HBO’s The Last of Us expands Bill & Frank’s gay romance om the game - Polygon

Contents:

• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?
• THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
• ARE BILL & FRANK GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME? HERE’S HOW THE SHOW EXPAND ON THEIR STORY
• GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
• ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
• WHO PORTRAYS FRANK THE LAST OF US? IS MURRAY BARTLETT GAY REAL LIFE?
• THE LAST OF US PART 2 REVIEW: BURY YOUR GAYS, EMOTNALLY

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

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.

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

The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. If you are wonrg whether Frank and Bill are gay the show and the 2013 Nghty Dog vio game is based on, we got you vered. It gradually be apparent to the men that they both are gay.

THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY

It is que apparent that Frank was openly gay the world before the outbreak, whereas Bill had never been wh a man before Frank. “Frank’s an out and proud gay man, but Bill is Bill, ” Peter Hoar, the director of the episo, told Variety.

ARE BILL & FRANK GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME? HERE’S HOW THE SHOW EXPAND ON THEIR STORY

“Even though I’m not a middle-aged, married gay man, I’m a middle-aged, married man, ” he stated.

What we got stead was a psule episo, and a particularly bracg one, given the show’s opprsively bleak mood th far: The hour is dited to the love story of Bill and Frank, a gay uple who—due ially to Bill’s skills as a bunker-stockg, booby-trappg, Don’t Tread on Me survivalist—manage to build a largely happy existence together an abandoned and eventually fortified ral hamlet for almost 20 years.

Wh Bill and Frank, we were given a portra of love—specifilly gay love—that feels surprisg and urgent. In our own 2023, we are not exactly lackg for media imag of whe gay men. For one thg, we see gay sire portrayed all s plexy, but wh a touch as light as a breeze playg through curtas.

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

Bill’s is not a “type” of gay man I n say I’ve ever seen mastream media before, and watchg him slowly reveal and epen that aspect of himself wh Frank’s help—sexually, y (Hollywood: more hairy bear love scen please! But Bill and Frank create somethg else, a ltle oasis of their own that’s regnizably gay, full of quiet bety and joys the size of new strawberri. Frank wants to fix up the block and some of the “not stupid” shops—the we and furnure stor, the clothg boutique—bee he hop they might one day have unfected guts (which they eventually do, the form of Joel and Ts), but really bee makg thgs nice, pecially when nicens isn’t valued, is one of the great gay llgs.

As an echo of the gay experience wh AIDS, is, as veteran activist Peter Staley put a Facebook post, a ftg tribute to the “tenr love & bravery gay men summoned when facg ath durg the plague years, cludg those who did so on their own terms. How powerful, then, to see not only a gay uple given an entire hour of a marquee show, but a gay uple who are held up as the keepers of civilizatn, as stewards of bety, as emblems of human digny and possibily. If you watched ‘Long Long Time’, the third episo of HBO’s post-apolyptic seri and are only jt emotnally reverg, fans of the crilly acclaimed Sony exclive got the answer to a qutn that has been teased and theorized about for years: are Bill and Frank gay The Last of Us game?

ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? RELATNSHIP EXPLAED

Here’s how the show diverged and expand on their story and if Bill and Frank are gay The Last of Us om StyleCaster'That 90s Show' Star Ashley Aufrhei Plays 'That 70s Show' Trivia--See If She Nails ItHere's How to Watch 'Married at First Sight Atralia' the US to See Which Coupl Are Still TogetherWhat Disease Did Frank Have 'The Last of Us'?

Here's How His Death In the Game & Show DifferAre Bill and Frank gay The Last of Us game? 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.

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

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.

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?

This is why Bill And Frank are f NOT gay the game Don’t believe the hype, bro. There are SO MANY reasons why Bill and Frank aren’t gay the game. ” But fely NOT a gay way.

It’s fely not gay to dance wh your bros when there aren’t any girls around. And sometim when he dips me and I look to his ep green ey they remd me of soft, rollg fields of grass that I jt want to stretch out naked on wh him while the sun warms our glisteng bodi—but totally NOT a gay way.

WHO PORTRAYS FRANK THE LAST OF US? IS MURRAY BARTLETT GAY REAL LIFE?

I thk I need to tell Kyle somethg … that I love him … forever … But TOTALLY not a gay way.

THE LAST OF US PART 2 REVIEW: BURY YOUR GAYS, EMOTNALLY

So, are Bill and Frank gay The Last of Us? It is clear that Bill and Frank were gay The Last of Us when they were attracted to one another durg their first meetg and proceed to have an timate moment.

In that regard, was clear that Frank was gay, as Bill probably never knew that he was also attracted to men.