“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.