The Last of Us’s gay love story breaks new ground for an entire genre

THE LAST OF US PART II: “ELLIE é GAY. NãO HONRAREMOS A PERSONAGEM AO NR”, DIZ -CRORA

Após o beijo e envolvimento Riley na DLC The Last of Us: Left Behd, muos se qutnaram se Ellie seria fato gay. Ela também nfirmou que Ellie é gay, que prrizar sua sobrevivência todo dia e não mostrar quem ela é, não seria honroso e honto.

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

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. Ellie Image via Nghty Dog That’s right, the lead character The Last of Us is part of the gay muny. The character’s sexualy is hted at the Last of Us gam, and many players termed that he was gay, but players didn’t get nearly the romance the origal that HBO livered wh “Long Long Time.

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. The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays.

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

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.