'The Last of Us' Has an Entire Episo Foced on Its Gay Characters

Contents:

• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• THE LAST OF US PART 2 BURI ITS GAYS BEFORE RELEASE (AND MAYBE THAT’S OKAY)
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
• THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
• IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
• THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
• ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?
• Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
• 'THE LAST OF US' STAR BELLA RAMSEY THKS 'S 'IMPORTANT' TO PICT LGBTQ LOVE A POST-APOLYPTIC WORLD: 'IT'S NOT LIKE ALL THE GAY PEOPLE GOT BLOWN UP'

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 LAST OF US PART 2 BURI ITS GAYS BEFORE RELEASE (AND MAYBE THAT’S OKAY)

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 Part 2 Buri Its Gays Before Release (And Maybe That’s Okay).

As a queer woman, yeah, I hate watchg gay people die thgs. And bee of this gay reprentatn on-screen, a ntgent of largely homophobic dience members have been quick to share s vrl. Bill n’t exist whout beg gay Frank’s arms.

Apparently the wrers thk Bill and Frank’s inty was jt that they were gay, nothg more than that. Oh and that person jt happens to also be gay? "And jeroen-10631 even lled out the episo's haters, sayg review bombers should "be ashamed of themselv" and that "clearly the story of two gay men ma you so unfortable:""Some of the people mentg about “polil propaganda” and 'checkg off liberal box' should be ashamed of themselv.

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

Clearly the story of two gay men ma you so unfortable that you only subnscly realized you are so behd the tim and been raised rigid and immature while htg that '1 star' button. All tak is a simple Google search to figure out that this is simply the act of homophobic ter trolls. In the game, while not overtly shown, Bill is gay.

After wng turns Lookg, Tal of the Cy and The Whe Lot, he’s fast beg one of the medium’s most proment gay the episo nears s end, and Frank be curably sick, the uple’s last scen together are profoundly movg. The episo is, among other thgs, a subversn of the much-cricised “bury your gays” trope. Here, y, are two gay characters who die.

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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?

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?

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.

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

His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay women.At moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil.

'THE LAST OF US' STAR BELLA RAMSEY THKS 'S 'IMPORTANT' TO PICT LGBTQ LOVE A POST-APOLYPTIC WORLD: 'IT'S NOT LIKE ALL THE GAY PEOPLE GOT BLOWN UP'

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.

Wh Bill and Frank, we were given a portra of love—specifilly gay love—that feels surprisg and urgent.

In our own 2023, we are not exactly lackg for media imag of whe gay men. For one thg, we see gay sire portrayed all s plexy, but wh a touch as light as a breeze playg through curtas.