Is Joel om The Last of Us Gay or Bisexual? Theory Explaed

Contents:

• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• WAS ELLIE GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH RILEY EXPLAED
• Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
• GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
• IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?

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.

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

Wh such drastic chang, pecially when to Bill and Frank’s relatnship, some are left askg if Bill was really gay The Last of Us vio game. The biggt hts towards Bill beg a gay man are his relatnship to Frank and a certa magaze that Ellie steals om his stash the church basement, both of which n be missed by players not engagg optnal ntent or not payg close enough attentn. Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .

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

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.

WAS ELLIE GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH RILEY EXPLAED

The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. “Long Long Time” has sparked several plats om the worst si of Twter about how The Last of Us allegedly shoehorned a gay relatnship.

But the fact is Bill has always been gay.

Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’

So yeah, Bill has always been gay. The relatnship between Ellie and Riley is only briefly touched upon the ma story of The Last Of Us vio game, but episo 7 of HBO’s TV adaptatn lv to much more eply, leavg some askg if Ellie was gay the origal game self. © HBO | Liane HentscherWas Ellie gay The Last Of Us game?

Y, Ellie is nfirmed to be gay The Last Of Us vio game as well as the the ma game, Ellie’s sexualy isn’t really discsed as there are only a few referenc to Riley dotted throughout the story and we’re only told that she was Ellie’s ’s only the DLC add-on, Left Behd, where the te nature of Ellie and Riley’s relatnship is revealed, meang some players of the origal game may have missed this the TV show, the pair enjoy a night together at the mall where they share a kiss before they are attacked by a hor of nners and get bten and bee we know, Ellie is immune to the fectn but Riley was not so lucky. Ne years before the episo of the same name, Left Behd revealed that Ellie is gay. Those are the qutns plagug Ellie, not the far more played out”Am I gay?

Though this storyle ends wh a ad LGBTQ+ character, don’t necsarily follow the Bury Your Gays trope. But The Last of Us Part II -wrer Halley Gross nfirmed no uncerta terms that Ellie is gay.

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

While Jackson, Ellie is harassed by a homophobic man for kissg her iend Da.

IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED

And yet The Last of Us was there 2014, nfirmg that one of the bt known characters gamg history was gay all along and handlg her first love as serly as this anchise handled the ath of Joel’s child. 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. 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.