1 August 2025 CLGS is proud to announce that PSR Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, has been appointed Director of the CLGS Catholic Roundtable, the newest of our Roundtable projects. As he assumes the leadership of this Roundtable, Professor Ruíz writes: “I envision a Church and a world that cherishes the diversity of gifts people of […]
Our Fall 2025 Online Lavender Lunches Program ❦ Tuesday, 9 September 2025 | 1pm to 2:15pm (Pacific Time) |ONLINE Professor Lisa Asedillo: Queer, Called, and Conspiring: AAPI Theologies for a World on Fire Framed through the lens of Queer AZN and Pasifika Critical Race Theory (Alvarez et al., 2024), this presentation by PSR Professor Lisa Asedillo (Pacific […]
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James Baldwin and Black Queer Prophetic Lament (and Hope?) Professor Bryan Massingale Thursday, 8 May 2025 | 4pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! James Baldwin is often invoked as a seminal figure in Black queer thought, but he is still underutilized as a source for (white) queer […]
21 April 2025 Statement from Bernard Schlager, PhD, CLGS Executive Director The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) mourns the passing today of Pope Francis (1936-2025), who was elected pope in 2013 and made modest but significant advances in LGBTQ inclusion. Francis will be remembered as a pope who brought a genuinely […]
Trans Religious Leadership Cohort Application Click here to apply for the 2025-2026 Trans Religious Leadership Cohort! The application deadline is Friday, 9 May 2025 A Year-Long Leadership Development Program for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Seminarians and Religious Leaders in Training For the last thirteen years, CLGS, the Freedom Center for Social Justice and the National LGBTQ Task […]
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28 February 2025 | Des Moines, Iowa Only a month now into the new administration, the cascade of anti-LGBTQ actions on the part of President Trump and his appointees feels overwhelming, but we shouldn’t be surprised given how closely Trump is hewing to the ultra-conservative Project 2025, a plan that calls for, among other things, dismantling […]
As CLGS mourns the recent and horrific assassination of Imam Muhsin Hendricks (1967-2025), we are grateful for his work in the world as a scholar, a religious leader, and an activist for all people, including LGBTQ+ persons. On 6 December 2023, we were honored to host Imam Hendricks for a CLGS Lavender Lunch, and we […]