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Us</em>, like a survivalist’s booby-trapped hoe, his a few surpris. When we move away om Joel and Ellie’s qut through a bombed Boston, feels like might jt be for a moment; the show has excelled at craftg memorable, pre-outbreak day flashbacks. Instead, the sequence tak up over 40 mut of the episo. You might also expect too, this adaptatn of a viogame, that the love story would be blandly told: such adaptatns do not have a history of brgg the nuanc of human relatnships to life. And yet, here is somethg well-acted and solidly-told. Fally, most importantly, is a romance between two men, Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett). </p><style data-emotn="css aeyldl">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Bill, who avoid executn after break-out day, has created a well-guard, well-stocked hoe, plete wh a u and vegetable patch. His traps keep the stray fected out. He is safe, protected, alone. Until he meets Frank, for whom he oks and quickly falls for. The full timele of their love story certaly has some emotnal highlights, and their dnertime ath scene is shot through wh some memorable black humour. It also signifintly expands on the source material; the viogame, the relatnship is an asi. Bill mak vague reference to a partner, cri love as somethg that mak you vulnerable. The adaptatn’s cisn to expand on this storyle mak sense. There are not many humans this vastated landspe; the on that have personali beyond smuggler or soldier mt be temptg to wrers.</p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">It’s also good stg. Offerman, loveably gff, is bt known for his role as whiskey-lovg, animal-huntg libertarian Ron Swanson on <em>Parks and Recreatn</em>. Some of those valu – a spic, outdoorsy nature – are shared wh Bill, but you might not expect him to lead such a romance-heavy sequence. Bartlett, an openly gay actor whose most famo rol have been as gay characters <em>The Whe Lot</em>, <em>Wele to Chippendal</em> and <em>Lookg</em>, is a well-chosen scene partner. 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Sce then, more vio gam have featured queer characters, cludg <em>The Last of Us Part II</em>. As the gam have been adapted for the screen, there has not exactly been a wealth of gay characters to choose om.</p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">That mak Bill’s barely-mentned relatnship <em>The Last of Us </em>somethg of an outlier. The gamg anchise ntued to branch out wh s 2020 sequel, <em>The Last of Us Part II</em>, which Ellie’s relatnship wh girliend Da took centre stage. That follow-up was met wh review bombg on cril aggregator se <em>Metacric</em>, at least some of which was directed at s LGBT characters (a transgenr character was also troduced). That’s not exactly hearteng, but the world of TV and viogam are not the same. Gay storyl on TV, while not ubiquo, are not unheard of. Bill and Frank’s relatnship do have a sense of artificial serns, a very clear way of <em>The Last of Us </em>to signal that is not like the other viogame adaptatns. 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Craig Maz says his own love story impacted how he wrote the tale of Bill and Frank, the ter's new favore gay uple.

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THE LAST OF US PART 2 REVIEW: BURY YOUR GAYS, EMOTNALLY

HBO's h vio-game adaptatn seri The Last of Us took an unexpected tour to gay terrory s most recent episo. The episo director has said viewers sometim need to be tricked to watchg a gay love story. * gay relationship the last of us *

While The Last of Us and Left Behd were both guilty of the bury your gays trope, Part 2 steps up by attackg the soul. HBO’s h vio-game adaptatn seri The Last of Us took an unexpected tour to gay terrory s most recent episo, focg on a buddg romance between the characters played by actors Nick Offerman and Murry Bartlett. In a recent terview, the episo director said viewers sometim need to be tricked to watchg a gay love story.

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. 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.

HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY

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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. The fierce backlash rponse to the show sheds light on a persistent issue existg wh society: homophobia and anti-LGBTQ ials. In a society where queer narrativ are beg more proment, is rehg to have romanc between gay upl portrayed a way that is not stereotypil or relsly thrown jt for reprentatn.

It was very wholome and didn’t seem fetishized like many gay relatnships tend to be on tv.

