{"id":2096159,"date":"2025-10-16T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2096159"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:35:06","slug":"noah-schnapp-says-press-would-pry-and-ask-are-you-gay-when-he-was-13-years-old-at-stranger-things-junkets-i-didnt-know-what-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/noah-schnapp-says-press-would-pry-and-ask-are-you-gay-when-he-was-13-years-old-at-stranger-things-junkets-i-didnt-know-what-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Schnapp Says Press \u2018Would Pry\u2019 and Ask \u2018Are You Gay?\u2019 When He Was 13 Years Old at \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 Junkets: \u2018I Didn\u2019t Know What to Say\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Noah Schnapp<\/a> joined his \u201cStranger Things<\/a>\u201d co-stars on the cover of Time magazine and recalled journalists prying for information about his sexuality during press junkets when he was just a young teenager. Schnapp publicly came out as gay in January 2023 at 18 years old. Public scrutiny around his sexuality had persisted for years, especially as \u201cStranger Things<\/a>\u201d worked towards his character, Will Byers, coming out as gay on the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was younger, I was obviously very scared of talking about it,\u201d Schapp told the publication. \u201cThey would pry and ask me, \u2018Is he gay? Are you gay?\u2019 I was 12, 13. I didn\u2019t know what to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schnapp confirmed in a July 2022 interview with Variety that Will Byers was gay. \u201cStranger Things 4\u201d was dominating the Netflix<\/a> charts at the time, and the series had put Will\u2019s sexuality front and center. When the actor publicly came out in a social media post months later,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Noah Schnapp joined his \u201cStranger Things\u201d co-stars on the cover of Time magazine and recalled journalists prying for information about his sexuality during press junkets when he was just a young teenager. Schnapp publicly came out as gay in January 2023 at 18 years old. Public scrutiny around his sexuality had persisted for years, especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2096160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2096159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Noah-Schnapp-Says-Press-\u2018Would-Pry-and-Ask-\u2018Are-You.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096162,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096159\/revisions\/2096162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2096160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}