Is Bill From ‘The Last of Us’ Gay?

Contents:

• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• IS BILL OM ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY?
• ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED
• ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?
• IS NICK OFFERMAN GAY? HIS LAST OF US ROLE EXPLAED
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?

The most recent episo of HBO’s The Last of Us has left some fans wonrg if Bill and Frank were a gay uple the origal game. Wh such drastic chang, pecially when to Bill and Frank’s relatnship, some are left askg if Bill was really gay The Last of Us vio game. The biggt hts towards Bill beg a gay man are his relatnship to Frank and a certa magaze that Ellie steals om his stash the church basement, both of which n be missed by players not engagg optnal ntent or not payg close enough attentn.

“Long Long Time” has sparked several plats om the worst si of Twter about how The Last of Us allegedly shoehorned a gay relatnship.

‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO

But the fact is Bill has always been gay. So yeah, Bill has always been gay. Bill's Sexualy Was Always Hted at the Origal 'Last of Us' GameIs Bill gay the origal 'Last of Us' game?

IS BILL OM ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY?

This is new ground for The Last of Us, but is Bill gay the game?Article ntu below advertisementIn the origal Last of Us, Bill (W. Bill is visibly troubled by his ath, revealg to Joel that Frank had lived wh him before leavg on poor terms.Though isn't explicly stated, Bill is heavily implied to be gay this scene.

In a 2014 terview wh Gay Gamer, Neil revealed that Bill's sexualy was somethg that he wanted to rporate more openly the game but that the fal product left ambiguo. After Joel and Ellie take off one of Bill's tcks, Ellie mmag through the back seat and disvers an old adult men's magaze that likely belonged to Bill.While Bill's sexualy is ultimately never nfirmed the game, his gay romance wh Frank is explored fully the show, where the two of them share their own love story that is pletely origal to the seri. Image via HBO Offerman’s portrayal of Bill se one of the most tertg extrapolatns on the origal format and story of The Last of Us game, wh the HBO Max seri versn of Bill openly gay.

ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED

Given The Last of Us vio game was origally released 2013, well before general dienc beme, well, receptive to gay characters, ’s perhaps no shock that this send attempt by The Last of Us creator Neil Dckmann has honed on his origal tentns. As a closeted gay man, he was only ever wh one girl when he was young and never pursued any other kd of romantic relatnship. So, are Bill and Frank gay The Last of Us?

It is clear that Bill and Frank were gay The Last of Us when they were attracted to one another durg their first meetg and proceed to have an timate moment. In that regard, was clear that Frank was gay, as Bill probably never knew that he was also attracted to men. This uld mean that he was possibly the closet as a gay man for a long time before Frank me along to make him realize that he was attracted to men all along.

While episo 3 clearly tablished that Bill and Frank were gay and that they were a romantic relatnship, the thg is that the relatnship between Bill and Frank wasn’t as obv the vio game versn of The Last of Us. If you are wonrg whether Frank and Bill are gay the show and the 2013 Nghty Dog vio game is based on, we got you vered.

ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?

It gradually be apparent to the men that they both are gay. It is que apparent that Frank was openly gay the world before the outbreak, whereas Bill had never been wh a man before Frank. “Frank’s an out and proud gay man, but Bill is Bill, ” Peter Hoar, the director of the episo, told Variety.

“Even though I’m not a middle-aged, married gay man, I’m a middle-aged, married man, ” he stated. The actor’s role as Bill HBO’s The Last of Us adaptatn is part of a larger discsn that rais the qutn as to whether Nick Offerman is gay. Nick Offerman Is Not Gay, But He Believ Strongly In Reprentatn.

While The Last of Us’ Bill is gay, Nick Offerman himself is not, and is married to Megan Mullally. When I read scripts, if there’s any kd of humor that’s misogynistic or homophobic or racist, that is jt a red flag.

IS NICK OFFERMAN GAY? HIS LAST OF US ROLE EXPLAED

While Nick Offerman do not share beg gay wh the character of Bill, as progrs has been ma society and queer characters are ls likely to be offensive ritur than once was and the LGBTQ+ muny is much more likely to get to reprent self today.

Bill’s partner The Last of Us TV show, Frank, is played by Murray Bartlett, a gay man. In the game, Bill’s partner Frank is never seen alive and only his remas are seen a move that walks dangeroly close to “buryg your gays. Earl Brown, to terpret whether the character was gay.

’ For that to be a gay love story, an LGBTQ love story, was jt the icg on the ke. Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .

HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE

The cisn to keep muted, hted at a sgle le of dialogue and a hidn letter, was both praised and cricized — was easy to overlook, but also avoid a lot of gay-character trop, and allowed Bill to be a human and not “a maniftatn of sexualy, ” as Polygon’s Danielle Rien put at the time. The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays.