9 yrs of consistent storytelling. It's the full stop of a decade-long arc. Will tells everyone "I don't like girls," and they unconditionally embrace him with love and support.

Beautiful, paid off and exactly what the Duffer Brothers planned, this was always part of his arc. /FIN

Season 5: Up until now everyone wondered if or when Robin and Will be friends as Robin had previously come out to Steve in season 3.
Him running away from the kiss and how he was so nice to her when they eventually spoke and she possibly saw herself in him hence she mentored him /9

Season 4: Jonathan ever understanding, implies to Will he knows, but while being very vague /8

Season 4: This entire conversation was overheard by Jonathan. A guy who raised Will in lieu of their own father, who has always encouraged Will to be himself; who said it was ok not to fit in and ok to be a freak when Will doesn’t want to be one. Heavily indicated here he knows /7

Season 4: Will’s motivational speech to Mike regarding eleven’s love for Mike was actually about his own love for Mike. It was his way of trying to tell him how much he loves him without outing himself and potentially ruining his friendship in the process.

Season 4: Will did his show on Alan Turing. Turing cracked the German Enigma cipher during WWII. This work helped shorten the war, but he faced persecution for being gay after it; a fact that led to his criminal prosecution in 1952 for "gross indecency" in the UK, where homosexuality was illegal /6

Season 3: Will gets everyone together to play D&D on a no girls day, which ends in a row with Mike
insulting him with the very thing he knows Will has been bullied about. It could have been acted differently from Schnapp but it’s the fearful expression “omg does everyone know?” /5

Season 2, episode 8: Every breath you take by the police is playing and it pans over Will dancing with a girl who asked him to dance as the line is sung “every smile you fake” /4

Season 2, episode 8: What is more loaded than this? surely I don't need to explain to you how powerful a piece of queer imagery the rainbow is. /3

Season 1 (2016): His father calls him slurs, bullies mock him constantly. Joyce reflects on this with Hopper. Hopper asks if he is? Joyce counters this by replying “he’s missing, that’s what he is” /2

Still don't believe this was "always planned"? The Duffer Brothers' ORIGINAL pitch book for Stranger Things - back when it was called "Montauk" - described Will Byers as "a sweet, sensitive kid with sexual identity issues." /1#strangerthings

There’s something very dystopian about seeing people celebrating making other peoples lives smaller and harder.

Rights stripped away from any woman is rights stripped away from all women

Omg can you imagine? #ImACeleb

Just a girl