Dpe the seri’ excellent pictn of a gay relatnship, the homophobic rpons om viewers show jt how much improvement still needs to be ma regardg the way society perceiv the LGBTQ muny. 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?

Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen, who joed the team last year, me out publicly as gay an terview wh Outsports published on Thursday, beg the first ach a U.S. men’s profsnal league to do so" emprop="scriptn * gay relationship the last of us *

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.

‘THE LAST OF US’ CREATOR REVEALS HOW HE CRAFTED THE GAY LOVE STORY THAT HAS FANS TEARS

Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport * gay relationship the last of us *

“Even though I’m not a middle-aged, married gay man, I’m a middle-aged, married man, ” he stated. Acrdg to crics who have seen the show, we're gettg a whole lot more of The Last of Us' gay characters than we Last of Us follows Joel and Ellie as they travel across a post-apolyptic Ameri tryg to avoid fung-fected zombi.

The show is already garnerg high praise for s third episo, which lved ep to a si story wh two gay characters at s re.

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

Several more gay characters are sttered among the game’s st, and future episos — and seasons — will see the h characters realized live-actn for the first time. Ellie Image via Nghty Dog That’s right, the lead character The Last of Us is part of the gay muny.

The character’s sexualy is hted at the Last of Us gam, and many players termed that he was gay, but players didn’t get nearly the romance the origal that HBO livered wh “Long Long Time.

Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’

"[Their] story was ls about their homosexualy, and more about the fact that 's a middle-aged romance, " says the wrer. As happens, there are gay people, there are Black people, there are whe people, there are disabled people and there are af people. All of those thgs happen whether you're gay or straight or anythg.

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U.

While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U.

THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST

When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

While on one si of the divi, has drawn the hate of homophobic ter menters review-bombg the seri bad fah, the majory have seen the story for what is, a grippg love story that happens to be between two gay men fdg each other the apolypse.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Ne years before the episo of the same name, Left Behd revealed that Ellie is gay. 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. 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.

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

When lookg closer at the one-star ratgs, many brg up the fact that Bill is gay, dubbg the episo a "borg" romance.

Other one-star reviews are angry that a gay man met a gay man, dubbg pletely unlikely, while the same breath mentng a girl who is somehow immune to a vis that has torn down the walls of society as we know . It's fairly obv what the mon thread is across this sudn flux of negative reviews - a gay uple dared exist. Another tertg plat levied at this episo is that 's a disservice to the game, spe beg an episo that revolv entirely around buildg on clu given the game while also makg up for s pfalls reprentatn, namely fallg to the Bury Your Gays trope.

Bury Your Gays, if you're unaware, is a trope which gay upl disproportnately break apart due to ath. It was a gay story that wasn't mired trma, but bee of the "lack of actn", apparently wasn't worth tellg. Gay people existg is polil, apparently, and so TLOU even darg to show two gay people livg their liv together is to make some grand statement, spe the show already beg heavily polil given that the US ernment turn to psdo-Nazis that fd easier to burn people alive than take re of them.

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED

Gay people exist, the ter gets mad, review bomb ensu. 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 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. Joel, played by Pedro Pasl the TV seri, is charged wh rtg an immune teenage girl Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey, across the US the hop of fdg a 's episo, tled "Long, Long Time, " picts a gay romance between Bill, played by Nick Offerman, and Frank, played by Murray Bartlett.

"Plenty more reviews acced the episo of phg LGBT "propaganda" or a "gay agenda. "Insir even received an email om a rear rponse to s story about the episo beg review-bombed, which further exemplifi this homophobia. "The rponse om some homophobic fans to Sunday's episo nearly a after "gamergate, " a far-right onle movement agast "progrsivism" gamg, built on racism, sexism, homophobia, and of "gamergate" uld be seen cricism agast "The Last of Us Part II, " the 2020 vio game sequel, which Ellie's sexualy is further explored.

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

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.

'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'

Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .

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