Diane "Dee" Mosbacher (born 1949) is an American filmmaker, lesbian feminist activist, and practicing

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. In 1993, she founded Woman Vision, a nonprofit organization.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Texas, Mosbacher is the daughter of the late Jane Pennybacker Mosbacher and Robert Mosbacher (1927–2010), who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under

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from 1989 to 1992. She has two sisters and a brother. Mosbacher and her father had a close relationship despite the Republican Party's largely anti-gay position. In 1992, on a day when the two were both giving commencement speeches, she told a reporter for ''

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'' that she began her speech: "Dad and I had breakfast this morning. We looked at each other's speeches. He would have used mine but he's not a lesbian. I would have used his, but I'm not a Republican." Mosbacher spoke out against the gay-bashing and anti-woman focus of the Republican Party's 1992 campaign. Mosbacher earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from

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, a doctorate in social psychology from Union Graduate School, and a medical degree from

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Career

Mosbacher was a medical intern at Cambridge Hospital through

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from 1983 to 1984 and was a psychiatry resident in the same hospital from 1984 to 1987. She became a women's health activist in college and began directing documentary films as a student at Baylor College and as a resident at

. Her films focused on discrimination against lesbian and gay physicians and patients, and she wrote many articles about gay and lesbian patients for the academic and medical community.

Woman Vision

In 1992, Dee Mosbacher founded the non-profit production company Woman Vision to counteract the media campaign on LGBT issues conducted by the Republican Party, which was the focus of the 1992 Republican National Convention. As of 2009, Mosbacher has directed or produced nine documentary films through Woman Vision, each having to do with

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or women's rights issues. In 1994, she directed and produced '' Straight From the Heart'', which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Oscar nomination for ''Straight from the Heart''

In 1995, Mosbacher co-directed and co-produced (with Frances Reid) ''Straight From the Heart'', a documentary that explored relationships between heterosexual parents and their adult lesbian and gay children. The film was nominated for an

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in the Documentary (Short Subject) category.

''Training Rules''

In 2009, Mosbacher co-directed and co-produced with Fawn Yacker the documentary film '' Training Rules'', an hour-long movie about Rene Portland, a

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coach from

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. Portland allegedly banned lesbians from playing on her team. The film contains interviews with former athletes and faculty members at Penn State who say that Portland actively pursued and harassed members of her team whom she suspected were gay.

Affiliations

From 1994 to 2002, Mosbacher served on the Pitzer College Board of Trustees. In 2011, she established the Mosbacher Fund for Media Studies and the Mosbacher/Gartrell Center for Media Experimentation and Activism at Pitzer College.

''The Last Closet''

In 2012, Woman Vision launched ''The Last Closet'', a web-based campaign and video project to end homophobia in men's professional sports.

Awards

* 1992: Creating Change Award, from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force * 1995: Jerry E. Berg Leadership Award, from the

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Fund * 1997: Liberty Award, from Lambda Legal Defense * 2009:

Barbara Gittings Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007) was an American LGBTQ movements, LGBTQ activist. She started the New York City, New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) in 1958, edited the national DOB magazine ''The Ladde ...

Memorial Award, from Equality Forum * 2014: Mathew O. Tobriner Public Service Award, from the Legal Aid Society (San Francisco), Employment Law Center In 1991, Dee Mosbacher was the first Pitzer College graduate to deliver a commencement address at her alma mater. In 2010, she established the Mosbacher/Gartrell Center for Media Experimentation and Activism at Pitzer College.

Personal life

Mosbacher is married to Nanette Gartrell, a researcher, psychiatrist, and author.

Filmography

* 1985: ''Closets are Health Hazards: Gay and Lesbian Physicians Come Out'' - Director/Producer * 1991: ''Lesbians on Practice, Patients, and Power'' - Director/Producer * 1994: '' Straight From the Heart'' - Director/Producer (with Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffman) * 1995: ''Out for a Change: Addressing Homophobia in Women's Sports'' - Director/Producer * 1996: '' All God's Children'' - Director/Producer (with Sylvia Rhue and Frances Reid) * 2001: ''De Colores'' - Executive Producer * 2002: '' Radical Harmonies'' - Director/Producer (with Boden Sandstrom and June Millington) * 2006: ''No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon'' - Producer (with Joan E. Biren) * 2009: '' Training Rules'' - Director/Producer (with Fawn Yacker)

References

External links

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Woman Vision - official website''Training Rules'' - official websiteDee Mosbacher papers and Woman Vision records
at the

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