Dee Mosbacher

Diane "Dee" Mosbacher, MD, Ph.D., (born January 13, 1949 in Houston, Texas) is an American filmmaker, lesbian feminist activist, and practicing psychiatrist. In 1993, she founded Woman Vision, a nonprofit organization to promote equal treatment of all people through the production and use of educational media, including video.

To date, Mosbacher has directed or produced nine documentary films through Woman Vision, each having to do with LGBTQ or women's rights issues. In 1994, she directed and produced Straight From the Heart, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Altogether, Mosbacher's films have received a total of 46 awards — by LGBT, Black, Latina, Latin American, and Aging Media film festivals, including best of show award, grand jury awards, and audience awards, in the US, the UK, Australia, Cuba, Mexico, and Italy.

In 2012, Woman Vision launched The Last Closet, a web-based campaign and video project to end homophobia in men's professional sports. The Dee Mosbacher and Woman Vision Papers, a collection that documents Mosbacher's personal, political, and professional life, as well as her filmmaking, are archived in the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

In 1995, Mosbacher co-directed and co-produced with Frances Reid Straight From the Heart, a documentary that explored relationships between straight parents and their gay children. The film includes emotional interviews with a straight couple who didn't approve of homosexuality until they learned that their son, who was dying of AIDS, was gay. The film was nominated for an Academy Award.

In 2010, 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.

Training Rules was shown at dozens of film festivals in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and won three audience choice awards.

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