As the Mighty Morph Power Rangers celebrat s 20th anniversary, David Yost, the actor who played the origal Blue Ranger, shar the story of how he overme bullyg Hollywood, suicidal tennci, and a nervo breakdown on the road to acceptg himself as a gay man.
Contents:
- ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE WAS HARASSED ON SET FOR BEG GAY
- BRYAN CRANSTON APOLOGIZ FOR OFFENDG GAY POWER RANGERS ACTOR
- GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
- BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY, G OUT, AND FDG PEACE
- ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
- “PUT MYSELF THROUGH NVERSN THERAPY”: MIGHTY MORPH POWER RANGERS STAR DAVID YOST WAS BULLIED BY CO-STARS FOR BEG GAY
- DAVID YOST, BLUE POWER RANGER, SAYS HE QU SHOW OVER GAY INSULTS
- LE POWER RANGER BL éTA GAY ET HARCELé PAR SA PRODUCTN
ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE WAS HARASSED ON SET FOR BEG GAY
Origal Blue Power Ranger reveals that he was harassed on set for beg gay * gay power ranger bullied *
Years later, he opened up over beg bullied for beg gay that led to nversn therapy.
Before beg st as the Blue Ranger, Yost knew he was gay but knew wouldn’t work his favor. “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, ” said Yost for The Hollywood Reporter. “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 .
BRYAN CRANSTON APOLOGIZ FOR OFFENDG GAY POWER RANGERS ACTOR
* gay power ranger bullied *
Between the bullyg and the dtry standards, Yost was termed not to be gay. Many fans of the inic 90s kids’ show Power Rangers may be unaware that David Yost, who played the origal blue Power Ranger, is both gay and a survivor of nversn therapy. Millennial gays growg up the 90s will know Bill Cranston as the blue power ranger, the cute nerdy power ranger we all secretly fancied, played by David Yost.
He scribed how he was harassed on the Power Rangers set by some crew members “bee he was gay”, and said that this was one of the talysts that drove him to enter nversn therapy after leavg the show 1996. “I put myself through nversn therapy bee I didn’t wanna be gay.
GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
David Yost, the origal Blue Power Ranger, opens up about beg harassed on set for beg gay and how fans have been helped by his journey. * gay power ranger bullied *
And durg the three-part terview, Yost revealed jt what happened behd the scen when his character was wrten off the show (and sent to live on another pla): Yost actually walked off set one day after beg teased about beg gay.
BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY, G OUT, AND FDG PEACE
Openly gay actor David Yost spoke about dark tim and the challeng he faced durg his succsful stt wh Mighty Morph Power Rangers. * gay power ranger bullied *
"I had jt heard that several tim while workg on the show om creators, producers, wrers, directors… Basilly I jt felt like i was ntually beg told I was not worthy of beg where I am bee I'm a gay person. Yost has prevly shared that he was bullied so much by the homophobic staff and crew of the show that he eventually left. After leavg the popular children’s tv show s fourth season bee of homophobic treatment on set, Yost signed up for nversn therapy servic.
Bryan Cranston apologiz for offendg gay actor who portrayed the origal Blue Power Ranger after Breakg Bad star ma ill-advised crack about his sexualy before he publicly me outDavid Yost said he faced homophobia durg time as Blue Power Ranger Yost, 47, played Billy Cranston on the show between 1993 and 1996 His character was named after Bryan bee the Breakg Bad star did voiceover work for the show He said he was hurt by a remark Bryan Cranston ma a 2009 terview Cranston scribed the character as 'fey' - which means to be 'fairy-like'Yost had not e out publicly at the time of the terview 2009 Published: 06:46 BST, 18 July 2016 | Updated: 14:39 BST, 18 July 2016. One of the stars of Mighty Morph' Power Rangers has revealed he was hurt by a joke superstar actor and former st mate Bryan Cranston ma about his Yost, who played Blue Power Ranger Billy Cranston the smash h seri om 1993 to 1996, said he stggled throughout his reer wh homophobia Hollywood.
'I jt wanted to be an actor, and the 90s you didn't adm you were gay, bee if you did, you weren't gog to be a workg actor per se... 'It beme very tratg bee I didn't want to be gay, and to have all the people sayg thgs about me, was very trimental to my mental health and started to take a toll on me to the pot that I beme suicidal while I was on the show, ' Yost 47-year-old also tailed how he was hurt by an terview Cranston - who did voiceover work on the show and has been st to appear a Power Rangers film 2017 - gave character was also named after Cranston by the show's wrers.
ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
Yost (left his Power Ranger stume, right 2013), who played Billy Cranston the smash h seri om 1993 to 1996, said he stggled throughout his reer wh homophobia Hollywood 'When I read that terview, which took place about a year before I me out publicly, really hurt me, ' Yost (pictured wh his st mat) said about Cranston's ment Yost said he suffered followg an terview Bryan Cranston (pictured) - who did voiceover work on the show and has been st to appear a Power Rangers film 2017 - gave 2009The word fey n be ed to fe somethg wh 'fairy-like' quali, and is sometim ed to scribe straight men wh gay tras or mannerisms.
Origal 'Power Ranger' Talks Comg Out, Hollywood Homophobia - NBC News. 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.
“PUT MYSELF THROUGH NVERSN THERAPY”: MIGHTY MORPH POWER RANGERS STAR DAVID YOST WAS BULLIED BY CO-STARS FOR BEG GAY
"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.
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.
DAVID YOST, BLUE POWER RANGER, SAYS HE QU SHOW OVER GAY INSULTS
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. "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. HE WAS the origal blue Power Ranger the origal Neti kids’ show, but actor David Yost has revealed that he left the show after sufferg homophobic bullyg. More He went on to say that he had heard the homophobic slur bandied about “a number of tim” durg his time workg on the seri.
SABANBilly Cranston was the origal blue Power RangerGETTYThe st of the Power Rangers“I, myself was stgglg wh who I was or what I was and to be ma fun of on some level, or to be stereotyped, or to be put to a tegory […] basilly I was beg told I was not worthy of where I am bee I’m a “gay person” and I’m not supposed to be an actor and you n’t be a superhero. Related: A mighty morphg marriage proposal for the gay Power Rangers. A clip om the episo shows the other characters fdg out that their fellow Ranger is gay when she walks off holdg her girliend’s hand.
LE POWER RANGER BL éTA GAY ET HARCELé PAR SA PRODUCTN
Now Yost — speakg to EW as part of an extensive oral history Entertament Weekly’s recent issue celebratg the 25th anniversary of the h Fox Kids seri’ first season — is openg up about g to terms wh his sexual orientatn, why he entered gay nversn therapy, and how his fans have reacted sce he me out publicly. “It’s hard when you have a certa amount of fame and you’re gog through the personal stggle that I was gog through as a gay person, ” says Yost, 49, who has said he was harassed on the Power Rangers set by some crew members bee he is gay. “In the begng, I certaly didn’t want people to know that I was gay.
“And now that I’ve e out as a gay person, every day I get msag om gay people around the world that tell me, ‘Thank you for g out and sharg your story bee your story helped me e out. 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.