Stranger Thgs’ Noah Schnapp Confirms Will Is “Gay and Do Love Mike” | Vany Fair

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• STRANGER THGS’ NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL IS “GAY AND DO LOVE MIKE”IN A NEW TERVIEW, THE ACTOR ALSO TEASED A SEASON FIVE G-OUT SCENE AND APOLOGIZED TO DOJA CAT FOR SHARG THEIR DMS.BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULY 15, 2022COURTY OF NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONE OF THE LGERG QUTNS AT THE CENTER OF STRANGER THGS IS WHETHER WILL’S SEXUALY WILL BE ADDRSED ON THE SERI. VIEWERS (SORT OF) GOT AN ANSWER A PAIR OF EMOTNALLY CHARGED SCEN THE SHOW’S RECENTLY RELEASED FOURTH SEASON—ONE BETWEEN NOAH SCHNAPP’S CHARACTER AND HIS BROTHER JONATHAN (CHARLIE HEATON), AND THE OTHER BETWEEN WILL AND HIS BT IEND MIKE (FN WOLFHARD). WHILE BOTH ALLUD TO WILL’S NER SIR, NFIRMATN ABOUT WHAT THOSE SIR WERE HADN’T BEEN OFFERED UNTIL NOW.“IT WAS ALWAYS KD OF THERE, BUT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW, IS JT HIM GROWG UP SLOWER THAN HIS IENDS?” SCHNAPP SAID A NEW TERVIEW WH 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. 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.”SCHNAPP SAID THAT WILL’S “JEALOY” OVER MIKE’S RELATNSHIP WH ELEVEN (MILLIE BOBBY BROWN) PROPELS HIM TO TEARFULLY SPEAK UP. “SOMETIM WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT YOU FEEL LIKE A MISTAKE,” A CHOKED-UP WILL TELLS MIKE, WHO DON’T SEEM TO BE GRASPG THE WEIGHT OF WILL’S WORDS. “THIS SCENE WAS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR HIM, BEE REALLY SOLIDIFIED THAT TTH: THAT HE LOV HIS BT IEND AND HE DON’T KNOW HOW TO TELL HIM,” SCHNAPP SAID OF HIS CHARACTER.IN THE PAST, SCHNAPP HAS DODGED QUTNS ABOUT WILL’S SEXUALY, SAYG ONLY THAT WAS “UP TO THE DIENCE’S TERPRETATN.” THE ACTOR NOW NFIRMS THAT THIS WAS A WAY TO PROTECT THE SHOW’S SEASON FOUR REVEAL. “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,” SCHNAPP 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.”FN WOLFHARD AS MIKE WHEELER AND NOAH SCHNAPP AS WILL BYERS ‘STRANGER THGS.’COURTY OF NETFLIXTHE EMOTNAL TERACTN BETWEEN WILL AND JONATHAN, WHICH THE OLR BROTHER PROMIS THAT “THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NOTHG THIS WORLD THAT ULD CHANGE” THEIR BOND, WAS A KEY LAST-MUTE ADDN. “IT’S ALSO VERY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THAT WILL IS NOT ALONE—BEE ALL WE EVER SEE OF HIM IS STGGLG AND FEELG PRSED AND THAT HE N’T BE HIMSELF,” SCHNAPP EXPLAED. “JONATHAN IS TALKG TO HIM —’S JT THE PERFECT WAY TO TELL SOMEONE LIKE WILL THAT HE R ABOUT HIM AND HE ACCEPTS HIM NO MATTER WHAT. I THK WAS REALLY WHOLOME.”AS FOR THE FAL SEASON OF STRANGER THGS, SCHNAPP SAID THAT THE DUFFER BROTHERS ARE PLANNG TO “FOC MORE ON WILL,” AND THAT HE’S HOPG FOR A PROPER “G-OUT SCENE” FOR HIS CHARACTER.IN THE TERVIEW, SCHNAPP ALSO ADDRSED HIS MOR ONLE BEEF WH DOJA CAT, WHICH BEGAN AFTER THE 17-YEAR-OLD ACTOR SHARED PRIVATE MSAG THE RAPPER SENT HIM REGARDG HER ROMANTIC TERT HIS STRANGER THGS STAR JOSEPH QUN. AFTER THE MICIAN TOOK ISSUE WH SCHNAPP’S POSTG THEIR SCREENSHOTS, HE APOLOGIZED ON TIKTOK AND TOLD VARIETY THAT HE WAS “SUPER UNSER ON SOCIAL MEDIA.” SCHNAPP NTUED, “I POSTED THAT NOT THKG TOO MUCH OF , BUT OBVLY HURT HER FEELGS. SO, AS I SHOULD, I APOLOGIZED AND SHE WAS TOTALLY OKAY WH , AND WAS LIKE, ‘I’M SORRY HOW I REACTED.’ IT WAS ALL GOOD. I LOVE HER. I’M LIKE THE BIGGT FAN OF HER MIC, AND I TOLD HER THAT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSAVANNAH WALSH
• IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED
• IS STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 HTG WILL IS GAY? PRODUCER SAYS 'THERE AREN'T MANY ACCINTS' ON SHOW
• IS WILL BYERS GAY? STRANGER THGS CERTALY WANTS YOU TO THK SO
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
• STRANGER THGS: LET’S TALK ABOUT WILL SPOILERS AHEAD! BY YOHANA DTAJULY 1, 2022BY ATSHI NISHIJIMA/NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THGS. AH, WILL. FROM THE START OF STRANGER THGS, HE’S ALWAYS BEEN THE OUTLIER, THE KID WRTED AWAY OM THE GANG BY DARK, SUPERNATURAL FORC. THE FIRST TWO SEASONS SAW HIM ALG WH MASSIVE, WORLD-ENDG DILEMMAS AS HE GOT TRAPPED THE UPSI DOWN, THEN BEME AN UNWILLG HOST FOR THE MD FLAYER. BUT OVER THE LAST TWO SEASONS, WILL’S WORLD HAS (SOMEWHAT) CHILLED OUT. HIS NER LIFE HAS TAKEN CENTER STAGE, AND FANS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FOC ON MORE PERSONAL TAILS ABOUT THE CHARACTER. AS THEY DID, A QUTN ROSE TO THE FORE: IS WILL GAY?  NOW THAT SEASON FOUR, VOLUME TWO HAS ARRIVED, THE ANSWER IS…PROBABLY? BUT THE SHOW STILL HASN’T CLARED OUTRIGHT. FOR THE LAST TWO SEASONS, THE SHOW HAS BEEN DROPPG HTS HERE AND THERE THAT WILL ISN’T LIKE THE RT OF HIS IENDS. HOWEVER, ’S NEVER EXPLICLY CLARED SEASON THREE OR SEASON FOUR, VOLUME ONE, LEADG FANS TO NCLU THAT WILL’S SEXUALY WOULD BE REVEALED VOLUME TWO, WHICH WAS RELEASED FRIDAY ON NETFLIX. ALAS, THE SHOW STILL HASN’T TAKEN A FIRM STANCE ON THE CHARACTER’S SEXUALY, DASHG FAN THEORI THAT THERE WOULD BE CLARY ON THIS PART OF WILL’S LIFE ONCE AND FOR ALL. HOWEVER, THERE WERE SOME HEARTY CLU GIVEN ALONG THE WAY. IN THE BEGNG OF EPISO EIGHT, WILL AND MIKE HAVE A HEART TO HEART THE BACK OF A VAN WHILE JONATHAN, WILL’S BIG BROTHER, DRIV. MIKE IS BEATG HIMSELF UP ABOUT ELEVEN, NVCED THAT ONE DAY SHE’LL REALIZE HE’S NOTHG SPECIAL. WILL GIV HIM A MOTIVATNAL SPEECH, REMDG HIM THAT ELEVEN PROBABLY DON’T FEEL SUPERR. “SHE’S SO DIFFERENT OM OTHER PEOPLE,” WILL SAYS. “WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT, SOMETIM YOU FEEL LIKE A MISTAKE.” HE SEEMS TO BE SPEAKG ABOUT HIMSELF AS MUCH AS ELEVEN, STANTLY BEG EMOTNAL AT HIS D SPEECH. HE THEN LOOKS OUT THE WDOW AND STARTS TO CRY, WHILE JONATHAN WATCH ON THE REARVIEW MIRROR, GIVG HIS LTLE BROTHER A KNOWG LOOK.IN EPISO NE, JONATHAN GENTLY NONTS HIS BROTHER. HE LAMENTS THAT THEIR RELATNSHIP HAS GROWN DISTANT AND THAT HE HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR HIM. BUT, JONATHAN NTU, “YOU’RE MY BROTHER AND I LOVE YOU. AND THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NOTHG THIS WORLD THAT ULD CHANGE THAT.” WILL STANTLY BEGS WEEPG. IT’S A WARM AND THARTIC SCENE, A BABY STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN FOR WILL TO FEEL FORTABLE AND FALLY OPEN UP ABOUT WHO HE IS. AND PERHAPS HE WILL BY THE TIME SEASON FIVE ROLLS AROUND, SEEG