Top Gun as a Gay Movie, Reevaluated 2020

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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

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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.

THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN

“It is a story about a man’s stggle wh his own homosexualy, ” he says the film.

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

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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY TOP GUN

Top gun gay subtext: For 90s closeted teens, the film offered safe homoeroticism. .

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