*it's about Quentin Crisp, the raconteur, a very fabulous person, who appears in the video. And note if you look up Crisp, although Wiki refers to him as "she," due to his musing in his final book (published about 18 years posthumously) that he was or should have been or would have loved to have been a woman, most actual gay/ lgbtq writings on him tend to refer to him as he. One said:
Although Crisp identifies as a trans woman in The Last Word, he also continues to refer to himself as a homosexual man, in line with the way he has lived his life, and does not specify any preference for an alternate pronoun. For that reason, I have continued to use the male pronoun in this review.
A few
decided he would be she, regardless of Crisp's own "pronouns":
Longtime readers will know that I tend to be free with my pronouns; although Crisp used "he" pronouns throughout her life, I'm going to call her "she" for the remainder of this piece. If this is incorrect, it can hardly hurt her now. Furthermore, it's not an insult to suggest that someone was trans, especially when she makes the fact very clear – and in circumstances like this, when most critics put their thumb on the "he" end of the scale, you may as well counterbalance it just to offer an alternative. Lastly, Crisp is from a place and time when the gay "she" – that camp form of address, with its layers of disguise and sincerity – was common. Even if I were inclined to join pretty much everybody in ignoring Crisp's late-in-life final coming-out, it would still be a correct pronoun.
His last book was written in 1999, and the expression of this kind of thing was far less biological twisting or militaristic than it is 30 years later. He also ticked off some gays intensely, as in
this article, for his critical comments about gays and being gay.