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• 'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’
• STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY: 'GUS I'M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT'
• STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY
• STRANGER THGS’ NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP, 18, OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY NEW TIKTOK VIO
• STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS BOTH HE AND HIS CHARACTER ARE GAY“I GUS I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT,” HE PTNED A RECENT TIKTOK. BY SAVANNAH WALSHJANUARY 6, 2023KRISTY SPAROWSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVELIFE AND ART ARE ALCG FOR STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP, WHO HAS OFFICIALLY E OUT AS GAY SIX MONTHS AFTER NFIRMG HIS CHARACTER WILL’S SEXUALY. “I GUS I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT,” HE PTNED A TIKTOK VIO RELEASED ON THURSDAY, WHICH READ: “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.’” SCHNAPP WAS LIP-SYNCG TO D OF SOMEONE SAYG, “YOU KNOW WHAT NEVER WAS? THAT SER. IT WAS NEVER THAT SER. QUE ANKLY, WILL NEVER BE THAT SER.”SCHNAPP, WHO IS CURRENTLY A HMAN STUDYG BS AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ADDRSED HIS CHARACTER’S SEXUALY FOR THE FIRST TIME OVER THE SUMMER. “IT WAS ALWAYS KD OF THERE, BUT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW, IS JT HIM GROWG UP SLOWER THAN HIS IENDS?” SCHNAPP SAID OF WILL’S LACK OF ROMANTIC STORY LE TO VARIETY. “NOW THAT HE’S GOTTEN OLR, THEY MA A VERY REAL, OBV THG. NOW ’S 100% CLEAR THAT HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE [HIS BT IEND, PLAYED BY FN WOLFHARD]. BUT BEFORE, WAS A SLOW ARC. I THK IS DONE SO BETIFULLY, BEE ’S SO EASY TO MAKE A CHARACTER JT LIKE ALL OF A SUDN BE GAY.”PRR TO STRANGER THGS’ FOURTH SEASON, SCHNAPP HAD DODGED QUTNS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WILL WAS GAY, SISTG THAT WAS “UP TO THE DIENCE’S TERPRETATN.” BUT THAT WAS ALL PART OF SHIELDG THE NETFLIX SHOW’S ULTIMATE REVEAL, THE ACTOR EXPLAED. “I MEAN, ’S PRETTY CLEAR THIS SEASON THAT WILL HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE. THEY’VE BEEN TENTNALLY PULLG THAT OUT OVER THE PAST FEW SEASONS,” HE TOLD VARIETY. “EVEN SEASON ONE, THEY HTED AT THAT AND SLOWLY, SLOWLY GREW THAT STORYLE. I THK FOR SEASON FOUR, WAS JT ME PLAYG THIS CHARACTER WHO LOV HIS BT IEND BUT STGGL WH KNOWG IF HE’LL BE ACCEPTED OR NOT, AND FEELG LIKE A MISTAKE AND LIKE HE DON’T BELONG. WILL HAS ALWAYS FELT LIKE THAT.”IN STRANGER THGS’ UPG FAL SEASON, SCHNAPP SAID THAT CREATORS THE DUFFER BROTHERS ARE PLANNG TO “FOC MORE ON WILL,” AND THAT HE’S HOPG FOR A PROPER “G-OUT SCENE” FOR HIS CHARACTER.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSA BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF EVERYTHG HAPPENG AT THIS FALL’S FILM FTIVALS—WHOUT THE STARSA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANTHE ULTIMATE GUI TO FALL MOVIFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSAVANNAH WALSH
• ‘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'

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'". 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.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’

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. Noah Schnapp, who plays the closeted gay teenager Will Byers on Netflix’s “Stranger Thgs, ” has e out as gay. In a vio posted to his TikTok acunt on Thursday, the 18-year-old actor 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 Schnapp lip-syncg to an d clip om a different TikTok of someone sayg, “You know what never was?

In July, followg the but of the fal two episos of the fourth season of “Stranger Thgs, ” Schnapp nfirmed to Variety for the first time that Will Byers is gay and love wh his bt iend Mike (Fn Wolfhard). Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY: ‘MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’

“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 ser, ” wh a text overlay readg, “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.

