Watch Quent Taranto Expla Why 'Top Gun' Is A Gay Movie

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JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’

“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.

HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC

They’re sayg no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? 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: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER

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.

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.

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How Top Gun Beme A Gay Classic .

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