Contents:
- 'POWER RANGERS' 2017 MOVIE NEWS: YELLOW RANGER TRI IS GAY; FIRST LGBT PROTAGONIST A SUPERHERO MOVIE
- 'POWER RANGERS' GAY CHARACTER: HERE'S HOW BECKY G'S CHARACTER ADDRS HER SEXUALY
- POWER RANGERS' GAY MOMENT IS A GOOD STEP, BUT A SMALL ONE
- THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
'POWER RANGERS' 2017 MOVIE NEWS: YELLOW RANGER TRI IS GAY; FIRST LGBT PROTAGONIST A SUPERHERO MOVIE
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. 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. Dpe unniably big steps the right directn, there remas a gap between the reprentatn of heterosexual characters and relatnships vers gay, bisexual, or trans characters beg shown on screen.
'POWER RANGERS' GAY CHARACTER: HERE'S HOW BECKY G'S CHARACTER ADDRS HER SEXUALY
Even Disney is fally gettg on the act, troducg Le Fou as beg gay the new Bety and the Beast.
David Yost was the origal Blue Ranger, and openly gay. Do I thk that time to e we'll have a whole team of gay or qutng superhero?
News reports that Yost intified as gay when he acted for the origal seri but he left the show bee of harassment issu due to his orientatn.
POWER RANGERS' GAY MOMENT IS A GOOD STEP, BUT A SMALL ONE
The news of the openly gay characters after the reports of Disney's LeFou character (played by Josh Gad) om "Bety and the Beast" havg an "exclively gay moment" the live actn film.
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. 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.
THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
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. 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.