Picturing Homosexual Gesture in Call me by Your Name: Gender Performativity, Sexual Identity, and Sexual Activity

The issue of LGBT is becoming one the research fields investigated in literary studies. This topic has its critical academic discussion, especially how this behavior related to gender, identity, gender role, and even considered destructive religious. aims explore homosexuality depicted through homosexual gestures pictured Call Me by Your Name, a film directed Luca Guadagnino released 2017 at Sundance festival, United Kingdom, States. successfully received Best Adapted Screenplay 2018 Oscar. method used qualitative engages with queer, Judith Butler on Gender performativity. technique narrow textual analysis which we are focused insight film's narrative text images. We gesture Name as presented film’s main characters, Ellio Oliver focusing three performativities, namely, performance, sexual activity. results show that form obtained: First, performativity performance describes general character clothing worn Elio same-sex couple. Second, identity shows actors men. Third, activities such kissing, deviations carried out inappropriate places. In addition, relations between characters homoeroticism role stability, where there who identifies experience partner.