ParamountThis is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obssed, wrten by senr entertament reporter Kev Fallon. To receive the full newsletter your box each week, sign up for week:A very gay even gayer movie!A very gay even gayer vio!The gayt of them all. (Happy Pri Month!)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 Draf
Contents:
- TOP GUN: IS THERE REALLY A GAY SUBTEXT? WE ASKED THE WRER
- THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
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.
THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
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. 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? And what said was: “You’re gay now.
Now, I have heard the volleyball scene Top Gun referred to as “homoerotic. ” The volleyball scene is not homoerotic.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The volleyball scene is homosexual. Every gay man wh ten years of my age will tell you the same thg. The volleyball scene didn’t make gay.
The Origal Top Gun Was My Sweaty, Sexy Gay Salvatn. Iceman and Maverick jetted lifavg homoeroticism past a generatn of nservative parents. You see, the mid-1990s Christian suburbs of Chigo, where dial-up ter age was closely monored, Top Gun was my gay porn.
For me, the movie was a seri of homoerotic scen buildg to climax. To my gay, trated, 13-year-old psyche, was sex. By some oversight, and I uld never que believe my luck, this one major piece of soft-re gay cema had been venerated throughout Midwtern Christendom.