Parents Beware: Gay 'Power Rangers' Star Brags About LGBT Content

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PARENTS BEWARE: GAY 'POWER RANGERS' STAR BRAGS ABOUT LGBT CONTENT

And jt last year, reports were circulatg that the follow-up Power Rangers film was set to clu a transgenr ranger the st and that the Blue Ranger was gog to be wrten as a gay character, though no new velopments on those onts have surfaced sce then. 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.

The anchise is now streamg a rnn on Netflix that, naturally 2023, has to clu gay ntent.

Th, as the openly gay actor who plays the Blue Ranger, David Yost, told Entertament Weekly, he’s happy to see a scene featurg a gay uple the new special, clud for no other reason than … featur a gay uple. As EW noted s Wednday article, the actor “has been open about how the homophobia he faced while workg on ‘Mighty Morph Power Rangers’ led him to walk away om the h seri the 1990s.

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“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.

SCOOP: I’ve obtaed vio om si Disney’s all-hands meetg about the Florida parental rights bill, which executive producer Latoya Ravene says her team has implemented a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and is regularly “addg queerns” to children’s programmg.

If he suffered om homophobic abe durg his time on the origal “Power Rangers” show, I feel genuely sorry for the man; nothg exc the behavr he scrib, if happened as scribed. 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.

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""I put myself through nversn therapy bee I didn't wanna be gay. Warng: The article ntas referenc to homophobia and suici.

David Yost, who played Billy, the Blue Ranger, knew he was gay while workg on the show and had to take preutns to make sure no one would fd out. “I said I’m not gonna be gay, I’m gonna foc on my reer. Yost rells overhearg producers and -stars watchg footage of him and throwg out homophobic slurs.

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The emotnal toll Yost alt wh exemplifi what was like for many gay people Hollywood at the time.

“Everybody thks everybody Hollywood is accepted and s great to be gay. That homophobia me to a head durg productn of the show’s fourth season, Power Rangers Zeo. It was a major step down for the character and Yost feels was part bee many the productn staff believed that bee he was gay he uldn’t be a superhero.

” However, durg a panel at Power Morphin 2012, Pagter played d clips om behd the scen on the show cludg one that featured a homophobic slur.

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Gay 'Power Rangers' Star Teas 'Awome' LGBTQIA2S+ Content Netflix Rnn Film.

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