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What three people share, across a century, is one stubborn arithmetic: a self refused erasure, and the refusal outlived the people who demanded it. Quentin Crisp lived flamboyantly, unmistakably himself in a 1930s London that beat people for less — decades before it was survivable, he made his existence the argument, and paid in fists and slurs. June Jordan founded Poetry for the People at Berkeley and made the personal a weapon. Thom Gunn chronicled the AIDS years in poems that held both the leather bars and the deathbeds, insisting joy and grief share a stanza. Say their names like they matter.
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wendythedruid May 29

A self refused erasure, and the refusal outlived the people who demanded it. Quentin Crisp made his existence the argument decades before it was survivable. June Jordan made the personal a weapon. Thom Gunn insisted joy and grief share a stanza. Say their names like they matter.
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#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #JuneJordan #ThomGunn #QuentinCrisp #Poetry #Pride #ChosenFamily #QueerJoy #Resistance #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA

What Survives the Morning: The Ceasefire Is a Verb, Not a Noun

What Survives the Morning: ceasefire as action, not promise. Progressive analysis on resistance, digital privacy, and the politics that shape survival—stay witnessed with unfiltered coverage.

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lymenzies Jan 19

Yesterday morning I'd barely knew the name #quentincrisp

By 3am I'd watched both John Hurt movies and half of a An Evening with Quentin Crisp.

Before we used the word "canceled" she got herself deservedly canceled in the early 80s for a remark about AIDS being a fad.

Now I think we should bring her back. All Alan Watts quotes in script font on sappy Instagram posts must now be replaced by one of her acerbic observations.

Wisdom in Space Dec 26

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exacted as they are, you are called a satirist.
-- Quentin Crisp

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Antinous the Gay God Nov 21, 2025

🪷 #QuentinCrisp Saint of #Antinous died 21 November 1999. "Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." Full tribute here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/quentin-crisp-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

Jim Bliss Aug 18, 2025

"If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist."
- Quentin Crisp

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