AS ’S THE LAST SEASON OF THE ENTIRE SHOW. MAYBE HE’LL OPEN UP TO HIS BROTHER AND HIS IENDS. MAYBE HE’LL PROVE THE FAN THEORI RIGHT AND NFS HE HAD A CSH ON MIKE ALL ALONG. OR MAYBE THE SHOW WILL START H AND TRODUCE A NEW LOVE TERT FOR WILL, AS THE DUFFERS DID FOR ROB (MAYA HAWKE), THE ONLY OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER THE GROUP. NOAH SCHNAPP, WHO PLAYS WILL, HAS RPOND TO SPECULATN ABOUT THE CHARACTER’S SEXUALY THE PAST. IN A MAY TERVIEW WH VARIETY ABOUT VOLUME ONE OF SEASON FOUR, SCHNAPP SAID THE DUFFER BROTHERS, WHO CREATED THE SHOW, “NEVER REALLY ADDRS OR BLATANTLY SAY HOW WILL IS. 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.”COSTAR MILLIE BOBBY BROWN, WHO PLAYS ELEVEN, ADD THAT “’S 2022 AND WE DON’T HAVE TO LABEL THGS. HE’S JT A HUMAN BEG GOG THROUGH HIS OWN PERSONAL MONS AND ISSU.” SCHNAPP NCURRED: “I FD THAT PEOPLE DO REACH TO PUT A LABEL ON HIM AND JT WANT TO KNOW, SO BADLY, LIKE, ‘OH, AND THIS IS .’ HE’S JT NFED AND GROWG UP. AND THAT’S WHAT IS TO BE A KID.”THERE WERE SUBTLE CLU VOLUME ONE THAT PIQUED FAN TERT WILL’S SEXUALY. EAGLE-EYED VIEWERS NOTICED THAT WHEN WILL HAD TO DO A CLASS PROJECT ON A HISTORIL HERO, HE CHOSE ALAN TURG, THE SCIENTIFIC GENI WHO WAS PERSECUTED FOR BEG GAY. HE’S ALSO THE ONLY KID THE RE HAWKS IEND GROUP WHO’S NEVER HAD A ROMANTIC STORY LE. FURTHERMORE, HE’S TRATED THROUGHOUT THE SEASON THAT MIKE, HIS CLOST IEND, IS SO WRAPPED HIS RELATNSHIP WH ELEVEN. THEIR RELATNSHIP ALSO ED ICTN SEASON THREE, LEADG MIKE TO BLURT OUT, “IT’S NOT MY FLT YOU DON’T LIKE GIRLS!” AS POTED AS THAT LE SEEMS TO BE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SHAWN LEVY, WHO ALSO DIRECTED THE EPISO, TOLD ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY THAT “’S NOT SPECIFIC TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR ANYTHG.”BUT PERHAPS LEVY WAS TRYG TO THROW VIEWERS OFF THE SCENT BEFORE THE SHOW ULD TAKE A FIRM STANCE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. SECRECY IS THE PARTY LE WH A SHOW THIS BIG, AFTER ALL. HOWEVER, DO SEEM LIKE THE JOURNEY OF WILL’S SEXUALY WAS ACTUALLY AN TEGRATED ELEMENT OF THE SHOW’S CEPTN. IN THE DUFFER BROTHERS’ ORIGAL SHOW BIBLE FOR THE SERI—BACK WHEN WAS LLED MONTK STEAD OF STRANGER THGS—WILL IS SCRIBED AS A “SWEET, SENSIVE KID WH SEXUAL INTY ISSU. HE ONLY RECENTLY ME TO THE REALIZATN THAT HE DO NOT F TO 1980’S FN OF ‘NORMAL.’”OF URSE, WILL SPENDS MUCH OF SEASON ONE TRAPPED THE UPSI DOWN, AND MOST OF SEASON TWO PLAYG HOST FOR THE MD FLAYER, SO HE DON’T HAVE MUCH TIME TO EXPLORE HIS OWN INTY ISSU. TWO SEASONS—AND SEVERAL EXTREMELY LONG EPISOS LATER— SEEMS LIKE WILL’S PERSONAL JOURNEY IS FALLY BEGNG. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISYOHANA DTA
• NOAH SCHNAPP SAYS IT'S "100% CLEAR" HIS "STRANGER THGS" CHARACTER IS GAY
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5, AND WILL’S SEXUALY: ‘HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• IS WILL SMH GAY?
