Culture January 5, 2023

'Stranger Things' star Noah Schnapp comes out as gay in TikTok video

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"Stranger Things" star Noah Schnapp has come out as gay.

In a TikTok video on Thursday of Schnapp using a trending sound on the video platform, the actor revealed that he's gay and what happened after he told his friends and family.

"When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after being scared in the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know,'" Schnapp wrote in the on-screen text.

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"I guess I'm more similar to will than I thought," he added in the caption, referring to his "Stranger Things" character Will Byers.

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Noah Schnapp attends Netflix's "Stranger Things" season 4 premiere at Netflix Brooklyn, May 14, 2022, in Brooklyn.
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The hit show hasn't confirmed or denied that Schnapp's character, Will, is gay, despite critics' interpretations from the fourth season that Will's sexuality was acknowledged.

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In July of last year, Schnapp told Variety that he thinks his character is gay.

"Now it's 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike," Schnapp said about his "Stranger Things" character. "But before, it was a slow arc. I think it is done so beautifully, because it's so easy to make a character just like all of a sudden be gay."