Crystal Rasmussen

Tom Rasmussen

diary-of-a-drag-queen

For the latest books, recommendations, author interviews and more

source_10558

By signing up, I confirm that I'm over 16. To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our <a href="/company/about-us/notices/privacy-policy/">Privacy Policy</a>

Keep an eye out for a confirmation in your inbox

Stories, ideas and giveaways to help you spark young imaginations

source_10972

The latest books, activities and tips to help you grow little readers

source_10975

About us

About Us (Header 4)

john-le-carre-a-legacy-of-spies-960-2.jpg

Margaret Atwood

Richard Osman

Malorie Blackman

George Orwell

marian_keyes_mobile_320x200px.png

Elif Shafak

shonfaye

Authors (Header 3)

Books (Header 2)

Company

Features (Header 1)

Penguin Shop (Header 5)

Useful links

Over 20 Comedy Acts From the Fringe that Never Was

Edinburgh Unlocked

Diary of a Drag Queen

It's here! Browse the 2024 Penguin Christmas gift guide

A riotous portrayal of the contemporary queer experience

Truthful, revealing and obscenely hilarious […] Strident and unapologetic but really sweet, too.

A proud voice for the non-binary community

This book honestly changed my life. Tom’s honesty, vulnerability and fearlessness jumps out of every page and every word. It is the queer bible I’ve always needed and I don’t remember life BT (before Tom)

Diary of a Drag Queen is a heartfelt memoir of queerness and non-conformity

The book on everyone's desk at Glamour HQ right now ... hilarious...  [It is] a unique portrayal of the queer experience and we're so here for it

Love, LOVE this book. It is so human and sweet and SO RUDE

So refreshingly honest […] a real, hilarious, deeply moving, look at what it’s really like to be non-binary, queer, and a drag queen

One of London’s most compelling queens presents a unique perspective on the queer experience […] It really makes our own daily diaries seem pretty mundane

i-D magazine cultural highlight of the week

A trove of glittering delights, a bushel of winkingly luscious fruit! Crystal Rasmussen is a goddess, a witch, an angel; and her enchanting diaries have replaced my own journals as the greatest memoirs ever committed to paper. A riotous carnival, a midnight burlesque, a glorious battle cry, all in one.

On the outside it’s deceptively pink and sparkly, but on the inside it’s a crackling, screaming fabulous whirlwind of dysfunction. It’s the Nikki Grahame of books.

So funny, warm, loving, beautifully written. A complete page-turner.

Hilarious, deeply moving, uplifting, daring, and unflinchingly honest

Amrou Al-Kadhi, author of Unicorn and member of Denim

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Diary of a Drag Queen, written and read by Tom Rasmussen. 
 
Life's a drag... 
 
'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 an editor 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 makeup. 
 
This is a place where the previously unspeakable becomes the commendable – a unique portrayal of the queer experience.

Bridget Jones meets Diary of a Call Girl: an intimate, hilarious, revelatory adventure with a drag queen

Crystal Rasmussen (Author) Crystal 
 
Look up the term ‘Global Phenomenon’ in the dictionary and you will simply find a picture of Crystal's face. She's beautiful. She's a model. She looks like a block of cheap Edam that's been left out in the sun. She's known for always having a cigarette in her mouth, while shouting at people for smoking in her face. She also coined the term ‘money’ and has been living in her overdraft since the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Crystal forms one fifth of DENIM, the drag supergroup, and is adored by fans for her lazy demeanour and her powerful falsetto. 
 
 
Tom 
 
Tom Rasmussen is a Northerner based in London. When out of drag, they are a regular contributor to the Independent,Dazed &amp; Confused,i-D, LOVE Magazine and Refinery29. Their work has also been featured in Vice, Broadly, Tank and The Gay Times. 
 
 
In 2018 they were named an LGBT trailblazer by The Dots and one of the voices of now fori-D. 
 
 
Tom also forms half of the radical queer punk band ACM. Tom Rasmussen (Reader) Crystal 
Look up the term ‘Global Phenomenon’ in the dictionary and you will simply find a picture of Crystal’s face. She’s beautiful. She’s a model. She looks like a block of cheap Edam that’s been left out in the sun. She’s known for always having a cigarette in her mouth, while shouting at people for smoking in her face. She also coined the term ‘money’ and has been living in her overdraft since the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Crystal forms one fifth of DENIM, the drag supergroup, and is adored by fans for her lazy demeanour and her powerful falsetto. 
 
 
Tom 
Tom Rasmussen is a Northerner based in London. When out of drag, they are a regular contributor to the Independent, Dazed &amp; Confused, i-D, LOVE Magazine and Refinery29. Their work has also been featured in Vice, Broadly, Tank and The Gay Times. 
 
 
In 2018 they were named an LGBT trailblazer by The Dots and one of the voices of now for i-D. 
 
 
Tom also forms half of the radical queer punk band ACM.

Diary of a Drag Queen

Select a format:

Retailers:

Summary

Reviews

About the author

Crystal Rasmussen

More from this Author

Sign up to the Penguin Newsletter