After Years Of Fans Speculatg That Will Byers Is Gay, Here's What The "Stranger Thgs" Cast And Creators Have Said About His Sexualy This Season

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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 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, 18, OUT AS GAY
• AFTER YEARS OF FANS SPECULATG THAT WILL BYERS IS GAY, HERE'S WHAT THE "STRANGER THGS" CAST AND CREATORS HAVE SAID ABOUT HIS SEXUALY THIS SEASON
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ HAS ALWAYS HAD A GAY CHARACTER: WILL BYERS
• IS WILL BYERS GAY STRANGER THGS 4? NOAH SCHNAPP OPENS UP ABOUT HIS CHARACTER'S SEXUALY

‘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. “It’s a w for the gays”. ’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! Is Will Byers gay Stranger Thgs?

'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'

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

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

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. “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, 18, OUT AS GAY

“Now ’s 100 percent clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” he explaed. “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. “Stranger Thgs” star Noah Schnapp me out as gay a TikTok vio Thursday.

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.

AFTER YEARS OF FANS SPECULATG THAT WILL BYERS IS GAY, HERE'S WHAT THE "STRANGER THGS" CAST AND CREATORS HAVE SAID ABOUT HIS SEXUALY THIS SEASON

Namely, Will seems like he’s gay and stgglg to e imprsn has only grown stronger Season 4. In the first episo, Will and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) have to give a prentatn their new California high school on a hero they look up to; Will choos Alan Turg, the gay mathematician who was prosecuted the 1950s for his sexualy and forced to unrgo chemil stratn.

“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. 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.

‘STRANGER THGS’ HAS ALWAYS HAD A GAY CHARACTER: WILL BYERS

I love that moment, tly, but there was another moment earlier the season that ronated eply wh my gay self bee nfirmed that the show has not fotten a key (at least key to me) aspect of one character: Will Byers is also gay. 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. Flyg around wh all the other ltle fairi, all happy and gay!

The creators didn’t fet about , and if they’re tellg a slow build story of what ’s like to be a gay kid, they’re gettg all the beats down season by season.

IS WILL BYERS GAY STRANGER THGS 4? NOAH SCHNAPP OPENS UP ABOUT HIS CHARACTER'S SEXUALY

I was also picked on for beg too sensive and beg, well, gay. Md you, the bulli of Smyrna Middle knew I was gay almost a before I did, so ’s not like Will the Stranger Thgs character is necsarily clued to this jt yet. It’s how played out my teenage years, too, when my iends would fend me agast people llg me gay and immediately follow wh “also I don’t thk you’re gay.