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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

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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.

THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY

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. * the beatles gay member *

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. 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? “I had known a lot of gay men. When they first met, however, the band didn't know that this lol bs owner was gay.

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER

He served as their manager for several years, even if most fans didn’t know he was gay until after his ath. The Beatl’ manager, Brian Epste, was gay. “It didn’t occur to then that Brian was gay, ” Cynthia Lennon wrote.

In the early sixti if you were gay you kept secret.

Gays were lled ‘queers’ and were disliked and diststed by many — there was a huge amount of prejudice agast them. Cynthia Lennon said that at the time, John Lennon was ‘horrified’ by the ia of homosexualy. “John was a hundred percent heterosexual and, like most lads at that time, horrified by the ia of homosexualy, ” Cynthia Lennon wrote the same memoir.

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Former Beatl manager Brian Epste engaged homosexual acts wh one.

member of the legendary band - the gay pop mogul's ex-ai claims a. He was a closeted gay man who had a tumultuo relatnship wh his sexualy. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Whe Album vers, wh a Magrte patg he troduced to McCartney servg as the Apple Rerds logo’s Spetti, the fuzzy sweater-clad TV director that the Beatl teased A Hard Day’s Night, was a notable gay man.

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