Training Rules
Thursday, December 10 at 7:30pm
The fifth season of Frameline at the Center concludes with the award-winning documentary Training Rules (Frameline33 Audience Award - Best Documentary).
No drugs. No drinking. No lesbians. For more than 25 years, Penn State
University women’s basketball coach Rene Portland made her training
rules eminently clear. While the school administration turned a blind
eye to Portland’s homophobic coaching philosophy, talented young
players were harassed, threatened and even thrown off the team and
stripped of their college scholarships. The women on Portland’s squads
were forbidden from associating with any classmate suspected of being a
lesbian and forced to either hide their true identities or give up
their dreams of competing in the sport on which many had banked their
futures.
But in 2006, sophomore Jennifer Harris took on the Penn
State machine and its iconic coach, and, with the assistance of the
National Center for Lesbian Rights, sued for discrimination.
Award-winning Bay Area filmmakers Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker have
woven a powerful web of evidence, interviews and the emotional and
heartbreaking stories of players who have suffered under Portland’s
long, intolerant tenure.
Q&A to follow with co-director Fawn Yacker and Helen Carroll, Sports Project Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).
Co-presented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).
Watch the trailer:
Kindly arrive early as seating is limited. Don’t miss this FREE screening of this powerful film!