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STRANGER THGS’ NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL IS “GAY AND DO LOVE MIKE”IN A NEW TERVIEW, THE ACTOR ALSO TEASED A SEASON FIVE G-OUT SCENE AND APOLOGIZED TO DOJA CAT FOR SHARG THEIR DMS.BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULY 15, 2022COURTY OF NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONE OF THE LGERG QUTNS AT THE CENTER OF STRANGER THGS IS WHETHER WILL’S SEXUALY WILL BE ADDRSED ON THE SERI. VIEWERS (SORT OF) GOT AN ANSWER A PAIR OF EMOTNALLY CHARGED SCEN THE SHOW’S RECENTLY RELEASED FOURTH SEASON—ONE BETWEEN NOAH SCHNAPP’S CHARACTER AND HIS BROTHER JONATHAN (CHARLIE HEATON), AND THE OTHER BETWEEN WILL AND HIS BT IEND MIKE (FN WOLFHARD). WHILE BOTH ALLUD TO WILL’S NER SIR, NFIRMATN ABOUT WHAT THOSE SIR WERE HADN’T BEEN OFFERED UNTIL NOW.“IT WAS ALWAYS KD OF THERE, BUT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW, IS JT HIM GROWG UP SLOWER THAN HIS IENDS?” SCHNAPP SAID A NEW TERVIEW WH 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. 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.”SCHNAPP SAID THAT WILL’S “JEALOY” OVER MIKE’S RELATNSHIP WH ELEVEN (MILLIE BOBBY BROWN) PROPELS HIM TO TEARFULLY SPEAK UP. “SOMETIM WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT YOU FEEL LIKE A MISTAKE,” A CHOKED-UP WILL TELLS MIKE, WHO DON’T SEEM TO BE GRASPG THE WEIGHT OF WILL’S WORDS. “THIS SCENE WAS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR HIM, BEE REALLY SOLIDIFIED THAT TTH: THAT HE LOV HIS BT IEND AND HE DON’T KNOW HOW TO TELL HIM,” SCHNAPP SAID OF HIS CHARACTER.IN THE PAST, SCHNAPP HAS DODGED QUTNS ABOUT WILL’S SEXUALY, SAYG ONLY THAT WAS “UP TO THE DIENCE’S TERPRETATN.” THE ACTOR NOW NFIRMS THAT THIS WAS A WAY TO PROTECT THE SHOW’S SEASON FOUR REVEAL. “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,” SCHNAPP 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.”FN WOLFHARD AS MIKE WHEELER AND NOAH SCHNAPP AS WILL BYERS ‘STRANGER THGS.’COURTY OF NETFLIXTHE EMOTNAL TERACTN BETWEEN WILL AND JONATHAN, WHICH THE OLR BROTHER PROMIS THAT “THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NOTHG THIS WORLD THAT ULD CHANGE” THEIR BOND, WAS A KEY LAST-MUTE ADDN. “IT’S ALSO VERY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THAT WILL IS NOT ALONE—BEE ALL WE EVER SEE OF HIM IS STGGLG AND FEELG PRSED AND THAT HE N’T BE HIMSELF,” SCHNAPP EXPLAED. “JONATHAN IS TALKG TO HIM —’S JT THE PERFECT WAY TO TELL SOMEONE LIKE WILL THAT HE R ABOUT HIM AND HE ACCEPTS HIM NO MATTER WHAT. I THK WAS REALLY WHOLOME.”AS FOR THE FAL SEASON OF STRANGER THGS, SCHNAPP SAID THAT THE DUFFER BROTHERS ARE PLANNG TO “FOC MORE ON WILL,” AND THAT HE’S HOPG FOR A PROPER “G-OUT SCENE” FOR HIS CHARACTER.IN THE TERVIEW, SCHNAPP ALSO ADDRSED HIS MOR ONLE BEEF WH DOJA CAT, WHICH BEGAN AFTER THE 17-YEAR-OLD ACTOR SHARED PRIVATE MSAG THE RAPPER SENT HIM REGARDG HER ROMANTIC TERT HIS STRANGER THGS STAR JOSEPH QUN. AFTER THE MICIAN TOOK ISSUE WH SCHNAPP’S POSTG THEIR SCREENSHOTS, HE APOLOGIZED ON TIKTOK AND TOLD VARIETY THAT HE WAS “SUPER UNSER ON SOCIAL MEDIA.” SCHNAPP NTUED, “I POSTED THAT NOT THKG TOO MUCH OF , BUT OBVLY HURT HER FEELGS. SO, AS I SHOULD, I APOLOGIZED AND SHE WAS TOTALLY OKAY WH , AND WAS LIKE, ‘I’M SORRY HOW I REACTED.’ IT WAS ALL GOOD. I LOVE HER. I’M LIKE THE BIGGT FAN OF HER MIC, AND I TOLD HER THAT.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSAVANNAH WALSH

Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

IS STRANGER THGS' WILL GAY? IT'S PLITED

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. 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.

IS STRANGER THGS SEASON 4 HTG WILL IS GAY? PRODUCER SAYS 'THERE AREN'T MANY ACCINTS' ON SHOW

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. 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. Is Stranger Thgs season 4 htg Will is gay?

IS WILL BYERS GAY? STRANGER THGS CERTALY WANTS YOU TO THK SO

" The qutns all have to do wh whether or not Will uld be gay and love wh Mike.

All artwork ©WillGay and ©Disney 2020. 'Stranger Thgs' Season 4 Offers Clarifitn About Will's SexualyIs Will gay on 'Stranger Thgs'? The teen's sexualy has been a major topic of discsn sce the show premiered 2016, and wh his lack of tert girls evint Season 3, fans are wonrg: Is Will gay?

'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'

Article ntu below advertisementWill has not officially e out as gay on 'Stranger Thgs. 'While Will's sexualy was never referenced aga throughout Season 3, that didn't stop die-hard fans om speculatg whether Will is gay. " This, along wh the homophobic bullyg that Will endured that season has bee a full-blown argument on social media, wh some claimg Will has always been gay and others argug there isn't enough evince to support the claim.

Stranger Thgs Season 4, Part 2 released on July 1, 2022 — and wh me even more clary about whether Will is gay.

