CLGS works closely with the news media to present a broader and more representative religious perspective on LGBTQ issues. As a result, the Center has become one of the leading voices on LGBTQ issues and religion.

For general media inquiries, please contact Bernard Schlager at 510-849-8278 or bschlager@clgs.org

Experts List

CLGS Staff-59 smallerBernard Schlager, PhD

CLGS Executive Director

Contact: 510/849-8278 (office phone); bschlager@clgs.org

Expertise: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)issues in Christian history; LGBT families and parents; LGBT religious history; pastoral care of LGBT people.

Bernard Schlager, CLGS Executive Director and Visiting Associate Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies at Pacific School of Religion, is an expert on LGBT issues in Protestant and Catholic Christianity and on LGBT religious history more broadly. Holding a PhD from Yale University in the History of Christianity, where he studied with internationally renowned LGBT religious historian John Boswell, Schlager has taught at Trinity College (Hartford), Middlebury College, the University of New Hampshire, and Yale University. He is co-author with David Kundtz of Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk: LGBT Pastoral Care (Cascade Books, 2019), and, most recently, editor of Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell. Oxford: Routledge Press, 2025. (A QSpirit Top 22 LGBTQ Christian Book of 2025).