tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post8803719318268804749..comments2024-03-17T23:08:28.960-07:00Comments on Raybeard: An Englishman in New YorkRaybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-38599096924958938422010-01-06T02:38:53.661-08:002010-01-06T02:38:53.661-08:00Well I suppose, Kyle, it's the paradoxes that ...Well I suppose, Kyle, it's the paradoxes that inevitably go with being human that is the conundrum we have to live with, like it or not - and of course no one is forcing us to endorse everything that a giant like Q.C. said.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-47239941071693513822010-01-05T13:16:39.548-08:002010-01-05T13:16:39.548-08:00The truth may be hard to swallow, and it may leave...The truth may be hard to swallow, and it may leave a bitter taste in your mouth, but at least it offers you something real, like perspective. Crisp was a valuable figure for us, but he was twisted on the inside, more than I would like to imagine any person could be. That's human and I have to except him for what he was, the good and the bad.Kyle Leachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369076904327452139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-8357370186191804362010-01-03T02:49:23.526-08:002010-01-03T02:49:23.526-08:00A definitively glorious 2010 to you too, Dyl. Yes,...A definitively glorious 2010 to you too, Dyl. Yes, Q.C. was a man of undoubted courage and a true pioneer in the early dark days of Gay Lib. At work at the time I remember colleagues who watched 'Naked Civil Servant', gave him points for bravery on the strength of this TV prog, but regarded him essentially as a freak, which I'm sure he himself would have been happy to agree with. But in my books, despite his blazing such a brilliant trail he really did undo a lot of his positive example by suggesting that the world would be a better place without gays and that he'd advise a pregnant mother of a potentially gay baby to have an abortion. I'm not sure how many of his later sayings were accurately reported though I'd still like to read somewhere that he later disassociated himself from such vile outpourings.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-33705575998841888512010-01-02T13:29:53.755-08:002010-01-02T13:29:53.755-08:00However flawed Crisp may have been, you can't ...However flawed Crisp may have been, you can't deny the positive value his life had for furthering the audience for LGBT issues? Nobody's perfect and he was a man a bit out of his time during the 80s.<br /><br />Anyway. ;-)<br /><br />Happy New Year xMuttyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901408825805484657noreply@blogger.com