#NoahSchnapp confirmed what fans have long suspected about his #StrangerThings character in a new interview with @variety. "Obviously it was hinted at in Season 1: It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends," he explained. "Now it's 100 percent clear that he is gay and he does love Mike. 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." Schnapp went on to talk about all the fans who have come up to him on the street and told him how they saw themselves reflected in #WillByers's journey. "That just made me so happy to hear," he said. "They are writing this real character and this real journey and real struggle and they're doing it so well." You can read his full interview at variety.com.