“Stranger Thgs” Star Noah Schnapp Confirmed Will Is Gay and Love wh Mike | Teen Vogue

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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.

'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. 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.

'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. 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. “It’s a w for the gays”.

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

’s a w for the gays.

A third wrote: “Stranger thgs havg an official gay character mak me so happy fally some good f**kg reprentatn!

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

Is Will Byers gay Stranger Thgs? “Will Byers really ptur the gay teen experience, ” one Twter er claims. 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. 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.

“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

"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. 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.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

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.

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

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.