HBO’s The Last of Us expands Bill & Frank’s gay romance om the game - Polygon

Contents:

• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
• HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ DIRECTOR SAYS YOU NEED TO ‘TRICK’ VIEWERS TO WATCHG A GAY LOVE STORY
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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

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.

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

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. 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.

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

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. While on one si of the divi, has drawn the hate of homophobic ter menters review-bombg the seri bad fah, the majory have seen the story for what is, a grippg love story that happens to be between two gay men fdg each other the apolypse.

For one, there are a lot of gay characters both the game and the HBO versn as we know for a fact that Bill, Frank, and Ellie are homosexuals. But the thg is that there are fans that also believe that the other ma character uld also be gay or even bisexual.

So, is Joel gay or bisexual? It is unlikely that Joel is gay or bisexual The Last of Us, even though there are some clu that lead to the possibily of him beg gay or bisexual.

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

Even though some fans have seen hts that uld lead to the possibily of Joel beg gay, that is unlikely the se right now bee of the fact that the are merely speculatns. We n’t say for certa that he is gay unls clear facts pot to that possibily.

So, wh that said, let’s look at the possibily of Joel beg gay.

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Could Joel Be Gay In The Last of Us? For one, there are a lot of gay characters The Last of Us, as Bill, Frank, and Ellie are exampl of this fact. On top of that, some clu sttered the game lead to the possibily that he uld be gay.

In that regard, there are certa clu that uld suggt the possibily that Joel is gay. So, uld Joel be gay The Last of Us? At this pot, is tough to nclu that Joel uld be gay or bisexual The Last of Us.

That means that we n’t really say for certa whether or not he is gay due to the fact that any evince regardg that possibily is not nclive. As such, whout any clear evince potg to the possibily that he is gay, we believe that Joel is unlikely gay.

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We need more rmatn and clu regardg his sexualy for to nclu that he uld be gay.

But we also know that neher The Last of Us nor The Last of Us 2 gave clear proof of his beg gay or bisexual.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

So, if he might be gay or bisexual, is possible that the proof will be shown HBO’s live-actn versn. Of urse, while we did say that Joel is unlikely to be gay due to the fact that the clu that pot to this possibily are circumstantial and nclive, we n’t really say for sure that he is actually straight. But bee the ial observatn is that he is straight, then there is a good chance that he is more likely to be straight than gay or bisexual.

But those who believe that Joel is gay might see thgs a different way, as is still que possible that Joel and Ts were simply very good iends.

So, absent any clear and nclive evince, is more likely that Joel is straight due to how there are more clu that pot to him beg straight than him beg gay. After all, Bill and Frank were only hted to be gay the game but were clearly gay HBO’s live-actn versn.

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HBO’s h vio-game adaptatn seri The Last of Us took an unexpected tour to gay terrory s most recent episo, focg on a buddg romance between the characters played by actors Nick Offerman and Murry Bartlett. In a recent terview, the episo director said viewers sometim need to be tricked to watchg a gay love story. Director Peter Hoar, who is openly gay, spoke to the science-foced se Inverse about makg the show.

Hoar directed the recent Brish miseri It’s a S, which followed the liv of a group of gay men at the height of the AIDS epimic. “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.

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?

So yeah, Bill has always been gay. When lookg closer at the one-star ratgs, many brg up the fact that Bill is gay, dubbg the episo a "borg" romance. Other one-star reviews are angry that a gay man met a gay man, dubbg pletely unlikely, while the same breath mentng a girl who is somehow immune to a vis that has torn down the walls of society as we know .

It's fairly obv what the mon thread is across this sudn flux of negative reviews - a gay uple dared exist. Another tertg plat levied at this episo is that 's a disservice to the game, spe beg an episo that revolv entirely around buildg on clu given the game while also makg up for s pfalls reprentatn, namely fallg to the Bury Your Gays trope. Bury Your Gays, if you're unaware, is a trope which gay upl disproportnately break apart due to ath.

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It was a gay story that wasn't mired trma, but bee of the "lack of actn", apparently wasn't worth tellg. Gay people existg is polil, apparently, and so TLOU even darg to show two gay people livg their liv together is to make some grand statement, spe the show already beg heavily polil given that the US ernment turn to psdo-Nazis that fd easier to burn people alive than take re of them. Gay people exist, the ter gets mad, review bomb ensu.