HBO's The Last of Us showed the gay love story of Bill and Frank to a mastream straight dience who needs most this LGBTQ+ history month
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THE LAST OF US SHOWED A GAY LOVE STORY TO THE MASTREAM DIENCE WHO NEED TO SEE MOST
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.” Bill don’t die, but Frank do — he’s found hangg a hoe.