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.

A BEGNER’S GUI TO GOG GAY

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?

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

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. 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.