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‘Surge of Power’ Luminary on Creating an Indie Gay Superhero Movie Years Before ‘Power Rangers
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After news broke that Power Rangers features the first big-screen LBGTQ superhero in a studio film, Vincent J. Roth could be establish on social media pointing out that years earlier, he brought the first out gay superhero to the movies with his indie film Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes.
The 2004 action-comedy was written by and starred Roth as Gavin Lucas, a corporate attorney who gains superpowers and fights crime. Roth’s character, who returns in a new sequel, is an out superhero.
When Roth started screening his new film Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel in 2016, he would speak in interviews that there hadn’t been another gay big-screen superhero since his first film.
“Maybe the universe heard my words and brought about another male lover superhero movie,” says Roth of Power Rangers, which was released last month by Lionsgate and has earned more than $73 million worldwide.
Those behind the Power Rangers movie have described that film’s groundbreaking character, Trini (Beck
‘Power Rangers’ Star Hector David Jr. Wanted in Connection With Idaho Assault
Police in Idaho contain issued an arrest warrant for Hector David Jr., an player who starred as the Verdant Ranger in several Power Rangers series, in connection with the assault of an elderly bloke.
KTVB 7 reported Wednesday that David, also known as Hector David Rivera, is accused of shoving an elderly male to the ground after an argument in a parking lot in Nampa, Idaho. A video posted by the Nampa Police Department’s Facebook page shows the incident and allegedly shows the 35-year-old pushing a man in his 60s to the earth before driving off. The elderly man was not injured.
David played the Green Samurai Ranger from 2011 to 2015 in various Power Rangers media, including the television shows Power Rangers Samurai, Power Rangers Megaforce and the TV movie Power Rangers Super Megaforce: The Epic Battle.
KTVB 7 reports that since the incident, David has deleted all of his social media.
David is in Idaho as he was set to appear at Magic Valley Comic-Con in Twin Falls this weekend. The convention’s website has since removed the actor’s name from its
‘Power Rangers’ actor Hector David Jr., charged with beating up elderly male, gets a slap on the wrist
A “Power Rangers” actor will serve 45 days in prison after being convicted of a horrific assault on an elderly man who was using a walker.
Hector David Rivera, who is leading known for playing the green Power Ranger in the franchise, was handed the sentence on Wednesday after he pled remorseful to one charge of misdemeanor battery in the forceful attack that was caught on camera in Nampa, Idaho back in July 2024.
The 35-year-old was initially sentenced to 180 days in prison, according to TMZ but he won’t have to serve all of that time.
Canyon County Court Judge Matthew B. Schelstrate reportedly suspended 135 days of the actor’s sentence so he now only will have to serve 45 days as long as he avoids trouble when he’s out of prison.
Rivera was also ordered to have two years of supervised probation and he has to complete 100 hours of community service.
Last summer, appalling camera footage recorded by a bystander’s dashboard camera showed Rivera, wearing a jersey and baggy red pants, approaching an elderly man who was using a walker and then shoving him to
Celebrating Pride: From Prison and Beyond
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By David Perez Jr, Library Coordinator at Freedom Reads
I recollect the first two weeks of my sentence, locked away in New Haven County Jail in Connecticut. I retain being outside in a courtyard eating from a styrofoam tray while I sat with my legs crossed and my back laid against the wall. A man approached me, he was about 5’8’’, shoulders hunched, dark brown skin and his hair was shoulder length and matted. He sat down next to me and immediately asked me about my wedding band. “Who you married to?” he asked. “Girl or guy?” Immediately, I lied. I felt bad for lying. He opened up. He told me he was gay. At that moment, I felt like I should have opened up to him and told him that I was married to a dude. That I was happily married to a man. But, I wanted to protect myself, just in case. I felt like I had. The dude kept talking and I wished the best for him silently as I looked up to the sun that shone down over us. I stopped talking to him because I didn’t want to be associated with a gay inmate. Because, just as my eyes moved about my surroundings, I knew that others did the similar – quietly, calcul