Top gun gay subtext: For 90s closeted teens, the film offered safe homoeroticism.

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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.

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TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER

“Top Gun” producer Jerry Bckheimer celebrated the film’s 35th anniversary this month by reflectg on the movie’s unexpected legacy as a gay film an terview wh Vulture. This readg of the film was immortalized by Quent Taranto, who has a sgle scene the 1994 movie “Sleep wh Me” which he appears to give a monologue explag why the Tom Cise-starrg “Top Gun” is really “a story about a man’s stggle wh his own homosexualy.

They’re gay, they reprent the gay man, all right?

And they’re sayg, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. They’re sayg no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right?

HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC

Taranto’s monologue and the blatant homoerotic unrton of the film’s signature oiled-up beach volleyball game have long kept “Top Gun” at least tangentially related to gay cema.

Asked by Vulture what he mak of the homoerotic readg of “Top Gun, ” Bckheimer said he embrac even if that was not the specific tentn of the filmmakg team.

TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC

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. US Football and Homoerotic Subtext.

That said, this sport, which engross a natn for several months each year, also v speculatn for s homoerotic overton.

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Top gun gay subtext: For 90s closeted teens, the film offered safe homoeroticism..

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