Parents Beware: Gay 'Power Rangers' Star Brags About LGBT Content

Contents:

• POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO
• ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
• WELE THE FIRST OUT-GAY POWER RANGER!
• PARENTS BEWARE: GAY 'POWER RANGERS' STAR BRAGS ABOUT LGBT CONTENT
• GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
• GAY POWER RANGER ACTORS
• THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• GAY ‘POWER RANGERS’ STAR TEAS ‘AWOME’ LGBTQIA2S+ CONTENT NETFLIX RNN FILM
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

POWER RANGERS INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CEMATIC SUPERHERO

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.

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. Mor SPOILER warng for Power RangersPower Rangers opens theaters this Friday and while the reviews of the film are still g , there's no nyg s breakg new ground for the superhero Rangers prents dienc wh the first openly gay superhero movie character. Tri Kwan, the Yellow Range played by Becky G, reveals the film's send act that she is gay.

ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL

"Openly gay actor David Yost portrayed the Blue Ranger the origal Mighty Morph Power Rangers televisn seri but left the seri after beg harassed for his sexualy. Marvel's mutant Northstar beme the first openly gay character eher a Marvel or DC ic when he me out 1992. The CW's Supergirl, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow each feature LGBTQ characters promently and are produced by the openly gay Greg Berlanti.

Marvel's LGBTQ characterizatn has been limed to Inhuman gut star Joey Gutierrez on Agents of SHIELD and rporate away Jeryn Hogarth on Marvel's Jsi and the Beast also troduced Disney's first ever gay character this month. Star Trek Beyond revealed Sulu to be the anchise's first gay Power Rangers: Director Teas Easter Eggs / Why The Mastodon Zord Has Eight Legs / About The Goldar Dign0ments.

LGBTQIA+ pertas llectively to people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (or those qutng their genr inty or sexual orientatn), tersex, and asexual. Riley Griff's actor, Michael Taber, stated that he portrayed the character as gay and as "havg a thg" for Chase Randall. Monty's actor, Caleb Bend, stated that he portrayed the character as gay and as havg a csh on Victor Vcent.

WELE THE FIRST OUT-GAY POWER RANGER!

↑ 'Power Rangers' Gay Character Storyle: Yellow Ranger Plot Explaed | Hollywood Reporter Tri om the movie.

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.

PARENTS BEWARE: GAY 'POWER RANGERS' STAR BRAGS ABOUT LGBT CONTENT

“I said I’m not gonna be gay, I’m gonna foc on my reer.

GO, GAY POWER RANGER!

Yost rells overhearg producers and -stars watchg footage of him and throwg out homophobic slurs. 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.

GAY POWER RANGER ACTORS

” 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.

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. 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.

THE POWER RANGERS INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER

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.

GAY ‘POWER RANGERS’ STAR TEAS ‘AWOME’ LGBTQIA2S+ CONTENT NETFLIX RNN FILM

Director (and now current executive producer) Simon Bent nfirmed to Den of Geek that the gay relatnship was never implied the script.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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.