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You n read our rep of this episo </i><a href=" target=_blank><i>here</i></a><i>.)</i></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Much of the foc on HBO’s terpretatn of “The Last of Us” has been on s <a href=" target=_blank>fily</a> to the gam — how fahfully re-creat the origal’s story and scen, and what choos to change. While <a href=" target=_blank>episo 2</a> gave a very different ath for <a href=" target=_blank>Ts,</a> episo 3 is an even bigger parture, tellg a whole new story about si character Bill and his partner Frank. Through this change, the episo tells a new, more hopeful story about the zombie apolypse. At the same time, tells a plex but also stereotypil story about the liv and aths available to the queer people s world.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class=" mb-md hi-for-prt" data-qa="subscribe-promo"><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div><a class="pt-sm pb-sm flex ems-center bold font-xxxs font-xxs-ns offblack hover-blue-bright jtify-between" href=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="text-ratn:none;borr:none"><span class="mr-xs flex ems-center"><span class="ml-xs">Tech is not your iend. We are. Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter.</span></span><svg class="ntent-box" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" xmlns=" style="transn:right .2s;posn:relative;right:4px;fill:#2a2a2a" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>ArrowRight</tle><path d="M7.664 1.25l6 6a1 1 0 010 1.414l-6 6L6.25 13.25 10.499 9H2V7h8.585L6.25 2.664 7.664 1.25z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></a><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the vio game of “The Last of Us,” Joel and Ellie meet Bill, a lone survivor who is diststful and unpleasant. He mak reference to a “partner” and seems to suggt he kicked that person out, fdg better to be on his own. After fightg through fected search of a r battery, the group disvers that that partner, Frank, was bten by fected and hanged himself rather than turn. It seems that Frank was leavg Bill, and his suici note is full of vrl. “I want you to know I hated your guts,” he wr to Bill. “I grew tired of this shty town and your set--your-ways attu. I wanted more om life than this and you uld never get that … Tryg to leave this town will kill me. Still better than spendg another day wh you.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The HBO show pulls on the thread of Frank’s sire for “more om life than this,” showg the viewer a livg Frank who meets Bill when he falls to one of the traps Bill has set up around town, a town he has to himself after refg to evacuate at the start of the zombie panmic. Frank div to timacy wh Bill om the moment they meet, gratiatg his way to dner at Bill’s hoe. He’s exced about simple pleasur, enthg over a hot shower, a lic meal, Bill’s piano and ultimately Bill himself, as they go to bed together and beg a relatnship. Through the years, we see Frank betify their hoe and the town, make iends Joel and Ts and generally relish whatever life the show’s apolypse has to offer for as long as he n. His enthiasm brgs Bill out of his loner shell, and the two have a long, relatively happy life together before, aged and firm, they die by jot suici.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I was surprised to fd a storyle like this “The Last of Us.” I have to adm that my view of the gam isn’t posive — they are betiful and emotnal, but for me, they always e back to btaly and spair a way I fd simplistic. As I wrote <a href=" target="_blank">my review</a> of 2020′s “The Last of Us Part 2,” -creator Neil Dckmann’s work “don’t relish s gory aths or emotnal sufferg. It jt tak every opportuny to show them, over and over, and cis that unts as sayg somethg about them.” The gam’s characters are admirably diverse; a queer storyle the 2013 game was undoubtedly a leap forward for the medium at the time, and 2014′s “Left Behd” DLC and “The Last of Us Part 2” featured queer and <a href=" target="_blank">trans storyl that expand vio game narrativ</a>. But this diversy, to me, ultimately pots back to nothg but nihilism: queer people exist the worlds bee we exist the real world, and they suffer bee everyone suffers. At the risk of beg crass: I’m a queer trans man, myself. You don’t need to tell me thgs are bad out here.