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
- ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE WAS HARASSED ON SET FOR BEG GAY
- BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE QU THE SHOW OVER HARASSMENT AS A GAY ACTOR
- GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
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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
If you grew up watchg Mighty Morph Power Rangers, your your unrstandg of the show's behd-the-scen tensns will be forever changed when you watch this movg terview wh the origal Blue Ranger, David Yost ("Billy") which was nducted by Power Rangers fan muny No Pk Spanx at this year's Anime Ftival Orlando 2010. In the terview, Yost reveals that he qu the show bee of the tense anguish and harassment he felt on set as a gay actor. Yost says that his stars were lled to producers' offic several tim and qutned about his sexualy, that the reason he qu the show is "bee I was lled 'f***ot' one too many tim" by the show's "creators, producers, wrers, directors," and that he ntemplated takg his own life. Then, for two years, he participated a program lled "Pray the Gay Away" unr the belief that "God's gonna somehow e down and change you," and then had a nervo breakdown, whereafter he me to accept who he was. * billy power ranger azul gay *
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. 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.
BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE QU THE SHOW OVER HARASSMENT AS A GAY ACTOR
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. * billy power ranger azul gay *
In the terview, Yost reveals that he qu the show bee of the tense anguish and harassment he felt on set as a gay actor. Then, for two years, he participated a program lled “Pray the Gay Away” unr the belief that “God’s gonna somehow e down and change you, ” and then had a nervo breakdown, whereafter he me to accept who he was. I’m not sure if this officially marks Yost’s g out — or, really, if that matters — although appears om his Wikipedia page’s ed history that he wasn’t add to the “LGBT actors” and “Gay actors” tegori until this afternoon, not long after No Pk Spanx posted the terview vio to YouTube.
It’s not that people n’t talk about me and have their opn about me, but ntug to work an environment like that is really difficult, and I myself was stgglg wh who I was or what I was, and to be … ma fun of on some level or to be stereotyped or put to a tegory sort of sayg ‘you’re not’ — basilly, I jt felt like I was ntually beg told that I’m not worthy of where I am bee I’m a gay person and I’m not supposed to be an actor and you n’t be a superhero. David Yost says he knew he was gay by the time he was the send gra. For Yost, the journey to accept himself as a gay man has been filled wh fear, danger, and self-loathg.
"In the church I went to as a kid, I always got msag that beg gay was wrong, that was a s and agast God. People church would make horrible ments about gay people, and while they weren't talkg about me specifilly, I knew they were, bee I knew I was gay. It was there, he says, that his feelgs of self-loathg eased and he took his first steps toward acceptg himself as a gay man.
GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
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A., I ma a pact wh myself that I would no longer be gay, " Yost says. So I had nvced myself that meant I wasn't gay.
He was regularly lled antigay slurs like "faggot, " and he learned his stars were qutned private about his sexualy by producers on a number of ocsns. I jt wanted to be left alone and allowed to act, but this 'gay thg' kept gettg my way. I didn't want to be gay, and I was sred speakg up would jeopardize my reer.
"Dperate to rega ntrol of his life, Yost unrwent gay-to-straight "nversn therapy" durg the followg two years before eventually led to a nervo breakdown.