Programs & Activities

The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) hosts and supports a variety of programs, events, and activities:

Lavender Lunches, held at the Pacific School of Religion during the academic year, are informal discussions on a vast array of topics surrounding LGBT issues and religion. Transcripts and audio recordings of past lunches are also made available via this website.

CLGS sponsors a Lecture Series throughout the academic year. Transcripts and audio recordings of past lectures are also made available via this website.

Special Events include CLGS-sponsored services and activities, as well as nationwide events that are attended by CLGS staff and board members.

The Racial Ethnic Roundtable project facilitates community building among racial/ethnic LGBT people active in various faith traditions, and brings together both local and national leaders from among those communities to meet together and discuss strategies for outreach and social change. Resources from those meetings, including transcripts of presentations and audio recordings, are made available via this website.

The CLGS OutFront Workshops are designed to help progressive people of faith and their allies become voices of authority and agents of social change in the current nationwide debates over homosexuality and religion.

The Teaching-Learning Project is a series of educational ventures that equip seminarians, clergy, and laity to assist congregations and local communities in talking about issues related to sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

The CLGS Archive Project seeks to obtain, preserve, and make available the papers of individuals who have been important in the history of religion and LGBT issues in American society.

One of the goals of the Center is to publicize new research and to bring together individuals on issues of importance to LGBT and religion. This is done through periodic Conferences.

CLGS, in partnership with Pilgrim Press, is developing a Book Series around areas of concern to the LGBT community.