Contents:
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
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THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
”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.
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Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
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 game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. 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.
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