Is mike gay
Episode Summary
In this episode, Mike shares his journey from being introduced to Christianity at age four, to grappling with his sexuality in a church that condemned homosexuality. Despite knowing he was gay from a young age; it took a transformative exposure at 18 and another 14 years to fully embrace his identity. He discusses the impact on his relationships, the painful reality of conversion therapy, and his time training at Bethel Church. Mike reflects on the dehumanising system he once upheld and how he eventually broke free, with an unexpected assist from Taylor Swift. He candidly talks about coming out publicly, dealing with hateful comments, and balancing his Christian faith with the impair it poses to the Queer community. Finally, Mike offers advice to those beginning their own faith deconstruction journey.
My Thoughts
Okay, so Mike is genuinely one of my favourite people. He gives wish for Queer people of faith and is a stark reminder that those parts of an individuality do not need to be in opposition. He is the kind of person, that I want I had when I was still in church, and the kind of person I wish every Queer kid in religious spaces had in their life. Whilst this
‘Stranger Things’ Actor Noah Schnapp on Doja Cat, Season 5, and Will’s Sexuality: ‘He Is Gay and He Does Love Mike’ (EXCLUSIVE)
SPOILER ALERT: This story includes discussion of major plot developments in Season 4 of “Stranger Things,” currently streaming on Netflix.
One of the many thrills embedded in “Stranger Things” has been watching each of the young cast literally grow into young adults before our eyes. That is perhaps especially genuine of its youngest imaginative member, Noah Schnapp. His character, Will Byers, has been through it over the years: Abducted into the Upside Down, then possessed by a demonic entity known as the Mind Flayer, and then — perhaps worst of all! — seemingly abandoned by his best friends as they discovered girls and matured beyond their days of playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Will never has, and throughout the recently concluded fourth season, he struggled to articulate to his best friend, Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), why.
From the start, it seemed clear that Will is gay and terrified of coming out. When Variety asked Schnapp and his costar Millie Bobby Brown about it
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this is gonna be long, but i want to define why i assess mike wheeler is gay
we all grasp mike is gay, i'm not gonna try to establish that he wants to kiss boys (because duh), i want to watch at the things that indicate mike is specifically queer , not bi - the relevant difference being, in mike's case, attraction to women. in my opinion, the reveal is full of evidence that points to mike's specific brand of queerness being not only attraction to men but also lack of attraction to women. (which is why i'm writing this, i just think there's so much textually in the show that backs it up) i'm mostly going to focus on his dynamic with el, but i want to form it really dispel first thati love el, and i believe mike really does love el too, just not in the way he thinks he should. his arc is about realizing that the cherish he feels for el is not romantic (while the love he feels for will is).
romantic ambivalence towards el
this has been rehashed so much since the season 4 monologue, but the way mike talks about el when they first discover her in the woods, about sending her back to the asylum, handing her over to mike's parents, and
Why I no longer think Mike is bi, but same-sex attracted (deep-dive analysis)
I assume, I’ve been putting this off for a long second, because I was afraid of the backlash- since so many toxic-milevens dispatch me hate despite the fact I never cross tag. But honestly, I’m so used to it now, it’s honestly become humorous. But, I consider the main reason I didn’t desire to discuss this was because so many people happily head-cannon Mike as bi/pan. Which is rare in a fandom, since even when a personality is confirmed/heavily implied to be bi, people erase their sexuality and fake they’re gay/lesbian. Which I find incredibly problematic, given how common bi-erasure is in real-life. And how it makes it seem favor other gay people refuse to notice themselves in a bi character- so they erase their sexuality instead. But, honestly, as someone who has top cannoned Mike as bi since s1ep2, it’s hard for me to observe him as anything but gay now! This is because the evidence in s3, re-contextualized everything in the first two seasons. And him being male lover (rather than bi) explains all of his out of character behavior. So, lets begin. Warning this is going to be long! XD
In the Montauk pitch (later named Stranger thing
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Mike explains how he had got involved in many sports and found that golf was right for him. He talks about losing count of the number of surgeries that he has had and that his mantra is simply “that you just have to get through things.”
Typical of a male who deals with things head on, Mike explains that the decision to have his leg amputated was quite simple really. He took the doctors by surprise by taking the long term view that it would be better for his health if he was to have an amputation. The hardest part was telling his parents who had lived the experience with him for the top part of 25 years.
It is revealing that Mike looks at the improvement that he has been able to make in life as a product of not suffering the same pain that he had been experiencing previously.
Mike tells me that he feels lucky to hold what he considers to be the best disability when compared with others and clearly says that he has learned to be resilient. Enjoy the moment also seems to be one of Mikes maxims and he loves competition, which I suspect is true regardless of who he is competing with, even with himself.
In this typically forthright conversation Mik