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Expert Textpert said
I think it's interesting how people tend to come on this thread and say things about the thread being pointless and question why should we care about John's sexuality, when the same people are probably buying books that have photo reproductions of John's shopping list and doodles he drew on airline stationary, which are actually pointless.

Personally, I think knowing that John was bisexual is very educational because his repressed sexuality and his conflicted feelings about it explain some of his violent behavior. Not pointless knowledge at all, at least if you are interested in understanding the psyche of a very brilliant man.

  

Maybe. I tend to think John became quite relaxed about his bi-sexuality. He donated drawings and writings to the gay liberation book after all, and the things he and Yoko had to say on the subject over the years don't show someone who was particularly repressed either.

John’s bisexual attraction to other men is clear from his own accounts and of those close to him. 

Expert Textpert said
He beat up Bob Wooler for insinuating he was gay at a party in the 60s.

  

He was a very young, very drunk man though. I tend to think he relaxed about his sexuality over the years, within 10 years he was providing erotic drawings for the gay liberation book. His problems lay elsewhere I feel.

My tuppence worth is that John had genuine psychiatric problems stemming from his childhood, only compounded by his fame and the drug intake he used to try and blank them out. He really needed proper professional help instead of crank diets,gurus and 'cures' like primal scream. It doesn't make his horrible behaviour at times forgivable, but it does allow us to understand. The saddest thing is that while he showed genuine regret and self loathing over his actions across his life, he kept on making the same mistakes.

While there are a lot of unflattering things you can say about The Beatles, they were more fundamentally far more decent human beings than The Rolling Stones for instance. They had literally zero redeeming qualities. I absolutely loathe them to this day.

I'll say one thing about John, he tried and frequently failed to be a good person but he never gave up or stopped realising it was a worthwhile thing to be doing. He said some exceptionally loving and forgiving things in those last interviews he gave that prove it.