Upcoming Lavender Lunches
Lavender Lunches are informal discussions that take place at the Pacific School of Religion during the academic year. They began in the Fall of 2000, and have included events ranging from performance arts to informal talks on a variety of topics related to religion and LGBT issues. Anyone who is interested may attend these free discussions. Please bring your own lunch.
All Lavender Lunches take place Thursday afternoons, 12:30pm to 1:30pm, at Mudd Hall 100, Pacific School of Religion Campus, Berkeley, California.
Here are the Events
Lavender Lunch: See the Holy: Spirituality in the Art of David Wojnarowicz
Mudd Building, Room 100, Pacific School of Religion
Queer Activism, Queer Scholarship: Liminality, Identity, and the "Good Gays"
PSR Campus, Mudd Building Room100
In contemporary queer religious scholarship, the category of liminality has emerged as a site for positioning queer identity within religious frames. Yet out in the activist world, fixed identities ("born this way") have been shown to be more politically effective. When do our activist interests and scholarly interests intersect, collide, and fight with one another? Does a queer approach to text lead to a particular political affiliation?
CLGS Lavender Lunch: Theology of Reproductive Justice
In Pacific School of Religion, Mudd 103
What does it mean to be a pro-choice person of faith? What are the theologies and spiritual/scriptural resources that ...
CLGS Open House: Lavender Lunch & Reception
CLGS Open House, Lavender Lunch: seeQers and Social Justice Education
Why Queer Theory (Sometimes) Fails Transgender People and How Theology Can Help
Come here Peter Forsberg talk about his current research in Transgender Issues and Christian Theology. Peter is a doctoral student at The University of Uppsala in Sweden and Visiting Scholar with CLGS this semester. This event will take place on the PSR campus in Mudd 100.
Queering Liturgy: LGBT and Beyond!
Join us in the Mudd Building, Room 100 for this Lavender Lunch to learn about Siddur Shaar Zahav, the newly published prayerbook created by San Francisco's LGBT synagogue.
Ancient prayers and brand new liturgies in English and Hebrew, including
• Reading on discovering your sexual orientation
• Marriage equality blessing and blessings for non-traditional families
• Jewish poetry from all over the world and new prayers with LGBTQ themes
• Prayers for non-believers and agnostics
Sexual Ethics and the Black Church
This Lavender Lunch panel discussion will be an exploration of the relationship between theology, leadership, and sexual ethics for faith leaders. How do we affirm our sexual selves while ensuring ...
Emerging Queer API Scholars
Join us for this Lavender Lunch, panel discussion to hear about pioneering work in queer religious scholarship among API communities!
"Emerging Queer Asian-Pacific Religion Scholars is a group of scholars, religious workers, and activists that began meeting regularly in February 2010 to discuss the emerging area of interest that is queer Asian Pacific Islander (API) religions, and to engage in a collaborative methodology to further each other’s scholarly, religious work and activism.
Sex in Seminary
What does a sexually healthy seminary look like? What kind of sexuality education is needed for today’s clergy and religious professionals?
Stop the Church or Stop AIDS?
The marking of World AIDS Day continues with this special lavender lunch on the role religion plays in both HIV prevention and AIDS treatment. We'll begin with a short documentary film at noon on Thursday, December 3, "Stop the Church," which chronicles the ACT UP action at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in 1989. Following the film, at 12:30, a panel of PSR students will engage in conversation around the religious, theological, and spiritual issues the HIV/AIDS pandemic raises for us today.