The top 2 box office hs have gay characters. One handled far better than the other. Who was might surprise you.
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
- MIGHTY MORPH POWER RANGERS STAR SAYS GAY REPRENTATN WAS LONG OVERDUE
- WELE THE FIRST OUT-GAY POWER RANGER!
- GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
- THE GAY AGENDA HAS MENCED POWER RANGERS ARE OFFICIALLY GAY THE NEW FILM
- THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO
ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
As the Mighty Morph Power Rangers celebrat s 20th anniversary, David Yost, the actor who played the origal Blue Ranger, shar the story of how he overme bullyg Hollywood, suicidal tennci, and a nervo breakdown on the road to acceptg himself as a gay man. * power rangers gay agenda *
Warng: The article ntas referenc to homophobia and suici.
David Yost, who played Billy, the Blue Ranger, knew he was gay while workg on the show and had to take preutns to make sure no one would fd out. “I said I’m not gonna be gay, I’m gonna foc on my reer.
Yost rells overhearg producers and -stars watchg footage of him and throwg out homophobic slurs.
PARENTS BEWARE: GAY 'POWER RANGERS' STAR BRAGS ABOUT LGBT CONTENT
* power rangers gay agenda *
The emotnal toll Yost alt wh exemplifi what was like for many gay people Hollywood at the time. “Everybody thks everybody Hollywood is accepted and s great to be gay. That homophobia me to a head durg productn of the show’s fourth season, Power Rangers Zeo.
It was a major step down for the character and Yost feels was part bee many the productn staff believed that bee he was gay he uldn’t be a superhero.
MIGHTY MORPH POWER RANGERS STAR SAYS GAY REPRENTATN WAS LONG OVERDUE
” However, durg a panel at Power Morphin 2012, Pagter played d clips om behd the scen on the show cludg one that featured a homophobic slur.
The harassment Yost faced sent him to a eper darkns and he spent many years tryg to “get rid of” his sexualy, cludg many versns of the horrific “Pray the Gay Away.
WELE THE FIRST OUT-GAY POWER RANGER!
While gay character and relatnships, nor a gay actor like Yost, weren’t acceptable on the seri, straight characters and relatnships were.
Marchand, who was an out lbian at the time, and the other wrers knew a gay Ranger was never a possibily at the time but 2004’s Power Rangers Do Thunr they troduced Hayley, the team’s rint tech expert. We were startg to thk, uld we, any pacy, troduce a gay character on this show? In an terview wh Den of Geek, Marchand crg at the memory, parg to the famo Hays Co of early Hollywood that effectively banned direct reference or posive portrayal of gay characters films outsi of ep subtext.
GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
The memory also provok great tratn om Marchand who knew that many executiv at Disney durg that time were gay but, “ jt wouldn’t have flown. Acrdg to Bend there ially wasn’t any reactn to him playg Monty as gay sce was “obv” to anyone who’d read the script.
Bend is key to strs that Monty beg gay was only his terpretatn for the character, he never would have openly nfsed his love for Victor.
Director (and now current executive producer) Simon Bent nfirmed to Den of Geek that the gay relatnship was never implied the script.
THE GAY AGENDA HAS MENCED POWER RANGERS ARE OFFICIALLY GAY THE NEW FILM
While all of the directiv were tryg to be put place to curtail Bend’s performance he learned that this wasn’t the first time the topic of a gay character had e up recent years. He’d been told by people workg on the show for years that durg velopment people behd the scen had wanted and been phg for a gay character. Addnally, Michael Taber, who played the character of Riley Power Rangers Do Charge om 2015-2016, revealed 2020 that he terpreted and played his part as gay.
THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
What mak this suatn all the stranger was that all of this was takg place at the same time that work was beg done on the 2017 Power Rangers film, which clud a gay character, although one that wasn’t out.
POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO
“Anythg that I make, I want those gay storyl. I don’t want to be like ‘the gay character.