A notoriously, obviously effeminate homosexual, Quentin Crisp saw his mission in life to make the invisible and hidden visible, to make people realise that homosexuals existed.
In the 1760s and 1770s, there was an explosion of public interest in fashionable society gents because the press of the day felt they committed such cardinal sins as rejecting good old English roast beef for dainty foods from Europe such as pasta.
