A maddening, heartbreaking, ultimately satisfying documentary about the fight to depose Rene Portland, the celebrated women's basketball coach at Penn State who wielded her "no lesbians" rule with brutal force. For almost 30 years Portland threatened students, threw them off the team, made insinuations about other universities' programs, all with impunity — until a courageous former student took her to court with the help of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (and Tampa attorney Karen Doering).
This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2009.