Episo 3 of The Last Of Us explored Bill and Frank's heartwrenchg relatnship but fans have been askg if Bill was gay the game.
Contents:
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
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. * gay characters in last of us video game *
LGBTQ+ them are not somethg entirely new to The Last of Us anchise, as the first stallment of the seri also showsed a gay NPC and then a very graceful lbian kiss the Left Behd DLC. Bill is gay and had a relatnship wh a man lled Frank, who is later found ad the game, much to Bill's dismay.
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
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WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
“Obvly, I’ve played the gam religly and I know there’s gay characters there, but I was not expectg an 80-mute … tearworthy piece of art. ” Queer-themed gam date as far back as 1992’s “Gay Bla, ” acrdg to the LGBTQ media advocy group GLAAD. Though Bill’s role the game is small, and his mentn of beg gay brief, did not go unnoticed by LGBTQ gamers like then, he was his early 20s and still the closet about his sexualy.
”Adaptatn giv gamers hope for more reprentatnSome queer viewers exprsed excement that Sunday's episo would expose even more people to gay vio game characters.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED
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. 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.
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‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
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.
Dorian is proud of who he is, both as a gay man and as a Tevter mage.