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The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?
Katie77:
I was 12 in 1963 and in the grip of Beatlemania....loved those four mop tops from Liverpool England, and read every word published about them.
Interestingly though, never once read anything about the fact that their manager Brian Epstein was gay. Was viewing a biography on the Beatles only yesterday, and a lot was said about Epstein, and the fact that he had a huge crush on John Lennon, and there were questions about whether him and John ever "did it".
Amazing how, even though there was so much publicity on the Beatles, all the gay stuff never got mentioned back then.
Scott6373:
Life was great for me...three squares a day, slept as much as I wanted to, went to the bathroom whenever I wanted...could throw up on anyone without getting hit...course I was 2.
Kelda:
posting so I can find later.
I cannot add as I was born in 1981 but am interested in reading this thread!
Sheriff Roland:
Udate:
Bryan has em, both the book that lead me to the article, and the photocopy of the Life magazine special issue on Homosexuals in America dated 1965. But I haven't seen Bryan in over a week!
Patience ... I'm sure there'll be nuggets worth quoting from those articles.
HerrKaiser:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on February 14, 2007, 10:02:28 am ---
Amazing how, even though there was so much publicity on the Beatles, all the gay stuff never got mentioned back then.
--- End quote ---
Not only was the "gay stuff" never mentioned back then, neither was the "straight stuff" in terms of all their sexual conquests, the groupies, the drugs, the all night sex orgies with scores of women. All these things occured. to a somewhate lesser extent, the same was true, apparently, with President Kennedy. But, nothing of substance was ever publicized.
There were no National Enquirer's back then and the mainstream media simply did not delve into those parts of celebrity life or lives of the average people. Such human behavior was considered by the conventional wisdom folks to be on the 'dark side' of activity and was left pretty much untouched. That was an era of Father Knows Best, Donna Reed, Andy Griffith, and My Three Sons. Gay subjects were not "outed" but everything else was pretty much off limits as well.
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