Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.

2014 John Fryer Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Social Change Through Education and Media of an Activist Psychiatrist

Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist and activist for women’s and gay rights. In 1993, she founded Woman Vision, a nonprofit aimed at promoting tolerance and equal treatment of all people. Through Woman Vision, Dr. Mosbacher has produced nine documentary films dealing with women’s and LGBT rights. Straight from the Heart (1994), directed and produced by Dr. Mosbacher, portrays parents’ love and acceptance of their gay children and was nominated for an Academy Award®. Her other films include Closets are Health Hazards: Gay and Lesbian Physicians Come Out, Lesbian Physicians on Practice, Patients, and Power, and All God’s Children. In 2012, Woman Vision launched The Last Closet, a web based campaign and video project to end anti-gay bias in men’s professional sports.