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Contents:
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
Top Gun has one scene so inic, the sequel shed and went even eper. Here's a look at the gay subtext that everyone's been talkg about. * gay scenes from top gun *
And what said was: “You’re gay now. Now, I have heard the volleyball scene Top Gun referred to as “homoerotic.
” The volleyball scene is not homoerotic. The volleyball scene is homosexual. Every gay man wh ten years of my age will tell you the same thg.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The volleyball scene didn’t make gay. Two years later, he doubled down on that reputatn wh a meo Rory Kelly’s die dramedy Sleep Wh Me, which he lays out the many reasons why Top Gun, wh s many homoerotic unrton, is actually a gay film.
“It is a story about a man stgglg wh his own homosexualy. They’re gay; they reprent the gay man, alright? Go the gay way, go the gay way.
Go the gay way. Be the gay way. Go for the gay way.
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
Last year, when Top Gun celebrated s 35th anniversary, Vulture asked producer Jerry Bckheimer about the film’s standg as an inic moment gay cema.
Here's a look at the gay subtext that everyone's been talkg about.
THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
Homoeroticism may seem like a juxtaposn to the 100% straight male crowd, but the subtext this scene Top Gun exemplifi how everyone is a ltle b gay. A ma ponent of this ntext is that the ultimate man is not only for straight men, but for gay men as well. Consirg all of the factors, ’s not surprisg ary-centric films will have homoerotic unrton: beg a man means beg an emotnls 6-pack who don’t thk.