Stranger Thgs: Will Byers Actor Noah Schnapp Com Out as Gay - IGN

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• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP NFIRMS WILL IS GAY AND 'HE DO LOVE MIKE'
• NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP NFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOVE WH MIKE WHEELER
• STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY
• WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’

'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'

All the qutns answered, and still one remas: Will Byers gay yet? “For me, Will beg gay or not is bis the pot.

Sce that first season, y “We’re not sure about Will’s sexualy, haha” statements have ntued, but the Will Byers on the show jt keeps gettg homosexual-er and homosexual-er.

'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP NFIRMS WILL IS GAY AND 'HE DO LOVE MIKE'

In May, when season four’s first seven episos were released, we found Will pg after Mike, turng down the advanc of girls at school (well, one girl), and growg distant om his straight olr brother — all very gay behavrs! ” Okay, Will Byers gay tthers thought.

And now, wh the new episos droppg today, the qutn remas: Will Byers gay yet? The new episos feature two proment “Will Byers gay kda” scen, one each episo. The scene clus the gay phrase “When you’re different sometim, you feel like a mistake” and ends wh Will’s brother, Jonathan, seemg to fully unrstand what Will’s thkg.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

1: Will is certaly gay or at least attracted to men. It mak ltle sense that a straight man the ’80s would be able to duce on his own that his brother is gay, but the show impli that Jonathan figur out Will’s sexualy bee they would rather do that than have Will say .

Look, as far as I’m ncerned, we have an answer to the qutn “Will Byers gay yet? ” The answer is “Y, Will Byers gay. Over the urse of the show's four seasons, fan have qutned whether Will is gay, some even cricizg the Netflix seri for not explicly statg the seemgly obv sooner.

Now 's 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike. " He later had a heart-to-heart wh his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) where Jonathan appeared to offer his support of Will, whout ever say the words, "I know you're gay and I'm here. "I thk is done so betifully, bee 's so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.

'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP NFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOVE WH MIKE WHEELER

Schnapp also spoke about playg a gay character at such a young age while real life also handlg his own personal growth and self-inty. "Stranger Thgs" star Noah Schnapp is nfirmg a popular theory about his character's Will Byers' heart-wrenchg speech  the Season 4 fale, Schnapp officially said his character is gay  an terview wh Variety published Thursday. Now, he says that producers Matt and Ross Duffers have implied that Will is gay sce the first season.

STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY

"Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, " Schnapp said. I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.

Last May, when the first half of Stranger Thgs’ fourth season dropped, Noah Schnapp was vague when Variety asked if many viewers were rrect when they ferred that his character Will was gay: The actor said that Will’s sexualy was “up to the dience’s terpretatn. ” But now that the full season is out, and his feelgs for his bt iend, Mike (Fn Wolfhard), beme more overt, Schapp nfirmed Will’s homosexualy, tellg Variety that he had been ls straightforward earlier to prevent dolg out spoilers before thgs beme clear the new episos. Now ’s 100 percent clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” Schnapp explaed.

Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike. I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.”Schnapp said that Will’s “jealoy” over Mike’s relatnship wh Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) propels him to tearfully speak up. "Strangers Thgs" star Noah Schnapp nfirmed to Variety that his character Will Byers is gay.

WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY

"Stranger Thgs" actor Noah Schnapp has fally nfirmed that his character Will Byers is gay a new terview wh the last two seasons, the show has hted at Will's sexualy, and the latt season, the show more overtly picted Will's stggle wh his sexualy and his feelgs for bt iend Mike episo eight, Will giv a pep talk to Mike (Fn Wolfhard) about Mike's girliend Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) durg a r ri. Schnapp said that people have e up to him to say they relate to Will's character arc sce season four premiered 17-year-old actor add that he didn't know until season four that Will was gay, spe nstantly beg asked about . I thk that's the bety of , that 's jt up to the dience's terpretatn, if 's Will kd of jt refg to grow up and growg up slower than his iends, or if he is really gay.

"Noah Schnapp, the actor who plays Will Byers Stranger Thgs, has officially e out as gay. ""When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know, '" the ptn acpanyg the TikTok for the vio self, which you n view here, Schnapp is lip-syncg to an d clip of someone else sayg, "you know what never was? "Around the release of Stranger Thgs Season 4 2022, Schnapp nfirmed that Will was gay and that the hts were there even the first season.

Now ’s 100% clear he is gay and do love Mike, ” Schnapp said. Fans who pleted Volume 2 of "Stranger Thgs" Season 4 will know Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) has fally, a roundabout way, e out as gay. The show don't actually say he's gay outright.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’

Beyond the hts subtle or big, fans of the horror genre might have known Will Byers was always gog to be gay. It mak sense at a time when the AIDS crisis helped spur greater pictns of gay men and trans characters as monsters film.

In fact, many cultural and film crics suggt that Anne Rice drew om the real-life horrors of the AIDS crisis (imaged as the "gay man's ncer" ially by doctors) when craftg her groundbreakg gay characters "Interview wh the Vampire, " as she had always supported the LGBTQ muny and wanted to addrs the 's rhetoric that poed gay people as monsters.