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.
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THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
Songfacts®:It was mored that this was the first gay rock song, a msage to Beatl manager Brian Epste, who was gay.
In the part of The Beatl Anthology, that vers Epste's ath, this song is played, givg crence to the ia that this song was ed a song about hidg one's homosexualy. 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”.
However, nsirg the subject matter and the timg of the song, many have spected that, actual fact, the song was wrten for Epste as a sympathetic ear to livg life as a gay man 1960s Bra. The song n easily be taken as a piece of empathetic songwrg regnn of the difficulti Epste faced as a homosexual man at this time. “It was my first experience wh a homosexual that I was nsc was homosexual.