LGBTQ Spirituality

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CLGS is a Proud Community Sponsor of The 22nd-Annual San Francisco International Queer Women of Color Film Festival: 12-14 June 2026

by CLGS

 The 22nd-Annual San Francisco 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. […]

Remembering Advent and World AIDS Day: Holding Tension and Hope | A Meditation on Black Faith, HIV/AIDS, and Sacred Remembrance by Rev. Terence Mayo

by CLGS

7 December 2025 Advent is the church’s ancient practice of living inside holy tension, presence and absence, hope and dread, peace and turmoil, joy and suffering. To take up Advent is to stand with our Black ancestors in a paradoxical posture: waiting for someone who has already arrived, and celebrating a reality that has not […]

Building Your TDOR Toolkit with The CLGS Transgender Roundtable

by CLGS

Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! In this workshop, we explore ways to honor Trans Day of Remembrance in congregations and community organizations. The workshop leaders share ideas from a variety of faith-based and secular settings, and participants shared questions and ideas from their own faith and community contexts. Workshop Leaders […]

A Queer Spirituality for the Wilderness by Ish Ruiz

by CLGS

9 November 2025 When I reflect on the Trump era, what comes up for me is not so much the policies, but the feeling – that cold, anxious pulse of knowing that people like me are being targeted as unacceptable threats. Christian theology has served as justification for this scapegoating. For queer Christians, this era […]

The Latest CLGS Book: Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell (2025)

by Bernard Schlager

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: […]

May Day, May Day!: Worker Solidarity and Black Queer Faith by Terence Mayo

by CLGS

Across the United States on May 1, working people stood together for fair wages, respect, an end to the assault on immigrants, and more. May Day, with its radical roots in labor resistance and global solidarity, demands a reimagining through the lenses of queer of color critique and Black queer theology. In the current U.S. […]

A Call to Queer Solidarity: A Reflection by Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw

by CLGS

Where you go, I will go;     where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people     and your God my God. Where you die, I will die,     and there will I be buried. (Ruth 1:16b-17a) This language is striking. These words are often used in weddings, for obvious reason; they speak of loving […]

The Space Between Us by Maij Vu Mai

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The Space Between Us By Maij Vu Mai “…ritual is, above all else, the yardstick by which people measure their state of connection with the hidden ancestral realm, with which the entire community is genetically connected…The abandonment of ritual can be devastating…Where ritual is absent, the young ones are restless or violent, there are no […]

Happy Jewish New Year!

by CLGS

CLGS is an interfaith organization, affirming the importance of religious and cultural diversity. It includes a specifically Jewish Roundtable that serves the needs of Jewish queer people. September marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days.  This period of religious observance opens with the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah; continues with the Day of […]

The Bible Is Not A Weapon: Faith & Queerness with Bernard Schlager

by Bernard Schlager

Have you ever felt the weight of fear when your spirituality seems to contradict your identity? In this recent episode of the Deep Dive Podcast CLGS Executive Director Bernard Schlager and podcaster Shawn Fettig explore the intricate relationship between faith and queerness for LGBTQ people who grew up queer in the Christian settings. Click here […]