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Contents:

• THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
• WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?
• THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
• THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
• WERE ANY APOSTL GAY
• THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK

THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE

Were The Beatl 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.

WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?

“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?

“I had known a lot of gay men.

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

Rumors had been flyg around for months, ever sce Lennon’s vatn wh Beatl manager Brian Epste, who was gay. Lennon remembers watchg Epste, who was gay, “pickg up boys”:. It was my first experience wh a homosexual that I was nsc was a homosexual.

” McCartney also remembers Lennon nyg : Asked whether he had ever had a homosexual experience, Lennon reportedly said, “No, I haven’t met a fellow I fancy enough. “John wasn’t a homosexual, but he was daft enough to try anythg once, ” Davi explas. Brian was gay, and John saw his opportuny to imprs upon Mr.

When they first met, however, the band didn't know that this lol bs owner was gay.

THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA

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.

WERE ANY APOSTL GAY

“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.

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. Epste's homosexualy was an open secret for most of his reer. In 2016, he ncelled a ncert North Carola prott of the state's recently-passed homophobic 's ftg that Starr would speak wh Para, as they're approximately the same age: Rgo was born 1940, and Para was found a year later 1941.

THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK

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.

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.

But had Brian Epste lived to celebrate Liverpool Pri fifty years after his untimely ath—and the simultaneo 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love and the Sexual Offenc Act’s crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal—he would have been pleased about a lot more than the endurg legacy of his Beatl. We are the midst of a cultural sea-change as regards homosexualy.