The Last of Us Part 2 Review: Bury your gays, emotnally | Stevivor

Contents:

• THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
• THE LAST OF US PART 2 REVIEW: BURY YOUR GAYS, EMOTNALLY
• IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
• IS ELLIE GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’?
• IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO

THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY

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

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.

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

What we got stead was a psule episo, and a particularly bracg one, given the show’s opprsively bleak mood th far: The hour is dited to the love story of Bill and Frank, a gay uple who—due ially to Bill’s skills as a bunker-stockg, booby-trappg, Don’t Tread on Me survivalist—manage to build a largely happy existence together an abandoned and eventually fortified ral hamlet for almost 20 years. Wh Bill and Frank, we were given a portra of love—specifilly gay love—that feels surprisg and urgent.

In our own 2023, we are not exactly lackg for media imag of whe gay men.

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IS ELLIE GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’?

But Bill and Frank create somethg else, a ltle oasis of their own that’s regnizably gay, full of quiet bety and joys the size of new strawberri.

IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

Frank wants to fix up the block and some of the “not stupid” shops—the we and furnure stor, the clothg boutique—bee he hop they might one day have unfected guts (which they eventually do, the form of Joel and Ts), but really bee makg thgs nice, pecially when nicens isn’t valued, is one of the great gay llgs.

As an echo of the gay experience wh AIDS, is, as veteran activist Peter Staley put a Facebook post, a ftg tribute to the “tenr love & bravery gay men summoned when facg ath durg the plague years, cludg those who did so on their own terms.

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

How powerful, then, to see not only a gay uple given an entire hour of a marquee show, but a gay uple who are held up as the keepers of civilizatn, as stewards of bety, as emblems of human digny and possibily.