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Contents:

• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE WAS HARASSED ON SET FOR BEG GAY
• WELE THE FIRST OUT-GAY POWER RANGER!
• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
• THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
• PARENTS BEWARE: GAY ‘POWER RANGERS’ STAR BRAGS ABOUT LGBT CONTENT
• POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO

ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE WAS HARASSED ON SET FOR BEG GAY

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. And durg the three-part terview, Yost revealed jt what happened behd the scen when his character was wrten off the show (and sent to live on another pla): Yost actually walked off set one day after beg teased about beg gay.

"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.

Beyond a nfirmatn that green is undoubtedly the gayt lor, fans are given an troductn to Izzy Garcia’s romantic life the thirteenth episo of the show. 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.

WELE THE FIRST OUT-GAY POWER RANGER!

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. Somehow 's 2017 and the film marks the first-ever superhero movie to feature a gay protagonist character.

In the origal Power Rangers seri, Tri was portrayed as straight, but the change is fely receivg posive example, the origal Blue Ranger actor David Yost was openly gay when he took on the role, but end up leavg the seri the late '90s after facg harassment over his sexual orientatn. The only superhero that me even close to reprentg non-heterosexualy was Marvel's antihero Deadpool, who intifi as pansexual (however, he never had any non-heterosexual experienc the film) of the Power Rangers LGBT reprentatn  on the heels of Disney featurg s first-ever gay character  the live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast. 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.

ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL

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. 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.

THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER

I jt wanted to be left alone and allowed to act, but this 'gay thg' kept gettg my way.

GO, GAY POWER RANGER!

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.

PARENTS BEWARE: GAY ‘POWER RANGERS’ STAR BRAGS ABOUT LGBT CONTENT

"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. 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.

“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. 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.

POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO

Played by the openly gay actor David Yost, the Blue Ranger was often was known as the team’s most telligent member, helpg to novate var technologil solutns to assist the Power Rangers. While statements addrsg the actor’s qutg blamed ntract disput, the accepted explanatn is the one Yost gave which ced homophobia behd the scen. Havg bee more monplace wh the medium, Billy beg gay or bisexual wouldn’t be as taboo as when the origal show premiered.

As Yost is a survivor of nversn therapy, allowg his character to be openly gay would be a powerful msage to fans that ’s ok to be yourself.