Let's unpack Will Byers' big emotnal moments 'Stranger Thgs' season 4, Volume 2, and what they mean for the fan theory that Noah Schnapp's character is g out as gay.
Contents:
- 'STRANGER THGS' SEASON 4 MAK A BIG MISTAKE WH WILL'S GAY STORYLE
- DO WILL BYERS E OUT AS GAY STRANGER THGS 4? HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS TO MIKE VOLUME 2
- IS WILL OM ‘STRANGER THGS’ GAY?
- IS WILL BYERS GAY STRANGER THGS 4? NOAH SCHNAPP OPENS UP ABOUT HIS CHARACTER'S SEXUALY
- IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED
'STRANGER THGS' SEASON 4 MAK A BIG MISTAKE WH WILL'S GAY STORYLE
Stranger Thgs season 4 mak this big mistake wh Will's gay g out storyle. * stranger things 4 is mike gay *
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. He saw himself Will as a (then closeted) gay geek.
“Okay okay okay–the show don’t e out and explicly addrs , and the scene I’m talkg about may have left some viewers scratchg their heads, but to a gay like me, a gay who was 100% Will Byers when he was 14, I’ve picked up on all of the signs. They’re billboards, ” Brett wrote before expertly pickg apart each and every thread that Stranger Thgs had woven to the taptry of Will’s potentially gay inty.
As happens, Stranger Thgs Season 4 seems to not only nfirm that Will is gay, but that he also has a very real csh on his long-time bt iend Mike Wheeler (Fn Wolfhard). The msagg is so loud even I, a straight woman, n now pick up on them, sayg to myself, “Oh, that poor ltle gay boy has a csh on his very straight bt iend! Will is gay and love wh Mike, who is straight and love wh El.
DO WILL BYERS E OUT AS GAY STRANGER THGS 4? HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS TO MIKE VOLUME 2
* stranger things 4 is mike gay *
Season 4, however, is remdg that the ’80s were a homophobic time.
Stranger Thgs star Fn Wolfhard has addrsed the speculatn that his character Will may be gay. He was later persecuted for beg gay episo four of this latt season, Will also tells Mike that is “sry to jt open up” and “to say how you really feel”.
ALL POSTSPROOF MIKE IS GAY/BITHIS IS FROM AN OFFICIAL ST BOOK. Also this is sayg he’s bi, not gay.
IS WILL OM ‘STRANGER THGS’ GAY?
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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 .
IS WILL BYERS GAY STRANGER THGS 4? NOAH SCHNAPP OPENS UP ABOUT HIS CHARACTER'S SEXUALY
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.
IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED
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.