Elio is the narrator and main character of Call Me By Your Name, a 2007 YA dramatic novel by André Aciman. The book was later adapted into the 2017 film by the same name. Elio is played in the film by Timothée Chalamet.
Elio is an American teenager with a talent for piano and musical transcription living on the Italian coast in the summer of 1983 when his father, an academic, has an American grad student named Oliver stay with the family for the summer while he studies. While Elio turns himself inside out with his newfound queer attraction to Oliver which eventually ends up with the two of them having a torrid affair, Elio also dates and has sex with local girl, Marzia.
He expresses enjoyment in both his attraction and sexual encounters with both characters. While both the novel and film are hailed as modern “gay” classics, it’s crucial to note that Elio is a queer man; while the focus of the story is on his queer sexual awakening, he is still attracted to women throughout the rest of his life.