HBO's 'The Last of Us' Director Says You Need to 'Trick' Viewers to Watchg a Gay Love Story

Contents:

• ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
• HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY
• Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
• GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS HE WANTED TO ‘TRICK’ AUDIENCE INTO WATCHG GAY LOVE STORY

ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?

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HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO

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HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY

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

“Frank’s an out and proud gay man, but Bill is Bill, ” Peter Hoar, the director of the episo, told Variety. “Even though I’m not a middle-aged, married gay man, I’m a middle-aged, married man, ” he stated.

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

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All tak is a simple Google search to figure out that this is simply the act of homophobic ter trolls. In the game, while not overtly shown, Bill is gay. HBO’s h vio-game adaptatn seri The Last of Us took an unexpected tour to gay terrory s most recent episo, focg on a buddg romance between the characters played by actors Nick Offerman and Murry Bartlett.

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

In a recent terview, the episo director said viewers sometim need to be tricked to watchg a gay love story.

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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.

‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS HE WANTED TO ‘TRICK’ AUDIENCE INTO WATCHG GAY LOVE STORY

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. 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.