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·a snippet from the National Post
Up Against It, commissioned at the band’s height, was to feature the Fab Four assassinating
a female PM, sparking a brutal civil war and engaging in group sex
Reportedly, though, the Beatles didn’t reject Up Against It because it was too outlandish.
Instead, they passed because it was all “a bit gay.”
“It wasn’t that we were anti-gay, just that we, the Beatles, weren’t gay,”
McCartney explained later.
There is no overt homosexuality in the script, but it is unquestionably queer. There’s ample
cross-dressing, swapped gender roles and the male characters keep showering together.
“We can’t take a shower with you, you’re a woman,” John Lennon’s character says at one point.
Up Against It, commissioned at the band’s height, was to feature the Fab Four assassinating
a female PM, sparking a brutal civil war and engaging in group sex
Reportedly, though, the Beatles didn’t reject Up Against It because it was too outlandish.
Instead, they passed because it was all “a bit gay.”
“It wasn’t that we were anti-gay, just that we, the Beatles, weren’t gay,”
McCartney explained later.
There is no overt homosexuality in the script, but it is unquestionably queer. There’s ample
cross-dressing, swapped gender roles and the male characters keep showering together.
“We can’t take a shower with you, you’re a woman,” John Lennon’s character says at one point.