The acclaimed pictn of gay romance fo polics and don’t mentn AIDS—but there are hts at a broar, darker ntext for s story.
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- WATCH: GAY GUYS TOTALLY STROY JOHN OLIVER BY TELLG HIM THEY DON’T KNOW WHO HE IS
- RSIAN ACTOR IVAN OKHLOBYST: ‘I WOULD PUT ALL THE GAYS ALIVE INTO AN OVEN’
WATCH: GAY GUYS TOTALLY STROY JOHN OLIVER BY TELLG HIM THEY DON’T KNOW WHO HE IS
I had read about the film on social media when first me out, and I suppose that the fact that the majory of people were nvced that El was simply gay stuck wh me. A lot of people seem to still refer to this film as a 'gay movie'. ), even while beg bi myself shows how ndned we are to assume people are eher straight or gay, and there is nothg else between.
TL;DR: a lot of people seem to assume El is gay, but he's supposed to be bi. The bi erasure is the dience's rponse to the film, Call Me By Your Name beg hailed as a 'gay movie' by people on social media for stance. El is my age durg this summer tryst wh Oliver and as a gay man myself, that do somethg to me, to know that a character out there rri himself wh such poise and unrtraed lt.
) This also reaffirms the unrlyg, mon issue of homophobia. Their relatnship wouldn’t be seen as forbidn bee of their age, but bee s based the 80’s, a taboo time for homosexual relatnships. My terpretatn was that Oliver is a gay man, who liv his life eply eply the closet.
RSIAN ACTOR IVAN OKHLOBYST: ‘I WOULD PUT ALL THE GAYS ALIVE INTO AN OVEN’
I have a number of young gay iends and I am so grateful that we are now movg towards a world where they n live hontly, openly and thentilly. Regardg society, while "gay" was not so eply the closet by then, still wasn't as loudly out as is today (and eve today, n be a big problem). Oliver do not have to choose between two thgs: he uld have been married while El was formg and the two uld get back a few years later (as many gay men do!
They both had their own path life laid out neatly before them and to choose to be together, a time when homosexualy is nsired a taboo, is nceivable. I know there are people that intify as heterosexual, had a homosexual experience, but then lead a "straight" liftyle of marriage and children.