Is Joel gay? *spoilers* - The Last of Us

Contents:

• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• EXPLORG IF JOEL IS GAY OR BISEXUAL THE LAST OF US ANCHISE
• IS JOEL GAY? *SPOILERS*
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
• IS JOEL GAY IN THE LAST OF US? FULLY EXPLAED

HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE

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EXPLORG IF JOEL IS GAY OR BISEXUAL THE LAST OF US ANCHISE

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IS JOEL GAY? *SPOILERS*

” Queer-themed gam date as far back as 1992’s “Gay Bla, ” acrdg to the LGBTQ media advocy group GLAAD. Though Bill’s role the game is small, and his mentn of beg gay brief, did not go unnoticed by LGBTQ gamers like then, he was his early 20s and still the closet about his sexualy.

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

”Adaptatn giv gamers hope for more reprentatnSome queer viewers exprsed excement that Sunday's episo would expose even more people to gay vio game characters. 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.

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WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?

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IS JOEL GAY IN THE LAST OF US? FULLY EXPLAED

I had this spicn ever sce I played Part I for the 5th-6th time - that Joel might be secretly gay and this is why -.

And we already know that Bill is gay so isn't that hard to believe when I say that maybe Joel pleasured Bill as a favor but isn't proud of .