Dee Mosbacher

Diane "Dee" Mosbacher (born 1949) is an American filmmaker, lesbian feminist activist, and practicing psychiatrist. In 1993, she founded Woman Vision, a nonprofit organization.

Early life and education Born in Houston, 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 George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1992. She has two sisters and a brother. 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 Pitzer College in Claremont, California, a doctorate in social psychology from Union Graduate School, and a medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine.

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 Harvard Medical School. 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.

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 Oscar 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 women's basketball coach from Penn State University. 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 Human Rights Campaign Fund 1997: Liberty Award, from Lambda Legal Defense 2009: Barbara Gittings 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. 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)