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Thread #115854   Message #2664825
Posted By: Don Firth
25-Jun-09 - 07:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
Subject: RE: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
"I'm still wondering why anyone else's sexuality should be another person's business."

And that, Peace, is the crux of the whole matter.

Quentin Crisp, the famous English eccentric, writer, raconteur, and homosexual (subject of the movie "The Naked Civil Servant" starring John Hurt) was on an interview show a little over a decade ago, and the interviewer noted that his appearance was quite androgynous. His voice was light and well-modulated, his hair was blue and fairly long, and from his appearance and the way he dressed, it was next to impossible to be certain if he was a man or a woman.

The interviewer (might have been Charlie Rose, but I can't recall) noted this and asked him if people ever asked him, and if so, how did he respond?

"It happens quite often," Crisp said. "My standard answer to this question is, 'Does it matter? What did you have in mind?'"

Touché!!

Exactly the point!

Quentin Crisp is also said to remarked on more than one occasion, "I am one of the stately homos of England!"

Don Firth