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

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HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO

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

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NICK OFFERMAN TO PLAY GAY IN HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’

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In the game, while not overtly shown, Bill is gay.

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

The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. Here’s some excg news, looks like Nick Offerman might be playg a gay role the upg HBO thriller-drama The Last of Us. Related: So What’s Gay About HBO’s ‘Hoe Of The Dragon?

HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY

While s ol enough to see Offerman another role, we’re exced bee this means Offerman will be playg a gay role.

Even better, this tv adaptn has the chance to humanize and give digny to the gay character.

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The one time the character’s sexualy is outright acknowledged is when Ellie, who later out as queer herself, fds Bill’s gay pornographic magaz.

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