HBO’s The Last of Us expands Bill & Frank’s gay romance om the game - Polygon

Contents:

• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
• ARE BILL & FRANK GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME? HERE’S HOW THE SHOW EXPAND ON THEIR STORY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
• ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED
• WAS BILL GAY IN THE LAST OF US GAME? SHOW CREATORS ADDRS MAJOR CHANGE
• WAS BILL GAY IN THE LAST OF US GAME? THE SURPRISG ANSWER
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US (TLOS) GAME AND HIS RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
• STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?

The most recent episo of HBO’s The Last of Us has left some fans wonrg if Bill and Frank were a gay uple the origal game. Wh such drastic chang, pecially when to Bill and Frank’s relatnship, some are left askg if Bill was really gay The Last of Us vio game.

The biggt hts towards Bill beg a gay man are his relatnship to Frank and a certa magaze that Ellie steals om his stash the church basement, both of which n be missed by players not engagg optnal ntent or not payg close enough attentn. “Long Long Time” has sparked several plats om the worst si of Twter about how The Last of Us allegedly shoehorned a gay relatnship.

But the fact is Bill has always been gay.

‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO

So yeah, Bill has always been gay.

*WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Last Of Us*The story of Bill and Frank is only briefly touched upon The Last Of Us vio game, but episo 3 of HBO’s adaptatn has dramatilly expand on their relatnship what is a notable viatn om the source enthrallg episo is filled wh tensn, joy and heartbreak as tells the pair’s story over almost two s, begng wh their first meetg after Frank fell to one of Bill’s follows is a betiful love story that has left fans wh a number of qutns, wh some askg whether Bill was gay The Last Of Us game self. TERMINAL ILLNESS: FRANK’S FATE IN THE LAST OF US SERIES IS A HUGE DEPARTURE FROM ORIGINAL GAME© HBO | Liane HentscherWas Bill gay The Last Of Us game? Y, Bill is nfirmed to be gay The Last Of Us vio game.

Speakg The Last Of Us podst, Craig Maz reerated this pot, sayg: “This wasn’t a new ncept that Bill was gay, that’s the game. Bill's Sexualy Was Always Hted at the Origal 'Last of Us' GameIs Bill gay the origal 'Last of Us' game? This is new ground for The Last of Us, but is Bill gay the game?

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

Bill is visibly troubled by his ath, revealg to Joel that Frank had lived wh him before leavg on poor isn't explicly stated, Bill is heavily implied to be gay this scene. In a 2014 terview wh Gay Gamer, Neil revealed that Bill's sexualy was somethg that he wanted to rporate more openly the game but that the fal product left ambiguo. After Joel and Ellie take off one of Bill's tcks, Ellie mmag through the back seat and disvers an old adult men's magaze that likely belonged to Bill's sexualy is ultimately never nfirmed the game, his gay romance wh Frank is explored fully the show, where the two of them share their own love story that is pletely origal to the seri.

ARE BILL & FRANK GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME? HERE’S HOW THE SHOW EXPAND ON THEIR STORY

Earl Brown, to terpret whether the character was gay. ’ For that to be a gay love story, an LGBTQ love story, was jt the icg on the ke. Was really implied that Bill was gay the OG game (which is pletely fe) or is that speculatn?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

If you watched ‘Long Long Time’, the third episo of HBO’s post-apolyptic seri and are only jt emotnally reverg, fans of the crilly acclaimed Sony exclive got the answer to a qutn that has been teased and theorized about for years: are Bill and Frank gay The Last of Us game?

GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS

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While they fall to certa gay stereotyp — a love of fer thgs, Frank’s knowledge of antiqu, Bill’s fss about his home — the quali stand as humanizg ntrasts to their tough exterrs.

ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED

They “queer” what ath “The Last of Us” n be; a world where everythg ends tragedy, they create the happit endg available to anyone, gay or straight.

They’re a lifele to life self, to an old world where people uld die more ways than jt at the mouth of a zombie or the barrel of a however revolutnary their aths might be for the universe of “The Last of Us, ” they still fall to well-worn gay ath trop. If you grew up queer the 80s and 90s, the image of one gay man phg another a wheelchair might look fiercely faiar om the early days of the AIDS crisis and the storytellg that me out of .

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED

Many cis gay men of my generatn believed this kd of ath was evable, that they would die tend to by a lover or they would be the widower left behd.

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

WAS BILL GAY IN THE LAST OF US GAME? SHOW CREATORS ADDRS MAJOR CHANGE

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

WAS BILL GAY IN THE LAST OF US GAME? THE SURPRISG ANSWER

Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

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

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US (TLOS) GAME AND HIS RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED

Like, what’s gay about a zombie apolypse? I mean, I’ve only played The Last of Us Part One, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t ANY gay characters.

I’ve even played the Left Behd DLC, and the libs like to say ’s gay, but ’s so totally not.

Boys don’t though, e that’s gay. Nothg gay about science. This is why Bill And Frank are f NOT gay the game Don’t believe the hype, bro.

STRICTLY LEGAL: SU OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FAILS

There are SO MANY reasons why Bill and Frank aren’t gay the game. ” But fely NOT a gay way.

It’s fely not gay to dance wh your bros when there aren’t any girls around. And sometim when he dips me and I look to his ep green ey they remd me of soft, rollg fields of grass that I jt want to stretch out naked on wh him while the sun warms our glisteng bodi—but totally NOT a gay way.

I thk I need to tell Kyle somethg … that I love him … forever … But TOTALLY not a gay way. She told CNN that, while playg the game for the first time, her “gaydar pged” when Bill mentned his “partner, ” but by the time she read Frank’s suici note, she wonred if she’d misunrstood – maybe the pair were jt bs partners and nothg more, she thought. ” Riley MacLeod of the Washgton Post noted that however movg their story was to viewers, Bill and Frank still “fall to well-worn gay ath trop” – a gay man phg another gay man, sickened by an unknown disease, a wheelchair; an image often shown storyl about HIV-posive characters – and are seemgly the “only two queer people the world.