But while 'Love, Simon' and 'Call Me By Your Name' are victories insofar as they center characters in whom white, straight movie executives perhaps can't quite see themselves, it ultimately reminded me that white gay men often fail to see that their blind spot about race in the LGBT community is almost as big as their straight counterparts' inability to notice gay men in Hollywood. “It’s our old friend, that lumbering beast, the white, straight man,” the candid creative opined.

Elio Perlman (Timothee Chalamet), a 17-year-old living in Italy, and his father's 24-year-old American assistant, Oliver (Armie Hammer) in the movie Call Me By Your Name. Davies, the screenwriter and producer behind the boundary-pushing, queer-centered series 'Queer as Folk,' shared a theory as to why it has taken so long for any LGBTQ characters to get the lead in a mainstream teen romcom. In an interview with The Guardian, Russell T.