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Announcements
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Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, Director of the CLGS Catholic Roundtable
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 Programming Calendar
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CLGS Announces Our Fall 2025 Online Lavender Lunches
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 […]
A New Book from CLGS: Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell
31 May 2025 CLGS is proud to announce the publication of Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell. Edited by Bernard Schlager, Executive Director of the Center, this book contains 11 essays based upon lectures given in our annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture series. From the publisher, Routledge Press: […]
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The 18th Annual | 2025 CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture: Professor Bryan Massingale Speaks on: James Baldwin and Black Queer Prophetic Lament (and Hope?)
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 […]
Pope Francis, Catholic Leader Who Took Important Steps Toward LGBTQ Inclusion, Dies at 88
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 […]
CLGS is Accepting Applications for Our 2025-2026 Trans Religious Leadership Cohort!
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 […]