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Contents:

• WHY DO GAYS KEEP FALLG FOR CALL ME BY YOUR NAME?
• 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' IS THE STRAIGHTT GAY MOVIE EVER
• REVIEW: LU GUADAGNO’S GAY LOVE STORY ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A NEW G-OF-AGE CLASSIC
• ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ SWEEPS GAY AND LBIAN CRICS ASSOCIATN’S DORIAN AWARDS
• ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A GAY LOVE STORY. THE FILM SHOULD HAVE CLUD GAY SEX.
• ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ DIRECTOR EXPLAS NOT STG GAY ACTORS

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

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' IS THE STRAIGHTT GAY MOVIE EVER

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.

REVIEW: LU GUADAGNO’S GAY LOVE STORY ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A NEW G-OF-AGE CLASSIC

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. 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.

However, spe all this, gay dienc have sought ways to embrace this straight-guys-gone-wild narrative as an thentic gay romance agast all available evince. When Call Me by Your Name first me out, for example, my gay iends ma a pastime of qutng Aciman’s sexualy. He’s married wh children, but those gay sex scen are way too real.

‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ SWEEPS GAY AND LBIAN CRICS ASSOCIATN’S DORIAN AWARDS

Jt as El search for gay sire his apparently straight csh, gay rears searched for gay sire our beloved thor. One of my favore gay-world mors about Aciman emerged while he was still givg readgs to promote the book New York Cy: I heard that he uldn’t read passag ont of his son. ) I reunt only bee perfectly enpsulat what we gays love about Call Me by Your Name—the notn of a tragilly embattled straight man.

Over the past few weeks, media verage of the film adaptatn has palized on this fascatn wh ambiguo straight men by other means, featurg terviews where the straight lead actors scribe their total fort wh pantomimg gay love on set. So when we nsume this film, we’re willg to ll a gay masterpiece whout any of the ual mands, such as real gay actors playg realistic gay characters some sort of gay cultural or historil ntext. Jt look at Aciman’s meo: In se you missed , he played one member of the hilar actually gay uple the screen adaptatn.

To be fair, I’m not sure Aciman was ready for this book to bee such a gay sensatn. And really, on some level, the story is not so much homoerotic as is toerotic— tells the story of two boys wh nearly intil tellects and terts who fall love wh mirror imag of themselv and then ll out their own nam durg sex.

‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A GAY LOVE STORY. THE FILM SHOULD HAVE CLUD GAY SEX.

And yet, here we are, genuflectg as a group before a gay masterpiece that is absolutely not gay. I myself have three pi: one I bought myself, two were gifts, all now on loan to gays who seemed to need them and also my mom.

That, general l, is the guidg prciple of “Call Me By Your Name, ” the most discsed gay movie a long time. A well-known allegatn was tradnally ma about films alg wh homosexual love: for years, when an affair between two men was picted on the screen, one of the two had to die, as a kd of punishment for sng agast nature.

‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ DIRECTOR EXPLAS NOT STG GAY ACTORS

That’s te of straight kids, and certaly of gay on.

It simply adds a new element to the grilled fish, the we, the zabaglne and the other culary experienc of Mederranean Europe: homosexual eroticism. “Call Me by Your Name” rgs a ls fatalistic but equally arnt variatn on the same COVERAGE: Goln Glob 2018Adapted om André Aciman’s 2007 novel, a well-regard addn to the pantheon of gay g-of-age stori, the movie weav a ptivatg chronicle of first love around El Perlman (a superb Timothée Chalamet), a smart, sensive teenager wh dark curls and suggtive ey perched atop a reedy most of Guadagno’s characters, El enjoys a life of enviable privilege. He broods and blh, schem and fumbl, and seems both enraptured and terrified by the power of his young actor fds a splendid match Hammer, who plays Oliver like a bunch of unually dreamy Rsian ntg dolls: He’s somethg of a rival at first, a specimen of superr worldls and masculy, before openg up to reveal a tsted nfidant and fally a genero, affectnate all s simmerg erotic tensy, “Call Me by Your Name” isn’t a particularly explic movie, pecially when pared wh other recent exploratns of young gay sire like “God’s Own Country” and “Beach Rats, ” or a more distant landmark like “Blue Is the Warmt Color.