Lecesne and Ryan Amador are the co-founders of The Future Project, a program for LGBTQ high school students to share stories and express themselves in performances, musical compositions, and original writing. 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 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. Word of Mouth was directed by Eve Ensler. Also in 1995, Word of Mouth won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show. Lecesne based the screenplay for Trevor on a character from their one-man show Word of Mouth. Lecesne wrote the 1995 short film Trevor, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Lecesne has written several books including Absolute Brightness and Virgin Territory, and is also active in the entertainment industry as an actor and producer. Celeste Lecesne (formerly James Celeste Lecesne born November 24, 1954), is an American actor, author, screenwriter, and LGBT rights activist, best known for the Academy-award-winning short film Trevor.
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