Who created that geo 20th-century creature, the rock star? Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Wenner.
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THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
Are the Beatl gay?
Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Beatl wh their manager Brian Epste, right, October Archiv/Redferns, via Getty ImagOct. Managers groomed them and shaped them, and the classic rock era those managers were often gay s, the close relatnships between the managers and the predomantly straight micians they advised were not discsed much. “The Fifth Beatle, ” a recent graphic novel that foc on the personal life of the Fab Four’s gay manager, Brian Epste, was a New York Tim bt seller and is now velopment as a six-part mi-seri, wh the approval of the Beatl’ tate.
WERE ANY APOSTL GAY
And the documentary film “Lambert & Stamp” ma clear the important role played by K Lambert, the gay -manager of the Who, shapg the band’s inty. “Beg gay gave me a fer appreciatn of the sexualy of the guys up there, ” Mr. “It was all great until Harry said, ‘The only thg is, I don’t thk I uld be managed by a gay man.
Up until 1967, beg gay was illegal Bra, and long after that law changed, gay men remaed a target of police entrapment, blackmail and beatgs.