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">So I didn’t expect episo 3 to tell such a posive story, or as posive a story as “The Last of Us” universe n allow. Queer reprentatn media has a long, thorny history; for most of the 20th century, queer characters were portrayed as villas and loners, and their liv were <a href=" target=_blank>tragic</a> as a sort of moral stctn. In recent tim and some parts of the world, as public opn of queerns changed and muni ma stris legal regnn and rights, the queer stori available have also changed. Televisn, film and books have shown queer characters a more posive light, movg om sikicks or punchl to nuanced protagonists wh plex liv. Queer characters have been “allowed” to be <a href=" target=_blank>happy</a>, which has undoubtedly helped a new generatn of queer people see themselv and image better liv. This has led to a bate among many queer muni about whether reprentatn self is the end goal, or whether posive reprentatn ns the risk of <a href=" target=_blank>simplifyg</a> queer liv. It’s a <a href=" target=_blank>plited</a> topic wh no five answer.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Why the new game ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ is roilg the LGBTQ muny</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In many ways, Bill and Frank’s story embodi this bate. They’re plited characters, pecially Bill; when’s the last time you saw a queer character who was also a prepper, wh a Gadsn flag and a basement full of guns? While they fall to certa gay stereotyp — a love of fer thgs, Frank’s knowledge of antiqu, Bill’s fss about his home — the quali stand as humanizg ntrasts to their tough exterrs. (Their excellent butch beard game don’t hurt, eher.) They survive and thrive the world of “The Last of Us,” creatg an abundant life while other people we’ve met so far languish arized ci. Most notably — and most differently than the game — they go out on their own terms. They “<a href=" target=_blank>queer</a>” what ath “The Last of Us” n be; a world where everythg ends tragedy, they create the happit endg available to anyone, gay or straight. They’re a lifele to life self, to an old world where people uld die more ways than jt at the mouth of a zombie or the barrel of a gun.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Why HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ rewrote the love story of Bill and Frank</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But however revolutnary their aths might be for the universe of “The Last of Us,” they still fall to well-worn gay ath trop. It seems that Bill is olr than Frank, but Frank succumbs to an unspecified illns and ends up firm, which ultimately prompts his suici. If you grew up queer the 80s and 90s, the image of one gay man phg another a wheelchair might look fiercely faiar om the early days of the AIDS crisis and the storytellg that me out of . Many cis gay men of my generatn believed this kd of ath was evable, that they would die tend to by a lover or they would be the widower left behd. (Bill and Frank’s last day together particular remd me of the 1996 film “It’s My Party,” which an HIV-posive man throws a party before killg himself.) Bill rebels agast this trope by dyg alongsi Frank, but as I watched (and cried) as Bill wheeled Frank around their hoe and hand him his pills, I thought of how many tim I had seen this scene other movi and televisn. I wonred why the show’s creators chose to have Frank sicken to lead to Bill and Frank’s aths when one or both of their ag uld have been the cg factor.