Noah Schnapp, the actor who plays Will Byers Stranger Thgs, has officially e out as gay.
Contents:
- WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY
- ‘STRANGER THGS’ HAS ALWAYS HAD A GAY CHARACTER: WILL BYERS
- STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY
WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY
"Stranger Thgs" discsn about Will Byers, beg a gay teen the '80s and horror * was will always gay stranger things *
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. 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. Sce the first season of the Netflix seri, fans have speculated and theorized the possibily of Will beg gay.
‘STRANGER THGS’ HAS ALWAYS HAD A GAY CHARACTER: WILL BYERS
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. * was will always gay stranger things *
Stranger Thgs Season 4 further fuels the nversatn that Will might be gay.
A Stranger Thgs Twter acunt poted out, “Will’s school project is about Alan Turg, a Brish WWII hero and a Gay Man…”. But 1952, Turg was prosecuted for homosexual acts. I’m posive that he’s meant to be terpreted as gay, whether they make obv wh the show or not, ” said a fan on Redd.
This go tune wh Noah Schnapp’s ment to Variety, statg, “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. 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.
STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY
That release never me, but there were a few more teas that strongly suggted he's gay. "For me, Will beg gay or not is bis the pot, " he wrote at the time on Instagram.
Do beg sensive, or a loner, or a teenager who lik photography, or a girl wh red hair and big glass, make you gay?