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 STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
- WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?
- THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
- THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
- THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
- THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
is the beatl gay * were any of the beatles 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?
WERE ANY OF THE BEATL GAY?
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. * were any of the beatles gay *
“I had known a lot of gay men.
Yet Brian himself died lonely, never havg had a proper boyiend, and wh the lloquially known “Osr Wil laws” clarg homosexualy illegal still force.
THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
* were any of the beatles gay *
The world would remember those days romantilly as the “Summer of Love”, om London to San Francis—and was ed a time of love, eedom, openns, and passn… as long as you weren’t gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr.
THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
Bee what the public didn’t know was that Brian Epste was gay.
In 1960s England, fet about beg allowed to marry—gay men and lbians weren’t allowed to openly walk the streets! But I hold that is not The Beatl that Brian Epste should be most remembered for—’s the personal obstacl he overme as a gay man the 1960’s while pursug his dreams that mak his story not jt spirg but important. But had Brian Epste lived to celebrate Liverpool Pri fifty years after his untimely ath—and the simultaneo 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love and the Sexual Offenc Act’s crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal—he would have been pleased about a lot more than the endurg legacy of his Beatl.
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”.
THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
We are the midst of a cultural sea-change as regards homosexualy.
But to someone younger, homosexualy seems to be a great al ls threateng.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
When addrsg the qutn were John and Pl lovers, ’s key to remember this pot: Homosexualy was absolutely verboten the time and place of the Beatl.
The guys, we have to realize, had likely dulged every sexual practice known to homo sapiens, and probably vented a few new on along the way. Rumors had been flyg around for months, ever sce Lennon’s vatn wh Beatl manager Brian Epste, who was gay.
Lennon remembers watchg Epste, who was gay, “pickg up boys”:.