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 […]
7 February 2026 Under U.S. fascist rule, Black love is often described as a personal ethic of self-care, chosen family, and community resilience. But it is also transnational: a radical, border-crossing practice that insists we are bound to one another across oceans, languages, and histories of extraction. Black love becomes the discipline of seeing, hearing, […]
5 January 2026 2026: A Year to Reclaim Religion and Rescue Religious Liberty The headlines in 2025 were filled with stories about government leaders using the rhetoric of religion to support restricting the rights and even erasing the identities of LGBTQ+ people and our families. In state after state, lawmakers invoked religious language to justify […]
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, […]
28 February 2025 | Des Moines, Iowa Only a month now into the new administration, the cascade of anti-LGBTQ actions on the part of President Trump and his appointees feels overwhelming, but we shouldn’t be surprised given how closely Trump is hewing to the ultra-conservative Project 2025, a plan that calls for, among other things, dismantling […]