Diary of a Drag Queen

Life's a Drag... Why not be a queen? is a collection of candid stories about Crystal's search for love, sex, and fame. It explores her day-to-day adventures, including sleeping with a VIP, getting hired and fired, and her need for constant sexual satisfaction. The book is a unique portrayal of the queer experience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2020
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020, Life's a Drag... Why Not Be a Queen?

Stories like the one where you shagged a 79-year-old builder and knocked over his sister's ashes while feeding him a Viagra. Or the time you crashed your car because you were giving a hand job in barely moving traffic and took your eye off the car in front. That's the kind of dinner-party ice-breaker I'm talking about.

Northern, working-class, and shagging men three times her age, Crystal writes candidly about her search for the one; sleeping with a VIP in an attempt to become a world-famous journalist; getting hired and fired by a well-known fashion magazine; being torn between losing weight and gorging on KFC; and her need for constant sexual satisfaction (and where that takes her).

Charting her day-to-day adventures over the course of a year, we encounter tucks, twists, and sucks, heinous overspending, and endless nights spent sprinting from problem to problem in a full face of make-up.

This is a place where the previously unspeakable becomes the commendable—a unique portrayal of the queer experience.

(c) 2019, Crystal Rasmussen (P) 2019 Penguin Audio

Weight: 268g
Dimension: 127 x 199 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781785039508