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

Contents:

• IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ PRENTS AN ACHGLY BETIFUL GAY LOVE STORY
• THAT ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAY LOVE STORY IS GROUNDBREAKG
• IS JOEL GAY? *SPOILERS*

IS JOEL OM THE LAST OF US GAY OR BISEXUAL? THEORY EXPLAED

“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. ” 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. For one, there are a lot of gay characters both the game and the HBO versn as we know for a fact that Bill, Frank, and Ellie are homosexuals.

But the thg is that there are fans that also believe that the other ma character uld also be gay or even bisexual. So, is Joel gay or bisexual? It is unlikely that Joel is gay or bisexual The Last of Us, even though there are some clu that lead to the possibily of him beg gay or bisexual.

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

Even though some fans have seen hts that uld lead to the possibily of Joel beg gay, that is unlikely the se right now bee of the fact that the are merely speculatns. We n’t say for certa that he is gay unls clear facts pot to that possibily. So, wh that said, let’s look at the possibily of Joel beg gay.

Could Joel Be Gay In The Last of Us?

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

For one, there are a lot of gay characters The Last of Us, as Bill, Frank, and Ellie are exampl of this fact.

On top of that, some clu sttered the game lead to the possibily that he uld be gay.

In that regard, there are certa clu that uld suggt the possibily that Joel is gay. So, uld Joel be gay The Last of Us?

‘THE LAST OF US’ PRENTS AN ACHGLY BETIFUL GAY LOVE STORY

At this pot, is tough to nclu that Joel uld be gay or bisexual The Last of Us. That means that we n’t really say for certa whether or not he is gay due to the fact that any evince regardg that possibily is not nclive.

As such, whout any clear evince potg to the possibily that he is gay, we believe that Joel is unlikely gay.

We need more rmatn and clu regardg his sexualy for to nclu that he uld be gay. But we also know that neher The Last of Us nor The Last of Us 2 gave clear proof of his beg gay or bisexual. So, if he might be gay or bisexual, is possible that the proof will be shown HBO’s live-actn versn.

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

Of urse, while we did say that Joel is unlikely to be gay due to the fact that the clu that pot to this possibily are circumstantial and nclive, we n’t really say for sure that he is actually straight. But bee the ial observatn is that he is straight, then there is a good chance that he is more likely to be straight than gay or bisexual. But those who believe that Joel is gay might see thgs a different way, as is still que possible that Joel and Ts were simply very good iends.

So, absent any clear and nclive evince, is more likely that Joel is straight due to how there are more clu that pot to him beg straight than him beg gay. After all, Bill and Frank were only hted to be gay the game but were clearly gay HBO’s live-actn versn. Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .

IS JOEL GAY? *SPOILERS*

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.

Gamers — and gaymers — alike are unrstandably thrilled about how ’s shapg up; the stg, stumg, and look of the photo released are pretty much that we have an ia of how fahful the adaptatn will look, begs the qutn of whether the storytellg will stay jt as te to s source material. In short, The Last of Us seri is gay as hell, and that’s part of what mak so amazg. 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.

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.