La serie "The Last of Us" HBO Max ntúa haciendo e semana tras semana n s episods, en su último pítulo prentó la historia una pareja gay.
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
- FRANK Y BILL: LA HISTORIA LA PAREJA GAY EN “THE LAST OF US”
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
- Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN 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. Gay storyl on TV, while not ubiquo, are not unheard of.
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 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.
FRANK Y BILL: LA HISTORIA LA PAREJA GAY EN “THE LAST OF US”
La serie “The Last of Us” HBO Max ntúa haciendo e semana tras semana n s episods, en su último pítulo prentó la historia una pareja gay. En la vida real, Murray Bartlett abiertamente homosexual, mientras que Nick Offerman tá sado n la actriz Megan Mullally. 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.
THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
Bill is gay and had a relatnship wh a man lled Frank, who is later found ad the game, much to Bill's dismay.
‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
Unlike Da, Bill tri to hi his homosexualy and ially only refers to Frank as someone he had red for.
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.
Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
For one thg, we see gay sire portrayed all s plexy, but wh a touch as light as a breeze playg through curtas.
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. 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.