A few years back, I saw a television interview (Charlie Rose, I think) with the late Quinten Crisp, an openly gay English gentleman who makes actor John Inman of the television comedy Are You Being Served? ("I'm free!") look positively macho, and who authored such bons mots as, "If you're using a public rest room and you notice a man staring at you, try to pee with style!" And "I am one of the stately homos of England!"

The interviewer noted Crisp's appearance and the somewhat androgenous way he was dressed (like the photograph above) and asked him if people ever ask him if he is a man or a woman. Crisp said that it happens all the time, and his usual response is to ask them, "Does it really matter? What did you have in mind?"

Good point!

Don Firth