HBO’s The Last of Us expands Bill & Frank’s gay romance om the game - Polygon

Contents:

• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• BILL AND FRANK’S GAY LOVE STORY THE LAST OF US GAME IS PLETELY DIFFERENT
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US VIO GAM?
• THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
• THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE

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. Wh such drastic chang, pecially when to Bill and Frank’s relatnship, some are left askg if Bill was really gay The Last of Us vio game.

The biggt hts towards Bill beg a gay man are his relatnship to Frank and a certa magaze that Ellie steals om his stash the church basement, both of which n be missed by players not engagg optnal ntent or not payg close enough attentn. Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .

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

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.

BILL AND FRANK’S GAY LOVE STORY THE LAST OF US GAME IS PLETELY DIFFERENT

The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. “It was geo, and I was so not expectg , ” said Darn Lowenste, 41, a vio game nsultant, who is gay. “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.

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

” 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 VIO GAM?

The Last of Us st open up about the gay love story episo 3. The Last of Us fans are cryg over the gay love story between Bill (Nick Offermann) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) episo 3 but 's very different the sce The Last of Us buted on HBO, viewers have been gripped by the show's emotnally rich storytellg.

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

The Last of Us fans are sobbg over Bill and Frank’s gay love story episo 3. Are Bill and Frank gay The Last of Us game?

One person tweeted: "the last of jt randomly tellg one of the most betiful and vastatg gay love stori i’ve ever seen on televisn…wh nick offerman no ls..

" Another wrote: "image beg smug thkg you know everythg that’s gog to happen on The Last of Us show already bc you played the game and then they show you a gay versn of Up". "Perhaps most heartbreakg of all, a viewer wrote: "gay marriage was never legalized the last of universe so bill and Frank gettg married meant the fuck world and more.

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

The last of jt randomly tellg one of the most betiful and vastatg gay love stori i’ve ever seen on televisn…wh nick offerman no ls.. image beg smug thkg you know everythg that’s gog to happen on The Last of Us show already bc you played the game and then they show you a gay versn of Up— ًًً (@dunwaIl) January 30, 2023.

“Long Long Time” has sparked several plats om the worst si of Twter about how The Last of Us allegedly shoehorned a gay relatnship. But the fact is Bill has always been gay.