Don't Worry Straight People, Chasten Buttigieg Wouldn't Dare Be Photographed Near a Dancer Pole
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You may or may not know this but Luca Guadagnino, the director of 2017’s Call Me by Your Name, made a decision to keep explicitly gay sex out of the movie so that the movie would be more palatable for straight audience, which is wild because I can’t think of anything more enjoyable to watch than gay sex. He even altered a scene from the book where Oliver eats a peach Elio had recently used to masturbate because it made him feel weird.
Guadagnino himself identifies as gay, so it would be safe to ostensibly believe he is comfortable with gay sex in general, but in this instance he chose to pretend it wasn’t part of the story to make straight people more comfortable during his movie, as opposed to faithfully adapting what had been written. It’s not entirely his fault, as the pressure to conform to heterosexual norms has long been a requirement expected of queer people in exchange for the tolerance, if not the acceptance, of us as community.
Recently Chasten Buttigieg, who is currently on the campaign trail attempting to convince the people of America to vote for this husband Pete to be the Democratic nominee for president, so that he might have the opportunity become the first First Husband in American history, took a page out of Guadagnino’s book and cancelled a fundraiser that was meant to take place at the Dark Lady, an LGBTQ nightclub in Providence, Rhode Island.
Buck Asprinio, general manager of the Dark Lady, said that after members of Buttigieg’s campaign arrived they asked that the “dancer pole” be removed from the middle of the club prior to the fundraiser. Rightly, Asprinio the Dark Lady’s staff refused.