Top Gun: Is There Really A Gay Subtext? We Asked The Wrer

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

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They’re gay, they reprent the gay man, all right? And they’re sayg, go, go the gay way, go the gay way.

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

“Tony has a certa look that he was g stylistilly and you look at that look and ’s a very gay look terms of the haircuts and the styl and the male beefke, ” he says. Jt ask the people who thk ‘The Shg’ is Stanley Kubrick admtg he directed the fake Moon there’s lots of talk of butts and Maverick lls his -pilot Goose “honey”, but do that mean they’re all secretly gay and stgglg to e to terms wh their sexualy? “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.

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