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This chapter interrogates the dissonance between what Quentin Crisp says and what he is. How does one understand his paradoxical desire for queer aristocratic display on the one hand, yet his damning of that identity on the other? The successful marketing of his sexuality as a profession implies empowerment; yet his assertion that such sexuality is ‘unreal’ indicates self-oppression.
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Bendall, M.J. (2015). Marginally Male, Centre Stage and Spot-Lit: The (Gender) Trouble with Quentin Crisp. In: Thorsen, E., Savigny, H., Alexander, J., Jackson, D. (eds) Media, Margins and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512819_4
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