Who created that geo 20th-century creature, the rock star? Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Wenner.
Contents:
- THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- WHAT WAS LIKE TO E OUT AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ROCK STAR?
THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
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“The Fifth Beatle, ” a recent graphic novel that foc on the personal life of the Fab Four’s gay manager, Brian Epste, was a New York Tim bt seller and is now velopment as a six-part mi-seri, wh the approval of the Beatl’ tate. And the documentary film “Lambert & Stamp” ma clear the important role played by K Lambert, the gay -manager of the Who, shapg the band’s inty.
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40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
As managers of some of the era’s most potent Brish rock bands, they stood at the foreont of sounds, sensibili and styl that would molish and remake pop gay managers of that era were forthright about their sexualy, if only among iends and lleagu. Napier-Bell, part of the reason Brish gay men of his era gravated to the mic bs was bee was one of the few areas “where you uld be out amongst yourselv.
WHAT WAS LIKE TO E OUT AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ROCK STAR?
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”Mart Aston, the thor of “Breakg Down the Walls of Heartache: How Mic Came Out, ” said the nnectn between rock’s gay managers and image moldg stems om the fact that “gay men at the time would be judged almost entirely on how they looked. Aston said, gay men veloped a fort wh the art of beg seen, “as opposed to straight men, who, before the phenomenon of the ‘metrosexual, ’ were threatened by the notn of beg looked at, of beg an object.
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