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

Contents:

• THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• THE LAST OF US PART 2 REVIEW: BURY YOUR GAYS, EMOTNALLY
• THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
• FRANK Y BILL: LA HISTORIA LA PAREJA GAY EN “THE LAST OF US”
• DEL AMOR GAY AL BO ENTRE DOS MUJER: 'THE LAST OF US', EN HBO MAX, HABLA LO QUE TOTALMENTE NECAR
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
• Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
• "NO CLIóN FORZADA": TE VíO EN RES SMONTA CUALQUIER QUEJA QUE TENGAS SOBRE LA PAREJA GAY 'THE LAST OF US'

THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG

Bartlett, an openly gay actor whose most famo rol have been as gay characters The Whe Lot, Wele to Chippendal and Lookg, is a well-chosen scene partner. There’s a good chance Bartlett will be playg a gay character: the ia that Offerman’s character might be too blossoms as litely as the pair’s relatnship. As the gam have been adapted for the screen, there has not exactly been a wealth of gay characters to choose mak Bill’s barely-mentned relatnship The Last of Us somethg of an outlier.

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

Gay storyl on TV, while not ubiquo, are not unheard of.

THE LAST OF US PART 2 REVIEW: BURY YOUR GAYS, EMOTNALLY

Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .

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

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. While The Last of Us and Left Behd were both guilty of the bury your gays trope, Part 2 steps up by attackg the soul. 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.

FRANK Y BILL: LA HISTORIA LA PAREJA GAY EN “THE LAST OF US”

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

DEL AMOR GAY AL BO ENTRE DOS MUJER: 'THE LAST OF US', EN HBO MAX, HABLA LO QUE TOTALMENTE NECAR

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.

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

Bill’s is not a “type” of gay man I n say I’ve ever seen mastream media before, and watchg him slowly reveal and epen that aspect of himself wh Frank’s help—sexually, y (Hollywood: more hairy bear love scen please!

But Bill and Frank create somethg else, a ltle oasis of their own that’s regnizably gay, full of quiet bety and joys the size of new strawberri.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Frank wants to fix up the block and some of the “not stupid” shops—the we and furnure stor, the clothg boutique—bee he hop they might one day have unfected guts (which they eventually do, the form of Joel and Ts), but really bee makg thgs nice, pecially when nicens isn’t valued, is one of the great gay llgs. As an echo of the gay experience wh AIDS, is, as veteran activist Peter Staley put a Facebook post, a ftg tribute to the “tenr love & bravery gay men summoned when facg ath durg the plague years, cludg those who did so on their own terms.

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

How powerful, then, to see not only a gay uple given an entire hour of a marquee show, but a gay uple who are held up as the keepers of civilizatn, as stewards of bety, as emblems of human digny and possibily. La relación entre Bill y Frank no la úni historia amor homosexual que aparecerá en "The Last of Us" (y, "spoiler" leve, ni siquiera será la última ta primera temporada la adaptación). Dijo a CNN que, mientras jugaba al juego por primera vez, su "gaydar sonó" cuando Bill mencnó a su "pañero", pero cuando leyó la nota suicid Frank, se preguntó si no lo había entendido mal: tal vez la pareja eran solo pañeros negocs y nada más, pensó.

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

Riley MacLeod, l diar The Washgton Post, señaló que, por muy nmovedora que fuera su historia para los pectador, Bill y Frank seguían "yendo en los trillados tropos la muerte gay": un hombre gay empujando a otro hombre gay, enfermo a a una enfermedad snocida, en una silla edas; una imagen que se mutra a menudo en las tramas sobre personaj seroposivos, y son aparentemente las "dos únis personas queer l mundo". El juego 2013 fue objeto ntroversia por su tratamiento Bill, cuya homosexualidad solo se alu brevemente.

"NO CLIóN FORZADA": TE VíO EN RES SMONTA CUALQUIER QUEJA QUE TENGAS SOBRE LA PAREJA GAY 'THE LAST OF US'

Un críti Logo TV cribió que el juego rcía a Bill a un "chiste" spués que Ellie bromeara sobre una revista porno gay que encuentra. Fanbyte rmó sobre el stg Bill en la serie televisión o un "gay que (la serie) probablemente enterrará".