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THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY

Brian Epste was the Beatl' manager, even if the band didn't know he was gay at first. Here's what we learned om Cynthia Lennon. * brian gay beatles *

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The Beatl’ manager, Brian Epste, was gay. “It didn’t occur to then that Brian was gay, ” Cynthia Lennon wrote.

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER

In the early sixti if you were gay you kept secret. Gays were lled ‘queers’ and were disliked and diststed by many — there was a huge amount of prejudice agast them.

Cynthia Lennon said that at the time, John Lennon was ‘horrified’ by the ia of homosexualy. “John was a hundred percent heterosexual and, like most lads at that time, horrified by the ia of homosexualy, ” Cynthia Lennon wrote the same memoir. Yet Brian himself died lonely, never havg had a proper boyiend, and wh the lloquially known “Osr Wil laws” clarg homosexualy illegal still force.

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