This week the Religious Institute, “a multifaith organization dedicated to advocating for sexual, gender, and reproductive health, education, and justice in faith communities and society” announced that it would cease operations after 20 years of effective, far-reaching, and life-giving work. To quote the recent statement issued by RI’s Board of Directors, “the work of the Religious […]
CLGS July 2020 e-newsletter
On Monday morning, June 15, 2020, the US Supreme Court declared that federal law now protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination. The 6-3 opinion was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch who was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts. The decision came as quite a pleasant surprise for LGBTQ activists who have been working tirelessly on obtaining […]
CLGS PRESS RELEASE 13 June 2020 The CLGS Transgender Roundtable, a program of the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS), deplores the recent decision of the Trump administration to deny the civil rights of Transgender people by allowing medical professionals, hospitals, and insurance companies to discriminate on the basis of gender identity. […]
CLGS June 2020 e-newsletter
2 June 2020 “The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.” – Maya Angelou The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) condemns the brutal murder of George Floyd by […]
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought […]
“I sat in my quiet bookshelf lined study, listening intently to the young man awkwardly perched on the chair next to me. The thin pale man was silently leaking tears, and finally spoke, “He was lying on the couch and said, ‘I’m going to take all the pain killers we have, everything. Then wait half an […]
CLGS is proud to continue this year as a Community Sponsor for the online 16th Annual San Francisco International Queer Women of Color Film Festival ! “QWOCMAP’s annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival will premiere 31 films in 3 screenings during the first-time-ever online livestream of our entire Film Festival, June 12-14, 2020. Our 16th […]
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