After season 4 of the drama premiered last year, Schnapp nfirmed that Will is gay and love wh his iend Mike (Fn Wolfhard), who is turn datg Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT’

“Now ’s 100 percent clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” he explaed. I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.

Noah Schnapp, 18, me out as gay a TikTok on Jan.

“Stranger Thgs” actor Noah Schnapp has e out as gay. “I gus I’m more siar to Will than I thought, ” he ptned the vio, referrg to his gay “Stranger Thgs” character Will Byers. “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, ’” Schnapp add text over the vio.

STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY: 'GUS I'M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT'

Schnapp prevly left Will’s sexualy up to viewers’ terpretatn but nfirmed a 2022 terview wh Variety that his character was gay and love wh his bt iend, Mike Wheeler (played Fn Wolfhard). “Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” Schnapp ntued.

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

Stranger Thgs star Noah Schnapp out as gay: 'Gus I'm more siar to Will than I thought' The actor opened up a TikTok vio referencg his beloved TV alter ego. The 18-year-old actor, bt known for playg the closeted gay teenager Will Byers on Netflix's h sci-fi seri Stranger Thgs, me out as gay a TikTok vio posted Thursday.

STRANGER THGS: WILL BYERS ACTOR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY

" In text atop the vio, Shapp 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. The sexual orientatn of Schnapp's TV alter ego has been the subject of much discsn among Stranger Thgs fans over the years, and Schnapp nfirmed last summer that Will is gay and love wh his bt iend Mike (Fn Wolfhard).

Now 's 100 percent 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.

"Noah Schnapp, the actor who plays Will Byers Stranger Thgs, has officially e out as gay.

STRANGER THGS’ NOAH SCHNAPP OUT AS GAY

""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, '" the ptn acpanyg the TikTok for the vio self, which you n view here, Schnapp is lip-syncg to an d clip of someone else sayg, "you know what never was? "Around the release of Stranger Thgs Season 4 2022, Schnapp nfirmed that Will was gay and that the hts were there even the first season. Now ’s 100% clear he is gay and do love Mike, ” Schnapp said.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP, 18, OUT AS GAY

Sign up today for our ee To TopCelebsStranger Thgs Actor Noah Schnapp Com Out As GayNoah Schnapp, bt known for playg Will Byers on Stranger Thgs, has e out as Thursday, January 5, the actor shared a new TikTok vio dubbg over the trendy "You know what never was? That ser" d wrote over the vio:"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. Durg the fourth season of Stranger Thgs - which was released on Netflix last year - the character of Will stggled wh g out as gay.

Noah SchnappPhoto: Amy Ssman (Getty Imag)Noah Schnapp, the 18-year-old actor who plays Will Byers Netflix’s h seri Stranger Thgs, has e out as gay. The text over top his lip sync reads, “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’”. When fans acced the show of queerbag after the character’s subtle g out, he reassured them that was “100% clear that [Will] is gay.

“Stranger Thgs” star Noah Schnapp is gay. “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, '” he wrote atop the selfie-style clip.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

“Stranger Thgs” star Noah Schnapp me out as gay a TikTok vio Thursday.

STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY NEW TIKTOK VIO

Viewers prevly speculated that Schnapp’s character was a member of the LGBTQIA+ muny, which the teen nfirmed July 2022 when he told Variety, “He is gay, and he do love Mike. Related: Stranger Thgs' Maya Hawke sts doubt on girliend storyle season 5In his origal g-out msage, the actor 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 a vio of him mimg to a meme.

"I gus I'm more siar to Will than I thought, " he add the reference lks to the fact that Will is gay, though Stranger Thgs has faced some cricism for not makg the character fively e out on McIntyre//Getty ImagRelated: Stranger Thgs' Fn Wolfhard shar reactn to Noah Schnapp's g out vioSchnapp said earlier this year that the show's upg fal season will give fans closure wh Will, tellg Forb: "I n jt tell you that I'm very very exced for what's to e. Noah Schnapp, one of the young stars of Stranger Thgs has e out as gay.

