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 […]
This online 3-credit course (8 – 19 June 2020) offers an historical overview and survey of attitudes toward homoeroticism and homosexuality in ancient, medieval, and modern Christianity in the West and in present-day American Christianities. Several key figures, texts, and movements will be considered and analyzed with a view toward understanding and interpreting their impact […]
“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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As a pastor, I am always happy when one of my congregants represents our church in the community. Recently, a congregant was attending a community event and was approached by someone she did not know. This person said to my congregant, in a gossipy stage whisper, “I knew your pastor when he was a she.” […]
CLGS is in its second year of working as a part of a national coalition of equality organizations to educate federal policymakers about the harms caused to LGBTQ people by discrimination and the need for a federal response to anti-LGBTQ discrimination. Equality organizations from North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Georgia and Utah are meeting with […]
Click here for “7 Ways to Support Trans and Gender Expansive People Right Now”! Kelsey Pacha is a queer-identified transman who has worked with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people for 13 years, primarily in non-profit settings. He holds a Master of Arts in Religion and Psychology, a Master of Divinity, and a Certificate […]
The Trans Seminarian Cohort, a joint project of CLGS, the Freedom Center for Social Justice, and the National LGBTQ Task Force, enters its seventh year this fall! Every year, five to six seminary students who identify as transgender, genderqueer, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming are selected to journey together for one academic year. In this program, […]