Click here to register in advance for this ONLINE lecture Contemplation, Creativity, and the Call to Collective Liberation: Exploring James Baldwin and the Via Feminina with Rev. Dr. Aizaiah Yong The 16th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 4pm (Pacific Time) This will be an ONLINE Lecture In a moment marked by intensifying social, […]
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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 […]
This course has now closed registration. Join the waitlist to be the first notified when the course is offered again! Click here to join the waitlist 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]