The Last of Us Lets Gay Love Flourish the Apolypse - IGN

Contents:

• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ PRENTS AN ACHGLY BETIFUL GAY LOVE STORY
• THE LAST OF US PART 2 BURI ITS GAYS BEFORE RELEASE (AND MAYBE THAT’S OKAY)
• THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE

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

He also reported that the episo featurg two gay men, Bill and Frank, om earlier the season was not eded the regn spe havg more kiss and scen of physil timacy. 1677524263Certa regns (ually the Middle East or Rsia) are notor for this kd of censorship of gay scen and 2021, the MCU’s first gay kiss the movie The Eternals was eded out the Uned Arab Emirat, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Ethpia, Palte, Syria, and Turkey.

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THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE

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 LAST OF US’ PRENTS AN ACHGLY BETIFUL GAY LOVE STORY

The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. I am absolutely not shocked that the lowt IMBD-rated episos of The Last of Us are the two episos wh a kiss by gay characters. 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.

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Yet, that episo was praised by nearly everyone (homophob and all) and has a ratg of 9.

THE LAST OF US PART 2 BURI ITS GAYS BEFORE RELEASE (AND MAYBE THAT’S OKAY)

We wonr why that is lghg at you and your ty mdsYou n check out some of the reviews over at IMDB down below that showse the drama queens reactg to the revelatn that gay people exist. Jt a remr before we showse the ft of humani dolts, Bill and Frank were gay the game too.

"Ah y, is we — gay people — that are distortg the story of The Last of Us wh our ridiculo plotl that don't make sense a world that is overn wh zombi that have Ven Flytraps for heads. Also, sorry to break to you, but HBO's The Last of Us is domatg the world right now and we doubt a few upset homophob will be able to change that reviewer number two: "This episo is clearly propaganda for polil rrectns, forcg gay elements to the seri.

Although there are also gay elements the game, but is handled well the plot of the game, which will not make people feel unfortable, but make people cherish this emotn, pecially the post-apolyptic suatn. "So, there are gay elements the game (which you acknowledge) — Part II and Left Behd are brazen whereas Bill and Frank are more subtle — yet somehow the same elements are forced to the TV show?

THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE

Please make make sense, sir, ma'am, or whomever you are as this review is out homophob, some sry lbians are g your way! "Bill and Frank were gay the game and the seri cid to expand on this, jt like did wh Ellie's mum's arc the prev episo.

A homophobe? But my god, 's almost like gay people exist and have done sce the begng of time. The Last of Us is domatg right nowThere are so many thgs wrong wh the reviews, om wantg a 'normal show to watch wh their kids' or people beg upset that the gay character om the game is, well, gay.

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. 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.