Hopefully, 'The Last of Us' TV Seri Don’t Bury Its Gays | Them

Contents:

• ELLIE’S SEXUALY WILL RIGHTFULLY REMA GAY HBO’S THE LAST OF US
• THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE
• THE LAST OF US' APPROVAL RATE DIPS AMID COMPLATS AGAST GAY RELATNSHIP AND CHANGG CANON
• HOPEFULLY, THE LAST OF US TV SERI DON’T BURY ITS GAYS
• THE LAST OF US HBO TV SERI WRER PROMIS ELLIE WILL BE GAY

ELLIE’S SEXUALY WILL RIGHTFULLY REMA GAY HBO’S THE LAST OF US

She’s a betifully-wrten, plex character, who r if she’s gay or bisexual?

From accatns of a ‘gay agenda’ to ncerns that Ellie’s orientatn wasn’t non by way of overtly homophobic nuggets, social media spng to life wh hot tak. It didn’t seem to matter to some that Neil Dckmann had already nfirmed that Ellie was gay.

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

When I was wrg , I was wrg wh the ia that Ellie is gay, and when the actrs were workg they were fely workg wh the ia that they’re both attracted to each other.

However, to the queer muny, beme far more important for reprentg gay people a vio game; somethg that hadn’t been done on such a large sle up until that pot. While vio gam have almost always featured transgenr or crossdrsg characters, thk Fal Fantasy or even Pokémon, they’ve always been ed as joke characters and gay male avatars general have been nothg short of reference parts. I'm sick of the over reprentatn of gay relatnships the Media.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

I'm not a homophone, i really don't re what other people do. 3 of them between gay upl. Every TV show that out the days seems like has to have the token gay uple.

(though lets be hont, 80% of the world probably agre wh me and is to sred to speak out due to the wrath of the remag 20% (10% gays and 10% SJW's)).

Acrdg to crics who have seen the show, we're gettg a whole lot more of The Last of Us' gay characters than we Last of Us follows Joel and Ellie as they travel across a post-apolyptic Ameri tryg to avoid fung-fected zombi. "Here are two girls who are both gay, and their sexualy is nfg to them and sry to them. The revolutn that we've gone through as a culture to bee acceptg of homosexualy and whatever we'd ll non-hetero normative sexuali hasn't occurred… this world, that stuff is still 'problematic' as they say.

THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE

Dpe beg review-bombed for beg a gay love story, "Long, Long Time" still received rave reviews om crics and holds a 98% on Rotten Tomato. Episo three of HBO's "The Last of Us" sparked homophobic backlash om some viewers. Homophobia has long been an issue the gamg muny and larger fandoms.

The latt episo of HBO's vio-game adaptatn "The Last of Us" has been wily praised — but 's also spired fierce backlash, shg a light on what have been persistent issu the gamg muny and larger cultural fandoms: homophobia and anti-LGBTQ iology. Sunday's episo, tled "Long, Long Time, " picts a gay romance between Bill, played by Nick Offerman, and Frank, played by Murray Bartlett.

"Plenty more reviews acced the episo of phg LGBT "propaganda" or a "gay agenda. "Insir even received an email om a rear rponse to s story about the episo beg review-bombed, which further exemplifi this homophobia.

THE LAST OF US' APPROVAL RATE DIPS AMID COMPLATS AGAST GAY RELATNSHIP AND CHANGG CANON

"The rponse om some homophobic fans to Sunday's episo nearly a after "gamergate, " a far-right onle movement agast "progrsivism" gamg, built on racism, sexism, homophobia, and of "gamergate" uld be seen cricism agast "The Last of Us Part II, " the 2020 vio game sequel, which Ellie's sexualy is further explored. 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.

HOPEFULLY, THE LAST OF US TV SERI DON’T BURY ITS GAYS

In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opn piece tled “The stggle for gay rights is over”. The mise of the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act 2013 was followed by the end of the feral ban on marriage equaly 2015. Wispread acceptance of same-sex marriage rights, gay people servg the ary and the need for protectns for LGBTQ+ people followed.

As recently as 2020, the urt, then wh two Tmp appote, led that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay, lbian and transgenr workers. In 1985, 89% of parents said they would be sad if they disvered their child was gay or a lbian. A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.

THE LAST OF US HBO TV SERI WRER PROMIS ELLIE WILL BE GAY

Supporters of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill gather outsi Walt Disney World this month. The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. ”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise.

He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.