The recent spate of gay teen suicides has led, among other things, to Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" project--suggesting that, although being "different" as a teenager can be challenging, such challenges eventually retreat in the face of a rewarding life. In this new talk, veteran gay speaker, writer, and philosopher John Corvino critically explores this theme by raising a series of questions: What gets better, and why? Are there distinctive things that give "gay life" meaning, or are gay lives really no different from others? What is the value of relationship? Of gender? Of sexual activity? The program will include a substantial Q&A/discussion.

Dr. John Corvino has been speaking and writing on GLBT issues since the early 1990s. He has educated and entertained professional organizations, government contractors, churches, and hundreds of college and university audiences.

John holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and is the editor of Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science and Culture of Homosexuality and the author of over 100 articles and opinion pieces, which have appeared in regional and national print media, at the online Independent Gay Forum (www.indegayforum.org), and in numerous academic journals and anthologies.

John's column "The Gay Moralist" appears every Friday at LOGO Online's 365gay.com, "America's Most Read Gay News Source." They are also available on his website: http://johncorvino.com/wp/. His DVD presentation of "What?s Morally Wrong With Homosexuality?" is available at www.gaymoralist.com.

Sponsored by the Center for Ethics in Public Life, the LSA Theme Semester on "What Makes Life Worth Living?", the Department of Philosophy, the Spectrum Center, the Lesbian-Gay- Queer Research Initiative at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Michigan Political Union.