Odd homoerotic context

First of all Jonas was 16 in the movie and 12 in the book. I honestly cannot believe you are going there with this.

i'm gay myself and IMO there was NO homoerotic context in this movie. anyone seeing such context in this is projecting and probably in the closet themselves. the passing of the memories was (in essence) Father to son. when Jeff's character says "I LOVE YOU" he said it like Father would to his son.

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I think the bonding in the film is very much like a father and son, I can't see how it was homoerotic, unless you feel any sort of touching or hugging between two men is always homoerotic, which would be a shame.

Also the character of The Giver is a very needy chap, he feels so sad to have lost his daughter, and he's looking for another child. He can't express feelings of love to anyone else, so there's more emotion in his interactions with Jonas and maybe compared with the other interactions in the film it really shows.

Really though, it's no different to the bonding between Jonas and Gabe. Jonas comes to see The Giver and Gabe as his family.

No, there was no homoerotic context. It's just elements of heteronormative male culture ingrained into you since your young age that compel you to believe that any physical contact between two males must be somehow homoerotic. You should lose this ingrained habit, actually.

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I think only people with repressed odd homoerotic emotions would consider that any close physical proximity between men necessarily means a homoerotic moment.

The only homoerotic context to me was the title giver and receiver. But only because of Family Guy.