Click here to join this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event via Zoom! Transkeit is an extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies that explores cutting edge ideas about gender through the lenses of tradition, art, autobiography, and solidarity. The volume features an analysis of Biblical and Rabbinic thinking, sample rituals, guidance on Jewish practice, […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this online Lavender Lunch, Jude Johnson shares their experience of providing spiritual care for LGBTQ Veterans of the VA medical system in the Inland Empire of California. The desert cities in Southern California pose unique challenges in seeking support for LGBTQ individuals as the […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this Lavender Lunch, Roman Catholic Sisters Grace Surdovel, IHM, Sue Becker, RDC, Jeanne Christensen, RSM, and Mary Kay Dobrovolny, RSM, discuss their recently-published anthology Love Tenderly: Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious  (New Ways Ministry, 2021). Join these women as they discuss their lives […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this Lavender Lunch, Benjamin Brenkert reflects on the future church for LGBTQ+ People and their allies.  As a former Jesuit, he proposes the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a means for people of faith to discern membership in churches that thwart their personal and […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! The intersection of faith and spirituality with gender and sexuality provides both a history of trauma and a precedent for inclusion. The presentation will explore the ways that the current interfaith movement makes it possible for religious and interfaith spaces to be intersectional and relevant for […]

Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing with Professor Rolf Nolasco The 15th Annual 2022 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! Tagging queer bodies as intrinsically disordered, unholy, and perverse collides with the intimate knowing that this body, this queer flesh with all its erotic desires—bodily, psychological, and social—is […]