Statue campaign launched to honor the gay ‘fifth Beatle’.

Brian Epstein, The manager of The Beatles, Picture taken 20th October 1963. (Photo by Maurice Tibbles/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

Campaigners in Liverpool have launched a fundraiser to honour Brian Epstein, the gay man known as the “fifth Beatle”.

The five-week campaign seeks to pay tribute to Epstein’s legacy and was launched on 19 September, which would have been his 85th birthday…