Our celebratn of post-war gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at all.
Contents:
- PRI MONTH: GAY DIRECTORS WHO REFED CEMA
- HOW DID TOP GUN GET SO GAY?
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- HUNGER, THE ( 1983) GAY, CATHERE DENVE, DAVID BOWIE, SAN SARANDON, TONY STT, DRAMA, HORROR
PRI MONTH: GAY DIRECTORS WHO REFED CEMA
Hunger, The ( 1983) Gay, Cathere Denve, David Bowie, San Sarandon, Tony Stt, Drama, Horror * was tony scott gay *
Where openly gay director Tony Stt filmed sweaty and hard-bodied Tom Cise and Val Kilmer gettg wh kissg distance to smack-talk each-other or to play a round of homoerotic beach volleyball set to Kenny Loggs’ aptly named “Playg wh the Boys”.
Was really a “gay” movie?
HOW DID TOP GUN GET SO GAY?
But while we’re on the subject of Tony Stt, let exame how some of the bt films of all time- or some of the most inic- have been directed by gay men. Emmerich is a huge LGBTQ+ proponent, and is openly gay.
His beg gay was an open Hollywood secret, and the director very famoly opposed labels, as you n read a betifully touchg obuary piece penned by Matthew Hays of tled “Joel Schumacher: Reluctant and Conflicted Gay Trailblazer”. Had enough overtly gay overton to suck your blood dry.
Easy Bety Hack Doubl As Primer While Protectg Your SkOffEnglishGif: ParamountYou ParamountTop Gun, my experience, is synonymo wh s perceived gayns. There are untls piec probg jt how homosexual s pictn of a (mostly) homosocial world of naval aviators is. Such disurse was observable om the begng, too: Ple Kael’s review of the film that ran the June 16, 1986, issue of The New Yorker, about a month after the blockbter’s release, observed that when McGillis, Cise’s love tert, is offscreen “the movie is a shy homoerotic mercial: the pilots stt around the locker room, towels hangg prerly om their waists.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
Perhaps the most famo, and certaly most passnate argument for readg Top Gun as an explicly gay text is Quent Taranto’s monologue Rory Kelly’s 1994 film Sleep Wh Me, an apparently improvised (and entirely Tarantoian) b which Top Gun is fed as “a story about a man’s stggle wh his own homosexualy”:This sort of postmorn readg was particularly hip the ’90s (pecially Taranto’s work—see the multi-character “Like a Virg” analysis Rervoir Dogs), although is certaly heterocentric and, while jokgly so, predited on the notn of gay recment (Kilmer’s Ice Man, the film’s facto antagonist, leadg a crew reprentg gay men who are tellg Cise’s Maverick, “Go, go the gay way”). On Nexis, the search rults for “‘Top Gun’ and gay, ” suggt that this disurse only grew the years after the film’s release.
In the mentary on the physil releas of Top Gun, director Tony Stt says he found spiratn a book of black and whe photographs by gay photographer Bce Weber.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
“Everyone was sred bee was famo terms of the gay muny, this book, ” said Stt, who died 2012.
HUNGER, THE ( 1983) GAY, CATHERE DENVE, DAVID BOWIE, SAN SARANDON, TONY STT, DRAMA, HORROR
Key to the fun of exvatg the homoeroticism of Top Gun is s prentatn as a bastn of straight culture: It picts aggro ary men giant jets who are tent on blowg everythg up eher wh their ln-dollar toys or penis. ’s script is full of gay nuendo, both overt (“This giv me a hard-on, ” says one of the naval trae durg a class, to which his buddy rponds, “Don’t tease me”) and seemgly unnsc (“I’d like to bt your butt, but I n’t!