Warrrs Add First Openly Gay Exec to Front Office – NBC Bay Area

Contents:

• RICK WELTS, LEGENDARY GAY NBA EXECUTIVE, ANNOUNC RETIREMENT
• DIRECTOR WALTER HILL REGRETS CUTTG GAY GANG THE DGOS FROM 1979’S ‘THE WARRRS’
• THE WARRRS: WHY THE SCRIPT'S GAY GANG WAS CUT FROM THE FILM
• WARRRS ADD FIRST OPENLY GAY EXEC TO FRONT OFFICE

RICK WELTS, LEGENDARY GAY NBA EXECUTIVE, ANNOUNC RETIREMENT

Prevly, he worked for the Phoenix Suns, beg the first NBA executive to publicly e out as gay. At Outsports, we’ll most remember Welts for his unparalleled role as an openly gay role mol the sports bs world. When Welts me out, he told the New York Tim he wanted to “pierce the silence that envelops the subject of homosexualy men’s team sports.

DIRECTOR WALTER HILL REGRETS CUTTG GAY GANG THE DGOS FROM 1979’S ‘THE WARRRS’

But s wrer-director Walter Hill says uld have been even more progrsive and forward-lookg had he clud a group of gay gang members the fal cut.

What I wanted to show was the gay gang a posive light.

THE WARRRS: WHY THE SCRIPT'S GAY GANG WAS CUT FROM THE FILM

“It was not a scene that was negative about the gay gang. The Warrrs director Walter Hill says the origal screenplay for the 1979 cult classic clud a gay gang lled the Dgos that was never shot.

WARRRS ADD FIRST OPENLY GAY EXEC TO FRONT OFFICE

The Warrrs origally featured a gay gang lled the Dgos, but they were cut om the film due to budget nstrats.