The ‘Stranger Things’ star Noah SchnappWill Byers has gone public with her new mystery boyfriend as the pair celebrate a relationship milestone. Noah came out publicly as gay in January 2023, almost half a year after his character Will Byers was confirmed to be gay in ‘Stranger Things’ season 4.
Noah Schnapp celebrates one month with his boyfriend
Noah took to his Instagram Stories on Wednesday, April 1, to celebrate one month with his new beau, sharing a cute photo of them together. “We have a month,” Noah captioned the photo with a heart emoji. The photo shows Noah with his arms around the back of his mystery man. Meanwhile, this mysterious man has both arms wrapped around Noah’s shoulders.
When Noah Schnapp came out
Noah came out publicly as gay in January 2023. “When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after 18 years of being scared in the closet and all they said was ‘we know,'” Noah wrote in a TikTok video.In the video, Noah lip-synced to someone saying, “You know what was once? ‘So serious.’ It was never that serious. Honestly, it’s never going to be that serious.”
Noah Schnapp has thanked his ‘Stranger Things’ character
Noah Schnapp also reflected that his ‘Stranger Things’ character, Will Byers, is grateful for helping him come out as gay. In a 2023 interview with Variety, Schnapp said that having his Stranger Things character Will Byers embrace his sexuality on the show allowed him to do the same. “Once I fully accepted that Will was gay, it was just an exponential speed of acceptance for me,” she said at the time. “I would be in a completely different place if I didn’t have the Will to portray myself, and if I helped myself to embrace and accept myself.”And Noah is definitely more open about his sexuality now and is embracing it with a new relationship.
