Top Gun: An untentnal gay classic

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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.

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HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC

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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.

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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.

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

" 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.

TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC

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. He also acknowledged that the film had bee popular wh gay dienc.

It would have been wearily unsurprisg had such rpons eliced gay panic, pecially given the startlg homophobia of the era. There's also a thartic thrill to be had wh seeg a film that is pure ary propaganda be this gay, given that was illegal to be out and servg the '80s (the Department of Defense clared 1981 that "the prence the ary environment of persons who engage homosexual nduct or who, by their statements, monstrate a propensy to engage homosexual nduct, serly impairs the acplishment of the ary missn. ) Queer reprentatn of any kd was extremely rare, particularly films of this sle, and gay jok were mon.

The moments that we thk seem gay are posned here as guys beg dus, jt iends and lleagu hangg out and enjoyg themselv ee of srn or judgment. How many films have you seen where guys refe to hug one another or be open about their feelgs bee would be seen as too gay to do so?

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

The refal to tegorize certa typ of behavr as "gay" or "straight" is a powerful move that dispts homophobic mdsets. I say all this as straight male veteran who knew about the movie’s reputatn for havg some gay unrton before watchg: I am actively watchg this movie for the first time sce childhood. Did… did everyone realize how goddamn gay this film was when me out?

TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER

And what said was: “You’re gay now.

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Top Gun: Is There Really A Gay Subtext? We Asked The Wrer.

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