 Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. Clinton uses humor as a force for social change and has been performing nationwide for 28 years. Her "standup" lecture reviews theories of contemporary comedy, debunks the premature report of the death of irony, and reveals the secret human longing for the wild ride of smart, challenging humor. Oh, and it entertains you. Really entertains you.
 Vaid is an attorney and community organizer, and the author of the award-winning analysis of the gay rights movement entitled "Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation." Formerly Director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force's Policy Institute, she remains committed to community-based change through strategic thinking and coalition building.
Should gay and lesbian couples be allowed to marry legally? Author and philosophy professor Richard Mohr proposes that giving same-sex couples equal rights is just another step in a longer ongoing evolution of marriage as an institution. Attorney and legal scholar Dwight G. Duncan argues that "gay marriage" is simply another attempt to normalize homosexual behavior.
 Cheryl Ann Costa wears many hats: she is a security engineer, a practicing Buddhist, a theater producer, a playwright and a trans-woman. Costa crossed the boundary of gender when she transitioned from male to female in the mid nineteen-eighties. In her presentation she discusses the differences between "Sex" and "Gender" and her personal journey through life with courage, conviction, and healthy dose of humor.
 Steven Fales is a professional actor who first came to national attention with his critically acclaimed, autobiographical Off-Broadway one-man play, Confessions of a Mormon Boy directed by Tony Award-winner Jack Hofsiss. Having rubbed shoulders with professionals and protestors, prostitutes and prophets, the multi-talented Fales is a self-proclaimed "Oxy-Mormon" who shares his humorous, compassionate, and clear-eyed perspective of the world through his writing and performing.
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Robert Traynham  Robert Traynham is a Washington D.C. journalist, political analyst, and weekly columnist. Part of the Washington political scene for over fifteen years, Traynham provides brutally honest commentary and thought-provoking analysis.
Cleve Jones
 Legendary activist and founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt Jones was recently portrayed by actor Emile Hirsch in Gus Van Sant's film Milk, which won two Academy Awards,including Best Original Screenplay.
 Award-winning author and journalist Neil Miller looks at the changing lives of gays and lesbians in small communities across the United States and around the globe in his acclaimed books "In Search of Gay America and Out in the World." His most recent book, "Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950's," shows the dark chapter in history where the personal lives of gay men in America's heartland were destroyed.
 In his workshops and multi-media presentations, "Gay, Greek and Proud," Leif Mitchell shares his personal triumph of being out in a college fraternity. He draws on his experience and knowledge of gay and lesbian issues as they relate to students to provide audiences with concrete ways to make their fraternities and sororities more inclusive of gay, lesbian and bisexual people.
 Richard Mohr has written on social issues affecting gay and lesbian Americans. One of the country's leading advocates for lesbian and gay marriage, his essay "Gay Basics" has been anthologized over thirty times. Richard is the author of "Gays/Justice: A Study of Ethics, Society, and Law"; "Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies"; "A More Perfect Union"; and "The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights."
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