Editing Quentin Crisp (section)

==Influence and legacy==
[[File:Ella Guru, Quentin Crisp.jpg|thumb |alt=This colorful portrait focuses on Crisp's face (under his trademark [[fedora]]), but the viewer can still glimpse a stylish shirt collar. Crisp squints down his nose at the viewer through almond-shaped eyes. Green stripes extend from eyelid to eyebrow. |''Quentin Crisp'' (oil on canvas), a portrait by American painter [[Ella Guru]]. As the sculptor [[John W. Mills]] had done before her, Guru rendered Crisp wearing his trademark fedora.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.crisperanto.org/gallery/JohnWMills.html |title=The Quentin Crisp Gallery: John W. Mills |website=Crisperanto.org |publisher=The Quentin Crisp Archives |access-date=30 December 2013}}</ref>]]
[[Sting (musician)|Sting]] dedicated his song "[[Englishman in New York]]" (1987) to Crisp, who had jokingly remarked "that he looked forward to receiving his naturalisation papers so that he could commit a crime and not be deported." In late 1986 Sting visited Crisp in his apartment and was told over dinner, and over the next three days, what life had been like for a homosexual man in the largely homophobic Great Britain of the 1920s to the 1960s. Sting was both shocked and fascinated and decided to write the song. It includes the lines:

{{Poem quote
|text=It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile,
Be yourself no matter what they say.}}

Sting says, "Well, it's partly about me and partly about Quentin. Again, I was looking for a metaphor. Quentin is a hero of mine, someone I know very well. He is gay and he was gay at a time in history when it was dangerous to be so. He had people beating up on him on a daily basis, largely with the consent of the public."<ref>[http://www.crisperanto.org/recordings/sting.html MR. STING ON ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK], THE QUENTIN CRISP ARCHIVES: ''Crisperanto.org''. Retrieved 4 February 2014.</ref>

Crisp was the subject of a photographic portrait by [[Herb Ritts]] and was also chronicled in [[Andy Warhol]]'s diaries.

In his 1995 autobiography ''[[Take It Like a Man (autobiography)|Take It Like a Man]]'', singer [[Boy George]] discusses how he had felt an affinity towards Crisp during his childhood, as they faced similar problems as young homosexual people living in homophobic surroundings.

In 1991, a documentary about Crisp, ''Resident Alien'', was released by Greycat Films.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/18/movies/reviews-film-everybody-believed-he-had-to-be-somebody.html|title=Reviews/Film; Everybody Believed He Had to Be Somebody|first=Janet|last=Maslin|date=18 October 1991|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Crisp was then the subject of the play ''Resident Alien'', by [[Tim Fountain]], which starred his friend [[Bette Bourne]]. The play opened in 1999 at the [[Bush Theatre]] in London; in 2001, it transferred to the [[New York Theatre Workshop]] where it won two [[Obie Awards|Obies]] (for performance and design). In 2002, it won a Herald Angel (Best Actor) at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe|Edinburgh Festival]]; subsequent productions have been seen across the US and Australia.

The 1981 [[synthpop]] song ''No G.D.M'' by German [[Electropop|electro]] band [[Gina X Performance]] is dedicated to Crisp. The song ''The Ballad of Jack Eric Williams (and Other Three-Named Composers)'' from [[William Finn]]'s 2003 song-cycle ''Elegies'' refers to him.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Malcolm |title=After the Lightning, Moments of Magic in 'Elegies' |url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2005-08-16-0508160092-story.html |access-date=1 May 2022 |work=Hartford Courant |date=16 August 2005 |language=en}}</ref>

In 2009 a television sequel to ''The Naked Civil Servant'' was broadcast. Entitled ''[[An Englishman in New York (film)|An Englishman in New York]]'', the production documented Crisp's later years in Manhattan. Thirty-four years after his first award-winning performance as Crisp, [[John Hurt]] returned to play him again. Other co-stars included [[Denis O'Hare]] as Phillip Steele (an amalgam character based on Crisp's friends Phillip Ward and Tom Steele), [[Jonathan Tucker]] as artist [[Patrick Angus]], [[Cynthia Nixon]] as [[Penny Arcade (performer)|Penny Arcade]], and [[Swoosie Kurtz]] as [[Connie Clausen]]. The production was filmed in New York in August 2008 and completed in London in October 2008. The film was directed by British director [[Richard Laxton]], written by Brian Fillis, produced by Amanda Jenks and made its premiere at the [[Berlinale]] (the Berlin International Film Festival) in early February 2009, before being shown on television later that year.

