'Power Rangers' Reboot Featur The First Openly Gay Movie Superhero Character

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David Yost, who left the '90s show after facg harassment for beg gay, wr that the Lnsgate reboot "really stepped up to the plate."

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

X-Men’s Northstar, the first openly gay character om eher DC or Marvel, was troduced the ics 1992.

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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.

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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.

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. 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.

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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. 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.

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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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