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Contents:
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CREATOR REVEALS HOW HE CRAFTED THE GAY LOVE STORY THAT HAS FANS TEARS
- IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
- FROM REVIEW-BOMBG TO BURYG S GAYS: THE LAST OF US AND S EPIC HISTORY OF LGBTQ REPRENTATN, EXPLAED
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
Craig Maz says his own love story impacted how he wrote the tale of Bill and Frank, the ter's new favore gay uple. * last of us main character gay *
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.
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Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
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.
Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .
‘THE LAST OF US’ CREATOR REVEALS HOW HE CRAFTED THE GAY LOVE STORY THAT HAS FANS TEARS
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. 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.
Ne years before the episo of the same name, Left Behd revealed that Ellie is gay.
IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
Those are the qutns plagug Ellie, not the far more played out”Am I gay?
FROM REVIEW-BOMBG TO BURYG S GAYS: THE LAST OF US AND S EPIC HISTORY OF LGBTQ REPRENTATN, EXPLAED
Though this storyle ends wh a ad LGBTQ+ character, don’t necsarily follow the Bury Your Gays trope.