The infamous Will crying meme was because he loved Mike and knew he couldn't have him:
It's kinda common knowledge.

That has nothing to do with being gay, that is about being poor and wierd

This was the 80's too, the decade of aid(s), so Hopper would have reacted exactly like this, may have even drew his service weapon.

Why am I not seeing Will here?
Shouldn’t it say something like…..
Hopper: hey Will, are you a ******?
Will: Yes I am, Hopper. I’m a homosexual.
Hopper: ewwww, stay away from you sick bastard.
Will: what’s wrong with being gay?
Hopper: you put the pee pee in the poo poo?
Will: yes, I’m a degenerate ******

Season one, episode one…
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Episode and minute mark……peas and tanks

Randomly? They have made this known for a season or 2 now.

You could say that the Duffle bags
fingered him for gayness early on
, that would be a way to described what happened, depending on what vocabulary you choose to use.
And I do. I choose to verbalise it that way.

Yes, it could very well be.
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well thats a coincidence, a kid earmarked to be a gay character actually becomes gay irl, perhaps his characters arc is what done made him take up the gay irl?

Good!!!! They probably have AIDS…..Fuck Them!!!

The Children of the Upside Down DISOWN you!!!
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I like how woke idiots immediately go to the argument of “are you afraid of gays?”.
No, I’m not afraid of gay people, I just wish they would keep their sexuality to themselves, in their own damn bedrooms. Nobody wants to hear about that ****, it’s gross and disgusting.

It is 2026 almost. There are NON-BINARIES and GENDER FLUIDS out there and you are TERRIFIED TO DEATH that your favourite cartoon show has a gay character in it!
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Netflix is the king of woke, they turned Cleopatra into a black woman for god’s sake.
Did we really need a long coming out speech during the apocalypse? Nobody watches Stranger Things for gay propaganda to be inserted into the final act of the show.

It has been planned since season 1. See the below script and Will’s behaviour in all subsequent seasons.
Not everything is a woke conspiracy.
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It wasnt, but when Peach Schnapp became gay irl either the Duffle bags or Noah himself decided Will should be gay. My guess is it was Schnapp's idea.

I only watched a few episodes but there was very clear gaydar. You'd have to be an idiot to miss it.
There really was not. There was signs that Will was " different " but not gay. As he was set to be the kid who went missing in a wierd creepy hell dimention and kicked started the whole series they were trying to give his character some extra traits I guess. Like a " not all is as it seems " type thing. I dunno. They just coulodnt make him a normal run of the mill kid.
What I think happened is, Noah Shcnapps became gay irl and it was decided that it would become part of Will. Noah gets to promote his seriously underrepresented community and the Duffle bags get all the plaudits for being inclusive.
It's win win, with the only losers being us, the general audience.

They were all young kids, you must be a pedophile to pick up on subtle stuff like that.

I only watched a few episodes but there was very clear gaydar. You'd have to be an idiot to miss it.

During the AIDS epidemic?
Ummm, yeahhhhh that’s bad writing.

They are the Children of the Upside Down and one of them is queer. Accept it.
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You’re deflecting on the point that he’s in love with Mike, why is that?

It’s not my fault you missed all of the not very subtle signs of Will being gay since season 1. And he was 12.
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