André Aciman on the Parallels Between Jews and Gays, and His 'Call Me By Your Name' Sequel - U.S. News

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• ANDRé ACIMAN ON THE PARALLELS BETWEEN JEWS AND GAYS, AND HIS 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' SEQUEL
• MONSIEUR ANDRE GAY-LANCERMIN (CAVA DEDE)
• M FRANCOIS GAY-LANCERMIN

ANDRé ACIMAN ON THE PARALLELS BETWEEN JEWS AND GAYS, AND HIS 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' SEQUEL

Andre Gay, 44, and Richard Wilson, 46, will plead guilty Monday morng Fulton County Superr Court to the murrs of Jeonta Brown and BrianaBrooks. Gay and Wilson kidnapped Brooks and Brown believg one of their relativ recently received a signifint amount of money om an surance settlement.Hours to the kidnappg the fendants lled the victim’s fay members askg for ransom. Gay and Wilson shot Brown and Brooks the back of the head and left them to die on the si of the road.

Gay and Wilson met prison and both men were out on parole. Gay was a rint of Stone Mounta.On Monday, Gay and Wilson will plead guilty to murr, felony murr, crimal attempt to m fetici, kidnappg wh bodily jury, kidnappg for ransom, aggravated asslt wh a adly weapon, nspiracy to m kidnappg for ransom, posssn of a firearm durg missn of a felony, and posssn of a firearm by a nvicted felon.

Andre Gay (L) and Richard "Fathead" Wilson are the prime spects the Aug.

MONSIEUR ANDRE GAY-LANCERMIN (CAVA DEDE)

ANDRE GAY-LANCERMIN (890164734). ANDRE GAY-LANCERMIN. 'At the begng of ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ Prot very ably tablish that the way one Jew regniz another Jew mimics or imat the way one gay person and another gay person'“What I wanted to do when I had the Jewish theme there, many ways was my way of tablishg a mon lk between the two of them, so that if even nothg ever happened or nothg was ever said between them, the fact that both were Jewish and particularly that both were Jewish a ltle town where there were no Jews – and therefore Jews had to be somewhat reful not to be totally open – that alone was a way of creatg a sense of tac plicy between the two.

” Roger-Vllet / AFPGaydar and Jewdar A profsor of parative lerature and French at the Graduate Center of the Cy Universy of New York, Aciman, a scholar of Marcel Prot, eely adms that he took the ia of parg the way Jews regnize each other to the way gay men regnize each other om the great 20th-century French wrer. “Well, this is somethg that I stole, or borrowed let’s say, om Prot, who at the begng of ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ [the fourth volume of his six-volume masterpiece “In Search of Lost Time”], very ably tablish that the way one Jew regniz another Jew – basilly, there is a bridge between them simply by virtue of the fact that they are Jewish – self mimics or imat the way one gay person and another gay person sort of immediately sense that the other person is of the same orientatn.

M FRANCOIS GAY-LANCERMIN

And that is somethg that I borrowed om Prot bee ma perfect sense for me, other words, bee enomy between one gay person and another gay person a society that is closed is exactly the same as between one Jew and another Jew.

And to add to this if the Jew is also gay then there is an tensifitn of that sort of relatnship. 'Moshe SakalIsraeli novelist Moshe Sakal, who wrote an article on “Call Me by Your Name” and the parallels Aciman created between Jews and gays, not that nearly every reference to Judaism the novel is lked to sexualy.

The new Levante is a mory wh the maddg crowd: galuti, or a woman, or a gay man. On one hand, [there is] a novel such as ‘Ls, ’ by Andrew Sean Greer, which prents the character of a gay, Pulzer-wng thor, and on the other hand Aciman, who is both popular wh rears and admired by crics. ‘Gvanni’s Room, ’ sort of classics of Amerin gay lerature, ” Aciman says, referrg to the Jam Baldw 1956 novel.