Episo 3 of The Last Of Us explored Bill and Frank's heartwrenchg relatnship but fans have been askg if Bill was gay the game.
Contents:
- HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY
- Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
- THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- 'THE LAST OF US' STAR BELLA RAMSEY THKS 'S 'IMPORTANT' TO PICT LGBTQ LOVE A POST-APOLYPTIC WORLD: 'IT'S NOT LIKE ALL THE GAY PEOPLE GOT BLOWN UP'
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
- THE LAST OF US' APPROVAL RATE DIPS AMID COMPLATS AGAST GAY RELATNSHIP AND CHANGG CANON
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY
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Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
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Episo three of HBO's "The Last of Us" sparked homophobic backlash om some viewers. Homophobia has long been an issue the gamg muny and larger fandoms.
‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
The latt episo of HBO's vio-game adaptatn "The Last of Us" has been wily praised — but 's also spired fierce backlash, shg a light on what have been persistent issu the gamg muny and larger cultural fandoms: homophobia and anti-LGBTQ iology. Sunday's episo, tled "Long, Long Time, " picts a gay romance between Bill, played by Nick Offerman, and Frank, played by Murray Bartlett.
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THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
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In a recent terview, the episo director said viewers sometim need to be tricked to watchg a gay love story.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
Director Peter Hoar, who is openly gay, spoke to the science-foced se Inverse about makg the show. Hoar directed the recent Brish miseri It’s a S, which followed the liv of a group of gay men at the height of the AIDS epimic.
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' STAR BELLA RAMSEY THKS 'S 'IMPORTANT' TO PICT LGBTQ LOVE A POST-APOLYPTIC WORLD: 'IT'S NOT LIKE ALL THE GAY PEOPLE GOT BLOWN UP'
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Those are the qutns plagug Ellie, not the far more played out”Am I gay?
Though this storyle ends wh a ad LGBTQ+ character, don’t necsarily follow the Bury Your Gays trope. But The Last of Us Part II -wrer Halley Gross nfirmed no uncerta terms that Ellie is gay.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
While Jackson, Ellie is harassed by a homophobic man for kissg her iend Da. And yet The Last of Us was there 2014, nfirmg that one of the bt known characters gamg history was gay all along and handlg her first love as serly as this anchise handled the ath of Joel’s child. “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' APPROVAL RATE DIPS AMID COMPLATS AGAST GAY RELATNSHIP AND CHANGG CANON
But the fact is Bill has always been gay.
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
So yeah, Bill has always been gay. Comg to the show as ‘mor’ characters and givg a te romantic outlook on who Bill and Frank are, not only as dividuals but as a uple as well, giv a great look on a gay relatnship that don’t seem unnecsary or forced, ” Mumey shared. Episo three has been gettg review-bombed on social media and review s by angered watchers who hold homophobic and discrimatory iologi.
One er on IMDB labeled the episo as a “token reprentatn propaganda snoozeft, ” and plenty more reviews claimed the show was phg the gay agenda and rryg out LGBTQ propaganda.