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

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• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
• 'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'
• STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY
• NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’
• FANS ARE CLASHG OVER THE GAY REPRENTATN ‘STRANGER THGS’
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5, AND WILL’S SEXUALY: ‘HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’ (EXCLUSIVE)
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ HAS ALWAYS HAD A GAY CHARACTER: WILL BYERS

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER

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Is Will Byers gay Stranger Thgs?

“Will Byers really ptur the gay teen experience, ” one Twter er claims. Noah Schnapp is lettg the world know that his “Stranger Thgs” character, Will Byers, is gay. Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” he said Variety’s latt story.

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

I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be 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. 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. The 18-year-old Stranger Thgs star me out as gay a TikTok vio on Thursday.

'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'

Over the vio, Schnapp wrote, "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'". Over the show's four seasons, fans have repeatedly qutned whether Will was gay, wh some even cricizg the seri for not explicly statg the seemgly obv sooner.

" He later had a heart-to-heart wh his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) where Jonathan appeared to offer his support of Will, whout ever sayg the words, "I know you're gay and I'm here. 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.

"Noah Schnapp, the actor who plays Will Byers Stranger Thgs, has officially e out as gay.

STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM 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.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

Now ’s 100% clear he is gay and do love Mike, ” Schnapp said. 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. There has been a lot of fan speculatn regardg Stranger Thgs character Will Byers, played by st member Noah Schnapp, on whether the character is gay or not.

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

When fans found out via an terview Schnapp gave that Will is ed gay, a lot of viewers were disappoted the way the show handled his g out. Sce the episo premiered, fans have speculated whether or not Will is gay bee of the speech he gave.

In an terview wh Variety, Schnapp was quoted as sayg that Will is ed gay. “Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” Schnapp said.

FANS ARE CLASHG OVER THE GAY REPRENTATN ‘STRANGER THGS’

I thk is done so betifully bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay. Soon after Schnapp’s terview, the show was acced of queerbag dienc to believg the character is gay whout explicly statg . Many viewers felt that Will should have explicly stated that he was gay to his iends.

Fans wanted to be clear exactly who Will is the show vers an actor statg a character is gay an terview. The show is set the 1980s, a time when beg gay was stigmatized by the AIDS epimic and rampant homophobia had existed for s. But what hasn’t been shown is homophobia and the backlash a gay character uld face for g out.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5, AND WILL’S SEXUALY: ‘HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’ (EXCLUSIVE)

People were abed for beg gay and disowned back the 1980s. Nowadays g out as gay is seen as more monplace. There are still plac our untry where children are disowned for beg gay or transgenr.

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That ser, ” wh a text overlay readg, “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. After season 4 of the drama premiered last year, Schnapp nfirmed that Will is gay and love wh his iend Mike (Fn Wolfhard), who is turn datg Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). “Now ’s 100 percent clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” he explaed.

‘STRANGER THGS’ HAS ALWAYS HAD A GAY CHARACTER: WILL BYERS

Addnally, there have been speculatns for years that Noah Schnapp’s character, Will Byers, intifi as gay and is love wh Fn Wolfhard’s Mike Wheeler. Bis that, there have been several hts through Stranger Thgs‘ six-year n (so far) that suggt Will Byers is gay.

But they did, dont have to be an official g out scene to see YES, THIS BOY IS GAY. — koolaid ?❤️ (@redbuhll) July 1, 2022 Even though Will never explicly stat his sexualy, be creasgly obv that he intifi as gay. Instead, Rob and Will were both trmatized om their attractn to straight characters, which not only ni gay people the love they serve, but also mak them nothg more than a means to create unnecsary and hurtful drama.

You turn the origal heart of the show, Will, to a background character Sad Gay whose only role is to sacrifice his own happs service of the love of his life beg wh a girl, and then queerba dienc all Pri month. Fuck #StrangerThgs— em tumbl on (@EmTumbl) July 1, 2022 weird how nobody gaf about stranger thgs beg “realistic” when to supernatural powers and alternate dimensns and plot hol season 4 but sudnly when we ask for a gay character to actually have a good storyle, that’s when the show needs to be “realistic”— paige ? SPOILERS (@elmikewill) July 1, 2022 Whout a doubt, there’s many thgs that the Duffer Brothers uld have done differently when approachg Will and Rob’s sexuali and although Stranger Thgs 4 was a strong season overall, Will and Rob served better. From the start, seemed clear that Will is gay and terrified of g out.