That same year, Crisp's great-nephew, academic and film-maker Adrian Goycoolea, premiered a short documentary, ''Uncle Denis?'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crisperanto.org/news/UncleDenis.html|title=CRISPERANTO.ORG: The Quentin Crisp Archives ... All Things Quentin Crisp! - UNCLE DENIS? - a film by Adrian Goycoolea|website=crisperanto.org}}</ref> at the 23rd [[London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival]]. The film uses interviews with family and previously unseen home movie footage. In collaboration with Crisperanto (The Quentin Crisp Archives) curator Philip Ward, Goycoolea also created an installation entitled 'Personal Effects'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mixnyc.org/23/installations.php|title=MIX NYC - The 23rd NY Queer Experimental Film Festival|website=mixnyc.org|access-date=9 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014174744/http://www.mixnyc.org/23/installations.php|archive-date=14 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> at the 2010 [[MIX NYC]], New York City, which recreated Crisp's New York apartment using his personal effects and included home video footage.

In 2013, with curator Ward, the [[Museum of Arts and Design]] in Manhattan staged a three-month retrospective on Crisp, entitled ''Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Quentin Crisp''. The retrospective consisted of free screenings of interviews, one man shows, documentaries and other recorded media.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Quentin Crisp |url=http://madmuseum.org/series/ladies-and-gentlemen-mr-quentin-crisp |website=Museum of Arts and Design |access-date=5 August 2015}}</ref>

In 2014 Mark Farrelly's solo performance ''Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope'' debuted at the Edinburgh Festival, before transferring to the [[The Other Palace|St. James's Theatre]] in London and subsequently touring. It depicts Crisp at his Chelsea flat in the 1960s and performing his one-man show thirty years later.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://markfarrelly.co.uk/portfolio/quentin-crisp/|website=Mark Farrelly|title=Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope|access-date=18 November 2019}}</ref>

In the 2016 [[Ghostbusters (2016 film)|''Ghostbusters'' reboot]], [[Bill Murray]] explicitly based the dress style of his character (Martin Heiss) on Crisp.<ref>{{ cite AV media notes | title=Ghostbusters: Answer the Call DVD | year=2016 | type=Both Commentary Tracks | first=Bill | last=Murray |others=Paul Feig }}</ref>

In his 2020 autobiography ''Confess'', [[Rob Halford]] of [[Judas Priest]] identifies Crisp as having been a hero of his.<ref name="Halford1">{{cite book |last=Halford |first=Rob |title=Confess |publisher=Headline Publishing Group |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-4722-6928-7 |pages=11}}</ref> When the then closeted Halford had first seen ''The Naked Civil Servant'' in 1975, he had been impressed by the film and Crisp.<ref>{{cite book |last=Halford |first=Rob |title=Confess |publisher=Headline Publishing Group |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-4722-6928-7 |pages=89–90}}</ref> Halford came out, in an MTV interview, on 4 February 1998.<ref>{{cite book |last=Halford |first=Rob |title=Confess |publisher=Headline Publishing Group |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-4722-6928-7 |pages=293}}</ref> In 1999, Halford attended San Diego Pride with his partner, Thomas. While there, Halford met Crisp, and got a book signed by him ('To Rob, from Quentin'). According to Halford, he continues to treasure the signed book.<ref>{{cite book |last=Halford |first=Rob |title=Confess |publisher=Headline Publishing Group |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-4722-6928-7 |pages=299–300}}</ref> Halford views himself as a rock version of Crisp, and refers to himself as the "stately homo of heavy metal".<ref name="Halford1"/>