Top Gun as a Gay Movie, Reevaluated 2020

Contents:

• TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
• ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
• HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
• JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER

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?

And they’re sayg, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. 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.

‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR

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?

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.

HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC

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. To receive the full newsletter your box each week, sign up for week:A very gay even gayer movie!

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

A very gay even gayer vio! The gayt of them all. )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 Drafthoe, chowed down on some mozzarella sticks, and lighted the sequel to one of the gayt films of all time, Top Gun: Maverick is a perfect film. And the gayns?

As one of my favore wrers, Dave Holm, recently wrote Esquire, “The Top Gun volleyball scene isn’t homoerotic. It is homosexual.

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“And what said was: ‘You’re gay now. Try and tell me whoever cid to set a love scene to “Take My Breath Away” while sheer len curtas billow the background was not a gay. And was homoeroticism overdrive between the pilots.

As we all know, there is nothg gayer this world than straight men. Every teractn between the characters lived up to that ’s a lot for Top Gun: Maverick to live up to, and livered a proud succsor to the volleyball scene wh the shirtls football game, played the surf at twilight, nonilly the gayt time of the day. It gave shirtls 59-year-old Tom Cise, lookg better than ever, as part of that game—grace not of Daddy on top of an already homoerotic scene.