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Release Date: 2009

Categories: Movies, LGBT, Culture & Society, Biography, Documentary, Sports, Gender Issues, Social issues

Training Rules is a 63-minutes 2009 American award-winning documentary film co-produced and co-directed by Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker. The documentary, subtitled as No Drinking, No Drugs, No Lesbians is a Woman Vision film. Director Mosbacher, a lesbian feminist activist filmmaker and psychiatrist established Woman Vision as a nonprofit organization, to promote tolerance and equal treatment of all people through the production and use of educational media, Training Rules examines how women's collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, collude in the destruction of the... MORE

Training Rules is a 63-minutes 2009 American award-winning documentary film co-produced and co-directed by Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker. The documentary, subtitled as No Drinking, No Drugs, No Lesbians is a Woman Vision film. Director Mosbacher, a lesbian feminist activist filmmaker and psychiatrist established Woman Vision as a nonprofit organization, to promote tolerance and equal treatment of all people through the production and use of educational media, Training Rules examines how women's collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, collude in the destruction of the lives and dreams of many of its most talented athletes. It focuses on the women's basketball program at Pennsylvania State University under head coach Rene Portland and her policy of discrimination on her players based on their sexual orientation over a 30-year period as coach of the university's basketball program, particularly from the 1980s to the late 1990s. According to testimony in the documentary, Portland was open with her recruits about her distaste for gay individuals. She set the policy as "No Drinking, No Drugs, No Lesbians," letting every player know that being a lesbian or associating LESS