'Call Me by Your Name': Geo, But Is It Gay?

Contents:

• WHY DO GAYS KEEP FALLG FOR CALL ME BY YOUR NAME?
• CALL ME BY YOUR NAME: GEO, BUT IS IT GAY?
• 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' IS THE STRAIGHTT GAY MOVIE EVER
• REVIEW: THE GAY ROMANCE CLASSIC “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME” IS AN SENTIAL READ

WHY DO GAYS KEEP FALLG FOR CALL ME BY YOUR NAME?

Is the ma character of Call Me by Your Name gay?

André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name has twice been hailed as a morn gay classic: 2007, when the novel, about an unlikely summer romance between two young men Italy, h bookstor, and this month, as the languoro film adaptatn hs theaters. Still, the fact remas that gay men adore this story about two young scholars, El (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), who embrace unr the roof of El’s tellectual-bohemian fay for a handful of weeks. Why has Call Me by Your Name attaed such an inic “gay” stat when is anythg but?

When s ma characters seem almost aggrsively isolated om gay culture or polics? When s prec protagonist has to be remd that ’s gche to make fun of people who are openly gay?

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME: GEO, BUT IS IT GAY?

Here’s one theory: Perhaps we gay boys have fallen for this ungay romance bee ’s so straight—and if we gays love anythg, ’s chasg after straight guys.

'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' IS THE STRAIGHTT GAY MOVIE EVER

The book was penned by a straight thor who says that he has never had a gay relatnship his life, and tells the story of two apparently heteroflexible but largely hetero-leang men who seem to experiment wh same-sex sex only furtively their liv. Ined, all “gay” sex tak place off screen—only boy-girl or boy-u sex happens wh the ame.

REVIEW: THE GAY ROMANCE CLASSIC “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME” IS AN SENTIAL READ

And the only openly gay characters—a pair of “boyiend tw-ed” amics who vis El’s parents for dner—are portrayed as ridiculo Tweedlm-and-Tweedlee typ.