Sure on the surface Boy Meets Boy is all about boyfriends—namely getting, losing, and/or keeping them. But the boyfriends themselves are only part of the story. When someone gets a new boyfriend, s/he is often forced to reassess his/her friendships. How do you divide your time equally between your boyfriend and your friends? How do you deal when your friends don't like your new guy? What happens when you have a date to the dance but your best friend doesn't?
Tony, Joni, and Paul might have thought nothing could separate them, but when two get boyfriends and one doesn't, they begin to question everything they thought they knew about their BFF-ness.
Questions About Friendship
- Paul says he sees the limits of his friendship with Infinite Darlene whenever he has a secret. She tells him everything, but he can't tell her anything without it getting around. Why does he still choose to be friends with her?
- Why doesn't Chuck want Joni to go to Tony's house the night of the dance?
- Tony doesn't talk about his friends at his school. Do you think he has any?
Chew on This
Paul and Tony are such good friends they have their own language. They're just making up words, but it resembles twin language, a real and really interesting phenomenon in which twins make up their own syntax and have meaningful conversations. While biologically unrelated, growing up gay together has fostered a similar closeness between Paul and Tony.
Sometimes breaking up with a friend is worse than breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend.