Power Rangers Introduc First Openly Gay Cematic Superhero

Contents:

• SNOOP DOGG SHOCKED BY GAY SCENE RECENT EPISO OF ‘POWER BOOK II: GHOST’
• SNOOP DOGG REACTS TO GAY SCENE 50 CENT'S 'POWER BOOK II: GHOST'
• GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
• POWER RANGERS' GAY MOMENT IS A GOOD STEP, BUT A SMALL ONE
• 'POWER RANGERS' GAY CHARACTER: HERE'S HOW BECKY G'S CHARACTER ADDRS HER SEXUALY
• TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM
• POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH ON PLAYG GAY CHARACTER NEW FILM: “IT WASN’T DONE WHOUT THOUGHT”
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'

SNOOP DOGG SHOCKED BY GAY SCENE RECENT EPISO OF ‘POWER BOOK II: GHOST’

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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.

SNOOP DOGG REACTS TO GAY SCENE 50 CENT'S 'POWER BOOK II: GHOST'

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.

GO, GAY POWER RANGER!

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.

POWER RANGERS' GAY MOMENT IS A GOOD STEP, BUT A SMALL ONE

"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.

'POWER RANGERS' GAY CHARACTER: HERE'S HOW BECKY G'S CHARACTER ADDRS HER SEXUALY

"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. The words “first” and “gay” have a Pavlovian effect on many queer fans of pop culture, and even more so for queer fans of superhero stuff. Dpe the headl, Power Rangers skips any dramatic "yep, I'm gay" admissn, and stead opts for nonchalance.

A report last year om the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) found that of 126 major stud releas 2015 only 17. In addn to the Yellow Ranger's mighty moment, Disney—which received a “failg” ratg om GLAAD 2016 for s track rerd wh LGBTQ characters—also clud a gay character last week’s rerd-settg Bety and the Beast. Josh Gad’s character LeFou, acrdg to director Bill Condon, featured the stud's first “exclively gay moment, ” a brief dance-floor twirl between LeFou and one of Gaston’s henchmen.

No fanfare, jt gay-moment momentum got another boost when both Bety and the Beast and Power Rangers ped censors' censure abroad. Officials Malaysia also threatened to not allow the film to screen unls s gay scen were cut, but later relented after Disney said wouldn’t alter the film. ” Wrg for The Daily Beast, Kev Fallon said, “the most exclively gay moment this new Bety and the Beast is my dramatic eye roll after seeg the actual thg, ” and even the Malaysian censors lookg to make cuts to the movie acknowledged may not have a been a big al had director Condon not poted the gay moment out.

TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM

Meanwhile, another far-away galaxy, last year’s Star Trek Beyond picted Sulu as a gay man—an homage to origal Sulu, Gee Takei, who me out 2005.

But aga, his big gay moment is jt a moment, a brief glimpse of Sulu wh a man perceived to be his partner. But if the eak’ Power Rangers n morph to a crew wh a queer character, ’s time to realize the gay moment n be more than 15 mut of fame.

David Yost, who played the origal Blue Ranger, was openly gay durg the '90s seri, but left the show after alg wh harassment om members of the crew.

POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO

Filmg is long done, but the reason for the actor's exhstn is beg Hom Holland cisg a gay bar the crowd roomHom holland cisg a gay bar and takg bbc the crowd roomMARCA ENGLISHIn the show, Holland plays a young man arrted on spicn of mtg a chillg crime. Mor SPOILER warng for Power RangersPower Rangers opens theaters this Friday and while the reviews of the film are still g , there's no nyg s breakg new ground for the superhero Rangers prents dienc wh the first openly gay superhero movie character. Tri Kwan, the Yellow Range played by Becky G, reveals the film's send act that she is gay.

"Openly gay actor David Yost portrayed the Blue Ranger the origal Mighty Morph Power Rangers televisn seri but left the seri after beg harassed for his sexualy.

Marvel's mutant Northstar beme the first openly gay character eher a Marvel or DC ic when he me out 1992. The CW's Supergirl, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow each feature LGBTQ characters promently and are produced by the openly gay Greg Berlanti. Marvel's LGBTQ characterizatn has been limed to Inhuman gut star Joey Gutierrez on Agents of SHIELD and rporate away Jeryn Hogarth on Marvel's Jsi and the Beast also troduced Disney's first ever gay character this month.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH ON PLAYG GAY CHARACTER NEW FILM: “IT WASN’T DONE WHOUT THOUGHT”

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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'

X-Men’s Northstar, the first openly gay character om eher DC or Marvel, was troduced the ics 1992. Supergirl, which is om openly gay producer Greg Berlanti, jos fellow Berlanti CW shows Legends of Tomorrow and Arrow featurg LGBT characters.

Origal Blue Ranger actor David Yost, who is openly gay and left the 1990s Power Rangers seri after facg harassment over his sexual orientatn, praised the new film for s clivens.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'

Power Rangers on the heels of Disney’s Bety and the Beast live-actn remake, which Josh Gad plays Disney’s first-ever gay character, LeFou. In the sci-fi movie world, last year’s Star Trek Beyond revealed that Sulu (played by John Cho the rebooted Star Trek movie universe), was gay. Bisexuals are not as reprented ics as gay men and lbians, and I thought was about time to change that, and here was a character who was already portrayed that way -- so there you go.

GAY.

The Comics Co Authory banned any suggtns of homosexualy ic books until 1989 Ameri, and wasn't until the 2000s that LGBT characters started to feature more stand-alone stori. Northstar, real name Jean-Pl Bebier, is one of the first openly gay characters Amerin ic book history.