o man Top Gun?!? I know the volleyball scene was kinda rough on the y choromosone but other then that it was a bad ass movie (I'm a sucker for dog fights.... and shirtless Volleyball *hanging head in shame*)
But as to gay movies, hmm any sports movie (especially football and baseball) with excesive locker room scenes, which is basically all of them. Sorry, but this is why my high school soccer team didn't change in the locker room... you baseball and football players were a little too homoerotic for our tastes...
If you are talking about homosexual overtones, then look no further than The Three Stooges. How many times were 2 or 3 of the Stooges sleeping in the same bed together? It's obvious that Moe was into the rough trade.
Come to think about it, Bugs Bunny seemed to enjoy dressing like a female and swinging his hips and sashaying in front of Elmer Fudd. I think Elmer "got the rabbit." If you ever get a chance, watch the seldom seen WB cartoon "Elmer and Bugs: Bwokeback Wabbit."
Gilligan's Island had a lot over gay overtones. Ginger & Maryanne were super hot and Maryanne dressed kind of slutty but Skipper and Gilligan shared the hut. "Little buddy" - I think we all know what that was code for.
Don't even get me started on Batman and Robin - grown man wear skin tight body suits and a mask has a secret "cave" and lives alone with his undersized, underaged "ward" and "man servant." Catwoman is throwing herself at him but he won't hit that because it would be wrong, you diabolical fiend!
Ok anonymous... just because a male rabbit wants to dress in drag occassionally doesn't mean he's gay. Ever hear the phrase "f*ck like bunnies"? Maybe he's just resting...
Try to avoid three stooges myself but as for Gilligan's Island...maybe the gals are trying to get the Professor's attention. I always thought he was pretty good looking and smart too. But yeah, the whole little buddy thing...not so subtle.
P.S.: The Fifth Element: Was Chris Tucker's character supposed to be gay or just a fancy dresser?
A: The frequency of replies of this post is intriguing.
B: Chris Tucker's character from the '5th Element' was both gay AND a fancy dresser - yeah, I said it.
C: If you're gonna say that 'Top Gun' has a quasi-homoerotic motif, you're gonna have list A BUNCH! Like: 'Fight Club'; 'Boogie Nights'; and especially, 'Lord of the Rings' (c'mon, even it's title sounds like a bad gay porn flick).
I think you are forgetting that when Bugs would dress like a female, he would seduce Elmer for some purpose. Typically, Bugs' dress would get snagged on something and reveal his gender. At that point, Elmer would become enraged and try to shoot him. It's just like the Gwen Araujo case. Elmer suffered from Gay Panic and tried to kill Bugs. Of course, subconsciously, Elmer was most likely gay and that was why he was attracted to Bugs despite the unconvicing disguise. Elmer's shotgun was a metaphor for his penis. Did you notice how often Elmer shoved his "shotgun" into Bugs' face? Furthermore, Bugs often had a carrot in his mouth; talk about phallic imagery. Sometimes a carrot is NOT just a carrot. Notice how Bugs was always tunneling? Tunneling = sodomy. He always said (while tunneling) that he should have taken a "Left Turn at Albuquerque." That's the highway to San Francisco!
The whole Looney Tunes universe was a stag affair - Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Wiley E. Coyote, etc. I can't remember a single, recurring female character of note. Petunia Pig - obese woman, most likely a fag hag. Elmer, Tweety, and Sylvester all had speach impediments that were just variations of the stereotypical gay lisp. Tweety's voice was based on Truman Capote. The only confirmed heterosexual was Pepe LePew and he was pervert, practiced poor hygiene, a ninny, and French to boot.
Whenever Coyote would send away for stuff from Acme, it represented the way gay men bought their sex toys in the 40's and 50's. They had to buy them, via mail order, from companies with non-descript names. Coyote was really buying amyl nitrate, cock rings, penis pumps, and leatherman gear.
Porky Pig - Porking Pig
Yosemite Sam - Cowboy Queer right down to his chaps; Brokeback before it was cool
Tweety Bird - a queen, indeterminate gender, into B&D (always caged)
Wiley Coyote - Coyote/Capote? Frustrated gay man, always chasing after his repressed gay lover, never to catch him; orders his queer sex toys to find solace.
Don't tell me Bugs wasn't gay!
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OK - so Granny was a female; a post-menopausal, doddering, occasionally pyschopathic old woman. Either she was a man in drag (a la Norman Bates) or she represented the shriveled up womanhood that the gay men felt secure about. They wouldn't dare put in a young, nubile, fertile, sexy female because that would threaten their ultra-masculinity which only found outlet in the comfort of another man. The thought of functioning womb would be too much for them to handle. They showed the women's legs as a tribute to drag queens who shaved their legs and look like women from the neck down.
Roadrunner - lonely, closeted, repressed gay man always running; running from pursuing gay men (Coyote), running from his own sense of shame, running in the bleak, empty desert that represented the cultural isolation gay men felt during that time period.
Bulldog - spiked collars, macho personality, thick, build (they call them Bears now), all bluster but felt tenderness to the little kitten (they call them chickens or pork chops now). Didn't Bulldog have a "sidekick" that he would assault every so often with a slap across the face?
All the gay subculture touchstones are present in Looney Tunes - cowboy chaps, men in drag, men in costumes, opera, speach lisp, absence of women, etc.
It's a wonder (with all this talk of gay themes in kids cartoons) that no one has yet mentioned the most famous gay couple in kid's t.v:. . . . Ernie and Bert.