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the time which they’re shown alive, they also exist as the only two queer people their world. At one pot they argue over havg iends, a fight Frank ws by vg over Joel and Ts, a straight uple. The viewer never se if they have queer iends, or if they did before. This is, of urse, explaable: Bill is a loner by nature, pl there’s the whole apolypse thg, but the lone queer or isolated uple is another trope I’ve seen media pictns. While no relatnships end happily per se “The Last of Us,” queer liv are always <i>lonely</i>.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="gift-share-le" data-ttid="gift-share-le" class="PJLV PJLV-ilotWTr-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-goNocI-placement-Inle foc-highlight"><div data-ttid="gift-share-terstial-trigger" class="wpds-c-kPqOkS wpds-c-kPqOkS-jtSXsT-hasSubsText-false"><span class="wpds-c-hBJqc"><span class="wpds-c-dzSncg">Share this article</span></span><span class="wpds-c-eCvK"><span class="wpds-c-enedHQ wpds-c-enedHQ-cCdK-isShown-false">Share</span><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fDHGth"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the “Left Behd” DLC, Ellie has a youthful romance wh a girl named Riley; when the two are bten by fected, they rolve to die together, only for Ellie to outlive Riley when she disvers she’s immune to the fectn. In “The Last of Us Part 2,” Ellie ends up alone when her qut for revenge driv her partner Da om her life. “The Last of Us Part 2’s” <a href=" target=_blank>trans character Lev</a> seems to be the only trans person the world, and he los his relig muny and fay. In the experience of many queer people the real world, myself clud, queer people might face hardship, but we have a muny around ; we know people like ourselv. “The Last of Us” picts queer people when a viewer might not expect to see them, but still shows them the same old ways.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I’m not gog to fely clare this “good” or “bad.” A more tradnally happy endg isn’t the rds for Bill and Frank bee isn’t the rds for <i>anyone</i> “The Last of Us.” And queer characters don’t necsarily need happy endgs to be nuanced characters or to tell meangful stori. But while watchg the episo, I thought about Ellie’s nonil queerns om the gam. Joel and the viewer know so much about Bill and Frank’s queer liv, but Ellie don’t. Bill’s suici note asks whoever fds not to e to the bedroom, and so she never even se them. If Ellie is queer this universe, I wonred what would have been like for her to meet them, the way she meets Bill the game. Would help her image the horizons of her own life, the way has helped so many real-world queer people? I wonred if she uld see clu of queerns, hts of herself, Bill and Frank’s hoe. Bill’s suici note is left to “whoever but probably Joel,” and Ellie says “I figured I fell to whoever” — she do, perhaps more ways than one.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I ed to hate the world and I was happy when everyone died,” Ellie reads. “But I was wrong, bee there was one person worth savg.” Bella Ramsey as Ellie stumbl over the send part here. Is she seeg herself the note? Is she nnectg wh other queer people through their words, even this tragic way, jt as I did through all the books and movi and plays of my own youth? I am, of urse, a real person not livg through an apolypse (maybe this is batable; not a <i>zombie</i> apolypse, anyway), and I overme those tragic stori of my youth by formg a muny of other queer and trans people. Will the same possibili be open to Ellie? It seems unlikely, but given what Bill and Frank’s story shows the show, perhaps ’s not impossible.