Writing in his weekly Ooh... Get Her! column in London's Evening Standard, Mr R Sewell claims; "Vicious? A vicious old queen is precisely what I am — I've turned into a laughable self-parody that could not have been nastier if I had been devised by a malevolent and recriminatory heterosexual.”
The 93 year-old continued; "Why oh why do I always behave like a pantomime dame at an audition - an endless source of venomous barbs, constantly falling into limp-wristed attitudes, and all too ready to huff and puff in pretended hurt.
"Just like I am now," he flounced.
Sewell - whose second volume of memoirs, Bugger Me!, appeared earlier this year - says he reminds himself of a less progressive period for gay people and that the bitchy humour displayed in his writing disguises the pain of not being able to fully embrace being gay.
“Heaven forfend that my endless posturing, and my determination to make my plummy voice heard, may revive the pernicious prejudices against pooves so long familiar to men of my wonderful vintage.
"I fear for today's young generation who might see me being fruity on television admiring a particularly striking male nude and think such silly camp old queens still exist."
“I really am just an exaggerated old joke."
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That is brilliant, actually.
ReplyDeleteSorry for being an arse.
(I still think Sewell is great, though)
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