Will Byers on "Stranger Thgs" was always gog to be gay |

Contents:

• 'STRANGER THGS' SEASON 4 MAK A BIG MISTAKE WH WILL'S GAY STORYLE
• STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 PRODUCER ADDRS QUTN OF IF WILL IS GAY
• WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY
• STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY

'STRANGER THGS' SEASON 4 MAK A BIG MISTAKE WH WILL'S GAY STORYLE

He’s one of the only characters on the show to never have a love tert and, unlike his bt iends Mike, Dt and Lus, Will has never had a “Will is gay” theori only grew after the premiere of Stranger Thgs season 4 volume 1 where Will’s attu toward Mike implied he had a csh on his long-time pal. Stranger Thgs: Is Will Byers gay? 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.

STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 PRODUCER ADDRS QUTN OF IF WILL IS GAY

Unrstandably, fans were trated by that kd of non-answer, which feels siar to the way Disney has handled their gay characters over the years—sentially wh blk-and-you’ll-miss- moments or throwaway one-lers that maybe ht at somethg I feel like we n cut the Duffer Brothers a ltle b of slack, as they did troduce an actual lbian character last season wh the troductn of Rob. Rob isn’t “out” yet, but she has discsed her sexualy more blatant terms than Will has, so ’s not like the show is pletely whout gay n we expect om Will Byers Stranger Thgs season 4 volume 2?

While chattg wh TVLe, the Duffer Brothers said they would not nfirm if Schnapp’s character is gay jt yet sce the entire season has not been released, but assured fans that if they watch the fal two episos of Stranger Thgs season 4, they will get answers one way or another. That release never me, but there were a few more teas that strongly suggted he's gay. "For me, Will beg gay or not is bis the pot, " he wrote at the time on Instagram.

Do beg sensive, or a loner, or a teenager who lik photography, or a girl wh red hair and big glass, make you gay? "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. Stranger Thgs season 4, Volume 2 unfurled the answerIs Stranger Thgs season 4 htg Will is gay?

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

While we don't have fe answers for any of the qutns jt yet—We're thkg Steve, Fenty, and narcissism, that precise orr—the Duffer brothers did promise that the biggt qutn of all would fally be addrsed properly volume two (via Variety), is Will Byers a fledglg gay the makg? After many, many hours and many more endgs, we fally have an answer: Will is kd of fely gay, kd cred: NetflixSo there you have .

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

But 's the bt we've got right first "Will is kd of fely gay, kd of" moment arriv episo eight when Will fally reveals what's his secret patg. Defely not, fe, 's very obv to everyone watchg, cludg Will's own brother, Jonathan, that Will probably fely maybe thks all the thgs as well and that he too is love wh 's a tale as old as time: gay boy falls love wh straight bt iend, straight bt iend falls love wh Eggo-lovg psychic, so gay boy pats a dragon picture to exprs his feelgs for straight bt iend, but that giv straight bt iend the urage to tell Eggo-lovg psychic that he lov her, leavg gay boy behd to look out the r wdow and cry while pretendg he's an MTV mic 've all been that's why the le, "When you're different sometim, you feel like a mistake, " probably h home for a lot of queer people watchg particular. It certaly stuck wh Jonathan, who later took Will asi volume two's send "Will is kd of fely gay, kd of" moment.

Will's moment wh Jonathan only mak sense if Will is gay, so there's more gog on than jt mere implitn.

Yet Will's nermost secrets are only acknowledged briefly a very roundabout what's worse is that the "kd of fely gay, kd of" moments aren't really service of Will's story at that emotnal nversatn wh Mike, Will is clearly g out if you read between the l. Stranger Thgs season 4 producer, Shawn Levy, addrs the qutn of whether Will is gay, sayg, "there aren't many accints" on the seri. Stranger Thgs season 4 producer Shawn Levy addrs whether Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) is gay.