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="rrectn-disclaimer" class="wpds-c-lgLEQx wpds-c-lgLEQx-iPJLV-css"><div data-ttid="disclaimer-headle" class="wpds-c-kAVFVG">rrectn</div><p data-ttid="disclaimer-scriptn" class="wpds-c-joLgjs">A prev versn of this article misstated that the character Lev di "The Last of Us Part 2," when he surviv to the end of the game.</p></div></div><div class="wpds-c-ipATMk wpds-c-ipATMk-hCiGAB-removeMobileStyl-te"><div class="wpds-c-dhzjXW wpds-c-dhzjXW-iPJLV-css overriStyl mt-md tt"><div id="gift-share-end" data-ttid="gift-share-end" class="PJLV PJLV-idiqKOk-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-iIVoLq-placement-Shortcut foc-highlight"><div class="wpds-c-UazGY" id="gift-share-shortcut" data-ttid="gift-share-shortcut"><svg xmlns=" fill="var(--wpds-lors-primary)" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fVfumU "><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg><div class="PJLV wpds-c-kwcHlj">Share</div></div></button></div><div class="wpds-c-hcekgi"><div class="mb-lg-mod" data-qa="ments-btn-div"><button aria-label="Scroll to the ments sectn" data-qa="ments-btn" class="wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-kSOqLF-SQjOY-variant-sendary wpds-c-kSOqLF-eHdizY-nsy-flt wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-in-left wpds-c-kSOqLF-igqYgPb-css ments hi-for-prt"><svg xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="currentColor" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp "><path d="M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z"></path></svg><span></span> Comments</button></div></div></div><div class="PJLV PJLV-iipsdti-css"><div class="hi-for-prt" data-ttid="llectns__wrapper"><div class="wpds-c-iRrQDa wpds-c-iRrQDa-ibLfOyz-css"><div class="wpds-c-eZQlgr"><div class="PJLV"><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-kJRMEh-variant-strong wpds-c-dbVHzF-icdXrXM-css"></div><label class="wpds-c-bMdHQm wpds-c-bMdHQm-jPiQqD-size-md wpds-c-bMdHQm-iPJLV-css"><div>Bt of Lncher</div><div data-qa="handcurated-label" class="wpds-c-kcUnXn"><div class="wpds-c-hxvsrd curated-in-wrapper"><svg xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 93 81" fill="var(--wpds-lors-sendary)" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-hlLlVP curated-in-asset" data-ttid="curated-in-asset" style="marg:to"><path fill="#fff" fill-le="evenodd" d="m42.2 24.27-4.28-4.32-3.28 3.32v26.65l7.47 6.62.08-.07v-32.2zm-17.25 1-5.34-5.32-3.51 3.62V50l6.48 5.62 2.37-2.7V25.27zm59.4-13.49 8.65 8v33.76L79.61 63.78c-1.3-1.63-2.9-3.02-4.81-3.57v16.15l-.16.08-4.2-3.96-8.87 8.3-.16-.08V59.82a14.37 14.37 0 0 0-7.8 5.13l-.61-.39c.53-5.98 3.44-10.4 8.41-12.1V37.31h-1.6a4.03 4.03 0 0 0-4.06 3.26h-.91A9.64 9.64 0 0 1 54.3 37c0-3.8 2.52-6.68 6.65-6.68h.46v-8.38l-2.75-2.48-2.14 2.17-1.07-1.01 8.49-8.85 7.19 6.68v7.6l2.22-2.4v-8.93h1.45v7.37l9.56-10.32zm-11 13.35-2.22 2.33v43.7l2.22 2.1V25.12zM15.1 0l.68.62c-2.51 1.23-4.57 2.77-4.57 6.08 0 5.09 4.88 3.78 4.88 11.79v3.08l8.92-9.47 9.39 9.32 8.85-9.33 8.54 8.48v28.5L36.1 63.71l-10.6-9.25-8.1 9.25-10.98-9.55v-15.1H4.27c-1.9 0-2.82 1.15-3.13 2.7H.38c-.15-.62-.38-1.7-.38-2.93 0-2 .84-7.24 6.4-7.24V19.88c0-4.55-2.97-4.78-2.97-8.7C3.43 6.77 7.55 2.7 15.11 0zm63.74 19.16L74.8 23.5v28.18c3.6.46 6.27 1.7 8.49 4.11l.07-.08V23.35l-4.5-4.2z"></path></svg></div><div>HAND CURATED</div></div></label></div></div><div data-qa="llectns-wrapper"><ul data-ttid="llectns-list" class="wpds-c-fJRfWX wpds-c-fJRfWX-icuweNC-css"><li class="wpds-c-hzLuJf wpds-c-hzLuJf-ibJMFbE-css"><span class="wpds-c-boVztI"><a href=" class="wpds-c-hJmLeM remove-borr-bottom"><div style="width:66%;marg:0" class="wpds-c-fixGjY"><div class="wpds-c-eQfTfP"><div href=" alt="We all e phon on the toilet. 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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.

