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:
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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. * top gun volleyball scene gay *
And what said was: “You’re gay now.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
* top gun volleyball scene gay *
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.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The volleyball scene didn’t make gay. Y, the scene was homoerotic by sign, arguably the bt exprsn of Stt’s onscreen terpretatn of Bce Weber’s photography.
And Paramount executiv were nervo about , too, ightened that Stt may have been takg too much spiratn om Weber — whose artistic photos of nu and sntily clad men were most popular wh the gay muny at the time.
THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
Instead, we’re talkg about the mute and a half scene that cemented this movie the md of almost every viewer, om film cric to sual watcher, and gave Top Gun a cult followg among the gay muny.
That brief scene is filled wh so much homoerotic energy, genue appreciatn of the male body, and stanc of men appreciatg other men’s physique, ’s no wonr why this film has been embraced by the gay muny. But more than that, Top Gun’s volleyball scene surprisgly enpsulat the plited battle between sexual exploratn, reprsn, and homophobia that happened durg 1980s cema. An era of liberalism the 1960s ntributed to homosexualy beg more accepted.