The most recent episo of HBO’s The Last of Us has left some fans wonrg if Bill and Frank were a gay uple the origal game.
Contents:
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED
- SEB GORKA FUM AT EPISO OF HBO H SHOW ‘LAST OF US’ THAT INTRODUC GAY CHARACTERS
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
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‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
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WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED
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.” Bill don’t die, but Frank do — he’s found hangg a hoe.
SEB GORKA FUM AT EPISO OF HBO H SHOW ‘LAST OF US’ THAT INTRODUC GAY CHARACTERS
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