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.
Contents:
- THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
- DID BRIAN EPSTE’S GAYNS SHAPE HIS VISN OF THE BEATL’ POTENTIAL?
- THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
- THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
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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.
DID BRIAN EPSTE’S GAYNS SHAPE HIS VISN OF THE BEATL’ POTENTIAL?
A furtive acknowledgement—a man’s nod, to be precise—ultimately land Brian Samuel Epste, the gay, elst son of a proment Jewish fay ... * brian epstein gay *
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.
THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
Who created that geo 20th-century creature, the rock star? Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Wenner. * brian epstein gay *
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.
A furtive acknowledgement—a man’s nod, to be precise—ultimately land Brian Samuel Epste, the gay, elst son of a proment Jewish fay Liverpool, England, jail.
THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
Epste, who died at 32 of an accintal dg overdose, was a tortured gay man who was bowed by the weight and import of his wealthy Jewish fay. “I’m very proud that I’ve spent hours nversatn wh folks like Sid Bernste and Nat Weiss, ” says Tiwary of the Jewish producer who helped brg The Beatl to Ameri and the gay lawyer who was Epste’s greatt nfidant.
“ ‘What gay clubs did you take Brian to? “I believed that my own willpower was the bt thg wh which to overe my homosexualy, ” Epste lamented a letter to his lawyer, after he was qutned by police.