6 June 2026 African American music has always been grounded in sacred sounds, rhythms, and embodied communal practices. In fact, African American music is more than sound; it is testimony, survival, memory, protest, pleasure, praise, and world-making. As June 2026 holds together Black Music Month and Pride Month, we are invited to hear Black music […]
Click here to register for this online CLGS Micro Certificate program! Instructor: Professor Bernard Schlager, PhD, Associate Professor of Historical & Cultural Studies at Pacific School of Religion, and Executive Director of PSR’s Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS). This online, four-session CLGS microcertificate program is designed to bridge the gap between […]
Click here to register for this online CLGS microcertificate program! Taught by Pacific School of Religion Professor Ish Ruiz, PhD, this microcertificate provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Catholic LGBTQ+ ministry by weaving together Scripture, Tradition, theology, ethics, and pastoral practice. Imagine A More Just, Compassionate, And Hopeful Church With Radical Inclusion This CLGS […]
Trans Religious Leadership Cohort Application Click here to apply for the 2026-2027 Trans Religious Leadership Cohort! The application deadline is Friday, 19 June 2026 A Year-Long Leadership Development Program for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Seminarians and Religious Leaders in Training For the last 13 years, CLGS, the Freedom Center for Social Justice, and the National LGBTQ Task Force have sponsored […]
The 22nd-Annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival Once again, CLGS is proud to serve as a Community Sponsor of the QWOCMAP Festival! “QWOCMAP presents the 22nd annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival, 47 films by queer women, nonbinary, and trans filmmakers of color, screening from May through October 2026. This year’s […]
On Easter Sunday 2025, I went to Mass at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco’s Castro gayborhood. I walked through boisterous streets—I remember it was on 4/20, so the smell of weed was already in the air—and into a packed church. The liturgy was beautiful: flowers, music, incense, bodies gathered. The homily was […]
7 March 2026 I recently created this short silent video about the ways transgender people are silenced. As a trans person, I spend a lot of time making myself invisible in order to avoid making cisgender people uncomfortable. In this video, I chose not to do that; I chose to speak from my experience. If you […]
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Click here to register for this online CLGS microcertificate program! CLGS is proud to announce our first online Microcertificate in Catholic LGBTQ+ Ministry! Taught by Pacific School of Religion Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, this microcertificate provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Catholic LGBTQ+ ministry by weaving together Scripture, Tradition, theology, ethics, and pastoral practice. […]
7 December 2025 Advent is the church’s ancient practice of living inside holy tension, presence and absence, hope and dread, peace and turmoil, joy and suffering. To take up Advent is to stand with our Black ancestors in a paradoxical posture: waiting for someone who has already arrived, and celebrating a reality that has not […]