"The Last Of Us keeps buryg s gays - but that's OK," op wrer Tom Chapman, this season-wi rep
Contents:
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE
- FROM REVIEW-BOMBG TO BURYG S GAYS: THE LAST OF US AND S EPIC HISTORY OF LGBTQ REPRENTATN, EXPLAED
- THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
- THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG
- THE LAST OF US PART 2 BURI ITS GAYS BEFORE RELEASE (AND MAYBE THAT’S OKAY)
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
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THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE
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FROM REVIEW-BOMBG TO BURYG S GAYS: THE LAST OF US AND S EPIC HISTORY OF LGBTQ REPRENTATN, EXPLAED
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Acrdg to crics who have seen the show, we're gettg a whole lot more of The Last of Us' gay characters than we thought.The Last of Us follows Joel and Ellie as they travel across a post-apolyptic Ameri tryg to avoid fung-fected zombi. Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed . 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.
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THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
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The third episo of The Last of Us, “Long, Long Time, ” featur a gay love story between two characters, Nick Offerman’s doomsday prepper, Bill, and Murray Bartlett’s wanrg artist, Frank. Stori on TV featurg queer characters are routely mishandled, givg rise to the “Bury Your Gays” trope where queer stori are plagued wh unwarranted pa and ath, so ’s rehg that The Last of Us shows don’t have to be that outbreak ed massive loss of life and stctn across the world, but for Bill, who adms a letter to Joel that at one pot he hated the world and was happy everyone died, the zombie apolypse is a eeg experience. It’s probably a safe bet that, before the apolypse, Bill chose to stay the closet bee he wanted to spare himself the judgment and discrimatn gay people face, not to mentn humane anti-LGBTQ+ laws.
But, thanks to the outbreak, all that disappeared overnight, and wh , seemgly, all of Bill’s fear about beg openly gay.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
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Episo 3 director Peter Hoar and wrer Craig Maz get pots for tellg an excellent story that looks at the zombie apolypse genre through a queer lens, showg how would uniquely (and unexpectedly) affect a closeted gay man, but they go one further by learng om mistak ma by other shows. Episo three was review-bombed after highlighted a gay relatnship.
If you don't want to watch the show bee has gay storyl, bee has a trans character, that's on you, and you're missg out. "The Last Of Us keeps buryg s gays - but that's OK, " op wrer Tom Chapman this season-wi rep.
THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG
At a time when the work is known for queer shows like Euphoria and beg a memeable obssn thanks to Jennifer “The gays, they‘re tryg to murr me! Still, The Last of Us is dog the muny proud… and the homophob hate . The Last Of Us buri s gays – but that’s OK (spoilers ahead).
Followg the aths of Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) episo three, The Last of Us uld fall to ‘Bury Your Gays’ terrory. Maz stated they were both gay, but “their sexualy is nfg to them and sry to them. ” Remdg how the vastatg Outbreak Day occurred 2003, Maz explaed the world hasn’t gone through the “revolutn” of “acceptg homosexualy and whatever we’d ll non-heteronormative sexuali.
THE LAST OF US PART 2 BURI ITS GAYS BEFORE RELEASE (AND MAYBE THAT’S OKAY)
HBO seems equally aaid to nfirm Ellie is gay, and we’ll hazard a gus why. The game nfirmed Bill and Frank were a gay uple.
But when spun out to an epic love story, the homophob sharpened their pchforks. She recently told GQ: “If you don’t want to watch the show bee has gay storyl, bee has a trans character, that’s on you. Dpe beg straight, Offerman clapped back at one homophobe on Twter, sayg that this hate and ignorance to gay storyl is the reason people keep makg them.
“The Last of Us” also will spotlight Bill and Frank, a gay uple played by Nick Offerman (“Parks and Rec”) and out gay actor Murray Bartlett (“Lookg, ” “The Whe Lot, ” “Wele to Chippendal”). That same year, he lled the Tmp admistratn “pigs” for undog nondiscrimatn protectns for LGBTQ people health re and health surance, and he said that Supreme Court showed “the f*ckg basics of humany” by lg that gay and lbian people n sue for workplace bias.