J. D. Disalvatore Explained

J. D. Disalvatore
Birth Name:Julie Disalvatore
Birth Date:5 March 1966
Birth Place:Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.
Death Place:Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Occupation:Film director
Known For:Shelter

Julie "J. D." Disalvatore (March 5, 1966 – August 24, 2017) was an American LGBT film and television producer/director and gay rights activist. She was openly lesbian.[1] [2]

Career

Disalvatore's credits include the award-winning Shelter (2007),[2] Eating Out 2 (2006), A Marine Story (2010)[3] [4] Gay Propaganda and[5] Elena Undone.[6] In addition to producing LGBT films, she had also written extensively about LGBT film for outlets including Clout, Curve,[7] GayWired.com, PlanetOut.com[8] Gay.com, QTMagazine,[9] POWER UP[10] and here! online in addition to her daily blog on Gay and Lesbian entertainment.

Disalvatore was also the Festival Manager at Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the largest film festival in Los Angeles. She had also produced panels on LGBT film for Outfest, Power UP and the Writers Guild of America. She also produced the queer entertainment news show HERE@ for the here! networks. Disalvatore was on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, where she served a term as Vice President of the Board and was last President of the Board of Directors of the Frontiers Foundation.[11] She was a mentor with The Point Foundation.[12]

Death

Disalvatore died of breast cancer at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, at the age of 51.[13]

Awards and honors

Disalvatore won a GLAAD Media Award for Shelter, for best feature film in limited release.[14] In 2009, Disalvatore was honored at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center's An Evening With Women with a LACE (Lesbians and bisexual women Active in Community Empowerment) Award for her work in the community,[15] and was featured in Go Magazine's "100 Women We Love".

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Predator and Prey. The Advocate. 2008-08-12. Tricia. Romano. 2008-09-01. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090504114140/http://www.advocate.com/issue_story_ektid56882.asp?page=2. 2009-05-04.
  2. Web site: Gimme Shelter. The Advocate. 2008-03-11. Dennis. Hensley. 2008-09-01.
  3. Web site: A Marine Story Official Web Site and Production Blog. A Marine Story. 2009-01-10.
  4. Web site: Films — A Marine Story. Frameline Film Festival. 2010-06-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100616054117/http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=2082&fid=47. 2010-06-16.
  5. Web site: Gay Propaganda Available at Amazon.com. Amazon.com. 2005-09-10.
  6. Web site: The Smoking Cocktail Holiday Party. The Smoking Cocktail. 2009-12-14. JD. Disalvatore. 2009-12-23.
  7. Web site: What a Producer Does. . 2008-09-10. JD. Disalvatore. https://web.archive.org/web/20121022140058/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-186398214.html. dead. 2012-10-22.
  8. Web site: Paul ColichmanChief Executive Officer. Here Media, Planet Out. Planetout.com. 2013-03-22. 2013-03-26. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20050301015210/http://www.planetout.com/entertainment/news/?sernum=634. 2005-03-01.
  9. QTMagazine . Miami Gay And Lesbian Film Festival 2004 . Meredith . Kadlec . JD . Disalvatore . https://web.archive.org/web/20050507110829/http://www.qtmagazine.com/article.cfm?section=21&id=2898. May 7, 2005 . unfit.
  10. Web site: here! @ Sundance . . JD . Disalvatore . Meredith . Kadlec . https://web.archive.org/web/20080929204437/http://www.power-up.net/here.htm. September 29, 2008 . unfit.
  11. Web site: JD Disalvatore, Board Chair. Frontiersfoundation.org. 2013-12-05. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014542/http://frontiersfoundation.org/leadership/jd-disalvatore. 2013-12-03.
  12. Web site: Meet Mentor Pair Brennan & JD. Pointfoundation.wordpress.com. 2013-02-11. 2013-12-05.
  13. News: Director JD Disalvatore, a valiant voice for the LGBT community, dies at 51 . Howard . Cohen . . August 28, 2017.
  14. J.D. Disalvatore, Producer of LGBT Films, Dies at 51 . Mike . Barnes . . August 29, 2017 . 0018-3660.
  15. Web site: 16th Annual L.A.C.E. Award Recipients. Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. 2009-12-31. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105145126/http://laglc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=SU_AF_EWW_Awards . 2011-01-05.

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