Contents:
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
- IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
- THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
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HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
Craig Maz and Neil Dckmann Expla the Gay Subtext Behd Ellie and Riley's Lgerie Scene.
Bella Ramsey Says Trolls Will Have to "Get Used" To Gay Storyl. Shutterstock"If you don’t want to watch the show bee has gay storyl, " Ramsey told GQ UK, "bee has a trans character, that’s on you, and you’re missg out. 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.
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‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
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.” The third episo of HBO’s seri fixated on Bill and Frank’s heartwarmg story.
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 JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
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.
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. "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. 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.
THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
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. 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.