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For her significant contributions to lesbian filmmakers throughout more than 20 years in media and publishing, Executive Editor Diane Anderson-Minshall has been named one of POWER UP's Ten Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz for 2006.
"After covering the list for years, I'm a little shocked to be on it," Anderson-Minshall said of winning the award. "I'm in such amazing company. It's a great honor because I think that the work POWER UP and CURVE both do to promote queer women in entertainment is fundamentally critical to improving visibility and making a place for lesbians in mainstream society."
"Diane has played a critical behind-the-scenes role in helping lesbian filmmakers across the country get their movies in front of audiences," POWER UP said in their announcement of this year's list. The award ceremony will be held in November, at the 6th Annual Power Premiere Celebrity Gala in Beverly Hills.
Anderson-Minshall, 38, began as an entertainment writer and editor at CURVE in 2001 and has served as executive editor since 2004. A founder and former editor of Girlfriends and Alice magazines, she's written for numerous newspapers, magazines and television programs since taking her first interview in grade school. Her articles on lesbian life, popular culture, celebrities, travel and entertainment have appeared in Bust, Passport, Seventeen, The Advocate, Bitch, Film Threat, to name just a few, and her essays appear in several anthologies including Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television, 50 Ways to Support Gay and Lesbian Equality and Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Race, and Sexuality, the last of which she also co-edited. She is also author of the upcoming Blind Eye detective mystery series from Bold Strokes Books.
Founded in 2000, POWER UP, the Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up, has a mission "to promote the visibility and integration of gay women in entertainment, the arts and all forms of media," often done through its film grant program. Other 2006 awardees include actor Cherry Jones, actor and model Jenny Shimizu, co-founder and former CEO of Clif Bar Lisa Thomas, and AfterEllen.com founder (and CURVE contributing editor) Sarah Warn.
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