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- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
* why is top gun considered a gay movie *
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.
“It is a story about a man stgglg wh his own homosexualy. They’re gay; they reprent the gay man, alright?
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
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. * why is top gun considered a gay movie *
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.
TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
Sce the inic Tom Cise airplane flick me out 30 years ago, fans have argued the ttosterone-fuelled actner is actually lan wh homoerotic subtext – a g-out movie blockbter clothg. Legendary US film cric Ple Kael wrote her review at the time, “the movie is a shy homoerotic mercial: the pilots stt around the locker room, towels hangg prerly om their waists.
“It is a story about a man’s stggle wh his own homosexualy, ” he says the film. They’re gay, they reprent the gay man, all right?