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Contents:
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
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TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
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“Obvly, I’ve played the gam religly and I know there’s gay characters there, but I was not expectg an 80-mute … tearworthy piece of art. ” 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.
”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.
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
Article ntu below advertisementSo, while Ellie's sexualy is never explicly discsed The Last of Us, revealg that Ellie is gay isn't at all a parture om how the gam have treated the character. Ellie's sexualy ed some fans first began to spect that Ellie was gay after playg through Left Behd, there was some uproar around the news. Some fans felt they had been misled bee Ellie didn't appear to be gay the first game, while others tried to fd ways to expla away Ellie's kiss wh Riley a way that ma her sexualy slightly more ambiguo.
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