Lets be real here.

Its not homophobic to say that scene was bad... all of you gays are just putting your personal feelings to the scene and are blinded by that.

No one hates it because he is gay. They hate it because it was so poorly done and in a weird place. And the fact his only concern was that "you all.. worry about me"... not like we got to see all his friends saying homophobic remarks and turning their back on him, in a Vecna vision... which is more believable to be afraid of. Especially in the 80's. And if they had done it that way, then the boys and Joyce and Johnathan could be like "no dude, we love you, we will always love you, we would never treat you different for who you are"

And all those people did not need to be there, and it was right at the end of the episode of a season that so far, is really lacking compared to season 4 for many other reasons.