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
• 'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
• “STRANGER THGS” STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMED WILL IS GAY AND LOVE WH MIKE
• WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY
• “STRANGER THGS” STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMED THAT HIS CHARACTER WILL BYERS “IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE” JT WEEKS AFTER PRAISG THE “BETY” OF HIS SEXUALY NOT BEG ADDRSED
• NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP NFIRMS WILL IS GAY AND 'HE DO LOVE MIKE'

‘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.

The 18-year-old Stranger Thgs star me out as gay a TikTok vio on Thursday. 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'".

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

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. 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 sayg 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.

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

“It’s a w for the gays”.

“STRANGER THGS” STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMED WILL IS GAY AND LOVE WH MIKE

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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. " 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.

WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO 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. In season four, a new aspect of Will emerged more fully; the teenager om Hawks appeared to have a csh on his iend Mike Wheeler (Fn Wolfhard), and now Noah is nfirmg that Will is ed gay and love wh expand on the storyle a new terview wh Variety, sayg that he ially dodged the qutn and said Will's sexualy was “up to the dience’s terpretatn" bee he didn't want to spoil the fourth season, but the character arc has been there sce the first episos of the Netflix seri.

"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, " he shared.

“STRANGER THGS” STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMED THAT HIS CHARACTER WILL BYERS “IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE” JT WEEKS AFTER PRAISG THE “BETY” OF HIS SEXUALY NOT BEG ADDRSED

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.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

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

CelebryNoah Schnapp“Stranger Thgs” Star Noah Schnapp Confirmed That His Character Will Byers “Is Gay And He Do Love Mike” Jt Weeks After Praisg The “Bety” Of His Sexualy Not Beg Addrsed“It was always kd of there, but you never really knew, is jt him growg up slower than his iends?

As you might know, fans have long theorized that Will — one of the h Netflix show’s leadg characters — is gay, wh the seri seemgly droppg hts over the past few seasons that the teenager don’t “like girls. Back Season 1, for example, Will was faced wh tons of anti-gay remarks not jt om bulli at school, but om his own father. But while fans have long gused that Will is gay, both the Stranger Thgs st and s creators — the Duffer Brothers — have all but avoid labelg his sexualy outright.

Notg that the Duffer Brothers “obvly” “hted at” Will’s sexualy Season 1, Noah said: “Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike. “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. “For me, Will beg gay or not is bis the pot, ” he went on.