Disney's Rich Ross: Hollywood's first openly gay studio chairman

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 6, 2009 | Patrick Goldstein

[Sam_Damon]

Disney has long been the most gay friendly studio in Hollywood, having had a couple of gay production chiefs over the years, most recently Nina Jacobson, now an independent producer after being forced out in a studio purge several years ago. The studio's theme parks have allowed unofficial Gay Day celebrations for years, prompting a host of venemous attacks from various Christian right anti-gay zealots.

But Disney now has a really big first -- Rich Ross, Hollywood's first openly gay studio chief.

[Frantzie]

Anyone foolish enough to give Disney money is supporting this and ABC News.

[hoosier hick]

I’m sure this will help them produce better movies....

hh

[a fool in paradise]

But Disney STILL doesn’t have any position on Gay Days, right?

[RinaseaofDs]

I thought they finally figured out that, at least with the parks, that gay people don’t have kids. No kids, no revenue.

[Da Coyote]

Coming (badda-bing) attractions:

“Donald does Goofy”

[Barney59]

Wonder when Richie Ross will have a meeting with the Safe-Schools Czar?

[BertWheeler]

Disney has the first openly gay chairman???? Funny stuff.

I guess Disney just ain’t what it used to be.

Gay men are behind the low ridin’ jeans phenomenon. I mean really, who else wants to see butt cracks????

[rintense]

Separated at Birth?

[freekitty]

Somehow Disney and Gay don’t mix.

[rintense]

Hey, I only wear low rise jeans. The mom jeans interfere with my belly button piercing.

[Osage Orange]

Gawd, I hope to hell you are a woman...!!

hehehe

[steve86]

It doesn't matter what you do with your [penis], just what you do with your job. It's a new era in Hollywood. Rich Ross will only be judged by how well he makes the product and and how commercial it is, not who he is in his private life.

A subsequent judgment will surprise these people.

[CaptRon]

We're saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaved!!!

I don't suppose he's a pro-gay zealot, like the anti-gay zealts the author writes about.

[Puppage]

Gawd, I hope to hell you are a woman...!!

I'll 2nd that!

[oust the louse]

venemous attacks from various Christian right anti-gay zealots.....

they sure paint these Christians as real meanies...geez. I sure hope these meanie Christians don’t jump me on my way home. I don’t need a venomous attack!

[BertWheeler]

Even the phrase “mom jeans” was invented by gay male “designers”.

Of course, some of the low rise culture is from prisons - the men who walked around with the really low rise pants were advertising to the other men that they were willing and ready for some “anal”.

Of course, some people wear low rise jeans because they shop at JC Penney or WalMart and just don’t know any better. LOL

[AngelesCrestHighway]

And Tinkerbell is so proud.....

[EyeGuy]

“....Gay Day celebrations for years, prompting a host of venemous attacks from various Christian right anti-gay zealots.”

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Really?

Mainstreaming the “gay lifestyle” is nothing less than a host of venemous attacks upon the foundation of Western Civilization.

[rintense]

Yep! Though I have been told I have bigger balls than most men. ;) Most freeper women do.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Pity the poor bastard that wanders into Gay Day at Disneyland wearing a red shirt!....

[rintense]

I pray you’re only talking about men. Why? Most women wear low rise jeans now. At least most of my friends do. They’re just more comfortable. Who wants to look like Obama throwing a limp wristed pitch anyway?

[squarebarb]

I thought it was because they took their belts away.

[Osage Orange]

You the bomb!! FReeper Woman!!

[BertWheeler]

I should have been more clear. Low rise jeans looks really horrible on men because you never know if a man is wiping himself properly after going “number two” and in addition to the whole “gay” thing...

Thin, pretty, attractive, young women look rather OK in low rise jeans although I wish they conducted themselves with a little more modesty.

[SamuraiScot]

Short Disney.

The fagele thing led to disaster for Disney before; they started producing anti-family trash and people stopped buying their crap. It will tank them again.

[jimt]

Walt must be rotating at over 10,000 rpm by now...

[originalbuckeye]

Agree completely. Remember when he asked Annette not to appear in a bikini as it offended his sense of modesty?

[TASMANIANRED]

This is sure to be good for business.