STRANGER THGS: LET’S TALK ABOUT WILL SPOILERS AHEAD! BY YOHANA DTAJULY 1, 2022BY ATSHI NISHIJIMA/NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THGS. AH, WILL. FROM THE START OF STRANGER THGS, HE’S ALWAYS BEEN THE OUTLIER, THE KID WRTED AWAY OM THE GANG BY DARK, SUPERNATURAL FORC. THE FIRST TWO SEASONS SAW HIM ALG WH MASSIVE, WORLD-ENDG DILEMMAS AS HE GOT TRAPPED THE UPSI DOWN, THEN BEME AN UNWILLG HOST FOR THE MD FLAYER. BUT OVER THE LAST TWO SEASONS, WILL’S WORLD HAS (SOMEWHAT) CHILLED OUT. HIS NER LIFE HAS TAKEN CENTER STAGE, AND FANS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FOC ON MORE PERSONAL TAILS ABOUT THE CHARACTER. AS THEY DID, A QUTN ROSE TO THE FORE: IS WILL GAY?  NOW THAT SEASON FOUR, VOLUME TWO HAS ARRIVED, THE ANSWER IS…PROBABLY? BUT THE SHOW STILL HASN’T CLARED OUTRIGHT. FOR THE LAST TWO SEASONS, THE SHOW HAS BEEN DROPPG HTS HERE AND THERE THAT WILL ISN’T LIKE THE RT OF HIS IENDS. HOWEVER, ’S NEVER EXPLICLY CLARED SEASON THREE OR SEASON FOUR, VOLUME ONE, LEADG FANS TO NCLU THAT WILL’S SEXUALY WOULD BE REVEALED VOLUME TWO, WHICH WAS RELEASED FRIDAY ON NETFLIX. ALAS, THE SHOW STILL HASN’T TAKEN A FIRM STANCE ON THE CHARACTER’S SEXUALY, DASHG FAN THEORI THAT THERE WOULD BE CLARY ON THIS PART OF WILL’S LIFE ONCE AND FOR ALL. HOWEVER, THERE WERE SOME HEARTY CLU GIVEN ALONG THE WAY. IN THE BEGNG OF EPISO EIGHT, WILL AND MIKE HAVE A HEART TO HEART THE BACK OF A VAN WHILE JONATHAN, WILL’S BIG BROTHER, DRIV. MIKE IS BEATG HIMSELF UP ABOUT ELEVEN, NVCED THAT ONE DAY SHE’LL REALIZE HE’S NOTHG SPECIAL. WILL GIV HIM A MOTIVATNAL SPEECH, REMDG HIM THAT ELEVEN PROBABLY DON’T FEEL SUPERR. “SHE’S SO DIFFERENT OM OTHER PEOPLE,” WILL SAYS. “WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT, SOMETIM YOU FEEL LIKE A MISTAKE.” HE SEEMS TO BE SPEAKG ABOUT HIMSELF AS MUCH AS ELEVEN, STANTLY BEG EMOTNAL AT HIS D SPEECH. HE THEN LOOKS OUT THE WDOW AND STARTS TO CRY, WHILE JONATHAN WATCH ON THE REARVIEW MIRROR, GIVG HIS LTLE BROTHER A KNOWG LOOK.IN EPISO NE, JONATHAN GENTLY NONTS HIS BROTHER. HE LAMENTS THAT THEIR RELATNSHIP HAS GROWN DISTANT AND THAT HE HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR HIM. BUT, JONATHAN NTU, “YOU’RE MY BROTHER AND I LOVE YOU. AND THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NOTHG THIS WORLD THAT ULD CHANGE THAT.” WILL STANTLY BEGS WEEPG. IT’S A WARM AND THARTIC SCENE, A BABY STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN FOR WILL TO FEEL FORTABLE AND FALLY OPEN UP ABOUT WHO HE IS. AND PERHAPS HE WILL BY THE TIME SEASON FIVE ROLLS AROUND, SEEG AS ’S THE LAST SEASON OF THE ENTIRE SHOW. MAYBE HE’LL OPEN UP TO HIS BROTHER AND HIS IENDS. MAYBE HE’LL PROVE THE FAN THEORI RIGHT AND NFS HE HAD A CSH ON MIKE ALL ALONG. OR MAYBE THE SHOW WILL START H AND TRODUCE A NEW LOVE TERT FOR WILL, AS THE DUFFERS DID FOR ROB (MAYA HAWKE), THE ONLY OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER THE GROUP. NOAH SCHNAPP, WHO PLAYS WILL, HAS RPOND TO SPECULATN ABOUT THE CHARACTER’S SEXUALY THE PAST. IN A MAY TERVIEW WH VARIETY ABOUT VOLUME ONE OF SEASON FOUR, SCHNAPP SAID THE DUFFER BROTHERS, WHO CREATED THE SHOW, “NEVER REALLY ADDRS OR BLATANTLY SAY HOW WILL IS. 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.”COSTAR MILLIE BOBBY BROWN, WHO PLAYS ELEVEN, ADD THAT “’S 2022 AND WE DON’T HAVE TO LABEL THGS. HE’S JT A HUMAN BEG GOG THROUGH HIS OWN PERSONAL MONS AND ISSU.” SCHNAPP NCURRED: “I FD THAT PEOPLE DO REACH TO PUT A LABEL ON HIM AND JT WANT TO KNOW, SO BADLY, LIKE, ‘OH, AND THIS IS .’ HE’S JT NFED AND GROWG UP. AND THAT’S WHAT IS TO BE A KID.”THERE WERE SUBTLE CLU VOLUME ONE THAT PIQUED FAN TERT WILL’S SEXUALY. EAGLE-EYED VIEWERS NOTICED THAT WHEN WILL HAD TO DO A CLASS PROJECT ON A HISTORIL HERO, HE CHOSE ALAN TURG, THE SCIENTIFIC GENI WHO WAS PERSECUTED FOR BEG GAY. HE’S ALSO THE ONLY KID THE RE HAWKS IEND GROUP WHO’S NEVER HAD A ROMANTIC STORY LE. FURTHERMORE, HE’S TRATED THROUGHOUT THE SEASON THAT MIKE, HIS CLOST IEND, IS SO WRAPPED HIS RELATNSHIP WH ELEVEN. THEIR RELATNSHIP ALSO ED ICTN SEASON THREE, LEADG MIKE TO BLURT OUT, “IT’S NOT MY FLT YOU DON’T LIKE GIRLS!” AS POTED AS THAT LE SEEMS TO BE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SHAWN LEVY, WHO ALSO DIRECTED THE EPISO, TOLD ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY THAT “’S NOT SPECIFIC TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR ANYTHG.”BUT PERHAPS LEVY WAS TRYG TO THROW VIEWERS OFF THE SCENT BEFORE THE SHOW ULD TAKE A FIRM STANCE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. SECRECY IS THE PARTY LE WH A SHOW THIS BIG, AFTER ALL. HOWEVER, DO SEEM LIKE THE JOURNEY OF WILL’S SEXUALY WAS ACTUALLY AN TEGRATED ELEMENT OF THE SHOW’S CEPTN. IN THE DUFFER BROTHERS’ ORIGAL SHOW BIBLE FOR THE SERI—BACK WHEN WAS LLED MONTK STEAD OF STRANGER THGS—WILL IS SCRIBED AS A “SWEET, SENSIVE KID WH SEXUAL INTY ISSU. HE ONLY RECENTLY ME TO THE REALIZATN THAT HE DO NOT F TO 1980’S FN OF ‘NORMAL.’”OF URSE, WILL SPENDS MUCH OF SEASON ONE TRAPPED THE UPSI DOWN, AND MOST OF SEASON TWO PLAYG HOST FOR THE MD FLAYER, SO HE DON’T HAVE MUCH TIME TO EXPLORE HIS OWN INTY ISSU. TWO SEASONS—AND SEVERAL EXTREMELY LONG EPISOS LATER— SEEMS LIKE WILL’S PERSONAL JOURNEY IS FALLY BEGNG. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISYOHANA DTA