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

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. * gay couple the last of us 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.

The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays.

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?

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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.

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

Is Bill gay the origal 'Last of Us' game? The HBO seri explor Bill's romantic attractns greater tail than the PS3 tle. * gay couple the last of us 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.

“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. So yeah, Bill has always been gay.

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED

Bear World Magaze HBO's 'The Last of Us' seri will she a spotlight on gay uple Bill and Frank Entertament * gay couple the last of us game *

*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. 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. 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’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE

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Unlike Da, Bill tri to hi his homosexualy and ially only refers to Frank as someone he had red for.

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. After wng turns Lookg, Tal of the Cy and The Whe Lot, he’s fast beg one of the medium’s most proment gay the episo nears s end, and Frank be curably sick, the uple’s last scen together are profoundly movg. The episo is, among other thgs, a subversn of the much-cricised “bury your gays” trope.

WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? EXPLAED

The new TV show has some differenc to the acclaimed vio gam. But was Bill gay The Last Of Us game? Or did the show change thgs? * gay couple the last of us game *

Here, y, are two gay characters who die.

Here’s everythg you need to know about if Bill was gay The Last of Us game. Full Explanatn While both Bill’s sexualy and relatnship wh Frank were never explicly stated the game, there is plenty of evince to pot towards both Bill beg gay, and him and Frank havg mataed a romantic relatnship.

On top of this, Ellie also steals a gay pornographic magaze om Bill’s locker, to joke around wh Joel. So y, n be duced that Bill was very likely to have been gay The Last of Us game, or at least have some sexual attractn to men.

HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ SERI WILL SHE A SPOTLIGHT ON GAY UPLE BILL AND FRANK

That’s all you need to know about if Bill was gay The Last of Us game. Bill's Sexualy Was Always Hted at the Origal 'Last of Us' GameIs Bill gay the origal 'Last of Us' game?

This is new ground for The Last of Us, but is Bill gay the game? Bill is visibly troubled by his ath, revealg to Joel that Frank had lived wh him before leavg on poor isn't explicly stated, Bill is heavily implied to be gay this scene.

In a 2014 terview wh Gay Gamer, Neil revealed that Bill's sexualy was somethg that he wanted to rporate more openly the game but that the fal product left ambiguo.

GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS

After Joel and Ellie take off one of Bill's tcks, Ellie mmag through the back seat and disvers an old adult men's magaze that likely belonged to Bill's sexualy is ultimately never nfirmed the game, his gay romance wh Frank is explored fully the show, where the two of them share their own love story that is pletely origal to the seri. Through light dialogue and bs of addnal ntext you fd around Bill’s home and the neighborg abandoned town, players fd out that Bill is a gay man who was tryg to survive wh his now-ceased partner, Frank. This article was origally published on our sister se, Gaymg Magaze.

Ty is Gaymg Magaze’s puty edor and ports expert. “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.

THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REP: BLOOMG LOVE STORY OF A GAY UPLE, FRANK'S ILLNS AND BILL'S REMPTN

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.

WAS BILL GAY IN THE LAST OF US GAME? THE SURPRISG ANSWER

”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.

Given athat female ma characters gam were a rary until que recently, the fact that one of the biggt releas of the year, The Last of Us Part II, stars a gay woman feels like a signifint moment. Ellie is, fact, the first gay star of any blockbter game (die velopers have been ls shy about explorg queer stori) and Ellie The Last of Us Part II.

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

We journey through much of the game wh her girliend Da (played by Shannon Woodward); we see her experience homophobia and have awkward nversatns wh the people who re about is played by Ashley Johnson – a warm, wry and ngoly shy actor who had numero creds film and TV before landg a role 2013’s The Last of Us.

“Playg a lead female character a game is already pretty ol, but the fact that she’s gay is even oler, for me. ”Most often vio gam, if a character is gay ’s bee you chose for them to be so.

‘THE LAST OF US’ CREATOR REVEALS HOW HE CRAFTED THE GAY LOVE STORY THAT HAS FANS TEARS

Dpe a history of gay reprentatn that go back s – gay marriage was a thg The Sims long before most real-world untri – gam rarely have much to say about what ’s like to be queer real 2013’s The Last of Us, Ellie was a supportg character: the funny, sarstic teenage foil to gff, nflicted, beardy father figure Joel, who transported her across Ameri on a post-apolyptic road trip. “Whenever I’ve met fans at [nventns] there are still some people who ask: ‘Ellie’s not gay, right?

“Ellie is VERY gay. While they fall to certa gay stereotyp — a love of fer thgs, Frank’s knowledge of antiqu, Bill’s fss about his home — the quali stand as humanizg ntrasts to their tough exterrs. They “queer” what ath “The Last of Us” n be; a world where everythg ends tragedy, they create the happit endg available to anyone, gay or straight.

They’re a lifele to life self, to an old world where people uld die more ways than jt at the mouth of a zombie or the barrel of a however revolutnary their aths might be for the universe of “The Last of Us, ” they still fall to well-worn gay ath trop.

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