ParamountThis is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obssed, wrten by senr entertament reporter Kev Fallon. To receive the full newsletter your box each week, sign up for week:A very gay even gayer movie!A very gay even gayer vio!The gayt of them all. (Happy Pri Month!)Actually, Top Gun: Maverick Is the Gayt Thg This WeekLast weekend, I ma a gay pilgrimage of my own. I took my sad ltle self to the nearby Alamo Draf
Contents:
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
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Go the gay way, go the gay way. Go the gay way. Be the gay way.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Go for the gay way.
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. 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.
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
The volleyball scene is homosexual.
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JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
Top Gun's homoeroticism.
It's tly fascatg how unbridled the homoeroticism of "Top Gun" is. Google "Top Gun Gay" and you'll get a hefty 1, 390, 000, 000 rults. In her review, cric Ple Kael said that "the movie is a shy homoerotic mercial [...
" Quent Taranto would famoly give voice to the theory that the film is actually a gay love story via a typilly Taranto-que monologue the movie "Sleep wh Me. " But watchg the film 2022 as this relic of unexpected gayns is still a cur experience. There are moments of the movie that are so startlgly gay that they go right back round to beg hetero.