David Yost, who left the '90s show after facg harassment for beg gay, wr that the Lnsgate reboot "really stepped up to the plate."
Contents:
- ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
- PARENTS BEWARE: GAY 'POWER RANGERS' STAR BRAGS ABOUT LGBT CONTENT
- GAY ‘POWER RANGERS’ STAR TEAS ‘AWOME’ LGBTQIA2S+ CONTENT NETFLIX RNN FILM
- POWER RANGERS FILM FEATUR OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO
- 'POWER RANGERS' REBOOT FEATUR THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MOVIE SUPERHERO CHARACTER
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. 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.
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.
PARENTS BEWARE: GAY 'POWER RANGERS' STAR BRAGS ABOUT LGBT CONTENT
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.
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. “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.
GAY ‘POWER RANGERS’ STAR TEAS ‘AWOME’ LGBTQIA2S+ CONTENT NETFLIX RNN FILM
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. The scene Yost was referrg to reportedly featur a gay uple, who Mh — the dghter of Yellow Power Ranger Tri — helps fend agast the evil Ra Repulsa and her Putty Patrollers.
“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. 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. If you were gay, you certaly were not allowed to make public.
I was stgglg so much wh who I was and not wantg to be gay bee of what society was tellg me — that ’s not a good thg, that ’s agast God, that you are somehow different. There were ments at work that were ma about me terms of beg gay or “beg a faggot, ” and as time went on jt got old and I was tired of listeng to . I was dog any and everythg I uld to get rid of beg gay.
POWER RANGERS FILM FEATUR OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO
I n remember lyg bed my first night the hospal, and sayg, “God, if you give me my md back, I will be gay. I remember listeng to my peers talkg about him and sayg really horrible thgs about gay people.
People always ask me, “Wouldn’t be great if there’s a gay character on one of the Power Rangers TV seri? The more Hollywood puts lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, qutng, tersex characters a film or TV show, helps people unrstand and see that people are jt people.
'POWER RANGERS' REBOOT FEATUR THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MOVIE SUPERHERO CHARACTER
Image source, LnsgateImage ptn, Yellow ranger Tri, centre, has "girliend problems" the new filmAn openly gay superhero featur the new Power Rangers big screen outg what is thought to be a film first. LeFou, played by Josh Gad, is seen a brief scene scribed by the Disney film's director as a "gay moment". This past week, Bety and the Beast raised que a few public eyebrows (mostly Malaysia) wh s so-lled “exclively gay moment, ” which Josh Gad’s LeFou fleetgly reveals that he like-lik Gaston.
While this was not breakg news to any gaydar-equipped viewers of the 1991 origal, still ma que a splash onle, wh nservative voic objectg to the homosexual agenda imposed on nocent kids' entertament and progrsiv leang the other way, llg for a more meangful exprsn of queer inty than a three-send glimpse of two men wh this week’s release of the Power Rangers reboot, the exclively gay moments have been g fast and fur. (Whether the upg eighth stallment of the Fast and Fur anchise will feature an exclively gay moment has yet to be seen. Sure, 's dark and grty, but that's not the only way the film is signed to nnect wh 2017 dienc: 's also the first to feature an openly gay superhero.
Learn more about how Lnsgate is troducg the first gay Power Rangers character below. Discsn about diversy and cln has been rampg up a big way Hollywood over the past uple of years, so 's promisg to see studs cludg gay characters big $100 ln-pl budget blockbters. Even Disney is jog the party; as you've undoubtedly heard, LeFou is gay the new Bety and the Beast (a reveal that uld have been handled more elegantly, but at least was well-tentned).