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• THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA

THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA

As the beme ever more ’60s-like (and the wake of more experimental films such as Kenh Anger’s Srp Risg and his short Ktom Kar Kommandos, gay untercultural fantasias soundtracked wh ngoly lh pop), the Beatl’ promo films, such as Strawberry Fields Forever, beme creasgly psychelic. He don’t get to exercise that voice too equently, wrer-director buted 1991 wh “The Hours and Tim, ” an equally bold and sensive piece of cematic speculative fictn about the relatnship of John Lennon and the Beatl’ gay manager, Brian Epste, and the pair’s shared sense of beg outsirs.

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 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. 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. John Lennon and the Beatl’ gay manager Brian Epste durg their.