David Yost, Blue Power Ranger, Says He Quit Show Over Gay Insults. by Joyce Eng | Aug 27, 2010 10:50 AM EDT. David Yost. David Yost, who played the original Blue Power Ranger, says he left Mighty Morphin Power Rangers because he was harassed for being gay, which nearly drove him to suicide. In a lengthy video interview with No Pink Spandex, Yost, 41, said he was written off the show in 1996 after he walked off the set one day, fed up with discriminatory remarks.