'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

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.

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. 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.

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). Hopefully, this is jt the latt step on the path toward gay characters beg clud major movi often enough that 'll bee monplace and we'll no longer even need to wre articl like this one. If this film treats Tri as an outst solely bee of her sexualy, that uld add to the already-tired trope that beg gay tomatilly means there's somethg wrong wh her.