting on flagrancy, he glided through the streets of his adopted New York as his own private stage. Witty and flamboyant, he described himself as the "mother superior of homosexuality."

At 90, he returned to England for a visit and died of a heart attack the first night on his native soil, 11/21/1999, Manchester, England.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• friend relationship with McReynolds, David (born 25 October 1929)

• role played of/by Hurt, John (born 22 January 1940)

Events

• Misc. : Released from waiting 1931 (Came out sexually)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1968 (Autobiography)

• Death by Heart Attack 21 November 1999 (Age 90)
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Source Notes

David Fisher quotes Zerda Barlow for "about 1:00 PM" from Crisp, AFA DX 1984. Richard Geyman quotes him for "between Noon and 1:00 PM."

Categories

• Traits : Personality : Attention seeking (Makeup and jewelry)

• Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Youngest of four)

• Lifestyle : Work : Many job changes (Variety of jobs)

• Lifestyle : Home : Same location lifetime

• Passions : Sexuality : Gay (Flaming queen)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 90)

• Vocation : Art : Commercial artist (Layout and design)

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer (The Naked Civil Servant)

• Notable : Book Collection : Culture Collection