Don & Jerry: Go The Gay Way – Hollywood Elsewhere

Contents:

• JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
• A BEGNER’S GUI TO GOG GAY
• HOWARD STERN (THE BACKSI BOYS) - I WENT THE GAY WAY LYRICS

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

“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.

A BEGNER’S GUI TO GOG GAY

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. It’s been a hard 30 years for me as a non-bary homosexual on this cis, straight pla. Bee when you aren’t lookg, we gays are plottg and planng the Gay Agenda.

HOWARD STERN (THE BACKSI BOYS) - I WENT THE GAY WAY LYRICS

The Gay Agenda which, to terrify all of my loyal nservative fans, always has been and always will be about makg as many people gay as possible. And so this Pri month, as your agony nt here at Vogue, I am here to liver to you the LGBTQ+ msage: I’m here to tell you that ’s time to go gay. We get to wear leather whout lookg try-hard, we get to watch unhged drag queens fall over dive bars, and we get to holiday hom Tangier owned by “terr ratn gays.

” We’re statistilly more likely to be chic and fashnable (although some gay men seem to want to actively exclu themselv om this one) and people—lerally, like, everyone—are sperate for our approval. Yep, you got —beg gay is better. Of urse, try not to stay too reprsed and then let those bottled-up feelgs turn you to a psychopathic murrer, or perhaps worse, very very homophobic, but your sexualy and genr are all yours.

Instead, engage wh your muny—go to the gay bar, read about queer history, or host a book bnch for you and the ’s right, the days, you n lerally have all. ) But first, you have to simply take the plunge this Pri month: Get loser, we’re gog gay. It is a story about a man's stggle wh his own homosexualy.