Tue Sep 14, 2021 – 3:45 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Yet another long-running kids entertainment franchise has taken steps to appease LGBT activists’ demands for “representation” by revealing a character as homosexual, this time with a member of the Power Rangers superhero team.
Power Rangers debuted in the United States in 1993 as a blend of action footage from the Japanese series Super Sentai with American-filmed story elements, and quickly became a pop-culture phenomenon. It is currently in its 28th season, Power Rangers: Dino Fury.
In a scene from an upcoming episode (which was originally viewable in a tweet that has since been made private) that has aired in France but not yet in the U.S., the Green Ranger, Izzy (Tessa Rao), is seen walking off to dinner, hand-in-hand, with female companion Fern (Jacqueline Joe).
To make clear the moment is not just one of platonic friendship, it’s prefaced by a conversation in which one of Izzy’s male teammates says, “I thought she had feelings for someone,” to which another says “you weren’t wrong” and gestures to the new couple.
Dino Fury executive producer Simon Bennett took to social media to tout the “overdue” development, and
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