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Renowned for his sharp wit and flamboyant clothes, Crisp became a gay icon with his 1968 book The Naked Civil Servant, the story of a young homosexual man in the less tolerant Britain of the 1930s.
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Mr Polding moved to the Kemptown area - a part of the city famous for its gay community - about nine months ago where he felt more comfortable living as an openly homosexual man, his family said.
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Beane's hero here is a "nance" a show business term for a stereotypically camp homosexual man who is struggling both with his own identity and frustration at society's hypocrisy toward homosexuality amid the dying days of burlesque, which had to follow its own strict rules and patterns pasties and G-strings on the girls or its performers also risked official condemnation.
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