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

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

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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?

Go the gay way, go the gay way. Go the gay way. Be the gay way.

HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC

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.

THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN

“Top Gun” producer Jerry Bckheimer celebrated the film’s 35th anniversary this month by reflectg on the movie’s unexpected legacy as a gay film an terview wh Vulture. This readg of the film was immortalized by Quent Taranto, who has a sgle scene the 1994 movie “Sleep wh Me” which he appears to give a monologue explag why the Tom Cise-starrg “Top Gun” is really “a story about a man’s stggle wh his own homosexualy. 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? Taranto’s monologue and the blatant homoerotic unrton of the film’s signature oiled-up beach volleyball game have long kept “Top Gun” at least tangentially related to gay cema. Asked by Vulture what he mak of the homoerotic readg of “Top Gun, ” Bckheimer said he embrac even if that was not the specific tentn of the filmmakg team.

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

It's also, to put bluntly, one of the most homoerotic movi ever ma.

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Watch Quent Taranto Expla Why 'Top Gun' Is A Gay Movie .

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