Is Will Byers gay? Update: Stranger Thgs Season 4 Fally Confirmed Whether Will Byers Is Gay, click to fd out the answer...

NOAH SCHNAPP SAYS IT'S "100% CLEAR" HIS "STRANGER THGS" CHARACTER IS GAY

One of the biggt qutns Stranger Thgs ntu season 4 is, is Will Byers gay?

In season 3, Rob told Steve (well, he had to figure out himself) that she's gay; was a terrific moment for both characters, and 's a story that plays out greater tail season 4.

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

Now season 4 ntu that le of thought, nudgg viewers along to ask themselv, is Will Byers gay? How Stranger Thgs Teased Will Byers Beg Gay.

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

Mike is Will's bt iend, so 's possible he knew somethg that viewers didn't, but the scene plays out specifilly a way to imply that Will Byers is gay. Clu Will Byers Is Gay In Stranger Thgs Season 4.

So far Stranger Thgs season 4, there have been addnal clu to Will Byers beg gay, but they've e om another character other than Will aga, save for one scene.

AM I GAY?

Over the urse of the show's four seasons, fan have qutned whether Will is gay, some even cricizg the Netflix seri for not explicly statg the seemgly obv sooner.

Now 's 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

" He later had a heart-to-heart wh his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) where Jonathan appeared to offer his support of Will, whout ever say 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.

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.

IS WILL SMH 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. As they did, a qutn rose to the fore: Is Will 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. Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that when Will had to do a class project on a historil hero, he chose Alan Turg, the scientific geni who was persecuted for beg gay. But some fans were still upset that the show didn't make absolutely explic that Will is gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

"Now 's 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

If 's Will kd of jt refg to grow up and growg up slower than his iends, or if he is really gay.