Stranger Things 5 episode 7 features Will coming out as gay to the group but the original draft featured a much more intimate scene before it was changed.

This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of "Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. The biggest show of the streaming era is turning out to be, in large part, about one young man's coming out process.

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Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers and co-creators behind Stranger Things, have defended Will’s coming out scene in the penultimate episode of the final series after it was review-bombed online. Beware: Spoilers for the final episode of Stranger Things lie ahead.

It seems like only yesterday the first four episodes of Stranger Things season 5 arrived on Netflix, and yet we’ve somehow already reached the end of the road.

Sitting down and looking at his best friend Mike (played by Finn Wolfhard), mom Joyce (Winona Ryder), brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) and more, Will is his most vulnerable self. After making it clear that he is gay, his friends and family proudly support him and tell him they will always be by his side.

Spoiler alert! When Will Byers comes out to his friends and family in the seventh episode of 'Stranger Things' Season 5, it doesn't feel profound.

Stranger Things Season 5 is headed to its finale and its now released volume 2 could have taken us closer to Will and Mike's Byler theory

Noah Schnapp's Will Byers comes out as gay in Stranger Things 5. Read his full speech from his coming out scene here.