The popular Netflix franchise “Stranger Things” released the final episodes of their concluding season over the Christmas season, but those episodes weren’t the only things that came out recently.
Will Byers, a central character in the sci-fi mystery, announces to his friends and family that he is attracted to other boys in one of the last episodes.
The lengthy coming out scene ends with all of the protagonists tearfully accepting Will’s homosexuality despite the show’s setting in the 1980s, when American culture was still broadly opposed to such behavior.
The reactions to Will’s coming out scene… pic.twitter.com/7dvIaQEvuv
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The moment disrupts the narrative of the characters gearing up for their final interdimensional battle against Vecna, a villain
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