{"id":31900,"date":"2022-06-01T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T11:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-season-4-viewers-accuse-the-show-of-queerbaiting-will-byers-after-teasing-hes-gay\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T11:10:28","slug":"stranger-things-season-4-viewers-accuse-the-show-of-queerbaiting-will-byers-after-teasing-hes-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-season-4-viewers-accuse-the-show-of-queerbaiting-will-byers-after-teasing-hes-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things season 4 viewers accuse the show of ‘queerbaiting’ Will Byers after teasing he’s gay"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stranger Things<\/em> viewers are criticizing the show over its treatment of a storyline involving Will Byers’ sexuality.<\/p>\n Since season three, the Netflix series has hinted that Will might be gay and is struggling to come out after developing feelings for his best friend, Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard).<\/p>\n Will’s sexuality has become a talking point following the release of season four last week, as the show has provided several more hints that he might be gay.<\/p>\n In season four, Will is shown to be extremely upset with Mike for not staying in touch after he moved to California. He is also shown to recoil when a girl flits with him in class, where he is doing a project on Alan Turing.<\/p>\n Turing is the mathematician and computer scientist who helped to break a number of German ciphers during the war. He was later persecuted for being gay in 1952.<\/p>\n However, Noah Schnapp, who plays Will, said in an interview that the show’s creators, the Duffer brothers, intentionally \u201cnever really address it or blatantly say how Will is\u201d.<\/p>\n “I think that’s the beauty of it,” he said, adding: “That it’s just up to the audience’s interpretation – if it’s Will kind of just refusing to grow up and growing up slower than his friends or if he is really gay.”<\/p>\n