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
- THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
- THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
- EXPLORG THE MYTH: DID JOHN LENNON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR?
- THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
- DID BRIAN EPSTE’S GAYNS SHAPE HIS VISN OF THE BEATL’ POTENTIAL?
THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
* the beatles are gay *
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. 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.
THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
Brian Epste will be remembered for troducg The Beatl to a global dience, but their gay manager passed away 50 years ago durg the "Summer of Love" as homosexualy was first crimalised England and Wal. * the beatles are gay *
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.
EXPLORG THE MYTH: DID JOHN LENNON HAVE A GAY AFFAIR?
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.
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 ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
“I had known a lot of gay men.
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.
DID BRIAN EPSTE’S GAYNS SHAPE HIS VISN OF THE BEATL’ POTENTIAL?
Yet Brian himself died lonely, never havg had a proper boyiend, and wh the lloquially known “Osr Wil laws” clarg homosexualy illegal still force.