Pre-1966 PAUL WASN'T GAY (I don't think)

[superman]

I notice that this has been suggested a few times on this forum. I have no trouble believing that POST-1966 guy might be, but the only "evidence" that I've ever heard of Original Paul maybe being gay cropped up fairly recently. In the documentary The Secret Lives of the Beatles, a guy who met the Beatles early in their career claimed that he thought pre-1966 Paul was a homosexual. And his reason for this was that Paul had used mascara to draw in his eyebrows in a very strange way. I think THIS is what he was talking about:



Why did Paul do his eyebrows like that? Who knows. Doesn't make him homosexual or bisexual. It could mean he shouldn't take grooming tips from Little Richard.

Or maybe it's true what some say about Paul being bald. And maybe he wasn't just missing hair on his HEAD ...

[trutha]

Paul wasn't gay! He didn't turn into a woman, either :-P

[mommybird]

I'm with superman & trutha on this one. Paul was a very hairy fellow. I have seen photos of Paul with his eyesbrows in various stages of bushiness. It could just be that he felt that he would be more appealing to the opposite sex if his eyebrows were less hairy. Sometimes he kept them under control, sometimes he was lazy & didn't. I don't think that it speaks about his"manhood" one way or the other.

[TotalInformation]

JPM was very much into disguises and changing appearances, etc. It's of a piece with the moptop wigs and so forth.

[mommybird]

Totalinformation, I'm very interested in your last post. Can you provide us with a few sources from which you gleaned that info ?
I read once that Paul had changed his appearance to leave a hotel and wander about. He wore a fake mustache, his glasses, possibly a wig and a hat. If I remember correctly, he came back & knocked on the door. George answered it, and didn't recognize him.
Am I remembering this correctly ? It's been awhile.

[knowthe411]

I've noticed the really high-placed eyebrows but I don't think that is an indication of gayness. Theatrical people do that or did that in those days. But there are other things that convince me that Paul (the real one, not Faul) is gay or bisexual. The first is that, in a pre-1966 interview I've seen on YT (Miami?), Paul is asked twice by a reporter if he has intentions to marry Jane Asher. He states emphatically that he has no intentions or plans to marry her. Second, Wikipedia states that Paul moved in with Jane and her parents at some point. Why? Why not live with the other boys? Unless they thought that, by moving in with her, he might warm up to her and change his mind? Third, there's the song "If I Fall (In Love With You)" which they perform in the Hard Day's Night movie. In the movie, you can see Paul and John move backwards when the song starts and they look at each other for while. The song says something like "What will she [Cynthia?] do if she finds out we are two?" There's another song (I don't know it exactly - help!) the title of which is "You've Got To Keep Your Love Back" (). My guess is that they were told by Brian and others that they needed to pull back on the long, affectionate gazes and other PDAs.