At the same time there is an awkward irony in the celebration of Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 film adaptation of André Aciman’s 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name. When I first read Acimen’s novel I was a young gay man, in my early twenties. I pined for acceptance from a straight world that excluded gay men. I longed for attractive men like Arnie Hammer to play gay men with depth of character on television; Will and Grace was just an immature, mass marketed comedy. Beach Rats (2017) Eliza Hittman’s quietly provocative take on gay youth in Brooklyn only recently became available on Amazon.

Source: Huffington Post December 16, 2017 17:37 UTC