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
- THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
- THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
- THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
THE BEATL STAR REVEALS THE BAND’S ATTU ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
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. * the beatles gay member *
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
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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.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BEATL' GAY MANAGER
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.
THE ABSURDLY VLENT AND GAY BEATL MOVIE THAT NEVER GOT MA
When they first met, however, the band didn't know that this lol bs owner was gay.
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.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
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.