diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/dumper.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/dumper.py
index a8a5015b8ea..68a5e590ee4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/dumper.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/dumper.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from ansible.compat.six import PY3
 
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleUnicode, AnsibleSequence, AnsibleMapping
 from ansible.vars.hostvars import HostVars
+from ansible.vars.unsafe_proxy import AnsibleUnsafeText
 
 class AnsibleDumper(yaml.SafeDumper):
     '''
@@ -45,6 +46,11 @@ AnsibleDumper.add_representer(
     represent_unicode,
 )
 
+AnsibleDumper.add_representer(
+    AnsibleUnsafeText,
+    represent_unicode,
+)
+
 AnsibleDumper.add_representer(
     HostVars,
     represent_hostvars,