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:
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- THE LAST OF US FANS CLAIM NICK OFFERMAN IS ‘EXCEPTN’ TO STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL: ‘HE CHANGED MY MD’
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE
- THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay guy on last of us *
Acrdg to crics who have seen the show, we're gettg a whole lot more of The Last of Us' gay characters than we thought.The Last of Us follows Joel and Ellie as they travel across a post-apolyptic Ameri tryg to avoid fung-fected zombi. 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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Several fans of The Last of Us have claimed that Nick Offerman is an ‘exceptn’ to straight actors playg gay rol after starrg as Bill. * gay guy on last of us *
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 FANS CLAIM NICK OFFERMAN IS ‘EXCEPTN’ TO STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL: ‘HE CHANGED MY MD’
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay guy on last of us *
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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
* gay guy on last of us *
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. 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.
Ellie Image via Nghty Dog That’s right, the lead character The Last of Us is part of the gay muny. 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. She told CNN that, while playg the game for the first time, her “gaydar pged” when Bill mentned his “partner, ” but by the time she read Frank’s suici note, she wonred if she’d misunrstood – maybe the pair were jt bs partners and nothg more, she thought.
” Riley MacLeod of the Washgton Post noted that however movg their story was to viewers, Bill and Frank still “fall to well-worn gay ath trop” – a gay man phg another gay man, sickened by an unknown disease, a wheelchair; an image often shown storyl about HIV-posive characters – and are seemgly the “only two queer people the world. A cric for Logo TV wrote that the game rced Bill to a “punchle” after Ellie jok about a gay porn magaze she fds. Fanbyte reported on Bill’s stg the TV seri as a “gay (the show) will probably bury.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
” Even the wily praised 2022 remake of the game was a “remr of s ‘bury your gays’ romance, ” said Ja Kg of The Gamer, an article that year.
(The “bury your gays” trope refers to the equent killg off of gay characters media.
“To get almost two full s wh someone you love is a gift, and to get a time of so much ath and stctn feels even more special, so ’s really nice to see happen for gay people, ” she told CNN. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.
Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.
Several The Last of Us viewers have claimed that the disurse over whether straight actors should be able to play gay characters on screen, Nick Offerman is an ‘exceptn to the le’. There are equently bat over whether or not straight actors should be st gay rol, wh It’s a S creator Rsell T Davi sayg January 2021 about stg for his Channel 4 drama: ‘I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to “act gay” bee “actg gay” is a bunch of s for a performance. The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons, who publicly me out as gay 2012, prevly said: ‘There’s fely this spectm: I thk the fight, as were, is not about havg only gay people play the gay parts but to ensure that all parts are open to all actors, ’ while Col Firth, who played a gay man oppose Stanley Tucci the 2020 film Supernova, said: ‘I don’t have a fal posn on this.
THE LAST OF US LETS GAY LOVE FLOURISH THE APOLYPSE
While The Whe Lot star Murray is gay, Nick has been married to Will & Grace star Megan Mullaly sce 2003.
‘Nick Offerman is the only straight man I’m okay wh beg st as a gay character.
‘Congratulatns to Nick Offerman for officially jog Stanley Tucci as the -print of the “Cis Straight Dus Wh A Lifetime Pass to Play Gay Characters” club after this episo bc wow I’m still cryg, ’ another wrote. Say what you will about straight actors playg gay characters but nick offerman n play gay whenever he wants idc!!!!!! Not Nick Offerman changg my md about straight actors playg gay rol⦗ Nick Lehmann (@NickStopTalkg) January 30, 2023.
THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG
Particularly, I hope Nick Offermanâs (awards-worthy) performance fally puts to rt the âstraight actors nât/shouldnât play gayâ narrative out there.
TV wrer Nick Lehmann claimed that Nick ‘changed his md about straight actors playg gay rol’, wh another person remarkg that while ‘ would have been nice for both Frank AND Bill to be played by a gay actor… Offerman was PERFECT’. One viewer stated that The Last of Us episo three ‘was yet another example’ of ‘Bury Your Gays’ – a trope the media relatg to the aths of LGBT+ characters stori who may be picted as beg expendable to the plot – as well as an example of straight men playg gay men. Many fans have lled one of the bt TV episos they’ve ever watched (Picture: HBO)Another person wrote: ‘Also let me be VERY clear: If/when Nick Offerman ws an award for this I will not be plag about a straight actor wng an award for playg gay him and Craig Maz talked about makg sure they did the work to portray this an hont and rpectful way.
His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.
‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
*WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Last Of Us*The story of Bill and Frank is only briefly touched upon The Last Of Us vio game, but episo 3 of HBO’s adaptatn has dramatilly expand on their relatnship what is a notable viatn om the source enthrallg episo is filled wh tensn, joy and heartbreak as tells the pair’s story over almost two s, begng wh their first meetg after Frank fell to one of Bill’s follows is a betiful love story that has left fans wh a number of qutns, wh some askg whether Bill was gay The Last Of Us game self. TERMINAL ILLNESS: FRANK’S FATE IN THE LAST OF US SERIES IS A HUGE DEPARTURE FROM ORIGINAL GAME© HBO | Liane HentscherWas Bill gay The Last Of Us game? Y, Bill is nfirmed to be gay The Last Of Us vio game.
Speakg The Last Of Us podst, Craig Maz reerated this pot, sayg: “This wasn’t a new ncept that Bill was gay, that’s the game.
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.