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Contents:

• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
• 'OUR MARRIAGE WAS NO SHAM - EVEN IF WASN'T ALWAYS THE BT POSSIBLE STATE', SAYS GAY DJ KENNY EVERETT'S EX-WIFE
• THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the on who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized marg, gay terwoven muny clud Brian Epste (who brought the world the Beatl), K Lambert (who -managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Ge), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smh (who formed the visnary label Charisma for bands like Genis). In fact, was a gay man, Larry Parn, who svengali-d Bra’s very first rockers, om Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wil.

'OUR MARRIAGE WAS NO SHAM - EVEN IF WASN'T ALWAYS THE BT POSSIBLE STATE', SAYS GAY DJ KENNY EVERETT'S EX-WIFE

A new book tled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swgg Sixti aims to tell the Brish si of this story by focg on several key players the scene, cludg a few of the aforementned nam along wh the novative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood. ”At the same time, the rich, powerful and fluential men faced the nsirable nsequenc of beg gay at a time when homosexual acts were still outlawed the UK. ”There were, fact, a few powerful gay women the Brish rock scene at the time as well, cludg Vicki Wickham, who booked the acts on the semal TV show Ready Steady Go and who later managed Dty Sprgfield and LaBelle.

”Bullock’s book don’t lve to the eper cultural and psychologil issu volved the relatnships between the gay and straight men.

Still, ’s clear to any stunt of the era that the edgy liv of gay men at the time fascated the straight artists they worked wh. They weren’t jt gay but also Jewish. ”In some ways, managers like Epste and other others uld sulate themselv om the everyday life of gay men at the time – throwg their own exclive parti and circulatg elevated circl where they uld do as they pleased.

THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK

Ironilly, after the law agast homosexual acts changed Bra 1967 – crimalizg them certa circumstanc and for those of a certa age – the harassment of LGBTQ people actually tensified. “But post-67, and wh the formatn of the Gay Liberatn Front 1970 Bra and wh gay people beg more outspoken, the raids and the psdo-polil attacks started to happen more.

ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL

The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swgg Sixti is out now. Negative character tras uld be: Impatience, Impetuons, Foolhards, Selfishns and Billy Fury gay or straight?

We don't know for a fact whether Billy Fury was gay, bisexual or straight. 38% of all voters thk that Billy Fury was gay (homosexual), 50% voted for straight (heterosexual), and 12% like to thk that Billy Fury was actually bisexual. Soul mat: Comic Kenny Everett wh his wife Lee, now Lee Everett Alk 'Tortured geni' was the tag most sistently applied to him by the obuarists who claimed that his 12-year marriage to Lee was a 'sham' and a ver for his homosexualy.

ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL

'I thought he was gay om the start. He was jt one of my gay iends and for about a year we were jt mat.

She says Ev believed their marriage would 'cure' him of relahis homosexualy. 'And once he'd done so, he threw himself to life as a gay man.