Insane jet stunts and some good old fashned Amerin patrtism — that’s Top Gun for you. Except, there’s more. It’s also an unexpected gay classic.
Contents:
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
* why is top gun a gay film *
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?
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
Go the gay way, go the gay way. Go the gay way. Be the gay way.
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. It's also, to put bluntly, one of the most homoerotic movi ever ma.
Top Gun's homoeroticism. It's tly fascatg how unbridled the homoeroticism of "Top Gun" is. Google "Top Gun Gay" and you'll get a hefty 1, 390, 000, 000 rults.
TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
In her review, cric Ple Kael said that "the movie is a shy homoerotic mercial [... " Quent Taranto would famoly give voice to the theory that the film is actually a gay love story via a typilly Taranto-que monologue the movie "Sleep wh Me. " But watchg the film 2022 as this relic of unexpected gayns is still a cur experience.
There are moments of the movie that are so startlgly gay that they go right back round to beg hetero.
In the mentary on the physil releas of the film, Tony Stt said he found spiratn for the athetic of "Top Gun" a book of black and whe photographs by gay photographer Bce Weber. "Everyone was sred bee was famo terms of the gay muny, this book, " said Stt.