‘Power Rangers’: David Yost on Why a Gay Superhero Is a Step Forward – The Hollywood Reporter

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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.

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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.

BLUE POWER RANGER REVEALS THAT HE QU THE SHOW OVER HARASSMENT AS A GAY ACTOR

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“I put myself through nversn therapy bee I didn’t wanna be 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.

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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.

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