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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- THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
- JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
- HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
- ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
- TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
THE ORIGAL TOP GUN WAS MY SWEATY, SEXY GAY SALVATN
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.
JERRY BCKHEIMER WEIGHS ON TARANTO’S ‘TOP GUN’ GAY FILM MONOLOGUE: ‘A COMPLIMENT’
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. No adult, not even a mister, would bat an eyelash when I said knowgly to their sons—kids I hoped were closeted gay, too—“Top Gun is my favore film.
HOW TOP GUN BEME A GAY CLASSIC
” There was no space this world for “homosexual” kids.
If you were gay, you were simply off the iologil radar. Bee I was closeted gay, and the ia of fakg my way through heterosexual terurse wh some soon-to-be-disappoted girl was terrifyg to me, I gladly took the pledge.
I slowly began to realize the difference between the homosocialy of ary iendships, as portrayed the film, and the homosexualy I once yearned for. Some fans alleged that Maverick and Iceman's relatnship had gay unrton.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ IS ACTUALLY THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR
In the movie "Sleep Wh Me, " Quent Taranto did a edic riff on "Top Gun, " allegedly llg a gay movie disguise.
Sce then, numero theori then popped up onle about the alleged gay subtext of many movi, and on YouTube a number of movi and TV shows have been edilly recut to make them more homoerotic. Homo-erotic nature of 'Top Gun, ' particularly the volleyball sequence, but wasn't tentnal.
In later years, gay people loved the film, and for one wrer, brought him touch wh sexualy at a young age. Fieler explaed Slate, "Iceman and Maverick jetted lifavg homoeroticism past a generatn of nservative parents... In the mid-1990s Christian suburbs of Chigo, where dial-up ter age was closely monored, 'Top Gun' was my gay porn.
TOP GUN: WHY TOM CISE'S FLYG ACTNER IS AN UNTENTNAL GAY CLASSIC
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.
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.