It was never that ser” while addg on-screen text that reads, “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. Last July, Schnapp nfirmed to Variety that his character is gay, and that Will has feelgs for Mike Wheeler, who is played by Fn Wolfhard. Now ’s 100 [percent] clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” he told Variety.

STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS BOTH HE AND HIS CHARACTER ARE GAY“I GUS I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT,” HE PTNED A RECENT TIKTOK. BY SAVANNAH WALSHJANUARY 6, 2023KRISTY SPAROWSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVELIFE AND ART ARE ALCG FOR STRANGER THGS STAR NOAH SCHNAPP, WHO HAS OFFICIALLY E OUT AS GAY SIX MONTHS AFTER NFIRMG HIS CHARACTER WILL’S SEXUALY. “I GUS I’M MORE SIAR TO WILL THAN I THOUGHT,” HE PTNED A TIKTOK VIO RELEASED ON THURSDAY, WHICH READ: “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.’” SCHNAPP WAS LIP-SYNCG TO D OF SOMEONE SAYG, “YOU KNOW WHAT NEVER WAS? THAT SER. IT WAS NEVER THAT SER. QUE ANKLY, WILL NEVER BE THAT SER.”SCHNAPP, WHO IS CURRENTLY A HMAN STUDYG BS AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ADDRSED HIS CHARACTER’S SEXUALY FOR THE FIRST TIME OVER THE SUMMER. “IT WAS ALWAYS KD OF THERE, BUT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW, IS JT HIM GROWG UP SLOWER THAN HIS IENDS?” SCHNAPP SAID OF WILL’S LACK OF ROMANTIC STORY LE TO VARIETY. “NOW THAT HE’S GOTTEN OLR, THEY MA A VERY REAL, OBV THG. NOW ’S 100% CLEAR THAT HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE [HIS BT IEND, PLAYED BY FN WOLFHARD]. BUT BEFORE, WAS A SLOW ARC. I THK IS DONE SO BETIFULLY, BEE ’S SO EASY TO MAKE A CHARACTER JT LIKE ALL OF A SUDN BE GAY.”PRR TO STRANGER THGS’ FOURTH SEASON, SCHNAPP HAD DODGED QUTNS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WILL WAS GAY, SISTG THAT WAS “UP TO THE DIENCE’S TERPRETATN.” BUT THAT WAS ALL PART OF SHIELDG THE NETFLIX SHOW’S ULTIMATE REVEAL, THE ACTOR EXPLAED. “I MEAN, ’S PRETTY CLEAR THIS SEASON THAT WILL HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE. THEY’VE BEEN TENTNALLY PULLG THAT OUT OVER THE PAST FEW SEASONS,” HE TOLD VARIETY. “EVEN SEASON ONE, THEY HTED AT THAT AND SLOWLY, SLOWLY GREW THAT STORYLE. I THK FOR SEASON FOUR, WAS JT ME PLAYG THIS CHARACTER WHO LOV HIS BT IEND BUT STGGL WH KNOWG IF HE’LL BE ACCEPTED OR NOT, AND FEELG LIKE A MISTAKE AND LIKE HE DON’T BELONG. WILL HAS ALWAYS FELT LIKE THAT.”IN STRANGER THGS’ UPG FAL SEASON, SCHNAPP SAID THAT CREATORS THE DUFFER BROTHERS ARE PLANNG TO “FOC MORE ON WILL,” AND THAT HE’S HOPG FOR A PROPER “G-OUT SCENE” FOR HIS CHARACTER.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSA BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF EVERYTHG HAPPENG AT THIS FALL’S FILM FTIVALS—WHOUT THE STARSA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANTHE ULTIMATE GUI TO FALL MOVIFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONSAVANNAH WALSH

Life and art are alcg for Stranger Thgs star Noah Schnapp, who has officially e out as gay six months after nfirmg his character Will’s sexualy.

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

“I gus I’m more siar to Will than I thought, ” he ptned a TikTok vio released on Thursday, which read: “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. Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike [his bt iend, played by Fn Wolfhard].