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

Contents:

• Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
• IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
• EVERYONE CHILL. ‘THE LAST OF US’ IS NOT THE BT GAY THG EVER—OR THE WORST
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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

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. 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.

LGBTQ+ them are not somethg entirely new to The Last of Us anchise, as the first stallment of the seri also showsed a gay NPC and then a very graceful lbian kiss the Left Behd DLC. Bill is gay and had a relatnship wh a man lled Frank, who is later found ad the game, much to Bill's dismay. Unlike Da, Bill tri to hi his homosexualy and ially only refers to Frank as someone he had red for.

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

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. 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.

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

And by all means, there are homophobics that hate this game bee they heard Ellie is gay. The are the type of people that reviewed the game before was lnched and the on that jt review bombed metacric by sayg, "I hate the gays". So they ma Ellie gay and add a transgenr character so they n get more sal om the LGBTQ+ muny.

People that tried to nstctively cricize the game are beg brand as homophobic, so Nghty Dog beme partially immune bee the reviewer was biased and homophobic.

IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED

“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. So yeah, Bill has always been gay.

"Here are two girls who are both gay, and their sexualy is nfg to them and sry to them. The revolutn that we've gone through as a culture to bee acceptg of homosexualy and whatever we'd ll non-hetero normative sexuali hasn't occurred… this world, that stuff is still 'problematic' as they say.

EVERYONE CHILL. ‘THE LAST OF US’ IS NOT THE BT GAY THG EVER—OR THE WORST

Dpe beg review-bombed for beg a gay love story, "Long, Long Time" still received rave reviews om crics and holds a 98% on Rotten Tomato. 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.

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

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. For one, there are a lot of gay characters both the game and the HBO versn as we know for a fact that Bill, Frank, and Ellie are homosexuals. But the thg is that there are fans that also believe that the other ma character uld also be gay or even bisexual.

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

So, is Joel gay or bisexual? It is unlikely that Joel is gay or bisexual The Last of Us, even though there are some clu that lead to the possibily of him beg gay or bisexual. Even though some fans have seen hts that uld lead to the possibily of Joel beg gay, that is unlikely the se right now bee of the fact that the are merely speculatns.

We n’t say for certa that he is gay unls clear facts pot to that possibily. So, wh that said, let’s look at the possibily of Joel beg gay. Could Joel Be Gay In The Last of Us?

For one, there are a lot of gay characters The Last of Us, as Bill, Frank, and Ellie are exampl of this fact. On top of that, some clu sttered the game lead to the possibily that he uld be gay.

THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE

In that regard, there are certa clu that uld suggt the possibily that Joel is gay. So, uld Joel be gay The Last of Us?

At this pot, is tough to nclu that Joel uld be gay or bisexual The Last of Us. That means that we n’t really say for certa whether or not he is gay due to the fact that any evince regardg that possibily is not nclive.

As such, whout any clear evince potg to the possibily that he is gay, we believe that Joel is unlikely gay. We need more rmatn and clu regardg his sexualy for to nclu that he uld be gay. But we also know that neher The Last of Us nor The Last of Us 2 gave clear proof of his beg gay or bisexual.

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

So, if he might be gay or bisexual, is possible that the proof will be shown HBO’s live-actn versn. Of urse, while we did say that Joel is unlikely to be gay due to the fact that the clu that pot to this possibily are circumstantial and nclive, we n’t really say for sure that he is actually straight.

But bee the ial observatn is that he is straight, then there is a good chance that he is more likely to be straight than gay or bisexual. But those who believe that Joel is gay might see thgs a different way, as is still que possible that Joel and Ts were simply very good iends. So, absent any clear and nclive evince, is more likely that Joel is straight due to how there are more clu that pot to him beg straight than him beg gay.