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    Former brat packer in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire, Ally Sheedy outed -- with permission -- her daughter at a Trevor Project event. In a brief interview on Fox News, the actress who made a comeback playing a heroin-addicted lesbian photographer in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art, was explaining her reasons for supporting The Trevor Project. 
By Tracy E. GilchristJune 29 2010 / 9:50 PM
Tracy E. Gilchrist
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the
intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
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Former brat packer in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire, Ally Sheedy outed -- with permission -- her daughter Rebecca Lansbury at a Trevor Project event. In a brief interview on Fox News, the actress who made a comeback playing a heroin-addicted lesbian photographer in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art, was explaining her reasons for supporting The Trevor Project -- an organization that provides suicide and crisis support and resources for LGBT young people -- when she alluded that some of her reasons for supporting are personal and then said, "My daughter's just come out." 
Here's a short clip of Sheedy with her daughter: 
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