"He's a queer." Just shows you how people talked back in 1969 - even people considered to be hip like, John & Yoko.
I've circled the evidence...see link.
This is not an attack on John & Yoko - I just thought it was interesting when I read it in an archive dedicated to a pop music journal.
High profile celebs like them would never say this in an interview today. So that's something good.
I guess it reminds me of growing up in England, always seeing and hearing casual homophobia like this. It was just part of the way people spoke and thought. Even "sophisticated" "hip" people like John & Yoko.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | September 20, 2019 6:11 AM
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That's just the vocabulary that was used at the time by straight people, he didn't necessarily mean it in a homophobic way.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 20, 2019 3:41 AM
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He sort of did, because he's sneering. Did you even look at the link?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 20, 2019 3:43 AM
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You’re correct that high profile celebrities would not say that in an interview today. That is just because of conditioning. Many say that and much worse when they amongst friends and family. What is that saying, the more forbidden the fruit, the sweeter the juice.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 20, 2019 3:48 AM
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& he's showing off, thinks he's being funny.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 20, 2019 3:52 AM
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Overrated homophobic. Cunts. They were never as talented as the queer king of rock Freddie mercury.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 20, 2019 3:54 AM
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By his own admission Lennon spent much of his life harboring misogynist, racist and homophobic attitudes. He especially loved to mock the disabled - verbally and in cartoons. He admitted to having been violent with women. From what I have read he really did seem to have started changing his ways in the last few years of his life. But I'll never be able to think of him as the saint so many people now regard him as being
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 20, 2019 4:07 AM
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Nothing wrong with queer now. It's been reclaimed and empowered as the preferred term by intelligent educated people.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 20, 2019 4:59 AM
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MacCartney said recently that he and Lennon jerked off together back in the early days before they could 'pull in the birds'.
Lennon was handled carefully by Brian Epstein.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | September 20, 2019 6:11 AM
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