Origal Blue Power Ranger reveals that he was harassed on set for beg gay |

Contents:

• GAY POWER RANGER ACTORS
• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
• GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE WAS HARASSED ON SET FOR BEG GAY
• THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• BRYAN CRANSTON APOLOGIZ FOR OFFENDG GAY POWER RANGERS ACTOR

GAY POWER RANGER ACTORS

We all know that the origal Blue Ranger David Yost is gay, though didn't e out until years after he left the show. Anyone else know or at least heavily spect other actors om the long nng seri to be gay?

ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL

I hope the Asian Power Ranger om the new movie is gay. Fabulo villa Black Ln R was fely gay for 's que obv that the actor playg R is fay, if nothg else. Origal Blue Power Ranger David Yost on gay reprentatn Netflix's Power Rangers rnn special "It's taken a long time to get there, " says the actor, who me out as gay after leavg Mighty Morph Power Rangers 1996.

In the begng, I certaly didn't want people to know that I was gay, " he said. ""I put myself through nversn therapy bee I didn't wanna be gay. When I first moved to Hollywood the ‘90s to be an actor, was still nsired taboo to be gay, pecially if you wanted to be a leadg actor TV seri or film.

GO, GAY POWER RANGER!

If you were gay, you certaly were not allowed to make public.

I was stgglg so much wh who I was and not wantg to be gay bee of what society was tellg me — that ’s not a good thg, that ’s agast God, that you are somehow different. There were ments at work that were ma about me terms of beg gay or “beg a faggot, ” and as time went on jt got old and I was tired of listeng to . I was dog any and everythg I uld to get rid of beg gay.

I n remember lyg bed my first night the hospal, and sayg, “God, if you give me my md back, I will be gay. I remember listeng to my peers talkg about him and sayg really horrible thgs about gay people. People always ask me, “Wouldn’t be great if there’s a gay character on one of the Power Rangers TV seri?

ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE WAS HARASSED ON SET FOR BEG GAY

The more Hollywood puts lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, qutng, tersex characters a film or TV show, helps people unrstand and see that people are jt people. David Yost says he knew he was gay by the time he was the send gra. For Yost, the journey to accept himself as a gay man has been filled wh fear, danger, and self-loathg.

"In the church I went to as a kid, I always got msag that beg gay was wrong, that was a s and agast God. People church would make horrible ments about gay people, and while they weren't talkg about me specifilly, I knew they were, bee I knew I was gay.

THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER

It was there, he says, that his feelgs of self-loathg eased and he took his first steps toward acceptg himself as a gay man. A., I ma a pact wh myself that I would no longer be gay, " Yost says. So I had nvced myself that meant I wasn't gay.

He was regularly lled antigay slurs like "faggot, " and he learned his stars were qutned private about his sexualy by producers on a number of ocsns. I jt wanted to be left alone and allowed to act, but this 'gay thg' kept gettg my way.

I didn't want to be gay, and I was sred speakg up would jeopardize my reer. "Dperate to rega ntrol of his life, Yost unrwent gay-to-straight "nversn therapy" durg the followg two years before eventually led to a nervo breakdown.

BRYAN CRANSTON APOLOGIZ FOR OFFENDG GAY POWER RANGERS ACTOR

"I would love to see a gay character troduced on a show like Power Rangers, " he says. "There's a whole realm of possible stori there we've only begun to tap to, and gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, qutng, and tersex young people need to see themselv reflected world around them.