Contents:
- Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
- THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
- BILL THE LAST OF US, ELEGIDO MEJOR PERSONAJE GAY L AñO
Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
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THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
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.
‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
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THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
Unlike Da, Bill tri to hi his homosexualy and ially only refers to Frank as someone he had red for. 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.
BILL THE LAST OF US, ELEGIDO MEJOR PERSONAJE GAY L AñO
The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. 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.