HBO’s The Last of Us Gets Review Bombed After Historic Gay Episo

Contents:

• THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG
• THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
• EL PíTULO 3 'THE LAST OF US', MASACRADO POR LOS HOMóFOBOS TRAS NARRAR UNA HISTORIA AMOR GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• ¿ESTABA BILL GAY EN EL JUEGO THE LAST OF US? EXPLIDO
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE

THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG

Bartlett, an openly gay actor whose most famo rol have been as gay characters The Whe Lot, Wele to Chippendal and Lookg, is a well-chosen scene partner. There’s a good chance Bartlett will be playg a gay character: the ia that Offerman’s character might be too blossoms as litely as the pair’s relatnship.

As the gam have been adapted for the screen, there has not exactly been a wealth of gay characters to choose mak Bill’s barely-mentned relatnship The Last of Us somethg of an outlier. Gay storyl on TV, while not ubiquo, are not unheard of.

What we got stead was a psule episo, and a particularly bracg one, given the show’s opprsively bleak mood th far: The hour is dited to the love story of Bill and Frank, a gay uple who—due ially to Bill’s skills as a bunker-stockg, booby-trappg, Don’t Tread on Me survivalist—manage to build a largely happy existence together an abandoned and eventually fortified ral hamlet for almost 20 years. Wh Bill and Frank, we were given a portra of love—specifilly gay love—that feels surprisg and urgent. In our own 2023, we are not exactly lackg for media imag of whe gay men.

THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY

For one thg, we see gay sire portrayed all s plexy, but wh a touch as light as a breeze playg through curtas. Bill’s is not a “type” of gay man I n say I’ve ever seen mastream media before, and watchg him slowly reveal and epen that aspect of himself wh Frank’s help—sexually, y (Hollywood: more hairy bear love scen please! But Bill and Frank create somethg else, a ltle oasis of their own that’s regnizably gay, full of quiet bety and joys the size of new strawberri.

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How powerful, then, to see not only a gay uple given an entire hour of a marquee show, but a gay uple who are held up as the keepers of civilizatn, as stewards of bety, as emblems of human digny and possibily.

EL PíTULO 3 'THE LAST OF US', MASACRADO POR LOS HOMóFOBOS TRAS NARRAR UNA HISTORIA AMOR GAY

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000 uars llegaron a puntuarlo, un hecho que la homofobia ha hecho mella y que los trols ter quisieron sabotear el éxo la serie.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Esto pue parecer algo ofensivo y que no hace daño a nadie, ya que solo son opn una serie en una web, pero no bería pasarse por alto, porque no ja ser un reflejo la forma pensar que tienen muchos los pectador, y una panmia o la homofobia, igual stctora que la que ó el Cordyceps.

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¿ESTABA BILL GAY EN EL JUEGO THE LAST OF US? EXPLIDO

La cena en que Ellie encuentra la revista ‘Bearsk’ idénti en la serie y el viojuego, n la joven entando que tiene po texto, pero imágen muy terant, hasta haciendo la misma broma sobre las hojas revista gay para adultos clo una pia exacta la enntrada en el juego, n los mismos títulos en su portada y una foto un hombre mculoso llamado Ace Von Champ en la misma pose. “Dón tá la tegoría l Emmy a la Recreación más fiel una revista gay un viojuego, porque ‘The Last of Us’ la ganaría” los fans l viojuego fue divertido el ver recreada la cena, pero al ser muy rápida y humorísti, algunos fanátis la serie HBO que no tán faiarizados n el juego no supieron quién era la b en la ma sas para distraerse, encuentra un sete músi y la revista porno, pero Joel al darse cuenta se apena e tenta explirle que no para niños, pero por s nervs no pue cirle bien qué reacción Joel lo que ha generado algo nfión, n algunos fans creyendo que la revista tal vez era suya; s embargo, el dueño e número ‘Bearsk’ en realidad rerdar los eventos l tercer episod se pue ver que la ma siempre ha sido Bill y n la enfermedad Frank que lo ja en silla edas, el úni que se ha subido a ella el prop vez, al no por tener más timidad por la salud nte Frank, que Bill ndió en la ma la revista gay y así por placerse s ntarle a su el viojuego queda más claro que la revista Bill porque cuando Joel y Ellie llegan a su sa, Frank ya lo abandonó hace tiempo. Aquí tá todo lo que neca saber sobre si Bill fuera gay en el juego The Last of Us.

Si bien la sexualidad Bill y la relación n Frank nun se mencnaron explícamente en el juego, hay muchas pebas que apuntan a que Bill gay y que él y Frank han mantenido una relación románti. Amás to, Ellie también roba una revista pornográfi gay l sillero Bill, para bromear n Joel. Entonc sí, se pue ducir que muy probable que Bill haya sido gay en el juego The Last of Us, o al menos tenga cierta atracción sexual por los hombr.

Eso todo lo que necas saber sobre si Bill fuera gay en el juego The Last of Us.

HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO

And bee of this gay reprentatn on-screen, a ntgent of largely homophobic dience members have been quick to share s vrl.

Bill n’t exist whout beg gay Frank’s arms. Apparently the wrers thk Bill and Frank’s inty was jt that they were gay, nothg more than that. Oh and that person jt happens to also be gay?

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

"And jeroen-10631 even lled out the episo's haters, sayg review bombers should "be ashamed of themselv" and that "clearly the story of two gay men ma you so unfortable:""Some of the people mentg about “polil propaganda” and 'checkg off liberal box' should be ashamed of themselv. Clearly the story of two gay men ma you so unfortable that you only subnscly realized you are so behd the tim and been raised rigid and immature while htg that '1 star' button. All tak is a simple Google search to figure out that this is simply the act of homophobic ter trolls.

In the game, while not overtly shown, Bill is gay. 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.