Contents:
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- WHY THE GAY ROMANCE “THE LAST OF US” MEANS SO MUCH
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
- Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
- THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
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. In fact, this new take on The Last of Us is already gettg a b uy wh another gay love story, one that marks a huge improvement over the gam.
WHY THE GAY ROMANCE “THE LAST OF US” MEANS SO MUCH
Anyone would feel the same that moment, but the specific pa they’re feelg is magnified even more bee they’re two olr gay men who felt isolated even before the apolypse me along. There’s so much tenrns this moment still, somethg we rarely see any pictn of gay sex onscreen, let alone between two middle-aged men such big, mastream fare. "Here are two girls who are both gay, and their sexualy is nfg to them and sry to them.
HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
The revolutn that we've gone through as a culture to bee acceptg of homosexualy and whatever we'd ll non-hetero normative sexuali hasn't occurred… this world, that stuff is still 'problematic' as they say. Dpe beg review-bombed for beg a gay love story, "Long, Long Time" still received rave reviews om crics and holds a 98% on Rotten Tomato.
And bee of this gay reprentatn on-screen, a ntgent of largely homophobic dience members have been quick to share s vrl.
Bill n’t exist whout beg gay Frank’s arms.
Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
Apparently the wrers thk Bill and Frank’s inty was jt that they were gay, nothg more than that. Oh and that person jt happens to also be gay?
"And jeroen-10631 even lled out the episo's haters, sayg review bombers should "be ashamed of themselv" and that "clearly the story of two gay men ma you so unfortable:""Some of the people mentg about “polil propaganda” and 'checkg off liberal box' should be ashamed of themselv. Clearly the story of two gay men ma you so unfortable that you only subnscly realized you are so behd the tim and been raised rigid and immature while htg that '1 star' button. All tak is a simple Google search to figure out that this is simply the act of homophobic ter trolls.
In the game, while not overtly shown, Bill is gay.
THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
Ne years before the episo of the same name, Left Behd revealed that Ellie is gay. Those are the qutns plagug Ellie, not the far more played out”Am I gay?