Because of course.

Not that he had to – but because they had to. The people who run the show. They have to insert gayness and "diversity" into everything, which is part of what annoys people who just want to watch a show about some '80s kids battling creepy entities. The annoyance springs not so much from antipathy toward homosexuals but from having homosexuality pushed on them, particularly in contexts where it is both irrelevant (to the story line) and also an attempt to alter perspectives about the past. The coming out of the kid – in the show – is clumsy agenda-pushing. It is of a piece with – if you've seen this – the scene in Wolf Hall, about the reign of Henry VIII that depicts a black man as one of Henry VIII's nobles.

It is an attempt to  alter the truth of the past – per Orwell's novel – in order to shape the present and thus the future. There were no black lords in Tudor England. The scene in the series is absurd and offensive – to the truth. But the truth can be altered by such subtle means as showing viewers who do not know history a new history. Open the door to this just a little bit and – before you know it – it will be Henry VIII who was a black man.

Naturally, calling attention this truth – and objecting to the falsehood – will be catcalled as "racist."

The coming out of the kid in Stranger Things is of a piece. Everyone who watches the show watches it in part because the kids are cute and we root for them as they try to save their friend 11 – and their small town – from the clutches of the entities that live in the "upside down." It's basically the same feel-good formula used in the past to create enjoyable movies such as ET and The Goonies. The sexual aspect being absent from these movies (and TV shows) being a huge part of the appeal.

The gay-pushers may not appreciate that what they are doing is creating enmity toward homosexuals by pushing homosexuality on heterosexuals. It is this making an issue of who sleeps with who and – even more so, that those who sleep with the same sex are worthy of our attention on the basis of who they sleep with – that annoys. Just as it is the falsification of history – not antipathy toward black people – that annoys.

It annoys that we can't just watch a show that lured us in with the promise of being entertained without it attempting to program us. To wheedle us into accepting the programming because we just want to watch a TV show after a long day at work. It is of a piece with the pushing of men who dress like women on beer drinkers – and god-only-knows what on people who are interested in Jaguars.