#be true

My only proof I need to know that Mike is queer is that Mike is literally the only one of the outcasts who doesn't really have anything that makes him an "outcast" yet. He comes from a pretty well off family, the seemingly perfect mother and father with 2.5 kids type of american dream dynamic. Everybody else has something going on for them that makes them "different", even the older teens, even the adults. But what does Mike have, other than being friends with a bunch of "weirdos"? Something that doesn't just make him different in the eyes of society but also makes Mike himself feel like he's different and doesn't fit in. Nothing that we've been actively told yet, but there has to be something. And so the most obvious thing, that would make the most sense for his storyline and that would also be something he could try to hide and push down so that it hasn't been revealed to the autience yet, is that he's queer. Stranger Things is literally about outcasts, people who are different in some way, so why would one of the most prominent, most important characters of the show Not have any trait that makes him an outcast? It just wouldn't make any sense

"All I can do is keep showing them who I am, and if they’d rather believe something different, then that’s on them." -Amari and the Great Game