Contents:
- THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
I say all this as straight male veteran who knew about the movie’s reputatn for havg some gay unrton before watchg: I am actively watchg this movie for the first time sce childhood. Did… did everyone realize how goddamn gay this film was when me out?
The Origal Top Gun Was My Sweaty, Sexy Gay Salvatn. Iceman and Maverick jetted lifavg homoeroticism past a generatn of nservative parents. You see, the mid-1990s Christian suburbs of Chigo, where dial-up ter age was closely monored, Top Gun was my gay porn.
For me, the movie was a seri of homoerotic scen buildg to climax. To my gay, trated, 13-year-old psyche, was sex.
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
By some oversight, and I uld never que believe my luck, this one major piece of soft-re gay cema had been venerated throughout Midwtern Christendom.
No adult, not even a mister, would bat an eyelash when I said knowgly to their sons—kids I hoped were closeted gay, too—“Top Gun is my favore film. ” There was no space this world for “homosexual” kids.