Richard Mohr

Author and Intellectual

Consider this:

. Marriage has proven to be one of the most changeable institutions in American history. 

. Nothing in American marriage law now calls for gender differences between spouses.

. Eight to ten million children are being raised in some three million lesbian and gay households.

Author and public intellectual, Richard D. Mohr is one of the leading gay thinkers in the country and one of the country's leading advocates for gay marriage. 

Through lively anecdotes and historical examples, Mohr's talk "Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values," gets a general audience up to speed on lesbian and gay issues. Topics explored include lesbian and gay experience, stereotypes, the nature of prejudice, anti-gay violence, the nature vs. nurture controversy, gay marriage, and how America would be a better place if it embraced justice for its lesbian and gay citizens.

He is the author of Gays/Justice: A Study of Ethics, Society and Law (1988), Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies (1992), and A More Perfect Union (1994). His latest work, The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality and Rights, was released in 2005. He has also written on public policy for magazines and newspapers, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Advocate, The Nation, Reason magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Globe.