Will Byers on "Stranger Thgs" was always gog to be gay |

Contents:

• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
• IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED
• WILL BYERS ON "STRANGER THGS" WAS ALWAYS GOG TO BE GAY
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5, AND WILL’S SEXUALY: ‘HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’ (EXCLUSIVE)

‘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. NetflixWhen an early trailer for season four dropped, eagle-eyed fans noticed that Will was dog a school project on Alan Turg, the English mathematician who was chemilly strated for beg gay the 1950s.

IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED

So far, so gay, and now that season four is actually here, there are plenty more hts that fans were right when they dubbed him Will Bi-ers.

A classic gay move, we're sure you'll agree, but there are also hts that Will might have done this bee his heart actually belongs to another girl — Eleven. "Will, beg the msy gay he is might be, mak Mike's drama all about himself, and what we prume are his feelgs for Mike. "NetflixSounds sort of gay to , even if is a teensy b vague still.

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

Not only do Stranger Thgs – and the st – like to dance around the specifics of his inty, also seems as though Will's potential love for Mike won't end on a happy 's extremely relatable for teen gays to fall love wh their bt iend, Will's love for Mike, if is romantic, will go nowhere fast. 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. Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5, AND WILL’S SEXUALY: ‘HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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. From the start, seemed clear that Will is gay and terrified of g out. Then there’s the follow up scene between Will and his olr brother Jonathan, when Jonathan munit to Will, basilly, I know you’re gay and I’m always here for you — whout ever g those words.

As you allud to earlier, the implitn that people perceive Will as gay is baked to the very first episo of the show. Did feel like was a spoiler to say outright, “Y, Will is wrtlg wh beg gay and g out”?