Training Rules is a documentary about homophobia in the athletic department at Pennsylvania State University. Narrated by international swimming great Diana Nyad (National Public Radio), the film looks at the long and homophobic reign of Rene Portland, the coach of Penn State’s women's basketball team whose three rules for her players were: no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. The film explores how Portland's methods went beyond "don't ask, don't tell" to shattering the dreams of talented female athletes who were, or were thought to be, lesbian. The piece also examines how institutionalized homophobia allowed Portland to go unchecked for 26 years. In 2006 one courageous basketball player, Jennifer Harris, along with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, sued Portland and Penn State. Because of Jennifer Harris' courage other women victimized by Portland came forward. Their stories, explored in this wonderful documentary by Academy Award nominee Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker, exposes both the damage inflicted by Portland as well as the triumphs of the women she sought to destroy.

— Fredericka Sands