James Lecesne
| James Lecesne | |
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Lecesne attending San Francisco Pride as its Grand Marshall in 2011
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| Born |
November 24, 1954 New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, Author, Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Notable work |
The Trevor Project Trevor (film) |
| Home town | Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey |
| Website | jameslecesne |
James Lecesne (born November 24, 1954) is an American actor, author, screenwriter, and LGBT rights activist best known for his screenplay of the Academy-award winning short film Trevor. He has written several books including Absolute Brightness and Virgin Territory, and is also active in the entertainment industry as an actor and producer.
Lecesne wrote the 1995 short film Trevor, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He based the screenplay for Trevor on a character from his one-man show Word of Mouth. Also in 1995, Word of Mouth won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show.Word of Mouth was directed by Eve Ensler.
In 1998, on the night Ellen DeGeneres hosted the television debut of Trevor on HBO, Lecesne co-founded and launched The Trevor Project as the first nationwide 24-hour crisis intervention lifeline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, including phone, in-person and online life-affirming resources such as Trevor Lifeline, TrevorChat, TrevorSpace, Ask Trevor and Trevor Education Workshops. The Trevor Project has been supported by a wide variety of celebrities, including Daniel Radcliffe,Neil Patrick Harris,James Marsden,Kim Kardashian,George Takei, and Anderson Cooper.
In 1993, Lecesne published My First Car, an illustrated collection of reminiscences in which dozens of celebrities recall the loss of their "auto-virginity." The book, released by Crown Trade Paperback, contained more than 100 stories and was illustrated with pictures of celebrities and their cars.
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