Noah Schnapp Confirms His Stranger Thgs Character Will Byers Is Gay

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• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
• NOAH SCHNAPP SAYS IT'S "100% CLEAR" HIS "STRANGER THGS" CHARACTER IS GAY
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
• WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY

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

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. I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.

Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

But some fans were still upset that the show didn't make absolutely explic that Will is gay.

NOAH SCHNAPP SAYS IT'S "100% CLEAR" HIS "STRANGER THGS" CHARACTER IS GAY

"Now 's 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike. If 's Will kd of jt refg to grow up and growg up slower than his iends, or if he is really 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.

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

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. Beyond the hts subtle or big, fans of the horror genre might have known Will Byers was always gog to be gay.

WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" 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. In 1984, real-life Indiana born and raised Ryan Whe, although not himself gay, was diagnosed wh AIDS after ntractg the disease om a blood transfn.

Like Freddy Keger (who has a gay fandom of his own), he is also a monster pable of slippg to the mds of his victims.