Go, Gay Power Ranger

Contents:

• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE WAS HARASSED ON SET FOR BEG GAY
• BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY, G OUT, AND FDG PEACE
• GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
• THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER

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

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.

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.

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

Now Yost—speakg to EW as part of an extensive oral history  Entertament Weekly's recent issue celebratg the 25th anniversary of the h Fox Kids seri' first season—is openg up about g to terms wh his sexual orientatn, why he entered gay nversn therapy, and how his fans have reacted sce he me out publicly. "It's hard when you have a certa amount of fame and you're gog through the personal stggle that I was gog through as a gay person, " says Yost, 49, who has said he was harassed on the Power Rangers set by some crew members bee he is gay.

"I put myself through nversn therapy bee I didn't wanna be gay. "In the begng, I certaly didn't want people to know that I was gay.

BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY, G OUT, AND FDG PEACE

"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. 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. Many fans of the inic 90s kids’ show Power Rangers may be unaware that David Yost, who played the origal blue Power Ranger, is both gay and a survivor of nversn therapy.

GO, GAY POWER RANGER!

Millennial gays growg up the 90s will know Bill Cranston as the blue power ranger, the cute nerdy power ranger we all secretly fancied, played by David Yost.

He scribed how he was harassed on the Power Rangers set by some crew members “bee he was gay”, and said that this was one of the talysts that drove him to enter nversn therapy after leavg the show 1996.

“I put myself through nversn therapy bee I didn’t wanna be gay.

THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Years later, he opened up over beg bullied for beg gay that led to nversn therapy.

Before beg st as the Blue Ranger, Yost knew he was gay but knew wouldn’t work his favor. “When I first moved to Hollywood the ‘90s to be an actor, was still nsired taboo to be gay, pecially if you wanted to be a leadg actor TV seri or film, ” said Yost for The Hollywood Reporter.