I'm a Gay Army Officer—Queer Troops Mt Fight Back

Contents:

• THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
• THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
• QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY
• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• FORMER COLLEGE FOOTBALL CAPTA WAS OPENLY GAY
• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER

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

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Unls you were an obssive golf fan, the arrival of Brian and Kimberly Gay onto the PGA Tour at the turn of the century was easy to miss.

“Brian is a very quiet, laid-back, troverted guy who’s happy to be on the uch watchg football,” says Gay’s longtime swg ach, Joe Mayo. The Gay fay pos wh the Herage Classic trophy 2009.

QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY

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After learng to lift his left heel on the backswg and lengthen his turn, Gay’s speed quickly spiked to 117/173 and he began flyg up to 40 yards farther. The hard work began to pay off that fall Bermuda, when Gay tied for third. Courty of Kimberly Gay.

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

And what do the victory mean to Brian Gay’s agent?

FORMER COLLEGE FOOTBALL CAPTA WAS OPENLY GAY

When they first met, however, the band didn't know that this lol bs owner was gay. He served as their manager for several years, even if most fans didn’t know he was gay until after his ath. The Beatl’ manager, Brian Epste, was gay.

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

In the early sixti if you were gay you kept secret.

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

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.

December 19, 2008World Entertament News Network reports that QUEEN guarist Brian May did not realize his bandmate Freddie Mercury was gay for years — bee the flamboyant star had a strg of pair was close durg the early days of the band, but the legendary guarist sists he had no clatn of Mercury's tells Bra's Daily Exprs, "No, I didn't know. I thk there was a slight spicn, but never occurred to me that he was gay.