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Contents:
- ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
- BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY, G OUT, AND FDG PEACE
- BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
- THE JAM W. JON GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE COLLECTN AND FUND
ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
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. * walter jones gay *
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. ""I put myself through nversn therapy bee I didn't wanna be gay.
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BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY, G OUT, AND FDG PEACE
"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.
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BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
Is Walter Emanuel Jon Gay? Yet the prence of gays and lbians black church is mon. While many black pastors nmn gays and lbians om the pulp, the choir lofts behd them often are filled wh gay sgers and micians.
THE JAM W. JON GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE COLLECTN AND FUND
Wiley is a proment advote of gay marriage. Print Obama's recent announcement that he supports same-sex marriage turned the spotlight on rervatns many blacks harbor about gay rights.
Most polls show Ain-Amerins evenly divid about gay marriage, but the vol opposn, led by preachers, has gaed more attentn. Woon helped lead the recent mpaign that outlawed gay marriage his state.