Were any of The Beatl gay? - Answers

Contents:

• THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
• THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
• WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?
• THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
• THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER

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

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?

“I had known a lot of gay men. However, the longstandg mour claims that the song was wrten for The Beatl manager, Brian Epste, who was openly homosexual durg a time when was still outlawed the UK, and societal issu towards sexualy were still firmly stuck the dark ag. Please exce his language, but his 2006 tobgraphy The Beatl, Football And Me, he claimed: “John wasn’t a homosexual but he was daft enough to try anythg once”.

THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK

Were The Beatl gay? He was a closeted gay man who had a tumultuo relatnship wh his sexualy. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Whe Album vers, wh a Magrte patg he troduced to McCartney servg as the Apple Rerds logo’s Spetti, the fuzzy sweater-clad TV director that the Beatl teased A Hard Day’s Night, was a notable gay man.

He also held an LGBTQ+ nnectn to the Prton, an openly gay man, joed the Beatl at a time when the band seemed to be on the verge of a breakdown. Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Beatl wh their manager Brian Epste, right, October Archiv/Redferns, via Getty ImagOct. Managers groomed them and shaped them, and the classic rock era those managers were often gay s, the close relatnships between the managers and the predomantly straight micians they advised were not discsed much.

“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.

WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?

“Beg gay gave me a fer appreciatn of the sexualy of the guys up there, ” Mr.

“It was all great until Harry said, ‘The only thg is, I don’t thk I uld be managed by a gay man.

Up until 1967, beg gay was illegal Bra, and long after that law changed, gay men remaed a target of police entrapment, blackmail and beatgs.

THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA

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.

You’d go to Robert Stigwood’s hoe and was like a gay pub.

“As gay men, we have to remake ourselv orr to survive, ” he said. ”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.

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER

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. That beme the foreont rock ’n’ roll, enuraged by the gay managers. ”Straight rock stars also found that appropriatg the sensual awarens of gay men paid off sexual opportuni.

’”Still, given the vilifitn of homosexualy at the time, one might expect the rockers to have some disfort wh the gay men who advised them.