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:
- 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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SNOOP DOGG REACTS TO GAY SCENE 50 CENT'S 'POWER BOOK II: GHOST'
Snoop clarified his ments on the gay scene on Power's latt episo. 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. 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.
GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
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.
POWER RANGERS' GAY MOMENT IS A GOOD STEP, BUT A SMALL ONE
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.
'POWER RANGERS' GAY CHARACTER: HERE'S HOW BECKY G'S CHARACTER ADDRS HER SEXUALY
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.
TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM
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.
POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH ON PLAYG GAY CHARACTER NEW FILM: “IT WASN’T DONE WHOUT THOUGHT”
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'
” 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.
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'
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.