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Don’t Tell Us It’ll Probably Be Fine | by Jakob Hero-Shaw

by CLGS

5 October 2025 Your trans friends are scared. Our fears are fueled by new laws and by the uncertainty of what’s coming next. We see the risk of losing our health care. We live under restrictions in schools, in sports, and in restrooms. And when political leaders and organizations paint trans people as “dangerous,” it […]

Faith as Liberation: CLGS at 25 Years of Life-Saving Work… and Counting!

by Bernard Schlager

1 September 2025 Twenty-five years ago this month, The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion was founded on a simple yet revolutionary premise: that faith and LGBTQ+ identity are not only compatible, but that religious leaders have a moral imperative to stand against hatred and discrimination. Today, […]

LGBTQ-RAN: Holy Troublemakers | An online GALA Celebration

by CLGS

CLGS is proud to serve as a partner in support of the LGBTQ-Religious Archive Network’s online Gala Celebration. This online event will take place on Sunday, 19 October 2025. For more information and to register, click here.

Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, Director of the CLGS Catholic Roundtable

by CLGS

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 […]

CLGS Announces Our Fall 2025 Online Lavender Lunches

by CLGS

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 […]

Liberating Love: A Call to Defend Marriage Equality | by Bernard Schlager

by Bernard Schlager

17 June 2025 The Southern Baptist Convention’s recent resolution demanding the Supreme Court overturn of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, is a stark reminder that the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States is far from over. This resolution also signals a troubling denial of the radical love that […]