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Contents:
- THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
- THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
- THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
- THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
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 the beatles gay *
One of the most inic stars of The Beatl, Rgo Starr had a new terview wh Para’s Jim Farber and revealed his ias about ‘gay accatns’ about The Beatl’ Brian Epste.
“The Beatl had a gay manager, Brian Epste, at a time when beg gay was illegal England and very much stigmatized. What was the band’s attu about gay people back then?
THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
“I had known a lot of gay men. 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 UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
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. The Coa Butter Club performs onstage durg the GAY TIMES Honours Awards 2022.
Don't worry, everyone: The Beatl are OK wh gay by Para magaze about their manager, Brian Epste, Rgo had nothg but supportive thgs to say. "I had known a lot of gay men, " he told the magaze.
THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
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Yet Brian himself died lonely, never havg had a proper boyiend, and wh the lloquially known “Osr Wil laws” clarg homosexualy illegal still force. 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.