is the beatl gay
Contents:
- THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
- WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?
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. * are any of the beatles 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. 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.
WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?
* are any of the beatles gay *
The world would remember those days romantilly as the “Summer of Love”, om London to San Francis—and was ed a time of love, eedom, openns, and passn… as long as you weren’t gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr. Bee what the public didn’t know was that Brian Epste was gay. In 1960s England, fet about beg allowed to marry—gay men and lbians weren’t allowed to openly walk the streets!
But I hold that is not The Beatl that Brian Epste should be most remembered for—’s the personal obstacl he overme as a gay man the 1960’s while pursug his dreams that mak his story not jt spirg but important.