The Last of Us’s gay love story breaks new ground for an entire genre

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

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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. The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays.

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."benoftheorchard asked how people uld possibly "give this [episo] a 10/10:""How n you give this a 10/10? Oh and that person jt happens to also be gay? It’s dishearteng, but not surprisg, that people on here are review bombg this bee they n’t adm (maybe even to themselv) that they have predisposn to be unfortable by same-sex relatnships, even on that are portrayed as pletely lovg and the mol for what a healthy relatnship should be."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.

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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."Why Do Review Bombs Keep Happeng?This is not the first time a project has been review bombed for nefar reasons, and certaly will not be the last. All tak is a simple Google search to figure out that this is simply the act of homophobic ter trolls.

LV SAYS HE’S ‘GAY’ BUT ALSO ‘NOT GAY’

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