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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
Who created that geo 20th-century creature, the rock star? Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Wenner. * beatles were 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 GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
is the beatl gay * beatles were gay *
“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”. Were The Beatl gay?
He was a closeted gay man who had a tumultuo relatnship wh his sexualy.
WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?
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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.
THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
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. “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.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
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.